Alyson Shotz (born 1964) is an American sculptor based in

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, New York.Fateman, Johanna
"Alyson Shotz,"
''The New Yorker'', October 12, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2022. She is best known for experiential, large-scale abstract sculptures and installations inspired by nature and scientific concepts, which manipulate light, shadow, space and gravity in order to investigate and complicate perception.Sexton, Elaine. "Alyson Shotz, Derek Eller," ''Art in America'', September 2009.Goodman, Jonathan. "Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller," ''Sculpture'', October 2005, p. 75–6.Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Alyson Shotz
Artists. Retrieved July 10, 2022. Writers suggest her work challenges tenets of monumental,

minimalist In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Don ...

sculpture—traditionally welded, solid, heavy and static—through its accumulation of common materials in constructions that are often flexible, translucent, reflective, seemingly weightless, and responsive to changing conditions and basic forces.Rosenberg, Karen
"Alyson Shotz: Phase Shift,"
''The New York Times'', March 13, 2009. Retrieved July 7, 2022.Chávez, Anja. ''A Conversation with Alyson Shotz," ''Sculpture'', November 2008.Scott, Andre
"Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller,"
''The New Yorker'', March 14, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2022. ''Sculpture'' critic Lilly Wei wrote, "In Shotz’s realizations, the definition of sculpture becomes increasingly expansive—each project, often in series, testing another proposition, another possibility, another permutation, while ignoring conventional boundaries."Wei, Lilly
"Alyson Shotz,"
''Sculpture'', May 2015, p. 75–6. Retrieved July 7, 2022. Shotz’s artwork has been loosely grouped into three types: expansive, generally large-scale sculptures and installations that are intricate and handmade; more minimal, self-contained sculptures that sometimes involve fabrication and elements of chance; and abstract photographs and digital prints based on photographs.Hanson, Sarah P. "Alyson Shotz," ''Art + Auction'', May 2012.Genocchio, Benjamin

''The New York Times'', March 6, 2005. Retrieved July 7, 2022. It belongs to the public collections of the

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,Museum of Modern Art
Alyson Shotz
Artists. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

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,Whitney Museum of American Art
Alyson Shotz
Artists. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

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,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Alyson Shotz, ''Mirror Fence''
Objects. Retrieved July 10, 2022. and

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''Object for Reflection'', Alyson Shotz
Collection. Retrieved July 7, 2022. among others. She has exhibited at venues including the

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

,Smith, Roberta. Smith, Roberta
"Guggenheim exhibit explores the forms of space,"
''The New York Times'', July 20, 2007. Retrieved July 7, 2022.

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(SFMOMA),Sheets, Hilarie M. "Turning Piano Wire Into Light," ''ARTnews'', January 2010. Guggenheim Bilbao,Brady, Shaun
"Alyson Shotz’s newest exhibition shimmers at PAFA,"
''Metro Philadelphia'', April 21, 2016. Retrieved July 7, 2022.

Wexner Center for the Arts The Wexner Center for the Arts is the Ohio State University's "multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art". The Wexner Center opened in November 1989, named in honor of the father of Limite ...

,Yates, Christopher. "Shimmery installation toys with perception," ''The Columbus Dispatch'', February 7, 2010. and

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.Indianapolis Museum of Art
"Indianapolis Museum of Art announces Alyson Shotz, Fluid State,"
March 11, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

Education and early and career

Shotz was born in

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in 1964, the daughter of an Air Force pilot and a teacher. In her childhood, she lived throughout the West and Midwest due to her father's career. She initially studied geology, but gradually turned to art; science has remained a strong influence on her work. After enrolling at

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

, she graduated with a BFA in 1987 and earned an MFA from the

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in 1991. In the early 1990s, she moved to New York City.Abramenko, Maria. "Alyson Shotz/Investigations Into Space, Light and Matter," ''Nasty'', October 1, 2020. Early in her career, Shotz worked as a painter, producing colorful images of organic forms, while sometimes integrating photography, collage and video into her practice. A foundational work was ''Reflective Mimicry'' (1996), which included photographs and a video of a woman walking in the woods, clad in a full-body suit armored in small mirrors; its play of reflected foliage against actual foliage had the effect of de-materializing the figure. She would continue to explore this blurring of figure and ground in later work, most similarly, in large-scale outdoor installations such as ''Mirror Fence'' (2003) and ''Scattering Screen'' (2016).Dawkins, Chad
"An Interview with Alyson Shotz on Her New Work in San Antonio,"
''Glasstire'', July 1, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

