Meg Webster, Hudson River Park, Spring 2010

NEW YORK – Hudson River Park’s Pier 62 and 63, located on the waterfront between 24th Street and Chelsea Piers, will be the latest section of the 550-acre park to open in the spring of 2010 -- and will include a unique sculptural landscape of large boulders created by New York artist Meg Webster.

The piers’ innovative design by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates features a central upland area with a large green lawn "bowl" and a spectacular garden designed by Lynden Miller. Slightly to the north, and leading to Pier 64’s spectacular views of New York Harbor and the river, is the site of Webster’s permanent installation of 38 boulders and perennial plants. The boulders, mostly bluestone, were quarried in Northeastern Pennsylvania and New York State and selected for their intrinsic qualities and unique shapes.

Since the mid-1980s, Meg Webster has developed a unique body of work rooted in Minimalism, Land Art and an abiding passion for ecological systems. With her sculptures, which often function as containers for organic materials, and her drawings made with soil or spices, Webster brings nature and the environment within the gallery, inspiring the viewer to consider the relationships between geometric and organic forms. In her outdoor installations, Webster remakes featureless terrain into sculptural and ecological landscapes based on native, self-sustaining elements.

Meg Webster’s work has been exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York. Her sculpture and permanent outdoor installations may be found in collections throughout the United States.

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