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Drew Shiflett
Born1951
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationMaryland Institute College of Art, Columbia College Chicago
Known forDrawing, sculpture, relief, collage
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts
WebsiteDrew Shiflett

Drew Shiflett (born 1951) is an American visual artist based in New York.[1] She is known for layered, collaged paper and fabric constructions that straddle drawing, relief and sculpture.[2][3] These handmade, hybrid works, which she terms "constructed drawings," offer subtle examinations of surface, structure and texture through their attention to materials, intuitive processes, and loose patterning.[4][5][6] They consist of monochromatic, interwoven sections of handmade paper and fabric upon which she draws repetitive and sectioned lines and marks, producing meditative, quilt-like "grids of grids."[5][7][8] Writing about her later work, critic Raphael Rubinstein observed, "One of the pleasures of Shiflett's art is being able to follow her process step by step, relishing the care with which each element has been positioned, the unpredictable but somehow always apposite interruptions of patterning. Employing a distinctive eccentric modularity, [she] lets each of her wall pieces develop gradually."[5]

Shiflett received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992 and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award in 2023.[9][10] Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Drawing Center,[11][12] Baltimore Museum of Art,[13] SculptureCenter,[14] Weatherspoon Art Museum,[15] Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft[16] and Kunststiftung K52 (Berlin).[1]

Life and career

Shiflett was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1951.[1] She studied art at Columbia College Chicago (BA, 1974) and earned an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1978.[17][7]

After graduating and turning to sculpture, Shiflett received recognition for solo exhibitions at New York venues such as Fashion Moda (1983), White Columns (1984) and the InterArt Center (1993),[18][19][20] and group shows at Art in General, Artists Space, SculptureCenter and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, among others.[21][14][22][1] In the 2000s, she has had solo exhibitions at the Islip Art Museum (2004),[23] the Lesley Heller Gallery in New York (2006–18),[3][2] and the Drawing Room (2010), Guild Hall Museum (2011) and Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton, NY (2022).[17][7][24]

She is based in New York City and East Hampton, New York.[1]

Work and reception

Shiflett's art, including her sculpture, has been rooted in drawing.[25][5] In the first half of her career, she produced reliefs and sculptures made of wood, repurposed paper products, cloth, Styrofoam, polyester stuffing and papier-mâché, among other materials.[26][27][25] She began exploring handmade paper in the early 2000s and has since focused on her constructed drawings made with interwoven or glued paper, cheesecloth and canvas.[8][7] Trademark characteristics of both bodies of work include: an improvisational approach to raw materials;[27] a layering of elements suggestive of weaving;[3] obsessive, repetitive processes of both construction and mark-making;[28][2] and a generally non-objective approach to imagery that is nonetheless open to multiple associations and references.[25][5]

Critics have related her art to the minimalist works of Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman and Alan Shields, as well as to post-minimalist and feminist artists that employ self-invented processes based in the craft and domestic realms, such as Eva Hesse, Lee Bontecou and Ruth Asawa.[7][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Anonymous Was A Woman. Recipients, 2023. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Decker, Elisa. "Drew Shiflett at Lesley Heller," Art In America, January 2013. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Cohen, David. "Drew Shiflett: Sculptural Works, 1984-2006 at Lesley Heller Gallery," Artcritical, October 17, 2018. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  4. ^ Chambers, Christopher Hart. "Ruminations in Paper – Drew Shiflett at Lesley Heller Gallery In New York," dArt International, Spring/Summer 2009.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Rubinstein, Raphael. "Eccentric Modularity," in Drew Shiflett: Paper and Canvas—Constructed Drawings, New York: Lesley Heller, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  6. ^ Panero, James. "Abdolreza Aminlari and Drew Shiflett: An Improv of Color And Threads of Hope," The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e Princenthal, Nancy. "Drew Shiflett: Line Readings," in Drew Shiflett – Constructed Drawings, East Hampton, NY: Guild Hall Museum, 2011.
  8. ^ a b Mozenter, Cyrilla and Drew Shiflett. "On Working with Handmade Paper: A Conversation," Hand Papermaking, Summer 2013, p. 32–35.
  9. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Drew E. Shiflett, Fellows. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  10. ^ Artforum. "Anonymous Was a Woman Names 2023 Grantees," News, December 14, 2023. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  11. ^ Rosenberg, Karen. "Thread Lines," The New York Times, October 17, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  12. ^ Ollman, Leah. "Thread Lines," Art in America, December 2014.
  13. ^ Freudenheim, Tom L. 1978 Maryland Biennial Exhibition, Baltimore, MD: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1978.
  14. ^ a b The New York Times. "Last Chance," January 17, 1992. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  15. ^ Platt, Ron. Art On Paper 2004, Greensboro, NC: The Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2004.
  16. ^ Romanow, Joanna Kleinberg. Drawing Papers 118 – Thread Lines, New York: The Drawing Center, 2014.
  17. ^ a b D'Haene, Elise. "The Art Scene – Two Exhibits At Drawing Room," The East Hampton Star, April 15, 2010.
  18. ^ Glueck, Grace. "Update 1984-85," The New York Times, June 21, 1985. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  19. ^ Solomon, Thomas B. White Columns Update 84–85, New York: White Columns, 1985.
  20. ^ Spears, Birgit. The InterArt Center 1991–1994, 1994, New York: The InterArt Center, 1994.
  21. ^ Knode, Marilu. "Rhythm and Form," Manhattan Arts, February 1, 1984.
  22. ^ Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer and Olivia Georgia. In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s, Staten Island, NY: Snug Harbor Cultural Center Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art/Women's Caucus for Art/NYC, 1996.
  23. ^ Goleas, Janet. "Collection Insights: Drew Shiflett On Linear Thinking," in Collection Insights: Drew Shiflett, East Islip, NY: Islip Art Museum, 2004.
  24. ^ Arts Center at Duck Creek. "Drew Shiflett: Patches, Strands, Collage—Drawing." Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  25. ^ a b c Princenthal, Nancy. Essay, Idio Cognito, Wayne, NJ: William Patterson College, Ben Shahn Galleries, 1993.
  26. ^ Herron, Annie. "Fresh Perspectives," Review, March 15, 1997.
  27. ^ a b Patterson, Tom. "All That Jazz," Winston-Salem Journal, March 7, 1999.
  28. ^ Butler, Sharon. "Drew Shiflett: The raw transformative power of obsession," Two Coats of Paint, January 15, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2024.

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