Sculptor María Elena González Receives 2023 Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors, Administered by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Installation view from the exhibition “María Elena González: Riven,” May 5 – June 16, 2023, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY. Photo by Eric W. Baumgartner, 2023. Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY.
NEW YORK, NY, November 20, 2023 – The Brian Wall Foundation and Pollock-Krasner Foundation have awarded Cuban-born American artist María Elena González the Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s 2023 Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors. In recognition of an outstanding sculptor, the annual grant of $25,000 is awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. González also received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1991, 1998, 2010, and 2023.
González is internationally recognized for her objects and installations that combine minimalist form with conceptual themes of memory, identity, loss, and environmental concerns. Her works have ranged from a site-specific outdoor sculpture that evokes a flying carpet painted with the cramped floor plan of a public housing project, to small ceramic conglomerations of broken crockery found discarded on a beach. She has referred to this recent series of “repairs” responding to the COVID-19 crisis and pollution as “ecological restitution.”
González has devoted ten years to a series titled “Tree Talk,” exhibited at Mills College Art Museum in 2019. Drawing inspiration from the code-like patterns of black lines on the white bark of birch trees, the works include not only the bark itself, but also rubbings and drawings, cylindrical sculptures in the format of player piano rolls, and finally the trees’ “scores” performed on a player piano. Nature and culture are combined harmoniously with an ecological theme in the poetic notion that trees communicate through music.
“I am honored to receive such an important award from the Brian Wall Foundation,” María Elena González said. “Dealing with sculpture can be challenging in terms of equipment and materials, so this assistance is particularly welcome.”
Caroline Black, Executive Director of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation added, “It is an honor to support visual artists and sculptors in creating new work and to foster their artistic practices. We’re pleased to partner with the Brian Wall Foundation to award this year’s grant to María Elena González in recognition of her outstanding, striking, and evocative work that connects the threads of nature, humanity, and art.”
Brian Wall stated, “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing essential assistance to professional artists for nearly forty years. We are delighted to recognize María Elena González for her innovative, multimedia sculpture and impressive site-specific installations.”
About the Artist
María Elena González was born in Cuba in 1957, and at the age of 11 her family was exiled and moved to Miami. She received sculpture degrees from Florida International University (BFA) and San Francisco State University (MFA) in 1983. In 1984 she moved to New York City, where she has served as Sculpture Commissioner for New York City’s Design Commission, and she has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
She has received wide recognition through solo exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio in New York in 1996-97; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2002; and for site-specific sculpture installations commissioned by New York’s Public Art Fund in 1999 and Storm King Art Center, NY, in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2006; Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, 2005, 2009, 2011; and Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, 2017, 2023. Her work can be found in many museum collections, and she has received numerous awards, including the Prix de Rome, 2003; Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006; and grants from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Anonymous Was Woman among others.
About the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors
The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is awarded annually to a sculptor who applies for assistance to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Grants are awarded to professional sculptors around the world in recognition of artistic excellence. Sculptors interested in applying should visit the Pollock-Krasner Foundation website at www.pkf.org. All artists who apply to PKF for a grant in the sculpture category will be considered for the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors.
British-born American sculptor Brian Wall established the Brian Wall Foundation in 2014 to provide financial assistance to working artists and to further research and scholarship in the field of modern sculpture. In 2017 the Grant for Sculptors was awarded to Terence Koh, in 2018 to Eugenia Calvo, in 2019 to Christine Corday, in 2020 to Blane De St. Croix, in 2021 to Alex Schweder, and in 2022 to Beili Liu. For further information visit www.brianwallfoundation.org.
About The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation provides funding to professional artists internationally. Established in 1985 through the generosity of Lee Krasner, one of the foremost abstract expressionist painters of the 20th century, the Foundation is a leader in providing resources to emerging and established artists. To date, the Foundation has awarded more than 5,000 grants in 79 countries for a total of over $87 million. For further information, visit www.pkf.org.
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Chinese-born American Artist Beili Liu Is 2022 Recipient
NEW YORK, NY, August 15, 2022 – Ronald D. Spencer, Chairman and CEO of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Brian Wall, President of the Brian Wall Foundation, today announced that Chinese-born American artist Beili Liu is the 2022 recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors in the amount of $25,000. In recognition of an outstanding sculptor, the annual grant is awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Liu also received the Pollock Prize for Creativity for 2022.