Work and reception

Shotz's sculptures and installations manipulate ordinary synthetic materials—optical lenses, mirrors, glass, piano strings, wire, beads, nails—in concert with physical forces (space, light, gravity and matter) in order to investigate the shaping of perception, experiential boundaries, and ephemeral phenomena.Helmke, Juliet. "The Transmuting Sculptures of Alyson Shotz," ''Blouin ArtInfo'', February 21, 2017. Her work combines craftsmanship and process-intensive methods of accumulation and structure-building, often based in underlying concepts from physics, optics and mathematics.Adjarian, M.M. "Invariant Interval," ''Arts + Culture Texas'', November 2013.Rushworth, Katherine. "Space, Light and Life," ''The Post-Standard'', November 29, 2009. The resulting works produce perceptual conundrums—visual flux, spatial distortion, kaleidoscopic effects, and illusions of movement that result from shifts in light and vantage point.Johnson, Ken

''The New York Times'', April 8, 2005. Retrieved July 7, 2022.Brundage, Brita. "Reflections/Deceptions," ''Fairfield Weekly'', March 10, 2005. They evoke both natural sensations and scientific models, while blurring the ability to distinguish human-made from organic materials. Critics suggest that her work recalls minimalist constructions (e.g.,

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), but stretches the boundaries of

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sculpture, subverting ostensibly masculine tenets such as solidity, weight and fixity with qualities of fluidity, weightlessness, permeability and translucency; along these lines, one of Shotz's stated aims is to create volume without mass through her use of line, void, and carefully selected materials.''Glasstire''
"Nasher Sculpture Center, Sightings: Alyson Shotz,"
September 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2022. The blend of minimal and organic forms in her art has been compared to that of

Eva Hesse Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 196 ...

, however, she differs in her interest in the viewer as a participant; that emphasis has been related to the conceptual work of

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, though Shotz's entails a more optical than physical participation.

Works and exhibitions, 1999–2009

Beginning in the late 1990s, Shotz began receiving critical attention for work that ''The New Yorker'' deemed "a cyberorganic spin on landscape,"''The New Yorker''. "Alyson Shotz," May 12, 2003. which she exhibited at venues including the

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is located in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Aldrich has no permanent collection and is the only museum in Connecticut that is dedicated solely to the exhibition of contemporary art. The museum presents the first ...

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and

MASS MoCA The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing ar ...

.Johnson, Ken
"Pastoral Pop,"
''The New York Times'', August 11, 2000, p. E34. Retrieved July 7, 2022.Allen, Jane Ingram. "Expanding Space/Engaging Viewers: Mirrors and Reflective Materials in Contemporary Sculpture," ''Sculpture'', November 2004.Mass MoCA
"Mirror Mirror,"
Events. Retrieved July 10, 2022. ''The New Art Examiner'' described her solo exhibition at Susan Inglett (1999) as displaying a "fascination with nature that's part childlike wonder, part humorous romp, and part clinical investigation."Clifford, Katie. "Alyson Shotz," ''New Art Examiner'', February 2000. It included a digital photo of collaged budding flowers suggesting genetic engineering, a video, and ''Pink Swarm'', one of two shimmering, suspended topiary- or cloud-like sculptures made of plastic, wire and clear surgical tubing.Johnson, Ken

''The New York Times'', October 8, 1999. Retrieved July 7, 2022. Covered with hundreds of tiny petals that dripped strings of goo, the sculptures evoked natural processes gone to excess. For the Whitney Museum show "Pastoral Pop" (2000), Shotz installed ''Mobile Flora'', a grove of 9-foot-tall, slender stalks made of Q-tips coated in green rubber with casters replacing roots, that reviews characterized as "weird, plant-machine hybrids," "alien bamboo,"Nagy, Peter. "Against Nature," ''Time Out'' (New York), August 24, 2000. and "genetically mutated lily pads and beanstalks."Pagel, David

''Los Angeles Times'', January 2, 2004. Retrieved July 7, 2022. In 2003, she created "Mirror Fence" at the

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, a shimmering, three-by-130-foot-long picket fence faced in mirrors, whose slats disappeared and reappeared amid the surrounding landscape as viewers approached.Smith, Roberta. Smith, Roberta
"Impressions of the Yard, Visual and Olfactory,"
''The New York Times'', June 27, 2003. Retrieved July 7, 2022.Pratt, Kevin
"Yard,"
''Artforum'', September 2003. Retrieved July 7, 2022. In subsequent exhibitions, Shotz presented abstract sculptures characterized as updated

postminimalism Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, ''A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art'', second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. ...

