Meg Webster, Untitled (1990)

The Untitled Meg Webster, made in 1990, is at the most obvious, a copper ring in the ground. To the unassuming eye it is a giant planter for the landscaping. It’s 12 feet in diameter and it has an old, used feeling to it. Webster combines both manmade and completely natural mediums and in this piece, uses cloudberry making its way down in an inverted dome shape into the earth. We appreciated the smooth, supernatural look of the ground cover descending into the earth, as if it could be alive and breathing. Its simple and while somewhat industrial, it gives off a peaceful air. It can be compared to Japanese Rock Gardens where meditation and simplicity is the main theme.

“I am a sculptor who makes minimal art with natural materials to be directly perceived by the body. Some works are to be entered. Some works are planted.”

Meg Webster

About the Artist

Meg Webster was born in San Francisco, California on 1994. She received her BFA in 1976 at Old Dominion University. Later she received her MFA in 1983 at Yale. Webster then lived and worked in New York and got her first exhibition in 1984 in Brattleboro, VT, USA. Webster was an artist largely influenced by the environment and nature. Her major influences were artists, Alan Sonfist and Agnes Denes who made gardencentric art in the 1960s and the 1980s, respectively.

Works Cited

“Environmental Issues Come of Age in the 1990.” Environmental Issues Come of Age in the 1990s, www.lib.niu.edu/1990/ii900413.html

Lerda, Andrea. “ARTIST – ECOLOGIST – POETESS – OF NATURE.” 102. MEG WEBSTER, www.platformgreen.org/projects-index/250-webster.

“Meg Webster.” Guggenheim, www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/meg-webster.

Credits

Joshua Gallardo and Zakya Misallati