Janet echelman

Artist Janet Echelman’s soft-fiber Current installation premiered over the weekend in Columbus, Ohio, adding the city to a list of others to have showcased her experiments with site-specific sculptures and computational design since 2009. Stretching to a total of 126 feet at its zenith, the...

Janet Echelman’s “1.8 Renwick” offers a chance to step away from harried daily life into a space of seductive beauty.

Janet Echelman has suspended a billowing woven sculpture based on data captured from the 2011 Japanese earthquake above London's busy Oxford Circus junction

In the late 1990s artist Janet Echelman traveled to India as a Fulbright Scholar with the intention of giving painting exhibitions around the country. She shipped her painting supplies ahead of time and landed in the fishing village of Mahabalipuram to begin her exhibitions with one major hitch: the painting supplies never arrived. While walking through the village Echelman was struck by the quality and variety of nets used by the local fisherman and questioned what it might look like if…

With her billowing public artworks, an ambitious artist is changing the very essence of urban spaces

earlier this year design 360° magazine spoke to american artist janet echelman. here she explains her work process in detail and how the different countries she has lived in have shaped her approach.

Artist Janet Echelman installed a voluminous sculpture floating above the streets of London.

Janet Echelman has completed her most recent aerial net sculpture in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Made up of over 35 miles of technical twine...