Puryear Martin sculpture

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At the top of the escalator at street level, cross Woodrow Wilson Plaza. Enter the Center's lobby at the left (southeast) corner of the Ronald Reagan Building. The entrance doors are behind the large bronze sculpture by Martin Puryear ("Bearing Witness"). Enter the Center's lobby at the far end of the plaza -- the southeast corner of the building, behind the large bronze sculpture. At the hall's end, turn left and enter the Woodrow Wilson Memorial.

The exhibition is organized by guest curator Lisa Lyons. . After a complex construction process in Seekonk, Massachusetts and a transcontinental trip, this sculpture will be installed on the Getty Center's Tram Arrival Plaza. It will rise from the broad expanse of travertine pavement on six slender legs to a height of 45 feet, its billowing form suggesting both a delicate fishnet cast against the sky and a human head in profile. Puryear's sculpture is the most recent in a series of works by distinguished Contemporary artists commissioned by the Getty Trust for key public spaces at the Center.