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from the issue of July 17, 2008
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Sheldon opens Elizabeth King exhibit July 18
"The Sizes of Things in the Mind
BY TOM WHITE, SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
A mid-career survey, "The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye," opening July 18 at the Sheldon Museum of Art, presents approximately 65 sculptures, film animations, installations, drawings and photographs by artist Elizabeth King.
| | ON DISPLAY - "Study for Animation: Pose 7" by Elizabeth King. Her exhibit, "The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye," opens July 18.
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King combines her meticulously wrought figurative sculptures with stop-frame film animation in installations that blur the boundary between actual and virtual space. Intimate in scale and distinguished by a level of craft that solicits close viewing, this work reflects her interests in early clockwork automata, the history of the mannequin and the puppet, and literature's host of legends in which the inanimate or artificial figure comes to life.
The exhibition will feature such seminal works as "Pupil," lent by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., as well as her latest pieces, including "Bartlett's Hand," a carved wooden sculpture with movable joints that hypnotically comes to life in an accompanying animated film. Supplementing these works will be other objects from King's studio - her glass-eye collection, wax studies of facial expressions, plaster life casts and optical devices, for example - that illuminate process and intent.
King earned bachelor and masters of fine arts degrees in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1985, she joined the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University, where she serves as School of the Arts research professor in the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media. Last year, her work was the subject of a solo show at New York's Kent Gallery.
For more information, go to www.sheldon.unl.edu or call 472-2461.
Artist visits
Elizabeth King (at right) will discuss her work at Sheldon twice during the exhibition. She will offer a casual gallery talk during the exhibition's opening at 5:30 p.m. July 18. She will also lecture in the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium at 2 p.m. Oct. 10. Both events are free and open to the public.
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