Virtual Artist Lecture: Petah Coyne-Friday, April 16, 9:00 am
When: Friday,
April 16, 2021
9:00 AM
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10:00 AM
Where: > See description for location
Description: VISITING ARTIST: PETAH COYNE
Virtual Artist Lecture-Friday, April 16, 9:00 am Eastern Time via Zoom
Register here: https://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/news/visiting-artist-petah-coyne.html
Petah Coyne is a contemporary sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations. Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral, from incorporating dead fish, mud, sticks, hay, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk flowers, to more recently, velvet, taxidermy and cast wax statuary. Unafraid to confront a range of subjects, or tackle contemporary themes, Coyne's innate dualities are transposed in the dichotomous themes of her work: transformation and constancy; life and loss; beauty and darkness. In a 2018 New York Times article by Hilarie Sheets, Amy Gilman, director at the Chazen Museum of Art adeptly describes Coyne's sculptures as "evocative in the way that great literature stays with you . . . Petah's work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship."
www.petahcoyne.org
For questions or additional information contact Kelly Devitt kdevitt@umassd.edu
Virtual Artist Lecture-Friday, April 16, 9:00 am Eastern Time via Zoom
Register here: https://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/news/visiting-artist-petah-coyne.html
Petah Coyne is a contemporary sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations. Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral, from incorporating dead fish, mud, sticks, hay, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk flowers, to more recently, velvet, taxidermy and cast wax statuary. Unafraid to confront a range of subjects, or tackle contemporary themes, Coyne's innate dualities are transposed in the dichotomous themes of her work: transformation and constancy; life and loss; beauty and darkness. In a 2018 New York Times article by Hilarie Sheets, Amy Gilman, director at the Chazen Museum of Art adeptly describes Coyne's sculptures as "evocative in the way that great literature stays with you . . . Petah's work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship."
www.petahcoyne.org
For questions or additional information contact Kelly Devitt kdevitt@umassd.edu
Contact: > See Description for contact information
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