🔥 RARE Vintage Modern Minimalist Sculpture Exhibition Poster, Jackie Ferrara 81

Description: This is an early and RARE Vintage Modern Minimalist Sculpture Exhibition Poster, for Jackie Ferrara's (b. 1929) exhibition at the University of California in 1981. This poster is titled "Jackie Ferrara," features her acclaimed Zogg sculpture, and reads at the bottom: "23 March - 18 April 1981. Opening Reception: 6 - 8 P.M., Monday 23 March. UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIE. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 823 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90007...Sponsored by the USC School of Fine Arts and the Architecture & Design Support Groups." Approximately 18 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 17 x 22 inches. Very good condition, with some light scratches to the glass, and some debris which appears to be under the frame, which is visible in the corners (please see photos.) Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Jackie Ferrara Born: 1929 - Detroit, MichiganKnown for: Sculptor-minimal architecture Minimalist architectural and landscape artist Jackie Ferrara, born in Detroit, Michigan in 1929, has, since the 1970s, incorporated concrete and natural elements like rock, wood, water, trees and grass in the construction of courtyards, terraces, walkways and other structures emphasizing geometric design.An early work in 1973 at the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York was the eight foot high wood structure, "Stacked Pyramid." Other characteristic works include a limestone courtyard at the General Mills headquarters, an acre of tile flooring for the Pittsburgh Airport, and a lobby for a Seattle convention center.Widely commissioned, exhibited, honored and awarded, Ferrara has shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and many other venues, including ten times at the Max Protech Gallery in New York City,. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1973, 1977 and 1987, and from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1971 and 1975.In 1988, Ferrara received an award for excellence in design from the Arts Commission of New York City, and, in 1990, one from the American Institute of Architects.Jackie Ferrara's work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, as well as many national and international collections and museums.The artist lives in New York City.Source: Jules and Nancy Heller, "North American Women Artists of the 20th Century" Jackie Ferrara was born in Detroit, Michigan, later moving to New York and settling into the SoHo artists scene early on, where she continues to live and work. She developed her post-minimalist style beginning in the 1970’s, and is known for creating pyramidal or ziggurat sculptures, working with geometric patterns in often log cabin-like stacked configurations of wood. Ferrara is also a highly accomplished draftsperson, typically working on graph paper or wall drawings procedurally through the elaboration of formal rules. Her work blends or synthesizes various formal approaches, genres, and styles, interacting with conceptual rule-based practices, pattern and design, architecture, and minimalism.While Ferrara did not start making art with any regularity until her 40’s, she has had an extensive career, winning numerous grants and awards including from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has consistently made significant contributions to the recognition of women in the arts. During a period when the Whitney Museum was regularly being protested regarding its lack of inclusion of women artists in its exhibitions, Ferrara was included in its 1970 sculpture annual, and would later be included in two of its biennials in 1973 and 1979. She had her first one person show in 1973 at A.M. Sachs Gallery, where her work was bought by the then well-known conceptual artist Sol Lewitt (with whom she also used to play poker). Following this, Lewitt’s dealer Max Protetch would encounter her work and from then Ferrara began to exhibit with his gallery. Her sculpture has been most influential in the public domain where she continues to produce large-scale works with an attentiveness to place at renowned institutions across the United States. Her public art projects have been honored by institutions including The American Institute of Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects and the Design Art Commission of the City of New York. Her 1997 mosaic work Arches, Towers, Pyramids is installed in 5 locations at Grand Central Station, including the platform walls of the shuttle to Times Square, the corridor for the #7 train and at an entrance to the main terminal. Jackie Ferrara’s career as a sculptor began in New York City in the early 1970s, a period in which the theory of “the death of painting” was the prevailing cultural dialogue, and the door was kicked wide open for artists to explore new and yet-invented mediums. Ferrara’s art extended the bounds of traditional sculpture into the interactive, public sphere. Creating monumental structures, many of which were designed to be physically engaged with, Ferrara changed the language of sculptural experience.Modularity is a core element in Ferrara’s formal approach. Her employ of pattern-, language-, and volume-based modalities derive from an intrinsic human attraction to ancestral ziggurat and pyramidal shapes. Ferrara engages a repetitious or iterative approach to her work. Her colored pencil-and-ink works on paper, for example, which depict spaces and places informed by our world but evade specific identification, contain embedded