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Sculptor to Lecture
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Monday November 2, 2009
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4:30 p.m. |
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Bixler
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Students
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General Public
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Lecture |
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| Event Description: |
The artist Elizabeth Duffy will present a talk on her work at Colby College at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 2, 2009 in room 154 of Bixler Building. Elizabeth Duffy, who has shown her work extensively, studied art at the New York Studio School, Hunter College and received a B.A. from Rutgers College and her MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College.
As an active artist Elizabeth Duffy has exhibited widely on the East Coast, including shows at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, Dartmouth College Strauss Gallery, Hunter College Leusdorf Gallery, and the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Among her solo exhibits are the Space Gallery, Portland, ME Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Barrows Rotunda Gallery, Dartmouth College, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Missouri Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomburg, PA and the Koussevitzky Art Gallery Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA.
Elizabeth Duffy received a Pollock-Krassner Grant in 2001, Merit Awards from Roger Williams University in 2006, 07, and 08 and in 2010 she will have a Fellowship Merit Award: 3 Dimensional Art from Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She has had residences at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY and MacDowell in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. her work is in the collection of the Deutche Bank, New York City, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ and in numerous private collections.
In a quote taken from her web site, Elizabeth Duffy says, "In part my work is a way to curb fidgety behavior and an overblown work ethic. The materials come to me via epiphany, and are happiest in in-between moments-picking up mail from the post office box, filling the gas tank, petting a dog outside the corner deli. My work identifies the material substance of those moments and celebrates their nobility. Notebook reinforcement labels and safeguard privacy. Paper maps assure us of our place and allude to paths taken even as they evaporated into cyberspace. Often the materials I choose have poignancy for their inevitable obsolescence."
Elziabeth Duffy's talk, which is sponsored by the Colby College Art Department and the Arts Lecture Fund, is open to the public and without charge. |
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