Meg Webster, an 82-year-old land artist known for creating works that are often temporary, is the subject of a new exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery. Across the show, Webster continues to examine the question of legacy, focusing on what might remain when the artist is no longer present. Her practice frequently emphasizes process and environment, resulting in artworks that may change over time or disappear, depending on the materials and conditions involved.
With this new presentation, Webster also looks more directly toward how her work will be remembered. The exhibition frames her long-running approach—rooted in landscape, physical materials, and time—against her desire to establish a lasting place in art history. Rather than treating disappearance as an endpoint, the show positions impermanence as central to her artistic questions, including the relationship between an artwork’s physical lifespan and its cultural afterlife. The New York Times’ coverage presents the exhibition as a continuation of Webster’s themes, now sharpened by her late-career perspective on permanence and memory.