Morse code references relaying visual and atmospheric links. In Ferrara’s sculptures, units of pine, maple, birch, and poplar woods are cut and constructed into arenas, bath houses, and tower-like structures.In an essay from Ferrara’s 1992 retrospective exhibition catalogue, art historian Nancy Princenthal wrote, “Ferrara’s sensibility is rooted in order as a pleasure principle. To appreciate her work is to share her joy in systems of organization, their multiplicity, and their permutations … The sensations she wants to recapture and share are imprecise and intimate.” Along with contemporaries such as Alice Aycock, Scott Burton, Nancy Holt, and Mary Miss, Ferrara’s works have come to redefine the inclusion of the environment within contemporary art.This show marks Jackie Ferrara’s first solo exhibition at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, subsequent to the artist joining the Gallery in 2021. Her work was previously included in a Franklin Parrasch Gallery group exhibition entitled Benched in 1993.* * *Jackie Ferrara has produced numerous public monumental, site-specific projects internationally, including those in Toronto (Ontario), New York, NY, and St. Paul, MN; and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Tufts University (Medford, MA), and the State University of New York at Purchase (Purchase, NY). Ferrara’s works reside in the permanent collections of over 60 museums and public collections worldwide, including the Louisiana Museum (Humlebaek, Denmark), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), and High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA). Most recently, Ferrara’s works were included in exhibitions at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Steel, String, Spit Bite: Selections from the LeWitt Collection (November 12, 2021-March 18, 2022), and Menil Drawing Institute, Dream Monuments: Drawings from the 1960s and 1970s (May 21-September 19, 2021).Courtesy of Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York Awards and Grants2016Academician of the National Academy2001For Canal Demonstration Project, Phoenix, AZ. With landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg Merit Award, American Society of Landscape Architects Tucker Award of Design Excellence, Stone Institute Honor Award, Waterfront Center1990Institute Honor, American Institute of Architects1988For Flushing Bay Promenade, Queens, NY. Award for Excellence in Design, Art Commission of the City of New York1987For Beach Park, Art on the Beach, Hunters Point, NY. With architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien National Endowment for the Arts, Art and Design Collaboration1977National Endowment for the Arts1976John Simon Guggenheim Foundation1975New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS1973National Endowment for the Arts1971New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS Projects2013Marking Crossways. Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. Plaza, driveway, walkways. 1.6 acres. Scarf based on Marking Crossways. Hand woven by Jan Hewitt Towsley.2010Staircase Project. Museum of Arts and Design. New York, NY. Wall drawings in 2 staircases.2009Alex's Place. Tufts University. Medford, MA. Rooftop plaza. 13,350 sf. Collaboration with landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg.2007Wall of Towers. Houston. Auditorium lobby wall.2006Fountain. University of Houston. Granite, water, blue light. 60' long. Benches. University of Houston. 2 granite benches. Each 30' long.2005Beacon Tower Model. University of Cincinnati proposal. Laumeier Benches. Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO. 8 cedar benches.2004Arlington Gateway. Arlington, VA. Plaza 40,000 sf. Collaboration with M. Paul Friedberg.200318 Niches. Brick walls and courtyard. Toronto, ON. 24,000 sf.2002Baruch Benches. Baruch College, New York, NY. 4 mahogany benches.2001Canal Demonstration Project. Phoenix, AZ Canal Demonstration Project. Phoenix, AZ. 1.5 miles of Arizona Canal.Collaboration with M. Paul Friedberg. Flushing Bay Promenade. Flushing Meadow Corona Park, Queens, NY. 19,440 sf.2000Stepped Tower. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 60' high. Copper Tower. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. 43' high. Grand Central: Arches, Towers, Pyramids. MTA Arts for Transit, New York, NY. Subway. Mosaic banding at 5 locations. 1474 sf.1999Amphitheater. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. 106' long. Seat Wall and Half Moon Terrace. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1.5 acres. Collaboration with landscape architect Laurie Olin.1998Lap Pool and Bath House. Private family, Coconut Grove, FL. Marble clad pool and rooms. 10,000 sf. Collaboration with architect William Bialosky. Red Arches. Frederieke Taylor Gallery installation. Birch plywood. University of Illinois in Urbana acquired six of the eight arches.1996Paths. Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, PA. Ceramic tile floors. 65,000 sf.1995Floor. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Tang Center, 4152 sf1994Covered Walkway. Lehman College, Bronx, NY. Arcade. 107' long. With 9' high diamond plate Kiosk.1993Lenox Park. Silver Springs, MD. 1/3 acre. Collaboration with M. Paul Friedberg. Hudson River Passage. Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY. Wood structure.1991Terrace. Stuart Collection, University of California at San Diego. Hamm Plaza. St. Paul, MN. 12,100 sf. Collaboration with architect William Pedersen.1990Newcastle Rooms. Newcastle, England. First Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Garden Festival. Tiled bath and toilet rooms for exhibition model home.1989Meeting Place. Washington Trade and Convention Center, Seattle, WA. Floor and seating. 