Petah Coyne
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| Petah Coyne | |
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| Born | 1953 Oklahoma City |
| Education | Art Academy of Cincinnati, Kent State University |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Awards | Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture (1998), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1989)[1] |
Petah Coyne is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer. She is known for her large-scale sculptures composed of unconventional, and often organic, materials.[2] Some of her works are in the permanent collections of museums and galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Corcoran Gallery of Art,[3] and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.[4]
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Early Life and Education
Coyne was born in Oklahoma City in 1953 to a military family that moved several times before settling in Dayton, OH when she was twelve.[5][2] Coyne was home-schooled and as a teenager took courses at the University of Dayton.[5][2] She attended Kent State University from 1972-1973 and then the Art Academy of Cincinnati, from which she graduated in 1977.[6]
Career
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. She lives and works in New York and New Jersey.[7] Her most recent solo exhibition at the Mass MoCA (May 29, 2010)[8] features large-scale mixed-media sculptures along with silver gelatin print photographs. Coyne layers wax-soaked materials such as pearls, ribbons and silk flowers into large sculptural forms, often incorporating taxidermied birds and animals.[2]
"The works in this largest retrospective of the artist’s work to date range from her earlier and more abstract sculptures using industrial materials to newer works made of delicate wax. All of Coyne’s works take inspiration from personal stories, film, literature and political events. Coyne takes these sources and applies a Baroque sense of decadent refinement, imbuing her work with a magical quality to evoke intensely personal associations. Together these diverse yet intimately connected periods of Coyne’s practice make evident an evolution, which highlights the artist’s own blend of symbolism alongside an innovative use of materials including black sand, car parts, wax, satin ribbons, trees, silk flowers, and taxidermy."
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According to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,[10]
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"Coyne belongs to a generation of sculptors—many of them women—who came of age in the late 1980s and forever changed the muscular practice of sculpture with their new interest in nature and a penchant for painstaking craftsmanship, domestic references and psychological metaphor."
— Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
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"So that's what I'm trying to do with the white wax pieces I'm doing now - they're about those times that are almost perfect but not quite. You go searching to meet them again, and you're all excited, and it's never quite the same - but you always have the memory. So it's not just about people passing, it's more about friendships that have gone awry or people who have strayed. Just basically, humanity. That's what all these pieces are about.
I wanted to shift away from black, and I didn't know what I wanted to do, so I began to work with Irene Hultman. We did this whole installation, half black, half white, and there was also a performance in which she wore the pieces, or her dancers did. A lot of them come out of hat shapes or chandeliers. The wax is not a normal wax, it's made by a chemist so that it won't melt except at very high temperatures. It can get up to 180 degrees before it melts. In the summer my studio can get up to 120, 125, and in the winter I don't have heat so it's very cold. So these pieces have to be able to freeze."
— Petah Coyne March 24, 1994. In her Studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
- - Petah Coyne March 24, 1994. In her studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Selected Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibitions[11]
2010
- Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2004
- Petah Coyne. Cincinnati Art Museum
1999
- Fairy Tales. Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland; catalogue
1998
- Fairy Tales. Galerie Lelong, New York
1997
- Black/White/Black. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., (travelling)
1996
- Petah Coyne, Black and White, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta; catalogue
- Photographs, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
1994
- Sculpture, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
1992
- Petah Coyne, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; catalogue
1989
- Grand Lobby Installation, Brooklyn Museum of Art
1987
- Untitled Installation, Sculpture Center, New York
- Special Projects, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
- Group Exhibitions[11]
2003
- Art Basel
2001
- Artists Take on Detroit: Projects for the Tricentennial. Detroit, 2001
2000
- Glen Dimplex Artist’s Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; catalogue
1999
- Millennium Messages, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions, organized by the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York; catalogue
- Domestic Pleasures, Galerie Lelong, New York
- Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York; catalogue
1998
- Preview, Review, Galerie Lelong, New York
- House of Wax, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
1997
- Selections from the Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
- Neuberger Museum of Art 1997 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; catalogue
1996
- A Selection of Gifts to the Collection from Lily AuchinclossLily Auchincloss, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Partners in Printmaking, Works from Solo Impressions, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1995
- Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues with the Surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Huntington Gallery, Boston
1994
- In the Lineage of Eva Hesse, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
- Prints from Solo Impressions, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio; catalogue
1993
- Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
- "Monumental Propaganda, Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
1992
- MiaHaus, Thread Waxing Space, New York
- Natural Forces/Human Observations, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
1991
- Award in the Visual Arts, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1990
- Art Contemporain, Visions – 90, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montréal; catalogue
- Detritus: Transformation and Re-Construction, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1989
- The Emerging Figure, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; catalogue
1987
- Elements, Whitney Museum of American Art, Equitable Center, New York
- Sculpture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
- Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; catalogue
- Alternative Supports: Contemporary Sculpture on the Wall, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; catalogue
1986
- Bodies and Dreams, White Columns, New York
- Sydney Blum/Petah Coyne/Beverly Fishman, P.S. 122, New York
- Nature Observed, Danforth Museum of Art, Boston
- Paradise & Purgatory: West Meets East, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1985
- Toy Show, BACA/The Brooklyn Arts Council
1984
- Holiday Invitational, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
See Also
- Inside the Artist's Studio, Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. (ISBN 978-1616893040)
References
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- ↑ Dobrztbski, Judith H. (October 06, 1998). "Steadily Weaving Toward Her Goal; Petah Coyne's Art Strategy Has Its Scary Moments". New York Times.
- ↑ Vogel, Carol (January 20, 2006). "A Titian Travels to Washington". New York Times.
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- ↑ Richards, Judith Olch (ed.) (2004) Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York. ICI. New York.
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- ↑ "Petah Coyne - Everything That Rises Must Converge" (exhibit brochure). Mass MoCA. May 31, 2010.
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External links
- Artist's website
- Petah Coyne on Galerie Lelong
- Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin on SMOCA
- Petah Coyne at MASS MoCA May 29, 2010
- Petah Coyne at MASS MoCA April 11, 2011
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