Aggie Zed

Aggie Zed is a Virginia-based American painter and sculptor[1] known for her animal-human hybrid ceramic sculptures and "scrap float" mixed-metal and ceramic constructions.[2] She was born in 1952 in Charleston, South Carolina and grew up on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. As a sculptor and painter she worked and exhibited in Richmond, Virginia from 1976 to 1998 and also lived in Gordonsville, Virginia.[3][4] She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and sculpture from the University of South Carolina in 1974. In 1982 she received a Virginia Commission for the Arts Professional Fellowship in Sculpture,[5] and in 1986 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Professional Fellowship in Sculpture.[3]

Solo exhibitions

Her one-person exhibitions include: True F. Luck Gallery, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, formerly the Hand Workshop, Richmond, Virginia (2011-2012)[6][7];Down to Earth, Recent Paintings and Sculpture, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky (2012); Aggie Zed: Keeper's Keep,[8] Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina (2012)[9][10][11]; From A to Z, Sculpture and Painting, Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (2011); Sculpture and Painting, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; Aggie Zed-Recent Work, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky (2006); Paintings, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky (2004). Sculpture and Paintings, Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (2003); Scrap Floats and Jetsam, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (2001); Paintings, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia (2000); Sculpture and Paintings, Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (1998 and 2000); Paintings, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (1998); Paintings, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (1998); Its Own Little Animal, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (1996); In the White Room, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University (1984); Her sculpture was displayed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in a one-person show at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond (2013);[12] The Arts Company, Nashville, Tennessee (2014)[13]; Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, Virginia [14] and New Welded Work at 1708 Gallery's opening show in the fall of 1986.

Two-and three-person exhibitions

Her two-person exhibitions include: Miraculous, with John Morgan, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, Virginia (2010); Sculpture and Painting, with Bill Moretz, Rivermont Studios, Lynchburg, Virginia (2010); It's About Time, with John Morgan, Avenue Arts, Lynchburg, Virginia (2007); Know Show, paintings with John Morgan, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (2004); Mortal Oxide, with Frank Cole, 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (1986); In 2017 her art was in a show of new works by three artists (Aggie Zed, Juliellen Byrne and Angela Purviance) at the opening of the new Imprint Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon as part of the town's Spring Unveiling Art Festival.[15]

Group shows

Group shows have included Figure 8, Spruill Center Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (1997); Story Makers, Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (2011); Horse Crazy, A Horse of a Different Color, Jackson, Wyoming (2007); Uncorrupted Horses, Riverfront Studios, Schuylerville, New York (2007); Amazing Clay, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, Virginia (2006); Alumni Exhibition, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (2006); All Fired Up, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (2005); Myrtle Beach Collects, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (2004); South Carolina Birds, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, South Carolina (2004)[16]; Things Do Bite Back, with John Morgan, Nina Liu and Friends, Charleston, South Carolina (2004); and Independent Spirits [17] Zed exhibited in 2015 at the Columbia Museum of Art[18] and in December and January of 2018, she participated in the group show Small Works, Tall Tales at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, Virginia.[19]

Biography

Aggie Zed grew up in a family of eight children on South Carolina’s Sullivan’s Island. Her large family encouraged her artistic endeavors, and her Richmond friend, artist Amie Oliver, described the family's "amazing work ethic combined with a sense of playful courage.” Zed’s father, a television repairman, died when she was eleven. Watching him "dismantle TV sets on the family’s dining room table was critical to the way she works today, with needle-nosed pliers and soldering iron." Zed said that for her it was "a natural homage to him to work that way.”

Zed moved to Richmond in 1976 after her graduation from the University of South Carolina and began working almost immediately as a professional artist. She paid homage to her father by changing her legal last name from White to his first name, Zed.