3082 sf. Garden Courtyard. Fulton County Government Center, Atlanta, GA. 10,000 sf. Collaboration with M. Paul Friedberg. Merrimack Riverfront Park, Lawrence, MA. Proposal to convert abandoned swimming pool and bathhouse into amphitheater and colonnade. 1 acre.1988Stone Court. General Mills Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, MN. 65' long. Belvedere. Walker Art Center Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, MN. Cedar stage. Rebuilt in 2003.1987Beach Park. Art on the Beach. Hunters Point, NY. Park design for temporary projects Park design for temporary projects sponsored by Creative Time. 6 acres. Collaboration with architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Bench. Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Bench House. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Wood Structure Sawyer Point, Cincinnati, OH. Proposal for stairway, tower, and viewing bridge. Collaboration with M. Paul Friedberg.1986Love Seat. City Hall Park Furniture Show. Public Art Fund. City Hall Park, New York, NY. Rado Couch. Sculpture/Aspen. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.1985Wing Stepper. Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL. Cedar platform. Rebuilt in 1993. Davenport, IA.Proposal for plaza. Collaboration with architect Peter Eisenman and historian Jeffrey Kipnis.1984Breaktower. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. Cedar tower. Norwalk Platform. Memorial Lake Park, Norwalk, OH. Performance structure.1981Laumeier Project. Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO. Cedar structure with inner room. Rebuilt 2004.1980Carbondale Project. Federal Building, Carbondale, IL. General Services Administration. Wave Hill Project. Wave Hill 1980: Temporal Structures. Riverdale, NY. Wood Structure.1979Tower and Bridge for Castle Clinton. Interpretations '79. Battery Park, New York, NY.1978Dayton Arch. Alternative Spaces Residency Program. City Beautiful Council. Dayton, OH. Wood structure. Minneapolis Project. Minneapolis College of Art And Design, Minneapolis, MN. Wood structure. Rebuilt in 2003.1973Stacked Pyramid. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY. Rebuilt in 2012. Solo Exhibitions2017Lines. The Drawing Center. New York, NY2007Wall Drawings and Furniture. Frederieke Taylor, New York, NY Imaginary Spaces/Realized Places. Tufts University, Medford, MA2003Recent Work. Frederieke Taylor, New York, NY2002Sculptures & Drawings. Frederieke Taylor, New York, NY2000Small Sculptures and Models for Public Spaces 1973-2000. Frederieke Taylor/TZ' Art, New York, NY Jackie Ferrara Abstract Structures: Timeless Form. Atrium Gallery University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT1998Red Arches. Frederieke Taylor/TZ' Art, New York, NY In Focus: Jackie Ferrara. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL1996Corridor Watch. Michael Klein Gallery, New York, NY1994Wallworks & Tableworks. Michael Klein Inc., New York, NY1993Jackie Ferrara: Traversing Space. Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, Hudson River Passage. Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY1992Jackie Ferrara Sculpture: A Retrospective. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Rose Art Museum, Brandeis U, Waltham, MA. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN1991Michael Klein Inc., New York, NY1990Genovese Gallery, Boston, MA1987Jackie Ferrara: Benches, Thrones and a Table. Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX R. B. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, DC1984Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY Exhibitions: 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 19751983University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Anders Tornberg Galleriet, Lund, Sweden1982Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL1981Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL Laumeier Sculpture Park Gallery, St. Louis, MO1980Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA University of Massachusetts at Amherst University of Southern California at Los Angeles1979Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN University of Rhode Island at Kingston1978Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN1977Ohio State University, Columbus, OH1975Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA1974A. M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY1973A. M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY Recent Group Exhibitions2017Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY2013Against the Grain. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Traveled to Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA.2012Andrea Blum Social Studies. La Conserver, Murcia, Spain. Scott Burton by Oscar Tuazon. Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy. Collection of Piet and Ida Sanders. Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Netherlands.2011Opening Exhibition. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. The Language of Less. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.2009Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Traveled to Institutor Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain in 2010 Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany in 2011.2008Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s. Sculpture Center. Long Island City, NY.

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