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Michelle Stuart
Michelle Stuart (born 1933) is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her sculpture, painting and environmental art. She is based in New York City.
Stuart was born in 1933 and she grew up in Los Angeles, California. After attending Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), Stuart worked as a topological draftsperson. She worked in Mexico about 1951 as a studio assistant to Diego Rivera. She married Catalan artist José Bartoli in 1953. She lived for 3 years in Paris, then moved to New York, where she has resided since 1957.
In the early phase of her career, Stuart drew inspiration from recently released photographs of the surface of the Moon and saw parallels between her early rubbings and these lunar landscapes.[citation needed] This body of luminous monochromatic drawings brought land art into the gallery.[citation needed] During this time, Stuart investigated other means of addressing specific sites through her landworks or, as she terms them, "drawings in the landscape".[citation needed] In Niagara Gorge Path Relocated (1975), the artist situated a 460-foot scroll of paper cascading down a large bank of the Niagara River Gorge at Art Park.
Throughout her career her art has figured in reviews of the work of women artists.
In the 1980s, Stuart shifted her focus.[citation needed] She embarked on a series of gridded paintings that introduced beeswax, seashells, blossoms, leaves and sand embedded in an encaustic surface.[citation needed] Stuart also created complex multi-media installations involving light and sound elements.[citation needed]
Her series titled Extinct (1993) was inspired by a Victorian-era album of leaves.[citation needed] For one work in the series, she revisited the grid formation, but this time placed a variety of dried plants within each compartment.[citation needed] During this time, Stuart also created the Seed Calendar drawings, which employ the grid to map the maturation stages of a seed.[citation needed]
Throughout her career, Stuart has also sought to manifest her love of literature and the writing process through a variety of strategies.[citation needed] In the early 70s, she began to create the Rock Book series, artworks that in their use of natural materials from specific sites might be considered alternative travel logs.[citation needed] These works take the form of tattered, bound journals made of earth rubbings.[citation needed] For example, in Homage to the Owl from Four Corners (1985), earth, owl feathers, string and beeswax are brought together to form a book.[citation needed]
Stuart has published artists' books, including The Fall (1976), a book-length prose poem about keeping historical records and Butterflies and Moths (2006).[citation needed]
Michelle Stuart
Michelle Stuart (born 1933) is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her sculpture, painting and environmental art. She is based in New York City.
Stuart was born in 1933 and she grew up in Los Angeles, California. After attending Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), Stuart worked as a topological draftsperson. She worked in Mexico about 1951 as a studio assistant to Diego Rivera. She married Catalan artist José Bartoli in 1953. She lived for 3 years in Paris, then moved to New York, where she has resided since 1957.
In the early phase of her career, Stuart drew inspiration from recently released photographs of the surface of the Moon and saw parallels between her early rubbings and these lunar landscapes.[citation needed] This body of luminous monochromatic drawings brought land art into the gallery.[citation needed] During this time, Stuart investigated other means of addressing specific sites through her landworks or, as she terms them, "drawings in the landscape".[citation needed] In Niagara Gorge Path Relocated (1975), the artist situated a 460-foot scroll of paper cascading down a large bank of the Niagara River Gorge at Art Park.
Throughout her career her art has figured in reviews of the work of women artists.
In the 1980s, Stuart shifted her focus.[citation needed] She embarked on a series of gridded paintings that introduced beeswax, seashells, blossoms, leaves and sand embedded in an encaustic surface.[citation needed] Stuart also created complex multi-media installations involving light and sound elements.[citation needed]
Her series titled Extinct (1993) was inspired by a Victorian-era album of leaves.[citation needed] For one work in the series, she revisited the grid formation, but this time placed a variety of dried plants within each compartment.[citation needed] During this time, Stuart also created the Seed Calendar drawings, which employ the grid to map the maturation stages of a seed.[citation needed]
Throughout her career, Stuart has also sought to manifest her love of literature and the writing process through a variety of strategies.[citation needed] In the early 70s, she began to create the Rock Book series, artworks that in their use of natural materials from specific sites might be considered alternative travel logs.[citation needed] These works take the form of tattered, bound journals made of earth rubbings.[citation needed] For example, in Homage to the Owl from Four Corners (1985), earth, owl feathers, string and beeswax are brought together to form a book.[citation needed]
Stuart has published artists' books, including The Fall (1976), a book-length prose poem about keeping historical records and Butterflies and Moths (2006).[citation needed]