Cudahy’s Gallery, which opened in Richmond's Shockoe Slip in the early ’80s, quickly featured Zed’s art. “People really responded to her work,” said Helen Levinson, then the gallery’s director, adding, “It was extremely skilled and full of emotion. You knew even as a young artist that she would never compromise her work in any way."[20]

Bibliography

The book Keeper's Keep: Aggie Zed by Mark Sloan won the 2013 First Prize for Exhibition Catalogues in the American Alliance of Museums's Museum Publications Design Competition.[21][22] Photographs of sculpture and other art by Aggie Zed have been used to illustrate pages or as cover art for books and other publications, including the pastel and ink Zed drawing C'mere Little in Prop Rockery, a book of poetry by Emily Rosko,[23] and watercolor reproduced in the book Western American Literature.[24] [25] Two of her porcelain horse sculptures are shown on the front of the Taos, New Mexico Clay and Fiber Gallery entry 286 (Map F) in the Collector's Guide--1997.[26] In 2011 Zed created the cover art for the literary magazine Crazyhorse for the American Language Skills Program of Southwest Minnesota State College.[27]

References

  1. ↑ Pandolfi, Elizabeth. "Aggie Zed lets your imagination run wild". Charleston City Paper. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Arts: A visit to this gallery is bound to make an imprint". Coast Weekend. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Aggie Zed- Video @ The Halsey". www.aggiezed.com.
  4. ↑ Lord, Jo (April 14, 2013). "Prominent and popular regional artist got her start in Richmond" (PDF). Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Fellowship Recipients" (PDF). VMFA.museum/programs. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Past Exhibitions - Visual Arts Center of Richmond". Visual Arts Center of Richmond.
  7. ↑ Sloan, Mark. "Aggie Zed: Keeper's Keep" (installation photos). Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Richmond, Virginia.
  8. ↑ http://halsey.cofc.edu/video/aggie-zed-keepers-keep-2/
  9. ↑ "Aggie Zed: Keeper's Keep".
  10. ↑ http://www.aggiezed.com/styleweekly-4-16-2013.pdf
  11. ↑ "Aggie Zed Speaks on Sullivan's – The Island Eye News". islandeyenews.com.
  12. ↑ "Artist Aggie Zed". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  13. ↑ http://nashvillearts.com/2014/02/05/z-capricious-world-aggie-zed/
  14. ↑ "Aggie Zed". Chroma Projects. Charlottesville, Virginia. Retrieved 5 October 2017. ,
  15. ↑ "Cannon Beach Oregon 2017 Spring Unveiling Art Festival". coastexplorermagazine.com. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  16. ↑ "The Item - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  17. ↑ Goodman, Christina. "Companion Exhibition Celebrates Women Artists of South Carolina". Free Times. Columbia, South Carolina. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  18. ↑ Collins, Jane (September 5, 2004). "South Carolina Birds". Review. The Item. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  19. ↑ "Small Works, Tall Tales | Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art". www.virginiamoca.org. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  20. ↑ Lord, Jo (April 14, 2013). "Prominent and popular regional artist got her start in Richmond" (PDF). Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  21. ↑ http://www.aam-us.org/about-us/grants-awards-and-competitions/pub-comp/2013-pubcomp-winners.
  22. ↑ "50 Best Book Covers Of 2012: Design Observer Announces Winners". 27 June 2013 – via Huff Post.
  23. ↑ Rosko, Emily (2012). Prop rockery. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press. p. cover. ISBN 978-1-937378-15-8.
  24. ↑ "Aggie+Zed"&dq="Aggie+Zed"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0_5jahPvWAhVB7CYKHTMtCv8Q6AEIMjAD "Western American Literature". Western Literature Association. 2005.
  25. ↑ Rosko, Emily. "Prop Rockery: A Book of Poetry". Idea Exchange: Akron Series in Poetry. University of Akron Press. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  26. ↑ Active Interest Media Inc (1997). "Aggie+Zed"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-kPKL__rWAhXF4IMKHfkAAmYQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=%22Aggie%20Zed%22&f=false "Collector's Guide". Active Interest Media, Inc.
  27. ↑ "Crazy Horse". American Language Skills Program of Southwest Minnesota State College. 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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