CultureNOW - Life Forms: Michele Oka Doner and New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Life Forms

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Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans
five decades. Whether in large scale architectural projects or intimately scaled objects, her work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world. Her numerous public art installations include Radiant Site at New York’s Herald Square subway, Flight at Reagan International Airport and A Walk on the Beach at The Miami International Airport. She is perhaps best known for A Walk on the Beach. With its 9,000 unique bronzes embedded in terrazzo with mother-of-pearl stretching for over a miles at Miami Airport’s North Terminal, it is one of the nation’s largest public art installations. Her public work can also be found in federal courthouses, libraries, hospitals, universities, and parks throughout the U.S. Represented by Marlborough Gallery, New York, Oka Doner’s work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Virginia Museum, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Yale Art Gallery, and Princeton University Art Museum, among others. Publications about her work include Natural Seduction (Hudson Hills Press, 2003), Workbook (Oka Press, 2004), and HumanNature (Edizioni Charta, 2008). Oka Doner’s numerous honors include the Pratt Legends Award and The United Nations Society of Writers and Artist’s Award of Excellence. A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Art and Design, she received a B.S.D. in 1965, an M.A. in 1966 and a Distinguished Alumnus award in 1994. She lectures widely, including a recent presentation on art and architecture hosted by the Yale University Art Gallery.

In December, 2013, Oka Doner completed installation of “Micco,” a massive structure combining architecture and art in a giant steel and concrete cave-like form that serves both as a monumental place marker at the center of the new city of Doral Florida, and as a pavilion and platform where citizens can enjoy cultural and civic events. In the next twelve months she will have solo exhibitions at Christie’s, New York, Marlborough Gallery New York, and at the Perez Art Museum, Miami.

A native of Miami Beach, Oka Doner lives and maintains a studio in New York City.

Courtesy of Michele Oka Doner

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Artist
Michele Oka Doner

Collection
New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Dates

Installed, 2005

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Description

Life Forms was created to inspire the imagination of the students and scientists as they interact daily and exchange ideas.

Courtesy of Michele Oka Doner

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Location

Life Sciences Building
145 Bevier Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854
United States

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