OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art)

Paying homage to the history of landscape design at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts from the 1980s to the 2000s, this project will focus on the work of landscape architect Peter Walker. Walker is one of the leading landscape architects in the Modernist movement, most recognized for co-designing the National 9/11 Memorial, whose collaboration with the Segerstrom Family dates to the 1970s when he and his colleagues transformed a lima bean field into a park. Since the 1980s, Walker was commissioned to design the landscape for the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, South Coast Repertory Theater, Town Center Park, and Imperial Bank. Through photographs and two newly commissioned historical models, Peter Walker: Minimalist Landscape will highlight two iconic projects at the Segerstrom Center campus: Fountains and Plantings—the entry court for Cesar Pelli’s Plaza Tower—and Arrival Gardens—the ramped entrance to the Performing Arts Center. The exhibition will also feature works in OCMA’s collection by Frank Stella and Sol LeWitt, artists who influenced Walker’s minimalistic approach to landscape design.