Winifred Ann Lutz (born 1942) is an American sculptor, fiber artist, and environmental artist known for her site-integrated installations and handmade paper-making.[1][2] She is recognized as a key innovator in the field of hand papermaking as an art form.[3] She is currently the Laura Carnell Professor Emeritus in sculpture at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[4]
Winifred Ann Lutz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Sculpture, fiber art, environmental art |
Education
editShe graduated from Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in 1965, where she triple majored in Sculpture, Ceramics, and Printmaking.[5] Also in 1965, she studied at Atelier 17 in New York City with Stanley William Hayter.[6] She attended Cranbrook Academy of Art and received an MFA in 1968.[7]
From 1965 to 1966 Lutz received the Gund Scholarship to study and travel in Egypt and Europe.[8] In 1979, Lutz traveled to Japan and Korea on a Ford Foundation grant where she was able to study Japanese and Korean paper-making and Japanese gardens.[9]
Exhibitions and collections
editPast locations of her installations have included MoMA PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT.[2]
Her permanent projects include the Garden for The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Mason-Dixon Lines, Past to Present at the American Philosophical Society Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[10][11][12]
Lutz's works have been included in such private, corporate, and public collections as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts; Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey; and others.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Oral history interview with Winifred Lutz, 2010 Jan. 30- Feb. 3". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ a b "Winifred Lutz – Press Release". Zabriskie Gallery. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ "2012 Outstanding Educator Award". International Sculpture Center (ISC). Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ "Sculpture Faculty". Tyler School of Art. Temple University. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ "Winifred Lutz Resume". winifredlutz.com. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ a b Heller, Nancy; Heller, Jules (2013). North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0824060490.
- ^ "Winifred Lutz – Biography". Zabriskie Gallery. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ "Mattress Factory: ActiveArchive". mattress.org. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
- ^ Levy, Stacy (January–February 2013). "Places as a Condition of Time: A Conversation with Winifred Lutz". Sculpture: 42–47.
- ^ King, Elaine (December 1997). "The Mattress Factory at 20: The Jewel In Pittsburgh's Art Crown". Sculpture Magazine. 16 (10). Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ Kirsh, Andrea. "Garden History and a Meditation on Ruins: Winnifred Lutz's "Garden" at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh". theartblog.org. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ Kaufman, Leslie (September 2009). "Winifred Lutz: American Philosophical Society Museum". Sculpture: 74–75.