Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 7 PM ET via Zoom
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“The Anatomy of Grandeur: Women in Sculpture” is a public panel organized and moderated by 2020-2021 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow Bat-Ami Rivlin, with the participation of artists Tamar Ettun, Dana Davenport, and Clare Koury. The three women sculptors are invited to discuss their relationship to the medium and canon of sculpture. Large-scale sculpture is often the realm of the ‘Strong Male Material Artist’, both in representation and theory. Its forms are often understood as an expression of erectness, dominance, and material conquest. The panel will address the following: how can artists that represent in their very existence opposite experiences and realities relate to this canon, and develop a practice that critically investigates these types of monumental strategies?
Tamar Ettun is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has had exhibitions and performances at Pioneer Works, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, PERFORMA, Sculpture Center, Madison Square Park, The Barrick Museum UNLV, The Watermill Center, e-flux, Herzelia Biennial, Socrates Sculpture Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Fridman Gallery, among others. She received awards and fellowships from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Chinati Foundation, Moca Tucson Artist Residency, MacDowell Fellowship, RECESS, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Production Fund, and Iaspis. Ettun founded The Moving Company, an artists collective creating performances in public spaces and a social engagement project with Brooklyn teens hosted by The Brooklyn Museum. Ettun’s work was featured at Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Bomb Magazine, Huffington Post, Modern Painters, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, VICE, among others. Ettun received her MFA from Yale University in 2010 where she was awarded the Alice English Kimball Fellowship. She studied at Cooper Union in 2007, while earning her BFA from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Ettun teaches at Columbia University School of Arts, and The New School Parsons School of Design.
Clare Koury is an artist born in Kentucky living in New York City. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her MFA from Columbia University. She has exhibited works at M23 Projects and the Jewish Museum in New York City, The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, Randy Alexander Gallery and Produce Model Gallery in Chicago.
Dana Davenport is a Korean and Black American interdisciplinary artist shifting between performance, sculpture, and video. Davenport earned a BFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has been shown throughout the United States and internationally including Gibney Dance, New York, NY; Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY; NYU Skirball, New York, NY; BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY; Brown University, Providence, RI; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; Cultural Center Recoleta, Buenos Aires, AR; Seventh Gallery, and Sydney, AUS, to name a few. Davenport was the recipient of the Recess Session Residency. She is the 2018 Chashama ChaNorth fellowship recipient and has completed the 2017 SOHO20 Gallery AIR Program. She co-organized Free Space, month-long programming at Miranda Kuo Gallery in 2018.
Bat-Ami Rivlin is a New York-based artist, writer, and educator. Rivlin utilizes found and surplus objects to create installation and sculptural works that explore conceptual spaces between object ontology, material function, and bodily characteristics. Rivlin holds an MFA from Columbia University (2019), and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2016). Rivlin was most recently a NADA House Governor’s Island Residency Fellow (2020) and has just completed her A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship for the 2020-2021 year. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as M 2 3, New York (solo, 2021), A.I.R. Gallery, New York (solo, 2021); Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark (two-person show, 2021); Anonymous Gallery, New York (2021); The Jewish Museum (2019) among others. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine (interview), Flash Art, Lef(t), and more. Rivlin holds teaching positions at Teachers College Columbia University and at Pratt Institute.