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2017 Art season

Ursula von Rydingsvard

"Anastazia"
Parc Historique
Artistic approachBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Artistic approach

Ursula von Rydingsvard’s massive sculptures reveal the mark of the human hand, resembling wooden bowls, tools and walls that seem to echo the artist’s family heritage in preindustrial Poland in the years before the Second World War. She spent her childhood in Nazi labour camps and post-war refugee camps, and her painful early memories imbue her work with great emotional power.

Ursula von Rydingsvard produces tall cedar-wood structures, creating a complex network of individual beams, shaped by sharp-edged, lyrical cutting and glued together to form sensuous puzzle-like surfaces...

She has been awarded numerous prizes, including a Joan Mitchell Prize (1997), an Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994), and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1983) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1979, 1986). She was also awarded the International Association of Art Critics’ prize in 1992 and 2000.

She has exhibited at Madison Square Park, New York (2006), the Neuberger Museum, the State University of New York (2002) and Storm King Art Center (1992). Ursula von Rydingsvard lives and works in New York.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Ursula VON RYDINGSVARD
GERMANY

Ursula von Rydingsvard was born in Deensen, Germany, in 1942. She obtained a BA and an MA from the University of Miami, Coral Gables (1965), an MFA from the University of Columbia (1975) and an honorary doctorate from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (1991).
A well-known sculptor, she has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York, for 30 years. After graduating from the University of Columbia in 1975, she started working with what was to become her preferred material: cedar wood.
She is best known for her large-scale, often monumental sculptures, fashioned from beams of cedar that she cuts up and reassembles, covering them with powdered graphite. She deliberately uses crushed beams of varying lengths.
"These abstract shapes, like signatures, refer to things in the real world, revealing the mark of the human hand while calling natural shapes and forces to mind. Shapes typically include simple vases and bowls. Many are suggestive of tools or other artefacts such as shovels, spoons or fences, or allude to primitive dwellings, to geological formations, to landscape or the body”.
'Anastasia', installation d'Ursula von Rydingsvard pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2017 - © Eric Sander
'Anastasia', installation d'Ursula von Rydingsvard pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2017 - © Eric Sander
'Anastasia', installation d'Ursula von Rydingsvard pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2017 - © Eric Sander

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Barclays Center, Brooklyn, USA
Baruch College, New York, USA
Bloomberg Building, New York, USA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, USA
De Cordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, USA
Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, USA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA
Madison Art Center, Madison, USA
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Queens Family Courthouse, Long Island City, USA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, USA
T. F. Green Airport, Providence, USA
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, USA
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, USA
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Williams College, Willamstown, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
LUBA, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, USA
The Contour of Feeling, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, GSA Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
 
2021
Tylko sztuka / Nothing but Art, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland
 
2019
The Contour of feeling, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
GDY ONA - WHEN SHE, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France
 
2018
Torn, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, USA
Now, She, Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, USA
 
2016
One Wall, One Work, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
 
2015
Bronze Bowl with Lace, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
 
2014
Permeated Shield, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
 
2013
Shadows Remain, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
 
2012
Sculpture, Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA
Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, USA
 
2011
Sculpture 1991-2009, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA
Sculpture, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA
 
2010
Erratus, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
 
2007
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
 
2006
Sylwetka, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, USA
 
2004
TEN: Celebrating our first decade of Contemporary Art, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
 
2003
Primitive Jarring, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
 
2002
Cedar Lace and Tossing Loops, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
 
2000
Bowl with Folds, Public Art Fund, New York, USA
Sculptures Galerie, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Sculptures, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
 
1999
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
 
1998-1999
Sculpture, The Madison Museum of Contemporary, Madison, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Royaume-Uni
 
1997
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
 
1995
Socks on my Spoons, University Museum of Contemporary Art - Umass Amherst, USA
 
1994
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
 
1990
Working with Felt and Cedar, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
 
1977
SoHo Center for Visual Arts, New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
NEXUS: Contemporary Art from leading Miami Collections, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, USA
 
2015
The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy, New York, USA
 
2013
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Glasstress 2013 / 55th Venice Biennale of Art, Collateral Event, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italie
 
2011
Glasstress 2011, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italie
 
2008
A Year in Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
 
2002
Lesley Dill and Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
Primal Screams and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), Miami, USA
Shift, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
 
2001
MOCA - Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), Miami, USA
 
1990
Diverse Representations, The Morris Museum, Morristown, USA

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