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Contact: Kathleen Flynn, 212-226-0573 or kflynn@dieudonne.org
Ursula
von
Rydingsvard
Deckle
Deckle
October
21 — December 4,
2010
Reception: Thursday, October 21 from 6 —
8pm
October 13, 2010, New York, NY. Dieu Donné announces the opening
of an exhibition of new works in handmade paper by artist Ursula von
Rydingsvard, beginning Thursday, October 21, 2010 and running through Saturday,
December 4, 2010. The opening reception for the artist will take place on
Thursday, October 21, 2010 from 6 — 8pm, and the artist will be
present.
The exhibition highlights a selection of the [UTF-8?]artist’s most recent
body of work in paper, created during her Lab Grant residency at the Dieu
Donné studios. The artist, widely known for her massive and totemic
sculptural works, collaborated with Artistic Director and master papermaker,
Paul Wong, to create a series of unique works over the term of her residency.
Confronted with a medium that presented a complete departure for the artist, the
residency allowed von Rydingsvard to delve into processes of fabrication alien
to her own studio work — so solidly founded in the medium of wood. During
her time at Dieu Donné the artist literally immersed herself in the
papermaking method, forming image and content by utilizing loose paper pulp as
medium. The entire series, over sixty works in all, were developed in a
thorough investigation of the process, which included using pigmented pulp,
playing with the tonality, opacity and transparency of the fiber selected, and
exploring cotton, linen and abaca as pulp materials. The artist also
incorporated personal materials and fabrics such as bits of cloth, crocheted
segments, wire balls, and thread pulled into circular forms. In imagery, the
artist maintains an adherence to a loose matrix of the grid, upon which she lays
out her elements, in a wet-into-wet formation. The majority of the works
investigate the protean nature of her process, which is reliant on water as
vehicle — floating, joining and organizing the organic elements in her
work. Von Rydingsvard ultimately developed a special relationship to the
materials, well grounded in her techniques of working in wood. Faced with a more
fluid form, the artist was exposed to the indirect consequences of nature
affecting the final outcome. Processes interceded and had to be embraced —
the flattening of pulp in hydraulic presses, extracting and evaporating water
and drying pulp. Von Rydingsvard reveled in this
unpredictability.
About the artist: Ursula von Rydingsvard is represented by Galerie
Lelong, which hosted its sixth solo exhibition of her work in the Spring of
2010. Her sculptural work can be seen at Storm King Art Center in
Mountainville, New York, a major new work, titled LUBA
[UTF-8?](2009–2010), is a 17.5 foot high, vessel-shaped object made of cedar
planks, commissioned for the sculpture [UTF-8?]park’s 50th anniversary in
April. Another outdoor commission can be seen at the North Carolina Museum of
Art in Raleigh, NC, entitled Ogromna, 2010. In 2011, the Sculpture
Center, New York, will present a major exhibition of von [UTF-8?]Rydingsvard’s
work. The exhibition will later travel to the deCordova Museum and Sculpture
Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Patricia and Philip Frost Museum, Miami, FL,
and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH; in 2008, the deCordova
presented von Rydingsvard with its renowned Rappaport Prize. Von
[UTF-8?]Rydingsvard’s works can be seen in over 30 public collections,
including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta;
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Storm
King Art Center, Mountainville, New York; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas
City.
About Dieu Donné: Founded in 1976, Dieu Donné is a non-profit
artist workspace dedicated to the creation, promotion, and preservation of
contemporary art in the hand papermaking process. In support of this mission,
Dieu Donné collaborates with artists and partners with the professional visual
arts
community.
Top
right: Untitled, 2009, thread, pigment, and linen handmade paper. 43 x 25
inches.
The
artistic and educational programs at Dieu Donné are made possible with public
funds from The National Endowment for the Arts; The New York State Council on
the Arts, a state agency; The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in
partnership with The City Council; and Foundation support including: The Lily
Auchincloss Foundation Inc., Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Cowles Family
Foundation, The Dedalus Foundation, Inc., Foundation for the Contemporary Arts,
The Greenwall Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Lauder
Foundation, The Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation, The Renaissace
Charitable Foundation (The Dresner Sadaka Family Fund), Rolin Foundation, May
and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts; and major individual support including: Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond
Learsy, Cashin Family Fund, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Susan Hess, Hurst
Family Foundation, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., The Marden Family
Foundation, Inc., Nancy and Fred Poses, Anthony Sosnik, Lenard and Fern Tessler,
Carol and Michael Weisman, and individual
donors.
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