Michelle Stuart (born 1933) is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her sculpture, painting and

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. She is based in

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Early life

Stuart was born in 1933 and she grew up in Los Angeles, California. After attending

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(now the

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), Stuart worked as a topological draftsperson. She worked in Mexico about 1951 as a studio assistant to

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. She married

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artist José Bartoli in 1953. She lived for 3 year in Paris, then moved to New York, where she has resided since 1957.

Work

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. This body of luminous monochromatic drawings brought

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into the gallery. During this time, Stuart investigated other means of addressing specific sites through her landworks or, as she terms them, "drawings in the landscape". In ''Niagara Gorge Path Relocated'' (1975), the artist situated a 460-foot scroll of paper cascading down a large bank of the

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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. She embarked on a series of gridded paintings that introduced beeswax, seashells, blossoms, leaves and sand embedded in an encaustic surface. Stuart also created complex

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installations involving light and sound elements. Her series titled ''Extinct'' (1993) was inspired by a Victorian-era album of leaves. For one work in the series, she revisited the grid formation, but this time placed a variety of dried plants within each compartment. During this time, Stuart also created the ''Seed Calendar'' drawings, which employ the grid to map the maturation stages of a seed. Throughout her career, Stuart has also sought to manifest her love of literature and the

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through a variety of strategies. In the early 70s, she began to create the Rock Book series, artworks that in their use of

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s from specific sites might be considered alternative travel logs. These works take the form of tattered, bound journals made of earth rubbings. For example, in ''Homage to the Owl from Four Corners'' (1985), earth, owl feathers, string and beeswax are brought together to form a book. Stuart has published artists' books, including ''The Fall'' (1976), a book-length

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about keeping historical records and ''Butterflies and Moths'' (2006). Stuart currently lives and works in New York City and Amagansett, Long Island.

Exhibitions

Michelle Stuart has exhibited in Europe, Asia and the United States for more than thirty years. Selected exhibitions include:

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, New York; the

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; the

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and

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, Washington, D.C.; the

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; the

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, Hartford; the Art Museum of the Ateneum,

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; the Musée d’Arts de

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; the American Academy of Arts & Letters; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; and the National Museum of Modern Art,

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. She has had one-person exhibits at the

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, Minneapolis;

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, Cambridge, MA; The

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, Waltham, MA; the

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, Netherlands; the

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, London;

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, Williamstown, MA; Centre d’Arts Plastique Contemporaines de Bourdeaux, France;

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of Chicago;

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; Galerie Ueda and Ueda Warehouse

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and individual galleries in both the United States and Europe. In 2013, Stuart was the subject of a retrospective that focused on her drawing. It was organized by the Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK, and travelled to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA and the Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY. In 2008 Stuart was part of a group exhibition called "''Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s,''" at the

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in Long Island City, New York other artists in this exhibit included Alice Adams,

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, Suzanne Harris,

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, Mary Miss, and Jackie Winsor. Stuart's works were featured in Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany and in the American Biennial Pavilions in

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, and

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. Among her commissions are the grand lobby installation: ''Paradisi: A Garden Mural'', at the

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. Site sculptures include ''Starmarker'' and ''Star Chart: Constellations'', in Wanas Sculpture Garden, Knislinge, Sweden; ''Garden of Four Seasons'', Scheide Music Center,

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; ''Garden of Four Seasons'', a bronze/marble sculpture relief in Tochige, Japan and Tabula, a thirty-four-part marble relief at the New Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park, New York City, for which she won a New York City Art Commission Award for Design.

Notable works in public collections

*''Seeded Site'' (1969-1970),

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*''Zena (Vertical), NY'' (1972),

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*''#7 Echo'' (1973),

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*''#38 Moray Hill'' (1973), Menil Collection, Houston *''#1 Woodstock, NY'' (1973), Tate, London *''#4 Woodstock'' (1973),

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*''#28 Moray Hill'' (1974),

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*''Turtle Pond'' (1974),

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*''Turtle Pond Site Drawing #36'' (1974), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago *''Notes: Sayreville, N.J.'' (1975),

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, Canberra *''Spiral Notebook'' (1975),

*''Suite Tsikomo'' (1975),

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; and

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*''Breezy Point, New York'' (1976), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra *''Fossil Series: Barnegat Bay I'' (1976), Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio *''Sayreville, N.J., Claypits, No. 49'' (1976),

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*''Sayreville Quarry II'' (1976), Detroit Institute of Arts *''Hermosa Strata, Colorado'' (1977), Whitney Museum, New York *''Ledger Series: Stone Barrow, South Group, Pecos, New Mexico'' (1977), Art Institute of Chicago *''Mesa Verde, Colorado'' (1977), Art Institute of Chicago *''Passages: Mesa Verde'' (1977-1979),

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, Washington, D.C. *''The Dalles Book (for chief Joseph)'' (1979),