"with a dash of pop science." These works consisted of accumulations of common materials that hung like drawings in space, evoking natural phenomena, invisible dimensions, and theoretical concepts such as

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and

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. ''The Shape of Space'' (2004)—exhibited in several galleries and museums—is representative of this period. It was an expansive, undulating, translucent curtain-like form whose thousands of hand-cut and stapled plastic lenses bent and refracted light, distorting and fragmenting space and creating confounding kaleidoscopic optical effects. Its fluctuating appearance was likened to a shimmering waterfall, a wall of ice, frosted translucent glass bricks, and—in its Guggenheim Museum presentation (2007), by

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—to a "giant wind chime … dividing and multiplying its surroundings oprovide tiny, glimmering, beveled views of the museum's rings,

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, an apartment building, traffic." ''Sculpture'' critic Jonathan Goodman wrote that this work was "about the fragile nature of perception … fields of being captured in mid-moment" that expand "awareness of the time-based nature of space." In shows at Locks Gallery, SFMOMA (both 2008), Derek Eller and Warehouse Gallery (both 2009), Shotz exhibited related suspended and wall-based sculptures that resembled ghostly, floating chandeliers or iced-over molecular forms (''Crystalline Structure'', 2007); weightless, skeletal apparitions made of long, bowing strands of beaded piano wire (''The Structure of Light'', 2008; ''Equilibrium'', 2009); and billowing webs created by looping thread around pins nailed to walls in complex, mathematically based networks of triangles ("Thread Drawings", 2008).Newhall, Edith. "Photos and Sculpture at Locks: Techno Treatment by Alyson Shotz," ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', February 1, 2008. During this period, she also produced collage-like digital prints sourced from photographs of her own work (e.g., the series "A Momentary Configuration of Matter"). Reviews described them as hybrid, hive-like organic structures resembling DNA strands from an artificial life form, Rorschach tests, butterflies, lace patterns and skulls.

Installations and exhibitions, 2010–

In later work, Shotz continued to explore large-scale sculptures and perceptual concerns while also pursuing a wider range of materials, forms and processes.Boucher, Brian. "Alyson Shotz at Carolina Nitsch," ''Art in America'', October 2014. "Standing Wave" (2010, Wexner Center for the Arts) consisted of thousands of thin, iridescent clear acrylic strips placed side by side and projecting from a 25-foot-long wall in curved arches and undulating waves, whose shifting refractions and reflections were likened to

op-art Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images ...

constructions. ''Wave Equation'' (2010,

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) and ''Invariant Interval'' (2013, University of Texas) were monumental, yet light and delicate constructions employing piano and steel wire filaments in skeletal ellipses or web-like forms; reviews described them as "gossamer" works that moved between presence and absence, interior and exterior, and static mass and illusory motion.Carter, Rebecca
"Alyson Shotz Investigates Materiality, Sculpture Architecture and Sound,"
''D Magazine'', November 23, 2010. Retrieved July 7, 2022. The installations ''Plane Weave'' (2016,

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Newhall, Edith. "Glistening metallic fabric," ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', June 19, 2016.Brady, Erik
"The Line of Ingenuity at The Guggenheim Bilbao,"
''Wide World Magazine'', June 10, 2021. Retrieved July 7, 2022. Their shimmering responses to changing sunlight evoked patterns ranging from natural (the sun on rippling water) to human-made (fabric,

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) to digital (screen pixels).Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Alyson Shotz: Plane Weave
Exhibitions. Retrieved July 7, 2022. In exhibitions at Carolina Nitsch (2014), the Wellin Museum (2015) and Derek Eller (2017, 2020), Shotz presented new bodies of work, often relying on chance. "Topographic Iterations" were abstract photo-drawings with a mystifying ''trompe l'oeil'' effect resembling cracked-earth interplanetary surfaces. She created them created by crumpling Japanese Masa paper, photographing and printing it, then crumpling the print. The "Recumbent Folds" series (2012–4) consisted of white, soft-sculpture-like porcelain forms created by dropping slabs or cylinders of clay from various heights and leaving them to harden. Her "Crushed Cubes" (2018) involved a similar approach, in this case crushing steel, copper or bronze cubes to form new, unpredictably organic objects that also reimagined conventional minimalist objects.Shotz, Alyson. "Object Lessons: Alyson Shotz," ''Sculpture'', June 2019, p. 96. The ''Imaginary Sculptures'' series (2014) eschewed materials altogether by simply visualizing possible sculptures with ''

