Arlene Shechet

Arlene Shechet
Arlene Shechet at the Jewish Museum with her sculpture Travel Light 2017 in Scenes from the Collection
Born 1951
New York City
Nationality American
Education
Known for Visual arts

Arlene Shechet (born 1951) is an American artist. She lives and works in New York City and Woodstock, New York.

Work

Shechet's early work was influenced by Buddhism, evident in the way it exhibited states of transformation and Buddhist subject matter.[1] In the early 1990s, Shechet made a series of plaster sculptures. The lumpy works, supported by industrial and found objects, and incorporating Buddhist iconography, evolved into a family of Buddhas. In 1996 Shechet was invited to work at the Dieu Donné Papermill in New York. During her residency she created handmade, paper blueprints of stupas as well as paper vessels.[2] Shechet continues to work with paper, implementing a hybrid approach by manipulating paper pulp in a similar fashion to clay.[3] Her recent body of colorful paper works, completed in 2012, reveal her commitment to materials and the mold.[3]

Her fascination with materials extends to clay, for which she is primarily know and has received wide recognition. Over the last decade, Shechet has worked prolifically with clay, creating an impressive body of work[4] and pushing the boundaries of the material. From 2012 to 2013, Shechet held a residency at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in Germany, where she made experimental sculptures alongside factory employees making traditional porcelain work.[5] Her time there yielded a new body of work which was installed by Shechet at the RISD Museum, Providence in 2014.

In 2013 for The New York Times, Roberta Smith described Shechet's work as combining painting and sculpture "with exuberant polymorphous, often comic results", and noted the variety of glazed surfaces on the vessels in her exhibition Slip, at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.[6] A New Yorker capsule review compared the work in this same exhibition to those of the ceramic artist and printmaker Ken Price.[7] Shechet has also cited references as diverse as Elie Nadelman, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jim Nutt, and Umberto Boccioni.[8]

On March 6, 2018 Pace Gallery announced its representation of Shechet.[9]

Early Life and education

Shechet was raised in Forest Hills, Queens. She received her Bachelor of Arts from New York University and her Masters of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.[10]

Exhibitions

Solo museum exhibitions of Shechet’s work include the RISD Museum, Providence in 2014; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, in 2013; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas in 2012; The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY in 2009; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in 2009. A twenty-year survey of her work opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in June 2015.[11] Shechet is the first living artist to have an exhibition at the Frick Collection, New York,[12][13] which was on view in 2016–2017.[14] She had an exhibition at The Phillips Collection, DC, in 2016–2017.[15]

Collections

Shechet's work is held in the following permanent public collection:

Awards

Shechet has received numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award in 2004, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2010, an American Arts and Letters Award in 2011, and three New York Foundation for the Arts awards.

References

  1. ↑ Dixon, Jane (September 7, 2010). "Arlene Shechet". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Arlene Shechet, Workspace Program Artist in Residence, 1996". Dieu Donné. residencies.dieudonne.org. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Woodward, Daisy (May 13, 2014). "Arlene Shechet: Ceramic Meets Paper". AnOther Magazine. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Arlene Shechet: All at Once". ICA Boston. March 2015. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Walsh, Brienne (January 27, 2014). "The Alchemist: Arlene Shechet Converts 'White Gold' Into Artworks". Art in America. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Smith, Roberta (November 7, 2013). "Arlene Shechet: 'Slip'". New York Times. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Arlene Shechet: October 10, 2013 – November 16, 2013". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Arlene Shechet: Slip". Sikkema Jenkins & Co. sikkemajenkinsco.com. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  9. ↑ Greenberger, Alex (2018-03-06). "Arlene Shechet Joins Pace Gallery". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  10. ↑ "Arlene Shechet". Ceramics Now. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Arlene Shechet: All at Once". ICA Boston. March 2015. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  12. ↑ Scott, Andrea K. (June 27, 2016). "Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection (Frick Collection)". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  13. ↑ Dailey, Meghan (2016-05-24). "Contemporary Ceramics, Up Against 18th-Century Pieces — Literally". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  14. ↑ "Current Exhibition | The Frick Collection". www.frick.org. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  15. ↑ "Arlene Shechet: From Here On Now". www.phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  16. ↑ "The Jewish Museum". Jewish Museum (Manhattan). Retrieved 2018-03-11.
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