Beili Liu’s large-scale, site-responsive installations and the performances that accompany them combine the personal with the political and refer to cultural narratives, the role of women as creators and protectors, and environmental concerns. The abstract visual impact of her environments is produced with thousands of duplicate objects including sharp scissors suspended from the ceiling, floating disks of bright red thread, wooden beams enmeshed in a web of strings, and a curtain of white feathers dipped in black tar.
The conceptual element of her work is underlined in her performances. Liu herself sits in the charged space that she has created, performing repeated, mundane actions that she has said are intended to make female labor visible and present. In a recent work responding to the immigrant children’s crisis at the US border, she carefully mends children’s clothing while seated next to a vast expanse of hundreds of small garments encased in hard, gray cement.
Liu’s new work will be exhibited at Hå Gamle Prestegard, the Norwegian National Arts and Cultural Institution, from June through September, 2023. Liu stated, “The Grant for Sculptors has enabled extensive research in Arctic Norway that will profoundly shape my work for the rest of my career. It will also provide crucial support for my studio production in preparation for my exhibition in Norway next year.”
Beili Liu was born in Jilin, China, and attended Shenzhen University before immigrating to the US in 1995. She received an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and since 2008 she has served on the faculty of the University of Texas, Austin. Liu’s solo and group exhibitions since 2004 include site-specific installations and public commissions throughout the United States and internationally in Norway, Finland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Lithuania, Belgium, Poland, China, and Taiwan.
Liu has received numerous fellowships and awards, including from the Fulbright Foundation, Andrew Carnegie Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, and many more. Her work can be viewed at www.beililiu.com.
Kerrie Buitrago, Chief Operating Officer of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation stated, “We are excited to continue the collaboration with the Brian Wall Foundation. Beili Liu’s work is not only exceptional but also timely, exploring the balance between human actions and the environment.”
Brian Wall stated, “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with The Pollock- Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing assistance to working artists for more than thirty years. We are very pleased to award our grant this year to Beili Liu, whose spectacular installations are strongly visual as well as conceptual.”
About the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors
The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is awarded annually to a sculptor who applies for assistance to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Grants are awarded to professional sculptors internationally, based on dual criteria of artistic merit and financial need, whether personal, professional or both. Sculptors interested in applying should visit The Pollock-Krasner Foundation website at www.pkf.org. All artists who apply to PKF for a grant in the sculpture category will be considered for the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors.
British-born American sculptor Brian Wall established the Brian Wall Foundation in 2014 to assist artists in need and to further research and scholarship in the field of modern sculpture. “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with The Pollock- Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing assistance to working artists for more than thirty years,” Wall stated. “We are very pleased to award our grant this year to Alex Schweder, whose innovative installations are pioneering in the field of performance architecture.”
In 2017 the Grant for Sculptors was awarded to Chinese-Canadian sculptor Terence Koh, in 2018 to Argentine sculptor Eugenia Calvo, in 2019 to the American sculptor Christine Corday, in 2020 to the American sculptor Blane De St. Croix, and in 2021 to Alex Schweder. For further information visit www.brianwallfoundation.org.
About The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation supports working artists and not-for-profit organizations internationally. Established in 1985 through the generosity of Lee Krasner, one of the foremost abstract expressionist painters of the 20th century and widow of Jackson Pollock, the Foundation is a leader in providing resources to emerging and established artists. To date, the Foundation has awarded nearly 5,000 grants totaling nearly $84 million in 79 countries. For further information, visit www.pkf.org
PRESS CONTACTS: Kerrie Buitrago Executive Vice President The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. 212-517-5400 grants@pkf.org
BRIAN WALL FOUNDATION GRANT FOR SCULPTORS ANNOUNCED BY THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
Alex Schweder, Wall to Wall Floor to Ceiling, 2014, 40’ x 120’ x 9’, fan-blown vinyl and faux fur. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. Photo: Elad Sarig. 2014 Alex Schweder.
