Jackie Ferrara - NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today New York Monday, June 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Catalogue Essay

    Jackie Ferrara

    Born 1929, Detroit

    1950 Michigan State University, East Lansing

    Selected museum exhibitions:
    Drawing Center, New York (2017); Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (2007); Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Stamford (2000); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1998); Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Pennsylvania (1993); Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota (1992); Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (1987); Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables (1982); Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (1981); Ohio State University (1977)
    Selected honors: National Academy of Design (2016); Institute Honor, American Institute of Architects (1990); Design Excellence Award, Art Commission of the City of New York (1988); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1976)
    Selected public collections: Columbus Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Laumeier Sculpture Park
    St. Louis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; St. Louis Art Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis


    The soaring, modular forms of Jak Tower 297 epitomize Jackie Ferrara’s innovative sculptural practice. Since the 1970s, she has created precisely stacked structures, carefully developing their shapes and paying careful attention to the material qualities of wood, such as color and grain. With their affinities to pyramids or ziggurats, Ferrara’s sculptures suggest the architecture and monuments of the ancient world while imparting her distinctly contemporary vision.

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Jak Tower 297

cedar
112 1/2 x 32 x 32 in. (285.8 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm.)
Executed in 1995.

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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today

New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019