Elizabeth King (artist)

Elizabeth King
Born 1950 (age 67–68)
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.com

Elizabeth King (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1950) 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

Awards

Awards include:

  • 2014 - Anonymous Was A Woman Award[7]
  • 2008 - Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College
  • 2006 - Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
  • 2002 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • 1996-97 - Bunting Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
  • 1996 - Virginia Commission for the Arts Artist Fellowship
  • 1993 - Juror's Choice Award, 12th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival
  • 1992 - The Virginia Commonwealth University 1992 Distinguished Scholar Award
  • 1990 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship
  • 1989 - Southeast Seven Grant, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
  • 1988 - Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

Collections

Bibliography

  • 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; Visual Arts Center of Richmond (2007)[13][14]
  • 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) [15][16]
  • Uncommon Ground: Virginia Artists 1990 (1990)

References

  1. 1 2 "Collection Search - Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  2. ↑ "VCU sculptor wins Anonymous Was A Woman award". Richmond Times Dispatch. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King :: Floating Stone Productions". www.floatingstone.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  4. ↑ "Elizabeth King: Radical Small". massmoca.org. MASS MoCA. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Beautiful Beast". nyaa.edu. New York Academy of Art. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ Deborah Baum (October 27, 2008). "Elizabeth King Exhibition at the Bell Gallery". news.brown.edu. news.brown.edu. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  7. ↑ "2014 Award Winners". Supporting Women Artists Over 40. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  8. ↑ "Pupil: Pose 1 | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.mfah.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  9. ↑ "Pupil: pose 1 | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  10. ↑ "Search Collections - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  11. ↑ "What Happened by Elizabeth King". museum.bucknell.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  12. ↑ "Elizabeth King, American, born 1950: Idea for a Mechanical Eye". hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu. Trustees of Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "Elizabeth King : the sizes of things in the mind's eye". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ "Attention's loop : a sculptor's reverie on the coexistence of substance and spirit". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
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