American Artist Alex Schweder Is 2021 Recipient
NEW YORK, NY, August 30, 2021 – Ronald D. Spencer, Chairman and CEO of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Brian Wall, President of the Brian Wall Foundation, today announced that American artist Alex Schweder is the 2021 recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors in the amount of $30,000. In recognition of an outstanding sculptor, the annual grant is awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Alex Schweder began his career as an architect, and since 2007 he has employed the term “performance architecture” to describe his work. His collaborative environments blur the boundaries between architecture, sculpture, design and performance, exploring the ways that architecture influences human behavior.
Early examples include large-scale kinetic constructions in which occupants maintain the equilibrium of a dwelling by coordinating their movements. His recent works are vinyl forms that inflate and deflate, constantly changing as they expand and contract within an interior space. Sound, scent, light, and tactile surface materials such as fake fur enhance the sensory impact as air fills the sculptural shapes and the performance begins.
Schweder stated, “The Grant for Sculptors has arrived at a pivotal moment, enabling me to collaborate with sound artists to develop new spatial and sound works from the conception to the performance.” An exhibition of his new works exploring inflatables as instruments will premiere at Galerie Barbara Thumm in Berlin in January, 2022.
Alex Schweder was born in New York in 1970, and he received his BA in Architecture from the Pratt Institute and MA from Princeton School of Architecture. He has presented works both nationally and internationally since 2002, including solo exhibitions at Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, 2009; RIBA, London Festival of Architecture, 2012; Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, 2013; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, 2014; Aldrich Museum, Connecticut, 2017; and Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018. Group exhibitions include Marrakesh Biennial, 2012; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011; Tate Britain, 2013; Venice Biennale, 2014; Kranich Museum, Germany, 2015, 2016; and Yuz Museum, Shanghai, 2019.
Schweder received the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 2005 and has been an artist-in-residence at the Kohler Company and the Chinati Foundation. He has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and a CHESS scholarship to the University of Cambridge, England, among many other awards. He lives and works in New York City, and his work can be viewed at www.alexschweder.com
Kerrie Buitrago, Chief Operating Officer of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation stated, “We are excited to continue the collaboration with the Brian Wall Foundation. Alex Schweder’s highly original work is both complex and impressive and I believe that he is at a key place in his career.”
About the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors
The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is awarded annually to a sculptor who applies for assistance to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Grants are awarded to professional sculptors internationally, based on dual criteria of artistic merit and financial need, whether personal, professional or both. Sculptors interested in applying should visit The Pollock-Krasner Foundation website at www.pkf.org. All artists who apply to PKF for a grant in the sculpture category will be considered for the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors.
British-born American sculptor Brian Wall established the Brian Wall Foundation in 2014 to assist artists in need and to further research and scholarship in the field of modern sculpture. “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with The Pollock- Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing assistance to working artists for more than thirty years,” Wall stated. “We are very pleased to award our grant this year to Alex Schweder, whose innovative installations are pioneering in the field of performance architecture.”
In 2017 the Grant for Sculptors was awarded to Chinese-Canadian sculptor Terence Koh, in 2018 to Argentine sculptor Eugenia Calvo, in 2019 to the American sculptor Christine Corday, and in 2020 to the American sculptor Blane De St. Croix. For further information visit www.brianwallfoundation.org.
About The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation supports working artists and not-for-profit organizations internationally. Established in 1985 through the generosity of Lee Krasner, one of the foremost abstract expressionist painters of the 20th century and widow of Jackson Pollock, the Foundation is a leader in providing resources to emerging and established artists. To date, the Foundation has awarded nearly 5,000 grants totaling nearly $82 million in 78 countries. For further information, visit www.pkf.org
PRESS CONTACTS: Kerrie Buitrago Executive Vice President The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. 212-517-5400 grants@pkf.org
American Artist Blane De St. Croix Is 2020 Recipient
NEW YORK, NY, May 26, 2020 – Ronald D. Spencer, Chairman and CEO of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Brian Wall, President of the Brian Wall Foundation, today announced that American artist Blane De St. Croix is the 2020 recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors. The annual grant of $25,000, awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, recognizes an outstanding sculptor who qualifies under the guidelines of artistic merit and financial need. More
Blane De St. Croix’s sculptures are based on extensive research in far-flung locations from the Gobi Desert to the Arctic Circle to the Florida Everglades. His often-massive installations present intricate recreations of rapidly melting ice, charred vegetation, or the contested border between the United States and Mexico. He sometimes employs actual landscape elements of soil, rocks, sand or branches to create a poetic interpretation of the precarious nature of our planet’s ecology. Drawing from the landscape painting tradition as well as land art of the ‘60s and ‘70s, De St. Croix’s work underscores contemporary conflicts between the sublime beauty of nature and the devastation resulting from man’s desire for control. His upcoming solo exhibition at The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will feature commissioned installations including a three-story-high sculpture representing a sheet of dissolving ice that incorporates new scientific findings about the earth’s permafrost layer. De St. Croix stated that the Grant for Sculptors has been of assistance in producing commissioned works for the MASS MoCA exhibition. “The award has come at a pivotal time, with my work under full production and costs mounting for the show, which will be my largest museum exhibition to date.”
