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December Issue 2004
Mint Museum
of Art in Charlotte, NC, Features Elizabeth Turk
A selection of Elizabeth
Turk's sculptures entitled, The Collars: Tracings of Thought,
are being featured in the third installment of the VantagePoint
series at The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, which are on
view through Jan. 2, 2005. Turk's intricately carved white marble
collars synthesize pattern and form. The installation at the Mint
marks her first solo museum exhibition.
Turk spent several months in Charlotte last autumn while completing
a residency at the McColl Center for Visual Art. This opportunity
enabled Turk to utilize the Mint Museum of Art's historic lace
collection to further her study of patterns and organizing systems.
Besides the intricate patterns of lace, the sources of Turk's
inspirations are myriad - historic garden design, skeletal structures,
Persian carpets, river tributaries, spider webs, water-eroded
fossils and even self-organizing systems and social constructs.
In addition to the nine carved collars that are presented on narrow
steel bases, the exhibition also features works on paper and video
projection of selected sculptures placed in the landscape: at
the beach, in the dessert and in a swimming pool where they are
acted upon by rhythms of water, wind and light. This juxtaposition
of seemingly fragile sculptures placed within an active environment
evokes a conversation between the interplay of light and atmosphere
and emphasizes the elegiac tradition of marble stonework.
Turk received her BA in International Relations from Scripps College
in Claremont, CA, and pursued her MFA from the Rinehart School
of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since the
late 1990s, she has lived in New York, and has for several years
maintained a studio within a marble fabricating facility in Santa
Ana, CA.
Turk will speak about her sculptures and sources of inspiration
on Oct. 24 at 3pm in the Van Every Auditorium at the Mint.
The exhibit is sponsored in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham
Foundation. A full-color publication will accompany the exhibit.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Museum at 704/337-2000 or at (www.mintmuseum.org).
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