Michelle Stuart

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Michelle Stuart (* 1933 in Los Angeles ) is an American painter and sculptor .

life and work

STUART 1992 Extinct

Michelle Stuart was born in California . She studied at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (Santa Clarita) . In Mexico City she assisted Diego Rivera . In 1953, Stuart met the Catalan painter and political cartoonist José Bartoli at a studio party , whose affair with Frida Kahlo had just ended. After the marriage, the couple first went to Paris together and four years later to New York. The divorce took place in 1963. Stuart began studying archeology and anthropology at the New School for Social Research .

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Michelle Stuart worked with earth, rock and clay . The processing of the raw materials resulted in abrasions , pulverizations and prints on paper rolls, which became known as "scrolls". Stuart simultaneously brought a form of Land Art to the galleries and expanded Minimalist Art with non-traditional materials.

On the advice of Charles Simonds and Robert Smithson , she went to Sayreville , Middlesex County , New Jersey , to find colored earth and red clay. Other travel destinations were the American West , Copán in Honduras , Yucatán , the Galapagos Islands , the Peruvian desert (near Nazca), New Zealand and the Scottish Orkney archipelago .

Stuart drew attention to himself in the 1970s with monumental drawings in the landscape. Her works are reminiscent of prehistoric rock art and scratches such as the Nazca Lines in the desert near Nazca and Palpa in Peru , the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire in the central south of England or the petroglyphs in New Mexico . Stuart also makes sculptures the size of a talisman . She uses plant parts, seeds , archaeological fragments, ashes , fossils , wax , marble and bronze . "Earth sculptures", drawings and prints are part of her overall work . Photography is a recurring medium.

Profound knowledge in the fields of history , literature , astronomy , biology , botany , anthropology, cartography , and applied geology , ( deposit science and exploration ) are a basis for the work of Michelle Stuart.

In the 1980s, Stuart shifted her work to large-scale, gridded paintings in which beeswax, shells, flowers, leaves and sand were processed into an encaustic surface. The composition of different fragments promotes the changing perception of both the details and the whole.

For the multimedia installation Ashes in Arcadia (1988), Stuart had a separate room in the “Rose Art Museum” in Waltham . She hung a monumental relief there and filled the room with earth, fossils, books, rocks, plants, glass, metal and ashes. The song of humpback whales accompanied the installation.

Women's movement

During the 1970s, Michelle Stuart became involved in the women's movement and took part in the New York meetings of professional artists and art historians. In 1976 she supported the founding of Heresies , a feminist magazine on the subjects of art, history and politics. Michelle Stuart also contributed to the creation of a New York artist directory.

Exhibition activity

Michelle Stuart has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Europe (including documenta 6 ), Asia and the United States and has hosted a large number of solo exhibitions in renowned museums. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago , the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the National Gallery of Australia .

Awards

  • 2009 The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for Painting
  • 1997 Richard M. Recchia Memorial Prize , National Academy Museum, New York
  • 1995 American Academy in Rome , scholarship, Rome
  • 1994 elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design
  • 1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
  • 1990 New York City Art Commission: Excellence in Design Award, Tabula
  • 1990 Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Prize , 11th British International Print Biennale, England
  • 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, painting
  • 1989 Art Gallery of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology, Grant, Australia
  • 1987 New York Foundation for the Arts , Artist's Fellowship
  • 1986–1987 Printmaking Workshop, Guest Artist Grant, New York
  • 1985 Finnish Art Association Fellowship, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Individual Artist
  • 1977 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Individual Artist
  • 1975 Guggenheim scholarship
  • 1975 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Individual Artist
  • 1975 New York State CAPS Grant (painting)
  • 1974 Ford Foundation / Tamarind Institute Grant, Albuquerque
  • 1974 MacDowell Fellowship

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog for documenta 6. Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books. Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X , p. 84.
  2. ^ A Cosmos of Matter, Enshrined in Her Art. In: New York Times. accessed on November 27, 2014 (English)
  3. ↑ Michelle Stuart with Ann McCoy. In: The Brooklyn Rail. accessed on November 27, 2014 (English)
  4. ↑ Carly Gaebe: Earth Tones: An Interview with Michelle Stuart. In: Art in America. accessed on November 27, 2014 (English)
  5. ↑ Michelle Stuart. In: The Heretics. accessed on November 27, 2014 (English)
  6. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "S" / Stuart, Michelle, NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 15, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, Michelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles