In/animate Recent Work By Myra Mimlitsch-Gray

Documents the groundbreaking art of nationally renowned metalsmith Myra Mimlitsch-Gray.
In/Animate surveys the past decade of work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, internationally renowned metalsmith and head of the Metal Program at SUNY New Paltz. Curated by author Akiko Busch, the exhibition explores a variety of artistic processes using iron, copper, brass, silver, and enameled steel. Mimlitsch-Gray's domestic artifacts suggest a coalescence of body and thing, conveying the mutability of the animate and inanimate and reflecting the intimacy between people and the objects they use. A spoon could be a lip, or a dangling twist of fabric, a vein. Over forty meticulously crafted works contribute to the contemporary conversation about how household objects express ideas about presentation, utility, and class.

About the author

Akiko Busch has taught at the University of Hartford, Bennington College, and the School of Visual Arts. She is the author of several essay collections, including How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Belasco, Akiko Busch, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Sara J Pasti, Akiko Mimlitsch-Gray Busch, Sara J. Pasti, Busch Akiko, Mimlitsch-Gray Myra, Pasti Sara J.
• Assisted by: Daniel Belasco (Editor), Belasco Daniel (Co-editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.09.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques
• EAN: 9780692560112
• ISBN: 978-0-692-56011-2
• Pages: 72
• Series: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; Distribution Partners
• Subjects: einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen, ART / Individual Artists / General, Art & Art Instruction, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, sculpture, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Installation art, Individual artists, art monographs, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections