Arlene Shechet

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

Arlene Shechet
Arlene Shechet at the Jewish Museum with her sculpture Travel Light, produced in 2017. Pictured here in the exhibition, Scenes from the Collection.
Born1951
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Education
Known forVisual arts

Work

Shechet is a sculptor working in a range of materials, including wood, ceramics, paper-making, porcelain, and clay. Shechet has said of her work, "Everybody wants to be able to tell a quick story, but I do not want to make something that fits into a few sentences. I don’t want it to have a punchline.”[1] Shechet's early work was influenced by Buddhism, evident in the way it exhibited states of transformation and Buddhist subject matter.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] Shechet continues to work with paper, implementing a hybrid approach by manipulating paper pulp in a similar fashion to clay.[5] Her recent body of colorful paper works, completed in 2012, reveal her commitment to materials and the mold.[5]

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[6] 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.[7] 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.[8] A New Yorker capsule review compared the work in this same exhibition to those of the ceramic artist and printmaker Ken Price.[9] Shechet has also cited references as diverse as Elie Nadelman, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jim Nutt, and Umberto Boccioni.[10]

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston exhibited a 20-year survey of her work in 2016, which The New York Times called "Some of the most imaginative American sculpture of the past 20 years.”[11][12]

On March 6, 2018 Pace Gallery announced its representation of Shechet.[13] Formerly, Shechet has shown with galleries including Jack Shainman and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

In 2017, Shechet was commissioned to create a sculpture for the collection of the Jewish Museum in New York City. The work, Travel Light, references her family's experience of migration to the United states.[14] Two years later, in 2019, Shechet contributed to an audio tour for the Jewish Museum, where she discusses the process of creating her work. [15] In 2018, Shechet was commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy to create a monumental site-specific installation for the Park, which was on view from view from September 25, 2018, through April 28, 2019.[16]

Personal Life and Education

Shechet was raised in Forest Hills, Queens. She comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish background. Shechet's grandparents immigrated to the United States from Belarus in 1920.[17] Shechet received her Bachelor of Arts from New York University and her Masters of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design[18] in 1978. Shechet taught at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1978 until 1985, and later at the Parsons School of Design from 1984 to 1995.[19] Shechet lived in TriBeCa through the 1990s, however in 2002 she purchased a house in Woodstock, New York. This is currently her full-time home. She has two children, born in 1986 and 1990.[20] Shechet is married to the psychiatrist Mark Epstein.

Exhibitions

Solo museum exhibitions of Shechet’s work include the RISD Museum, Providence in 2014;[21] the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, in 2012;[22] the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas in 2012;[23] The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY in 2009;[24] 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.[6] Shechet is the first living artist to have an exhibition at the Frick Collection, New York,[25][26] which was on view in 2016–2017.[27] She had an exhibition at The Phillips Collection, DC, in 2016–2017.[28]

Collections

Shechet's work is held numerous collections, including the following selection:

Awards

Shechet has received numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award in 2004,[34] a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2010,[35] an American Arts and Letters Award in 2011,[36] and three New York Foundation for the Arts awards.

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References
  1. Hambleton, Merrell (2020-02-27). "Arlene Shechet Creates Beauty Out of Chaos". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  2. Dixon, Jane (September 7, 2010). "Arlene Shechet". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  3. "Arlene Shechet Sculpts Time". Art21 Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  4. "Arlene Shechet, Workspace Program Artist in Residence, 1996". Dieu Donné. residencies.dieudonne.org. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  5. Woodward, Daisy (May 13, 2014). "Arlene Shechet: Ceramic Meets Paper". AnOther Magazine. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  6. "Arlene Shechet: All at Once". ICA Boston. March 2015. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  7. Walsh, Brienne (January 27, 2014). "The Alchemist: Arlene Shechet Converts 'White Gold' Into Artworks". Art in America. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  8. Smith, Roberta (November 7, 2013). "Arlene Shechet: 'Slip'". New York Times. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  9. "Arlene Shechet: October 10, 2013 – November 16, 2013". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  10. "Arlene Shechet: Slip". Sikkema Jenkins & Co. sikkemajenkinsco.com. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  11. "Arlene Shechet: All at Once | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  12. Cotter, Holland (2015-07-17). "Arlene Shechet Has a First Museum Retrospective in Boston". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  13. Greenberger, Alex (2018-03-06). "Arlene Shechet Joins Pace Gallery". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  14. "The Jewish Museum". thejewishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  15. "The Jewish Museum". tours.thejewishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
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  20. Sheets, Hilarie M. (2015-06-09). "As the Art World Swoons over Playful Ceramics, Arlene Shechet Hits Her Stride". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  21. "RISD 2014". ARLENE SHECHET. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  22. "VCU / Weatherspoon / Nerman Museum 2012". ARLENE SHECHET. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  23. "VCU / Weatherspoon / Nerman Museum 2012". ARLENE SHECHET. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  24. "Tang Museum 2009". ARLENE SHECHET. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  25. 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.
  26. Dailey, Meghan (2016-05-24). "Contemporary Ceramics, Up Against 18th-Century Pieces — Literally". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  27. "Current Exhibition | The Frick Collection". www.frick.org. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  28. "Arlene Shechet: From Here On Now". www.phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  29. "The Jewish Museum". Jewish Museum (Manhattan). Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  30. "Artists". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  31. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  32. www.metmuseum.org https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/705456?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=arlene&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1. Retrieved 2020-03-08. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  33. "Arlene Shechet | Artists". VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  34. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Arlene Shechet". Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  35. Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Artist Programs » Artist Grants". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  36. "2011 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts – American Academy of Arts and Letters". Retrieved 2019-03-03.
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