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''-like imperatives inscribed on enameled wall plaques. In 2020, she exhibited the "Intricate Metamorphosis" works—intimate, corporeal ceiling-hung sculptures with iridescent, chain-mail-like surfaces made of small electroplated steel disks—and "Chronometer" series, which comprised rhythmic, wall-mounted abstractions like paintings composed of thousands of gleaming copper washers and nails, interrupted by snaking bands of recycled rubber bicycle inner tubes. ''New Yorker'' critic

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likened the former to "empty cocoons of some unknown species or, more fantastically, tails abandoned by mermaids," while suggesting the latter works embodied

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-related themes of marking time and confronting mortality.

Recognition

Shotz's work belongs to the public collections of the

Baltimore Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an art museum that was founded in 1914. The BMA's collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of ...

,Baltimore Museum of Art
Art Archives
Retrieved July 10, 2022.

Brooklyn Museum of Art The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

,Brooklyn Museum
''Natural Selection #3'', Alyson Shotz
Collection. Retrieved July 10, 2022. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Bilbao,Guggenheim Bilbao
Alyson Shotz
Artists. Retrieved July 7, 2022. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
''Radiant''
Collection. Retrieved June 10, 2022. Indianapolis Museum of Art,Indianapolis Museum of Art
''Wave Equation'', Alyson Shotz
Artwork. Retrieved July 7, 2022.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

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,Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Alyson Shotz
Retrieved July 10, 2022. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Modern Art,

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,National Gallery of Art
Acquisition Press Releases: 2019
Press. Retrieved July 10, 2022. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
''Plane Weave'', Alyson Shotz
Collection. Retrieved July 7, 2022. The Phillips Collection,The Phillips Collection
''Allusion of Gravity'', Alyson Shotz
Collection. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

Rose Art Museum The Rose Art Museum, founded in 1961, is a part of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US. Named after benefactors Edward and Bertha Rose, it offers temporary exhibitions, and it displays and houses works of art from the permanent col ...

,Rose Art Museum
''Mobile Flora'', Alyson Shotz
Objects. Retrieved July 10, 2022. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Alyson Shotz, ''The Structure of Light''
Artwork. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

San Jose Museum of Art The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose, downtown San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1969, the museum holds a permanent collection with an emphasis on West Coast of the United Sta ...

,San Jose Museum of Art
False Branches #2
Objects. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

Storm King Art Center Storm King Art Center, commonly referred to as Storm King and named after its proximity to Storm King Mountain, is an open-air museum located in New Windsor, New York. It contains what is perhaps the largest collection of contemporary outdo ...

Esplund, Lance
"A Five-Decade Marriage of Nature and Art,"
''The Wall Street Journal'', July 10, 2010. Retrieved July 7, 2022.Storm King Art Center
Alyson Shotz
Collection. Retrieved July 10, 2022. and Whitney Museum, among others.Macdowell
Alyson Shotz
Artists. Retrieved July 7, 2022.Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
"ArtistatCB: Alyson Shotz."
Retrieved July 10, 2022. She has been has commissioned to create several large-scale, site-specific works, including pieces for the

High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28, ...

,High Museum of Art
''Arnolfini 360° x 30''
Collections. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

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(New York),

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(Dallas),Granberry, Michael
"Contemporary artist Alyson Shotz is the Dallas Cowboys' latest addition,"
''The Dallas Morning News'', September 6, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2022. Stanford University Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge,Spector, Rosanne

May 20, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2022. and U.S. General Services Administration.U.S. General Services Administration
''The Robes of Justitia''
Artwork. Retrieved July 18, 2022. Shotz has been awarded fellowships from the Saint-Gaudens Memorial,

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, MacDowell and

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, and received awards from the Pollock-Krasner, Peter S. Reed, and Marie Walsh Sharpe foundations,

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and Art Matters, among others.Stockwell, Craig. "Alyson Shotz," ''Art New England'', October/November 2008, p. 57.The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Alyson Shotz
Artist. Retrieved July 10, 2022.Yale University

''Yale Bulletin & Calendar'', December 2, 2005. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

Education and early and career

Work and reception

Works and exhibitions, 1999–2009

Installations and exhibitions, 2010–

Recognition

References

Further reading

External links