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| Barbara Westermann | |
Barbara Westermann is a German sculptor living in Providence, RI. In her new work, Westermann continues the traditions of conceptualist “social sculpture,” which began for her during the late 1970s and early 1980s (Joseph Beuys and Daniel Spoerri were her teachers). In Infrastructure #73 (which includes The Nurnberg Funnel and related relief works), Westermann applies the language of minimalism, using elemental abstract shapes, but at the same time going beyond the minimal with an eye and ear to feminism, musical instrumentation, and Social Democratic politics. This work informs a historical, social narrative using a metaphoric, three-dimensional vocabulary. She reveres the purity of form which goes back to medieval sciences, alchemy, and magic. |
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| About the Artist | |
Westermann exhibits widely, including one-woman exhibitions at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in California, the Freiburg Contemporary Art Museum in Germany, Clay Street Press Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, Brown University in Providence, RI, Au Base, A.R.T., and Momenta Art galleries in New York. Group exhibitions include the current Multiple Strategies exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach, FL, the Holly Solomon and Ronald Feldman galleries, PS1, Dia Art, and the Whitney Biennial in New York, as well as the Newport and Bristol Art Museums, the URI and Lenore Gray galleries in Rhode Island. She has just installed a piece in the Progressive Art Collection in Cleveland, OH, and is working on a piece for Borderlands in Berlin, Germany. She has published numerous editions with Mark Patsfall Graphics (www.patsfalleditions.com). |
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Connectors
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| Purchased and installed at Progressive Insurance, Cleveland, OH, 2006. |
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Calling All Mermaids
2004 |
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| Outdoor sculpture. 'Calling All Mermaids' latches itself like a leech to any wooden flagpole, in order to transmit ultrasonic messages from sea to land. You can listen, on tiptoes, as if to a whelk, to the ultramarine transmissions and also relay your thoughts back just by talking into the megaphone. |
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| Installation Detail, Mark Patsfall Editions, Clay Street Press gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2004-2005. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Art Education Certificate Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1997-96 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York., NY, 1985 MA Sculpture, (w/Daniel Spoerri) Fachhochschule Köln, Cologne, Germany, 1985-82 BA in Urban Planning, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany, 1982-77 Single Exhibitions Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL, 2003 Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY, 2000 Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1999 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1997 Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, 1995 Bischoff Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany, 1992 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA., 1989 Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany, 1988 Orangerie, Kassel, Germany, 1986 Selected Group Exhibitions Freiburg Museum, Freiburg, Germany, Art Resources Transfer, Art Resources Transfer, AU Base Gallery, Dorfman Projects Gallery, Newport Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Holly Solomon Gallery, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Mills Gallery, Momenta Art, Goethe House; Studio Museum of Harlem, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art; Ace, Dia Art Foundation, P.S. 1 Institute for Art & Urban Resources (2002-90) Awards Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship, 1999 Utica Sculpture Space Fellowship, 1998 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY, 1990-89 Art Matters Foundation Grant, Inc., New York, 1988 Artist-in-Residence, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, 1989 Artist-in-Residence, City of Offenburg, Germany, 1987-88 Editor, Kunstforum International, Nr. 51, 1981 Activities Curator, Project Space "LivingRoom," an online Web gallery for contemporary sculpture at: http://www.barbarawestermann.com |
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| Two Ton Studios, Pawtucket, RI., 2006. Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, New York, 2007. Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2008. |
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| Website: www.barbarawestermann.com | |
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