Mary Miss
| Mary Miss | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mary M Miss May 27, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1966) Maryland Institute College of Art (M.F.A. 1968) |
| Style | Environmental art |
| Spouse(s) |
Bruce Colvin (m. 1967; div. 1986) George Peck |
| Website | marymiss |
Mary Miss (born May 27, 1944) is an American artist and designer whose primary interest is the public realm. Her work has crossed boundaries between architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and urban design. Her installations are collaborative in nature: she has worked with scientists, historians, designers and public administrators. She is primarily interested in how to engage the public in decoding their surrounding environment.
Miss was born May 27, 1944 in New York City, New York, but she spent her youth moving every year while living primarily in the western United States .
Miss studied art and received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1966. Miss later received an M.F.A. from the Rhinehart School of Sculpture of Maryland Institute College of Art in 1968.
As a public artist, Mary Miss is considered a pioneer in environmental art and site-specific art, as well a leading sculptor during the feminist movement of the 1970s. She was a founding member of the journal Heresies. From her earliest work, she has been interested in bringing the specific attributes of a site into focus along with and audience engagement within public space. Miss’ work crosses boundaries between landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, and graphic communication. Her work creates situations that emphasize a site’s history, ecology or aspects of the environment that have gone unnoticed. She has been particularly interested in redefining the role of the artist in the public domain.
In her influential 1979 essay, Sculpture in the Expanded Field, art critic Rosalind Krauss opens with a description of Mary Miss’s, Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys. Krauss uses Miss’s work to support her examination of sculpture’s interdisciplinary nature between architecture and landscape. South Cove (1988), a permanent public project in Battery Park, is a seminal project in Miss' career as it signified new possibilities for artists working in the public realm. The project, located on a three-acre site at the base of the riverfront Esplande, was made in collaboration with architect Stanton Eckstut and landcape designer Susan Childs. "South Cove brings the public more intimately in contact with the water than any other component of Battery park City or, indeed, any other Manhattan riverside park."
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