Elizabeth King (artist)

Elizabeth King 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]

Elizabeth King
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

Exhibitions

• 2008 The David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye[4]
• 2015 New York Academy of Art, Beautiful Beast (group exhibition curated by Peter Drake)[5]
• 2017 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Radical Small[6]

Awards

Awards include:

• 2014 - Anonymous Was A Woman Award[7]

Collections

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas;[8]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California;[9]
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.;[1]
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia;[10]
• Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania;[11]
• Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire[12]

References

1. "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. Deborah Baum (October 27, 2008). "Elizabeth King Exhibition at the Bell Gallery". news.brown.edu. news.brown.edu. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
5. "Beautiful Beast". nyaa.edu. New York Academy of Art. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
6. "Elizabeth King: Radical Small". massmoca.org. MASS MoCA. 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.

Further reading

• 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)[1][2]
• 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) [3][4]
• Uncommon Ground: Virginia Artists 1990 (1990)

1. 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.
2. "Elizabeth King : the sizes of things in the mind's eye". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
3. 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.
4. "Attention's loop : a sculptor's reverie on the coexistence of substance and spirit". worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved April 11, 2017.