Blane De St. Croix was born in Boston and received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally since 1991, including solo exhibitions at Fredericks & Freiser, New York, 2014; Hudson Museum, Yonkers, 2012; Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, 2009; Future Art Research, Phoenix, 2010; and Coral Springs Museum, Florida, 2002. Group exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art, Tucson, 2017; Varmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden, 2015; National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2012, Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2012; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, 2012; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, 2011.
In 2019 De St. Croix received the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and among his many other grants are The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Gant for Painters and Sculptors and The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. His work has appeared in many publications, including a cover article by Jill Connor in Sculpture, December, 2011. He maintains a studio in Brooklyn, and his work can be viewed at www.blanedestcroix.com.
Kerrie Buitrago, Chief Operating Officer of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation stated, “We are excited to continue the collaboration with the Brian Wall Foundation. It provides a wonderful opportunity to extend our reach to outstanding sculptors like Blane De St. Croix, whose work explores the geopolitical landscape and environmental issues.”
About the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors
The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is awarded annually to a sculptor who applies for assistance to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Grants are awarded to professional sculptors internationally, based on dual criteria of artistic merit and financial need, whether personal, professional or both. Sculptors interested in applying should visit The Pollock-Krasner Foundation website at www.pkf.org. All artists who apply to PKF for a grant in the sculpture category will be considered for the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors.
British-born American sculptor Brian Wall established the Brian Wall Foundation in 2014 to assist artists in need and to further research and scholarship in the field of modern sculpture. “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with The Pollock- Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing assistance to working artists for more than thirty years,” Wall stated. “We are very pleased to award our grant this year to Blane De St. Croix, whose impressive body of work produced over many years is an achievement that deserves our recognition.” In 2017 the Grant for Sculptors was awarded to Chinese-Canadian sculptor Terence Koh, in 2018 to Argentine sculptor Eugenia Calvo, and in 2019 to the American sculptor Christine Corday. For further information about the Brian Wall Foundation, visit www.brianwallfoundation.org.
About the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
For more than three decades, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation has supported working artists and not-for-profit organizations internationally. Established in 1985 through the generosity of Lee Krasner, one of the foremost abstract expressionist painters of the 20th century and widow of Jackson Pollock, the Foundation is a leader in providing resources to emerging and established artists. To date, the Foundation has awarded nearly 5,000 grants totaling nearly $79 million in 78 countries. For further information, visit www.pkf.org
PRESS CONTACTS: Kerrie Buitrago Chief Operating Officer The Pollock-Krasner Foundation 212-517-5400 grants@pkf.org
American Artist Christine Corday Is 2019 Recipient
NEW YORK, NY, April 15, 2019 – Ronald D. Spencer, Chairman and CEO of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Brian Wall, President of the Brian Wall Foundation, today announced that American artist Christine Corday is the 2019 recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors. The annual grant of $25,000, awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, recognizes an outstanding sculptor who qualifies under the guidelines of artistic merit and financial need.
Christine Corday produces monumental, minimalist sculptures made of metal alloys using primordial forces of extreme heat and pressure. Her background in chemistry and astrophysics is reflected in her focus on elemental metals, which she points out are mined from the earth, but originated in a star before the earth’s formation. Her process often uses heat equivalent to the surface of the sun and thousands of pounds of pressure to form shapes from steel in its liquid state, or densely-compressed iron and metalloid particles.
