Elizabeth Turk

Ivory-billed Woodpecker

2020

Mahogany

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...

Anodized aluminum (black)

Anodized aluminum (gold)

Series of individual variations Bronze freely rotating on a spalted beech base Stamped with monogram signature and uniquely numbered 579A Rotation allows...

Junction II is a wood sculpture (poplar) by Wouter van der Vlugt, dimensions are 45 × 44 × 40 cm (17.7 × 17.3 × 15.7 in). It is a unique signed piece and it comes with a certificate...

Iron, Ytong, wood, paper & paint

The Messenger by Craig Campbell Expressionistic Raven Sculpture 18 x 5 x 10" Bronze 1/1 ABOUT THE ARTIST: Craig Campbell began sculpting more than 25 years ago and received his BFA ...