Index Code:

ART-STA-MIS

Orgin:

USA

Field Notes:

Walkways mirrors and cutaways invite people to look at infrastructure and ground as layered systems

Defining Moment:

The early red timber installations where platforms and poles trace buried utilities and forgotten geometries

Mary Miss

(

1944–

)

mary miss

Miss built a world where architecture, land, and public systems merge — viewers navigating frames and corridors that reveal hidden infrastructural rhythms.

Her works clarify environment as structure.

Structural Focus

Space as Drawing

Line, frame, or interval organizes space instead of filling it. Structure is articulated through placement rather than mass.

In Mary Miss’s work, this approach appears where site and movement structure spatial reading.

Position

Space as Drawing

Line, frame, or interval organizes space instead of filling it. Structure is articulated through placement rather than mass.

In Mary Miss’s work, this approach appears where site and movement structure spatial reading.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Land Art

Landscape becomes material, site, and scale.

Process Art

Work is defined by making, duration, and transformation.

Mary Miss

Structural Focus

Space as Drawing

Position

Space as Drawing

Observartory

In Dialogue

Mary Miss

Structural Focus

Space as Drawing

Position

Space as Drawing

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue