Elizabeth Turk

Ivory-billed Woodpecker

2020

Born in Pasadena and raised in Orange County, Elizabeth Turk earned her M.F.A. at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In Turk’s work, the shape of the line is created by extreme loss. That is, the reductive process of carving creates a positive, fragile form in which the absence of the original material is a focus. Turk encourages us to consider how nature has shaped these organic materials long before the artist’s manipulation of them into new forms. When viewed as components in a complex natural system, their singular beauty and inherent mystery is revealed. Turk compels us to view works of art not only as objects to be coveted and collected, but also as expressions of the natural world and our evolving relation to it. A recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011), Turk is internationally recognized for transforming her signature medium of marble into strikingly intricate objects that defy convention and challenge our preconceptions of what marble can do. Through the use of electric grinders, dental tools...

Mahogany

Wood (Cherry, with silver leaf finish), 34 x 7 in.

Elegant and understated, the beauty of calligraphic scripts has resonated across cultures and time. Elizabeth Turk: Written in Stone marks the change caused by technological communic...

Elegant and understated, the beauty of calligraphic scripts has resonated across cultures and time. Elizabeth Turk: Written in Stone marks the change caused by technological communic...

Elegant and understated, the beauty of calligraphic scripts has resonated across cultures and time. Elizabeth Turk: Written in Stone marks the change caused by technological communic...

Sunology by sculptor Richard Slee Richard Slee’s sculptural work grew from his “love of the Afrofuturist Music of Sun Ra and his ‘Cosmic Philosophy’, resulting from his claimed alien abduction...

Door of the cosmos, made from Fluorescent Acrylic Sheets, Resin and Black Milliput, 19.5 cm Diameter ,2023. Richard Slee’s sculptural work grew from his “love of the Afrofuturist M...

Tony Cragg (British, b. 1949) Palette (from For Joseph Beuys), 1986 Medium: Wooden palette covered with coloured plastic granules Dimensions: 75 × 58 × 1.5 cm (29 1/2 × 22 4/5 × 3/5 ...

Saturated in cerulean—like the colour of a deep blue sky, intersecting lengths of wood form a dramatic sculpture in this abstract piece by Canadian artist, Shayne Dark. From his stud...

The drama of black and white is elevated by this sculptural series of three paintings by Aron Hill. Here the Calgary artist uses clean minimalist form in black on three white circula...

"Prison" Wall Sculpture 71" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Th...