A traveling photographic exhibition organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation and dedicated to landscape architecture icon Dan Kiley, known for internationally recognized projects like the Gateway Arch National Park and Ford Foundation Building, is on display through November at the Bell Works campus in Holmdel.
Bell Works partnered with TCLF, a Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy nonprofit, to host the exhibition honoring one of the most important modernist landscape architects of all time.
The exhibition is open to the public at no charge through November.
Designed to prompt dialogue around responsible stewardship of Kiley’s built legacy and the country’s modernist landscape architecture, the show’s arrival coincides with the 10th anniversary of the transformed Eero Saarinen-designed Bell Labs campus.
“As stewards and lovers of American Modernism, we’re honored to showcase Mr. Kiley’s legacy,” Ralph Zucker, founder & CEO of Inspired by Somerset Development, owner of Bell Works, said. “A close collaborator of Eero Saarinen, whose visionary design shaped Bell Works New Jersey, Kiley’s work is some of the most influential in all of landscape architecture. It’s only fitting we celebrate his timeless contributions as we commemorate a decade of Bell Works and double down on our efforts to serve not only as a nexus for business and community, but also as a beacon for arts and culture.”
The exhibition features 45 newly commissioned photographs by renowned photographers highlighting 27 of Kiley’s more than 1,000 designs. Notable works include the Miller House and Garden, Columbus, Indiana; the Art Institute of Chicago South Garden, Chicago; and Patterns, a garden for Gov. & Mrs. Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV in Delaware.
Additionally, a full-color, free, downloadable gallery guide — “What’s Out There: The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley” — funded through a Kickstarter campaign, features images from the exhibition, brief site descriptions, site plans and excerpts from recently collected personal recollections from Kiley’s colleagues.
The show debuted at the Boston Architectural College in 2013 and has been on view at more than 20 museums, cultural institutions and universities to date, including most recently at ABC Stone and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.
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