Christine Corday has said that her sculptures are meant to be touched and walked upon, and are designed to change and rust with human interaction. They can also engender a feeling of impending imbalance in works such as “Geneses,” a 30-foot tall, 8-ton crescent of stainless steel, commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and installed in 2019 at the city’s Moscone Center.
The Grant for Sculptors will assist Corday in her ongoing investigations of fundamental forces and material states, including collaborations with international scientists. She states, “This grant is coming at a most important moment in the path of the work. Ahead are sculpture projects involving our sun and a miniature momentary star on earth.”
Corday was born in Laurel, Maryland, in 1970, and served as an intern at NASA before receiving her BA in 1992. Following graduate studies at Washington University, she worked in design for advertising agencies until 1999, when she devoted herself full-time to painting while living in Japan and later in Spain. Corday returned to the U.S. in 2005, living in Brooklyn, and began her monumental “Protoist” sculpture series of works hewn from raw steel. In 2010 she was commissioned to apply a black iron-oxide patina to the 15,000-square-foot bronze name parapets of the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center in New York.
Corday has exhibited in public spaces in New York, including an installation under the High Line in 2008, and in solo exhibitions at L.A. County Museum of Art, 2014-15; Projects + Gallery, Saint Louis, 2017-18; and Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2019. Group exhibitions include Allan Neederpelt, Greenpoint, N.Y., 2010 and 2011; the Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, 2016 and 2017; and her work is included in the Lannan Foundation collection. She maintains a studio in Poughkeepsie, New York and her work can be viewed at www.christinecorday.com.
Kerrie Buitrago, Chief Operating Officer of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation stated, “We are excited to continue the collaboration with the Brian Wall Foundation. It provides a wonderful opportunity to extend our reach to outstanding sculptors like Christine Corday, who has woven science and art into a unique creative and intellectual fabric.”
About the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors
The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is awarded annually to a sculptor who applies for assistance to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation following their normal application process. Grants are awarded to professional sculptors internationally, based on dual criteria of artistic merit and financial need, whether personal, professional or both. Sculptors interested in applying should visit The Pollock-Krasner Foundation website at www.pkf.org to view and complete an online application.
British-born American sculptor Brian Wall established the Brian Wall Foundation in 2014 to assist artists in need and to further research and scholarship in the field of modern sculpture. “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with The Pollock- Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing assistance to working artists for more than thirty years,” Wall stated. “We are very pleased to award our grant this year to Christine Corday, a talented artist with a cosmic vision.” In 2017 the Grant for Sculptors was awarded to Chinese Canadian sculptor Terence Koh and in 2018 to Argentine sculptor Eugenia Calvo.
For further information about the Brian Wall Foundation, which is based in Oakland, California, the public may visit the website at www.brianwallfoundation.org.
About the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Based in New York but operating internationally, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation to date has made more than 4500 grants to individual artists in 77 countries, for a total of more than $76 million. Through these grants, the Foundation has enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as meet their personal and medical expenses. Recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants have acknowledged their critical impact in allowing concentrated time to work in the studio and prepare for exhibitions and other professional opportunities such as residencies.
To provide additional support, the Foundation maintains an up-to-date and comprehensive Grantee Image Collection representing the work of artists who have received grants since inception. For more information, including guidelines for grant applications, the public may visit the Foundation’s website at www.pkf.org
PRESS CONTACTS: Kerrie Buitrago Executive Vice President The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. 212-517-5400 grants@pkf.org
BRIAN WALL FOUNDATION GRANT FOR SCULPTORS ANNOUNCED BY THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
Eugenia Calvo, Fuga/Leak-escape, 2016, 236” x 118” x 118”, closet with iron structure. Courtesy of the artist.
Argentine Artist Eugenia Calvo Is 2018 Recipient
NEW YORK, NY; May 9, 2018 – Ronald D. Spencer, Chairman and CEO of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Brian Wall, President of the Brian Wall Foundation, today announced that Argentine artist Eugenia Calvo is the 2018 recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors. The annual grant of $25,000, awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, recognizes an outstanding sculptor who qualifies under the guidelines of artistic merit and financial need.
