Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

Public artists

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

^ ^a ^b "Mags Harries & Lajos Héder at 4Culture artist registry". 17 September 2010. Archived from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
^ Cohen, Michele; Michael Bloomberg; Stan Ries (2009). Public Art for Public Schools. Monacelli Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-58093-215-8.
^ Sinclair, Jill (2009). Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape. MIT Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-262-19591-1.
^ ^a ^b "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.
^ King, Elaine A. (2 July 2019). "Latitude to Comment and Play: A Conversation with Mags Harries and Lajos Héder". Sculpture. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Glove Cycle Archived 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine. Mags Harries & Lajos Héder. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
^ "Theater". collections.mfa.org. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
^ "Mags Harries | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University". smfa.tufts.edu. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
^ 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.
^ Meek, Tom (26 July 2016). "Sian Heder's 'Tallulah' Pulls From 'Surreal Experiences With Bad Moms'". WBUR. Archived from the original on 28 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
^ "Thyra Heder". Thyra Heder. Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
^ "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. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
^ Sherman, Mary (4 November 2001). "Cambridge's 'Water' works as accessible, playful piece". Boston Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
^ "2 turn Arizona Falls site into artistic link to past". Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. 29 May 2003. Retrieved 3 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Guanche, Chris (26 October 2008). "Public art displayed in Miramar City gets new art pieces at library and cultural center". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
^ Phillips, Hannah (7 June 2017). "A History of Mueller SunFlowers in 60 Seconds". Culture Trip. Retrieved 5 August 2021.