Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

Mags Harries and Lajos Héder are artists working collaboratively to create public art across the United States from their studio.^[1]

Career

A married couple, they formed Harries/Héder Collaborative in 1990 and have worked together on major public art commissions^[2] since then. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they have completed over thirty public projects with budgets up to $6 million.^{[citation needed]} They designed Acoustic Weir in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[3]

Biographies

Mags Harries (born 1945),^[4] a Welsh sculptor born in Wales, attended Leicester College of Art before immigrating to the United States to study at Southern Illinois University.^{[citation needed]} She teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on sculpture, installation, and public art.^[5] Her 1976 work Asaroton was installed in Boston.^[6] She created the Glove Cycle installation at a Boston subway station in 1984.^[7][8] Two of her untitled 1972 prints are held by Harvard Art Museums,^[4] and a 1975 charcoal on paper work Theater is held by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.^[9]

Lajos Héder, an artist born in Hungary, studied architecture and urban planning at Harvard University.^{[citation needed]} Before forming Harries/Héder Collaborative, he worked on community projects, urban design, site planning, architecture, and construction.^[10] He was the principal author of the US Department of Transportation's Aesthetics in Transportation (1980).^[11]

They have two daughters, writer/director Sian Heder^[12] and author/artist Thyra Heder.^[13]

Selected works

• Wall Cycle to Ocotillo (1992), Phoenix, Arizona
• Miramar Park, Florida (2000)^[14]
• City at the Falls, Commonwealth Convention Center, Louisville, Kentucky (2000) design team artists^{[citation needed]}
• Drawn Water, Cambridge Water Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2001) design team artist^[15]
• WaterWorks at Arizona Falls, Arizona Falls, Phoenix, Arizona (2003) design team artists^[16]
• The Benefit of Mr. Kite, San Diego Port Authority, San Diego, California (2003)^{[citation needed]}
• Connections, [Central Connecticut State University], New Britain, Connecticut (2005)^{[citation needed]}
• Arbors and Ghost Trees, Baseline Road, Phoenix, Arizona (2005) with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects^{[citation needed]}
• Terra Fugit, Miramar Park, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2006) design team artists^[17]
• The Big Question, Des Moines Science Museum, Des Moines, Iowa (2007)^{[citation needed]}
• Concord River Greenway Trail Master Plan, Lowell, Massachusetts (2007)^{[citation needed]}
• A MoonTide Garden, International Ferry Terminal, Portland, Maine (2007)^{[citation needed]}
• Solar Light Raft, Havana Square, Stapleton, Colorado (2008)^{[citation needed]}
• Sun Flowers, an Electric Garden, Mueller Development, Austin, Texas (2009)^[18]
• History Colorado Center, Denver, Colorado (2009)^{[citation needed]}
• Zanjero's Line, Highline Canal, Phoenix, Arizona (2010) with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects^{[citation needed]}
• Terpsichore for Kansas City, Arts District Parking Garage, Kansas City, Missouri (2011) with David Moulton, Roberta Vacca, Bobby Watson^{[citation needed]}
• Xixi Umbrellas, Xixi Wetland Park, Hangzhou, China (2012) Westlake International Invitational Sculpture Exhibition^{[citation needed]}
• Meeting Place, The Downtown Greenway, Greensboro, North Carolina (2014)^[1]

References

1. "Mags Harries & Lajos Héder at 4Culture artist registry". 17 September 2010. from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
2. Cohen, Michele; Michael Bloomberg; Stan Ries (2009). Public Art for Public Schools. Monacelli Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-58093-215-8.
3. Sinclair, Jill (2009). Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape. MIT Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-262-19591-1.
4. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Untitled (M21946)". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
   "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Untitled (M21947)". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
5. King, Elaine A. (2 July 2019). "Latitude to Comment and Play: A Conversation with Mags Harries and Lajos Héder". Sculpture. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
6. Tanga, Martina (2 January 2018). "Burnishing History: Mags Harries' 1976 Asaroton". Public Art Dialogue. 8 (1): 50–71. doi:10.1080/21502552.2018.1430293. S2CID 194991938.
7. Boorstin, Robert O. Take the Red Line ... Please. Artists on the Line at the Carpenter Center through March 9. The Harvard Crimson. February 26, 1979. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
8. Glove Cycle 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine. Mags Harries & Lajos Héder. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
9. "Theater". collections.mfa.org. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
10. "Mags Harries | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University". smfa.tufts.edu. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
11. Héder, Lajos (1980). Aesthetics in Transportation: Guidelines for Incorporating Design, Art and Architecture Into Transportation Facilities. U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, Office of Environment and Safety. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
12. Meek, Tom (26 July 2016). "Sian Heder's 'Tallulah' Pulls From 'Surreal Experiences With Bad Moms'". WBUR. from the original on 28 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
13. "Thyra Heder". Thyra Heder. from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
14. "Making art for everyone from Phoenix to Wales to their own hometown, Cambridge-based public artists Mags Harries and Lajos Heder are changing the landscape one project at a time". Boston Globe. 7 May 2000. from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
15. Sherman, Mary (4 November 2001). "Cambridge's 'Water' works as accessible, playful piece". Boston Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
16. "2 turn Arizona Falls site into artistic link to past". Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. 29 May 2003. Retrieved 3 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.  
17. Guanche, Chris (26 October 2008). "Public art displayed in Miramar City gets new art pieces at library and cultural center". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
18. Phillips, Hannah (7 June 2017). "A History of Mueller SunFlowers in 60 Seconds". Culture Trip. Retrieved 5 August 2021.

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