Artist

Janet Echelman

born Tampa, FL 1966
Born
Tampa, Florida, United States

Works by this artist (7 items)

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William Morris Hunt, The Fortune Teller, ca. 1857-1858, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1968.81
The Fortune Teller
Artist
Dateca. 1857-1858
lithograph on paper
Not on view
William Morris Hunt, Girl at the Fountain, ca. 1857, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1980.67.7
Girl at the Fountain
Artist
Dateca. 1857
lithograph on paper
Not on view
William Morris Hunt, Portrait of Agnes Elizabeth Claflin, 1873, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1985.27
Portrait of Agnes Elizabeth Claflin
Artist
Date1873
oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
Not on view
William Morris Hunt, Violet Girl, 1857, lithograph with tint stone on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1974.16.2
Violet Girl
Artist
Date1857
lithograph with tint stone on paper
Not on view

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Dawe's Plexus A1 displaying an array of colors with Dougherty's Shindig made of bend twigs in the background
WONDER
November 13, 2015–July 9, 2016
Renwick Gallery
Nine leading contemporary artists—Jennifer Angus, Chakaia Booker, Gabriel Dawe, Tara Donovan, Patrick Dougherty, Janet Echelman, John Grade, Maya Lin, and Leo Villareal—each took over different galleries in the building, creating site-specific installatio
A close up of Echelman's installation for WONDER at the Renwick Gallery.
Janet Echelman: 1.8 Renwick 
September 18, 2020–May 13, 2025
Renwick Gallery
Janet Echelman's colorful fiber and lighting installation, suspended from the ceiling of the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon, examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world.

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WONDER
WONDER celebrates the renovation and reopening of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery with an immersive web of magic. Nine major contemporary artists, including Maya Lin, Tara Donovan, Leo Villareal, Patrick Dougherty, and Janet Echelman, were invited to take over the Renwick’s galleries, transforming the entire museum into a mind-expanding cabinet of wonders. Mundane materials such as index cards, marbles, sticks, and thread are conjured into strange new worlds that demonstrate the qualities uniting these artists: a sensitivity to site and the ways we experience place, a passion for making and materiality, and a desire to provoke awe.