Eugenia Calvo executes large-scale sculpture installations combining household furniture within iron structures that engage the viewer in the space and resonate on a social and political level as well. In her recent constructions, thin black iron beams hold mirrors, closets, chairs and carpets in a restricted space. Critics have commented on how the works evoke the mysterious relationship between things and people. As Marmor Lara wrote in 2012, “Each of her projects is the result of months of elaboration, and each seeks to situate the public face to face with scenes that inevitably exude tension.”
Eugenia Calvo has said that her installations explore the unknown potential of objects and spaces, “where their precarious, inanimate existence is inverted to propose another that is tied to rebellion, activism and survival.” The Grant for Sculptors will assist Calvo to produce a new series of installations in a much more substantial manner, andwill allow the production of archive material, which is vital given their ephemeral nature.
Calvo was born in 1976 in Rosario, Argentina, where she lives and works today. Graduating in 2001 in Fine Arts at the National University of Rosario, she later studied photography at the Catalonia Study Center in Spain and was selected for an artists’ residency at Gasworks, London, in 2005. With other young artists she founded the art space Roberto Vanguardia in Rosario in 2004, and since 2005 she has been a program coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario.
The recipient of numerous honors and awards, she was invited to participate in the International Bienniale of Cuenca, Ecuador in 2011. Her work has been exhibited at Museo del Barrio, New York (2007); Frankfurter Kumstverein, Germany (2010); Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles (2011); Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013) and in Argentina at Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, (2003); Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (2014); Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2016) and many others.
Kerrie Buitrago, Chief Operating Officer of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation stated, “We are excited to continue the collaboration with the Brian Wall Foundation. It provides a wonderful opportunity to extend our reach to outstanding sculptors like Eugenia Calvo, whom we are delighted to present as this year’s recipient.”
About the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors
The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is awarded annually to a sculptor who applies for assistance to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation following their normal application process. Grants are awarded to professional sculptors internationally, based on dual criteria of artistic merit and financial need, whether personal, professional or both. Sculptors interested in applying should visit The Pollock-Krasner Foundation website at www.pkf.org to view and complete an online application.
British-born American sculptor Brian Wall established the Brian Wall Foundation in 2014 to assist artists in need and to further research and scholarship in the field of modern sculpture. “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with The Pollock- Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing assistance to working artists for more than thirty years,” Wall stated. “We can ensure that our grant is reaching the widest possible sculpture community and is administered by an experienced organization.” In 2017 the Grant for Sculptors was awarded to Chinese-Canadian sculptor Terence Koh.
For further information about the Brian Wall Foundation, which is based in Oakland, California, the public may visit the website at www.brianwallfoundation.org.
About the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Based in New York but operating internationally, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation to date has made more than 4,400 grants to individual artists in 77 countries, for a total of more than $71 million. Through these grants, the Foundation has enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as meet their personal and medical expenses. Recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants have acknowledged their critical impact in allowing concentrated time to work in the studio and prepare for exhibitions and other professional opportunities such as residencies.
To provide additional support, the Foundation maintains an up-to-date and comprehensive Grantee Image Collection representing the work of artists who have received grants since inception. For more information, including guidelines for grant applications, the public may visit the Foundation’s website at www.pkf.org
PRESS CONTACTS: Kerrie Buitrago Executive Vice President The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. 212-517-5400 grants@pkf.org
BRIAN WALL FOUNDATION GRANT FOR SCULPTORS ANNOUNCED BY THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
Terence Koh, Bee Chapel, 2017, mixed media with live bees. Courtesy of the artist and Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles.
Chinese-Canadian Artist Terence Koh is First Recipient
NEW YORK, NY, July 17, 2017 – Charles C. Bergman, chairman and CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Brian Wall, President of the Brian Wall Foundation, today announced the establishment of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors. The annual grant of $25,000, awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, recognizes an outstanding sculptor who qualifies under the guidelines of artistic merit and financial need, whether personal or professional or both.
The first recipient of the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh, who is best known for his sculptural installations, such as the Bee Chapel that he first created on his property in upstate New York. The grant enabled Koh to recreate the Bee Chapel as part of a live-in installation in Los Angeles earlier this year.
