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The Alfred R. Shands III and Mary N. Shands Masters Series
Alyson Shotz: The Substance of Space
Alyson Shotz, b.1964, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. For the past 28 years she has been engaging, through her sculptural practice, in an artistic investigation into the physical qualities of space, light and matter—the building blocks of our physical world. Through exhaustive empirical experimentation in various materials including metal, porcelain, string, and glass beads, she explores the structure and substance of space itself from a humanistic perspective: what is it, what is it made of, how does it shape everything we see around us?
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About the Speaker:
Alyson Shotz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She currently has a new solo project at Grace Farms Foundation in CT and was included in the recent exhibition Line of Wit at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. She has also been included in exhibitions such as The More Things Change, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art and Space at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Contemplating the Void and The Shapes of Space, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Center, and Living Color, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC and Pattern: Follow the Rules at the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. She has had solo exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, and Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, among others. Shotz was an Arts Institute Research Fellow at Stanford University in 2014- 2015, a Sterling Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2012, she received a Pollock Krasner Award in 1999 and 2010, the Saint Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in 2007, and was the 2005-2006 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence at Yale University Art Gallery. Her work is included in numerous public collections, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Guggenheim Bilbao, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, among others.