Elizabeth King (artist)
Elizabeth King | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) |
| Education | San Francisco Art Institute, 1973 |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, Author |
| Awards | Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2014), Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006), Guggenheim Fellowship (2002) |
| Website | elizabethkingstudio |
Elizabeth King (born 1950) is an American sculptor and writer living in Richmond Virginia. Her work is represented by Danese/Corey Gallery in New York. Awards include a 2014 Anonymous Was A Woman Award,[1] a 2006 Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 1996 Fellowship in the Visual Arts at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, now the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her book, Attention's Loop (A Sculptor's Reverie on the Coexistence of Substance and Spirit), with photographs by Katherine Wetzel, was published by Harry Abrams in 1999.[2] She is a Professor Emerita at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts where she taught from 1985 to 2015 in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media.[3]
A video interview with the sculptor, VCU arts--Elizabeth King in the Studio, was produced at Virginia Commonwealth University.[4] In 2007, an exhibition by Elizabeth King The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye inaugurated the new True F. Luck gallery at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and traveled nationally afterward.[5]
In 1994, sculptor Elizabeth King was honored by the Richmond chapter of the Women's Caucus for the Arts (RWCA) with its third annual Virginia Visual Artist of the Year award. Her works are included in the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Hirschhorn Museum. The award was presented at the James Center in Richmond at the opening reception of RWCA's Continuum III, an exhibition featuring women artists from the University of Richmond, Virginia Union University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.[6]
Bibliography
Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye (2007) [7]
Attention's Loop: A Sculptor's Reverie on the Coexistence of Substance and Spirit (1999) [2]
External Links
References
- ^ "2014 Award Winners". Supporting Women Artists Over 40. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Faculty - VCU Sculpture + Extended Media". VCU Sculpture + Extended Media. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
- ^ "VCUarts | Elizabeth King: In the Studio". 22 December 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ "Elizabeth King Exhibition Inaugurates New Gallery". No. Newsletter. Richmond, Virginia. Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Fall 2007. p. 3.
The exhibition will present approximately 65 sculptures, film animations, installation pieces, drawings, and photographs produced since the late 1970s, on loan from private and several public collections and from the artist herself. It will feature such seminal works as "Pupil", lent by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden . . . as well as her latest pieces, including "Bartlett's Hand," a carved wooden sculpture with movable joints that hypnotically comes to life in an accompanying animated film. Supplementing these works will be other objects from King's studio--her glass-eye collection, wax studies of facial expressions, plaster life casts and optical devices . . . that illuminate process and intent.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Bullard, CeCe (March 6, 1994). "Fete will honor VCU sculptor as Virginia visual artist of the year". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. J7.
King, an associate professor of art at Virginia Commonwealth University has received critical acclaim for her sculpture, which has been widely exhibited across the United States.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Kistler, Ashley (2007-12-20). Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye. Richmond, Va.: Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA. ISBN 9780977423811.