ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Malcolm Cochran was born in Pittsburgh, raised in New Hampshire, and has lived and worked in Columbus, Ohio, since 1987. He has created large-scale objects, installations and site-specific works since the 1970s. He employs various media choosing for each project the materials or elements that best give the form to the ideas or feelings he wishes to express. He had been particularly attracted to industrial materials and the products of specialty manufacturing companies located throughout the Midwest. These include household appliances, cast stone and concrete forms, and enameled steel and porcelain fixtures. Cochran’s exhibitions and projects include works at Art Park, PS1, and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York; The Wexner Center, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in Ohio; and arts centers and museums in Pennsylvania, California, Vermont, Finland, and the Netherlands.

 

Maya Lin was born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, in the academic community of Ohio University. Lin’s father, Henry Lin, was a ceramist who taught art and served as dean of the College of Fine Arts at that university for 26 years. Maya Lin’s exposure to her father’s utilitarian yet elegant objects, the surrounding geography, and the earthen mounds of the Hopewell and Adena Indians have had an indelible impact upon her. These impressions, together with research into Japanese and Chinese traditions, have formed Lin’s personal aesthetic that is rational yet sensual, abstract yet full of content. Since the early 1980s, Lin has pursued a career as an architect and studio artist. Most widely known for her design for the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial (1981-82) in Washington, DC, she has designed private residences, museum facilities, and public memorials and gardens.

Mary Lucier was born in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1942. She has been involved with video for more than 25 years, creating pieces that range from single-channel tapes to more recent image and sound installations that have been described as "immersive environments." She has exhibited in galleries and museums around the country and internationally, including one-person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Kitchen in New York, and the University Art Museum in Berkeley, California. Her work is also included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum in Amsterdam, and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Kerry James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1955 and raised in Los Angeles where he received his degree in fine arts from Otis Art Institute in 1978. He has lived, worked, and taught in Chicago since 1987. The social, spiritual, and cultural life of the African American community have been at the center of his imagery, which he has expressed exclusively through painting until recently. He has been exploring the arts of film and theater, designing sets for the film Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash and directing a performance event commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1997. In 1998, he first experimented with multi-media installation with his traveling exhibition, Mementos, an elegy for the Civil Rights movement. He has received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, exhibited at the Whitney Museum (NY), Documenta X (Kassel, Germany), and created a work for the BAM Next Wave Festival.