Meg Webster

Glass Spiral

Meg Webster is a multimedia artist closely affiliated with Post-Minimalism and the Land Art movement of the 1970s. Her practice has long been guided by an environmentalist approach to advocating for conserving and celebrating nature. Her highly structural, often minimal, sculptures grapple with ecological degradation and devastation. The works employ abstracted forms of water, earth, minerals, and plant life through use of hard geometric forms, including cones, mounds, spheres, spirals, pyramids, and prisms. Including a native perennial garden generates micro-ecosystems that enrich the local flora of the otherwise urban environment.

Glass Spiral emphasizes the fragility and resilience of nature. It invites viewers into the confines of its interior, distorting perceptions of space, depth, and distance, while simultaneously offering refuge, momentary respite, and protection from its external environment.

Meg Webster is a multimedia artist closely affiliated with Post-Minimalism and the Land Art movement of the 1970s. Her practice has long been guided by an environmentalist approach to advocating for conserving and celebrating nature. Her highly structural, often minimal, sculptures grapple with ecological degradation and devastation. The works employ abstracted forms of water, earth, minerals, and plant life through use of hard geometric forms, including cones, mounds, spheres, spirals, pyramids, and prisms. Including a native perennial garden generates micro-ecosystems that enrich the local flora of the otherwise urban environment.

Glass Spiral emphasizes the fragility and resilience of nature. It invites viewers into the confines of its interior, distorting perceptions of space, depth, and distance, while simultaneously offering refuge, momentary respite, and protection from its external environment.

Meg Webster is a multimedia artist closely affiliated with Post-Minimalism and the Land Art movement of the 1970s. Her practice has long been guided by an environmentalist approach to advocating for conserving and celebrating nature. Her highly structural, often minimal, sculptures grapple with ecological degradation and devastation. The works employ abstracted forms of water, earth, minerals, and plant life through use of hard geometric forms, including cones, mounds, spheres, spirals, pyramids, and prisms. Including a native perennial garden generates micro-ecosystems that enrich the local flora of the otherwise urban environment.

Glass Spiral emphasizes the fragility and resilience of nature. It invites viewers into the confines of its interior, distorting perceptions of space, depth, and distance, while simultaneously offering refuge, momentary respite, and protection from its external environment.

Meg Webster

Meg Webster

Glass Spiral

Exhibition

Exhibition

Materials & Dimensions

Materials & Dimensions

1/4" tempered glass, aluminum, silicone, irrigation system, soil and plants

88 x 532 x 552 inches

Year

Year

1990/2024

Site

Site

Museum Center Park

Credits

Credits

©Meg Webster, courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral maybe the one here by the artist do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral maybe the one here by the artist do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral maybe the one here by the artist do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

Lois Weinberger

Mobile Garden

Lois Weinberger

Mobile Garden

Lois Weinberger

Mobile Garden

Anges Denes

Wheatfield: A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

Anges Denes

Wheatfield: A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

Anges Denes

Wheatfield: A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

John Giorno

LET IT COME LET IT GO, YOU CAN'T HURT ME CAUSE STORMS CAN'T HURT THE SKY, DO THE UNDONE

John Giorno

LET IT COME LET IT GO, YOU CAN'T HURT ME CAUSE STORMS CAN'T HURT THE SKY, DO THE UNDONE

John Giorno

LET IT COME LET IT GO, YOU CAN'T HURT ME CAUSE STORMS CAN'T HURT THE SKY, DO THE UNDONE

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thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Herb Kohl Philanthropies
Herzfeld Foundation
Hoke Family Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mandel Groups*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*
Lacey Sadoff Foundation

presenting

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Good Karma Brands

leader

Anonymous
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Exhibition Partner

Visionary

Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Connector

BMO
Foley & Lardner
Hawks Landscaping
Open Pantry
PNC Bank
PwC
Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
US Bank
WeycoGroup

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We work with trusted community partners to ensure great contemporary art is accessible to all.

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