Elizabeth King (artist)
Elizabeth King | |
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Education | San Francisco Art Institute, 1973 |
Occupation | artist |
Notable work | Attention's Loop, Genesis Redux |
Awards | Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2014), Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006), Guggenheim Fellowship (2002) |
Website | thesizesofthings |
Elizabeth King is an American sculptor and writer who lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. She has work in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[1] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.[2] King is the subject of a documentary film, Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King, directed by Olympia Stone.[3]
Exhibitions[]
- 2008 The David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye[4]
- 2015 New York Academy of Art, Beautiful Beast (group exhibition curated by Peter Drake)[5]
- 2017 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Radical Small[6]
Awards[]
Awards include:
Collections[]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas;[8]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California;[9]
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.;[1]
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia;[10]
- Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania;[11]
- Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire[12]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Collection Search - Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ "VCU sculptor wins Anonymous Was A Woman award". Richmond Times Dispatch. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- ^ "Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King :: Floating Stone Productions". www.floatingstone.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ Deborah Baum (October 27, 2008). "Elizabeth King Exhibition at the Bell Gallery". news.brown.edu. news.brown.edu. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
- ^ "Beautiful Beast". nyaa.edu. New York Academy of Art. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
- ^ "Elizabeth King: Radical Small". massmoca.org. MASS MoCA. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
- ^ "2014 Award Winners". Supporting Women Artists Over 40. Retrieved 2015-11-20.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Pupil: Pose 1 | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.mfah.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ "Pupil: pose 1 | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ "Search Collections - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ "What Happened by Elizabeth King". museum.bucknell.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ "Elizabeth King, American, born 1950: Idea for a Mechanical Eye". hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu. Trustees of Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
Further reading[]
- Performing Sculpture: A Conversation with Elizabeth King; Gregory Volk, Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2009
- Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye; Elizabeth King, Ashley Kistler, Nancy Princenthal; (2007)[1][2]
- Brides of Frankenstein; Peter Campion, Modern Painters, November 2005
- The Ghost in the Machine; Leah Ollman, Art in America, October 2000
- Attention's Loop: A Sculptor's Reverie on the Coexistence of Substance and Spirit; Elizabeth King, Katherine Wetzel (photography); Harry Abrams (1999) [3][4]
- Uncommon Ground: Virginia Artists 1990 (1990)
- ^ Ashley, Kistler (2007). Elizabeth King The Sizes of the Mind's Eye. Richmond VA: Visual Arts Center of Richmond. ISBN 978-0-9774238-1-1.
- ^ "Elizabeth King : the sizes of things in the mind's eye". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
- ^ King, Elizabeth; Wetzel, Katherine (1999-05-24). Attention's Loop: A Sculptor's Reverie on the Coexistence of Substance and Spirit. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 9780810919983. ASIN 0810919982.
- ^ "Attention's loop : a sculptor's reverie on the coexistence of substance and spirit". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
Categories:
- Living people
- American women sculptors
- Artists from Ann Arbor, Michigan
- San Francisco Art Institute alumni
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American sculptors
- 21st-century American women artists
- Sculptors from Michigan