Elana Herzog begins many of her installations by affixing a found object—a bedspread, curtain, or length of cloth—to the gallery wall with hundreds of staples. She then pulls threads and bits of fabric from around these staples, creating dematerialized compositions that evoke natural processes of erosion while containing the evidence of the artist's purposeful destruction. With their abstract patterns and familiar referents, Herzog's work contains allusions to painting, the history of modernism and issues of domesticity.
She has exhibited widely in venues such as Smack Mellon, White Columns, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Anderson Gallery at VCU, the Sculpture Center, the Museum of Art and Design, and many more, and has received several grants and fellowships including an Individual Artists Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lillian Elliott Award, the Lambent Fellowship in the Arts of the Tides Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
When: February 9, 2010, 12:30pm
Where: Riley Seminar Room, MFA
Credit: Elana Herzog, In Practice Project, Sculpture Center, 2005. Courtesy of the artist.
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