Terence Koh stated, “Many elements of my recent show were obtained thanks to the Brian Wall Foundation Grant, including plants for a rooftop garden, which will continue to bloom and make the bees happy. The grant has also given me the time to explore new projects in London and Mallorca.”
The Grant for Sculptors prize assisted Koh to create a five-week, live-in installation titled Sleeping in a Beam of Sunlight at Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, from January 28 to March 11, 2017. Koh created a serene environment that included plantings of herbs and flowers and carefully arranged personal treasures such as books, a grand piano and a boat. The Bee Chapel constructed on the gallery roof allowed visitors to safely experience the bee colony, to smell the wax and honey, to see the bees in the hollow beeswax walls, feel their vibrations and hear them buzzing.
Koh was born in Beijing in 1977 and raised in Canada. He received degrees from the Emily Karr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, and the University of Waterloo, Ontario. His work has been included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2006); Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2007); Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla, Leon, Spain (2008); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2011) and in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Tate Modern, London and many others. He recently relocated to Sonoma, California.
About the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors
The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors will be awarded annually to a sculptor who applies for assistance to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation following their normal application process. Grants are awarded to professional sculptors internationally, based on dual criteria of artistic merit and financial need. Sculptors interested in applying should visit the Pollock-Krasner Foundation website at www.pkf.org to view and complete an online application.
Charles Bergman said, “It is our hope that with the inauguration of the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors, many more talented sculptors around the world will be encouraged to apply to our grant program.”
British-born American sculptor Brian Wall established the Brian Wall Foundation in 2014 to assist artists in need and to further research and scholarship in the field of modern sculpture. “I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which has excelled at providing assistance to working artists for more than thirty years,” Wall stated. “We can ensure that our grant is reaching the widest possible sculpture community and is administered by a fair and experienced organization,” Wall stated. “I was personally very pleased that the Foundation Board selected Terence Koh for the initial Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors. He is a thoughtful and innovative artist of great talent.”
For further information about the Brian Wall Foundation, which is based in Oakland, California, the public may visit the website at www.brianwallfoundation.org.
About the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Based in New York but operating internationally, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation to date has made more than 4,300 grants to individual artists in 77 countries, for a total of more than $68 million. Through these grants, the Foundation has enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as meet their personal and medical expenses. Recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants have acknowledged their critical impact in allowing concentrated time to work in the studio and prepare for exhibitions and other professional opportunities such as residencies.
To provide additional support, the Foundation maintains an up-to-date and comprehensive Grantee Image Collection representing the work of artists who have received grants since inception. For more information, including guidelines for grant applications, the public may visit the Foundation’s website at www.pkf.org
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Photographs
Portraits of Brian Wall
St. Ives, Cornwall, 1960
London, 1965
Photo by Adrian Flowers
Thornaby, England, 1968
Photo by Sylvia Brown
Emeryville, California, 2015
Photo by Nicole Katano
Sculptures by Brian Wall
Red Black on White, 1955
Painted wood relief
21” x 23 1/2” x 3” h
Standing Form I, 1958
Steel
4” x 17” x 23” h
Brown Bomber, 1965
Oil-based enamel on steel
216” x 60” x 36” h
Photo by M. Lee Fatherree
Blue Diamond, 1968
Oil-based enamel on steel
156” x 181” x 60” h
Photo by M. Lee Fatherree
Window, 1971
Collection: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Painted steel
240” x 162” x 98” h
Early Yellow, 1975
Private collection
Painted steel
17” x 48” x 65” h
Ali, 1978
Collection: University of Houston, Texas
Painted steel
144” x 144” x 180” h
Dancer Dancer, 1983
Painted steel
132” x 173” x 173” h
Photo by Ben Blackwell
Red End, 1991
Painted steel
36” x 33” x 24” h
Photo by M. Lee Fatherree
Hokusai, 1993
Painted steel
71” x 72” x 14” h
Photo by M. Lee Fatherree
Long Ball, 2010
Stainless steel
115” x 84” x 68” h
Photo by Brian Wall
Elegy, 2012
Collection: de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
Stainless steel
122” x 84” x 63” h
Photo by Tena Scalph
Pike, 2014
Stainless steel
72” x 84” x 123” h
Photo by Brian Wall
White Edge, 2018
Stainless steel
90” x 138” x 82” h
Photo by Douglas Brown