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, Stockholm *''Zacaba'' (1979), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art *''El Florido Tunil (Stones Precious of El Florido)'' (1980), Philadelphia Museum of Art *''Islas Encantadas Series: Materia Prima I'' (1981),

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, New York *''Nazca Lines Star Chart and Nazca Lines Southern Hemisphere Constellation Chart Correlation'' (1981-1982), Museum of Modern Art, New York *''Makan Series: Bin Yusuf'' (1982), Buffalo AKG Art Museum,

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*''The Navigator'' (1984),

, New York *''Cape Sebastian'' (1988),

*''Town Creek Mound'' (1987-1989), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art *''Roman Seed Calendar V'' (1995), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles *''Roman Berry'' (1996-1997), Art Institute of Chicago *''Ring of Fire'' (2008-2010),

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*''These Fragments Against Time'' (2018), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Awards

Stuart is a recipient of the CAPS Grant, New York State (1974); the Macdowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire (1974); National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Individual Artists (1974-1977; 1980), Tamarind Institute grant (1974); New York Creative Artists Public Service grant in painting (1974); Guggenheim fellowship (1975); Finnish Art Association Fellowship, Helsinki (1985); Artists' Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (1987); New York City Art Commission Award, for excellence in design (1990); Purchase award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1992); and the

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, from Philanthropy Advisors, LLC (2017).

Gallery

File:STUART Niagara River Gorge Path Relocated.jpg, Niagara River Gorge Path Relocated / Art Park,

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,1975. 420' x 62" rock indentations, red Queenston, shale from the site, muslin mounted rag paper. File:STUART1976.Sayreville Quarry Quartet.jpg, Sayreville Quarry Quartet / Sayreville, N.J.,1976. 144"x280" Earth from quarry on muslin rag paper. File:STUART1979Solstice Cairns.jpg, Solstice Cairns /

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,1979. Overall 1,000 x 800 feet approx. 3,200 boulders.

Bibliography

*Alloway, Lawrence. "Michelle Stuart: a Fabric of Significations" ''Artforum'', v10, January 1974. pp64–65. *———''Michelle Stuart: An Illustrated Essay''. New York:

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, 1975. *———"A Book Review" '' Art-Rite magazine'', #14, Winter, 1977. *———''Michelle Stuart: Voyages''. Hillwood Art Gallery, LIU, NY 1985. *Beal, Graham W. J. ''Michelle Stuart: Place and Time.'' Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1983. *———''Second Sight Biennial IV''. San Francisco: Museum of Modern Art, 1986. *Casey, Edward S. ''Earth Mapping: Artists Reshaping Landscape.'' Minneapolis:

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Press, 2005. *Cullen, Deborah. "Strategies of Narration, Fifth International Cairo Biennale" in ''Arts in America'', USIA, 1994. *Foreman, Richard. ''Natural Histories''. Santa Fe: Bellas Artes, 1996. *Gregg, Gail. "Natural Selection Studio". ''ARTnews,'' March 1999. pp. 98–99. *Hobbs, Robert. "Michelle Stuart:

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, Geomythology and Zen". ''Womanart'', vol. 1, no.4 Spring-Summer 1977. *———''Michelle Stuart,'' Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977. *Lippard, Lucy R. ''From the Center'', New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. *———"Art Outdoors: In and Out of the Public Domain". ''Studio International'', vol. 193, no. 2, Mar.-Apr. 1977. *———"A New Landscape Art", ''MS Magazine'', Apr. 1977. *———"Quite Contrary: Body, Nature, and Ritual in Women's Art", ''Chrysalis'', #2, Los Angeles, CA, 1977. *———"Surprises: An Anthological Introduction to Some Women Artists’ Books", ''Chrysalis'', No.5, Los Angeles, CA, 1977. *———''Strata: Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor.'' Vancouver:

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, 1977. *———''Michelle Stuart: From the Silent Garden,'' (Introduction) Williamstown, MA:

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, 1979. * Lovelace, Carey. "Michelle Stuart’s Silent Gardens" ''Arts Magazine'', September 1988. pp77–79. *Munro, Eleanor. ''Originals: American Women Artists''. New York:

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, 1979. *Stoops, Susan. ''Silent Gardens-the American Landscape.'' Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum (

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), 1988. *———''Ashes in Arcadia''. Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University), 1988. *———"Michelle Stuart: A Personal Archeology", ''Woman's Art Journal,'' vol. 14, #2, Fall 1993-Winter 1994. pp. 17–21. *———''More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the 1970s'', Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University), 1996. *Robert Storr. ''On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheiser Collection'', New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1997. *Ruzicka, Joseph. "Essential Light: The Skies of Michelle Stuart", ''Art in America'', June 2000. pp. 86–89. *Varnedoe, Kirk. ''Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern.'' New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984. *Westfall, Stephen. "Melancholy Mapping" ''Art in America'', February 1987. pp 104–9.

References

External links

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Oral history interview with Michelle Stuart, 2015 November 3-2017 May 23

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