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CAROLINE LATHAN-STIEFEL

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Education

2001

Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Master of Fine Arts

1989

Brown University, Providence, RI, B.A. Visual Arts (Honors)

One Man Exhibitions

2011

Towards the Reservoir, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

2010

Hinterland, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

2009

Flux, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Layer City, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

2008

Patch, Split Barrier & Sinew, The Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Keeping It under Wraps, The Powel House: Landmarks Contemporary Projects, Philadelphia, PA

2007

Patch, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA

2006

Whorl, Galerie Articule, Montreal, Quebec

2005

Summer Solos, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

2003

New Work, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
New Work, Mendel Music Library of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1999

Dressbodies, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1997

Better Sight without Glasses, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1996

Eve Tree, Art in Odd Places, Arts Festival of Atlanta

Group Show Exhibitions

2012

The Line Unleashed, Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WIDrawing Beyond, Princeton Arts Council, Princeton, NJ

2010

Hinterland and The Solace of Labor, Mitchell Hall, West Chester University, West Chester, PASeepages, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA (curated by Caroline Lathan-Stiefel)Microfibers, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (three-person show curated by Sue Spaid)

2009

Connect/Reconnect, The Gallery at Mercer Community College, West Windsor, NJExuberant Pattern, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD (curated by Susan Isaacs)

2008

Entracte, Bush Antiques, New Orleans, LA (curated by John Otte)In Suspension, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJHovering Above, The Abington Art Center Sculpture Park, Jenkintown, PAMatter, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2007

The Hearing Eye, Centre Clark, Montreal, Canada (traveling exhibition: Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario, April 2007, L'Oeil De Poisson, Quebec City, Quebec, May 2008)

2004

Strands of Fabrication, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Running Rampant, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2003

Projects, Islip Art Museum, Carriage House, East Islip, NYPersonal Perspectives: The Center for Print and Paper Fellowship Exhibition,Mason Gross School for the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2002

100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (traveling exhibition, 2002-04, The Morris Museum, The Noyes Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery and School, Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA), University of Iowa Museum, Purdue University Galleries, Tweed Museum, Whitman College) 

Awards & Scholarships

2011

One of ten national & international artists awarded West Prize by the West Collection, Oaks, PA

2009

Independence Foundation Grant in Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PAPollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2005

Creative Capital Foundation Grant in Visual Arts

2003

Sculpture Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts

2002

New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship, Brodsky Center for Innovative Print & Paper, New Brunswick, NJ

2001

Hilla Rebay Teaching Artist Award, The Guggenheim Museum Children's Program

Collections

Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Newark Library, Newark, NJ
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

Public Comissions

2011

Ocean, installed on historic building, Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA

Lectures/Other Projects:

2009

Towson University, Towson, MD
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

2008

The Abington Art Center, Public Lecture, Jenkintown, PA
Brown University, Lecture and critiques for junior and senior art students, Providence, RI

2007

Suyama Space, Public Lecture, Seattle, WA

2006

Galerie Articule, Public Lecture, Montréal, Canada
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Public Lecture, Atlanta, GA

Review/Publications:

July 16, 2010, Urban, rural boundaries blur in exhibit, Catherine Fox, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, D6.
Dec. 2009-Feb. 2010, Volume 88, Green Up!, Sue Spaid, etc Magazine, p. 12.
December 27, 2009, Review: Microfibers, Edith Newhall, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
November 4, 2009, Transcending Decorative, Martin L. Johnson, Baltimore City Paper.
May 2009, Vol. 28 No. 4, Review: Hovering Above, Andrea K. Hammer, Sculpture Magazine, p. 75.
April 17, 2009, Kaleidoscopic view of imagination, Catherine Fox, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
March 10, 2009, Mixed-media metropolis, S.D. Fender, The News Journal (Wilmington, DE).
Fall 2008, Young Approaches:Crossing/Crossing Out Categories, Warren Seelig, Surface Design Journal, p. 10.
March 23, 2008, Review: Abington Art Center, Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, p. L10.
New Year 2008, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, R. Asher, artUS, p. 63.
July 2007, art ltd.: West Coast Art + Design, Pulse, p. 89.
May 24, 2007, Trash, Death, Mantle: Three New Shows Reviewed, Jen Graves, The Stranger, p. 20.
May 8, 2007, Intricate Netting, Adriana Grant, Seattle Weekly, p. 31.
May 18, 2007, There's an unsettling beauty to Lathan-Stiefel's Patch, Nate Lippens, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. 36.
December 14, 2007, 2006-YR-Visual, Isa Tousignant, Hour, Montréal, p. 21.
February 2, 2006, State of the Whorl, Isa Tousignant Hour, Montréal, p. 22.
December 14, 2006, Parasites et Pression, Mathieu Menard, Le Delit.
Royak, Jacqueline, In Review, Surface Design Journal, Spring, 2005, p. 52.
September/October 2004, Strands of Fabrication, Petra Fallaux, Fiberarts Magazine, p. 52.
May/June 2004, Running Rampant, Scott Turri, Dialogue Magazine, p. 52.
April 28, 2004, Getting More Fiber, Mary Thomas, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. C2.
April 22, 2004, Living in the Material World, Alice Winn, The Pittsburgh PULP, p. 15.
March 11, 2004, The Sprawl of the Wild, Kurt Shaw, The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, p. 9.
March 21, 2003, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel: New Work, Catherine Fox, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, p. Q6.
June, 5, 1999, Dress it up, Cathy Byrd, Creative Loafing, Atlanta, p. 40.
June 4, 1999, Changing faces, Catherine Fox, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, p. Q7.
May - June 1997, Review: Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Cathy Byrd, Art Papers, p. 56.
February 14,1997, Mind's eye puts forth artist's vision, Catherine Fox, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, p. P3.

Select Publications

2006

Immersion/Immersive: Exploring the Immersive in Contemporary Art Practice, Essays by Marcus Miller, Susie Major, and Randall Anderson, Articule, Montréal, Canada

2007

Patch: An Installation by Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Essays by Helena Reckitt and Beth Sellars, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
L'Oreille Dans L'Oeil/The Hearing Eye, Essays by Sébastien Cliche and Jesse Lacayo, Centre Clark, Montréal and Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Up
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I see my work as being in flux, ever-changing, mutable, and replicating various states of proliferating growth.

The idea of piecing-together disparate elements strongly informs my work. I have been making sculptural installations, made of such incongruous materials as plastic shopping bags, felt, pipe cleaners, straight pins, and plastic electrical boxes since 2001. My work involves both the slow, plodding movement of patching pieces of cloth and plastic to linear structures made of pipe cleaners, as well as quicker, more gestural actions that connect all of the parts into systems, making large suspended sculptures.  

The installations are drawings-in-space that cover, divide, encircle, and fill the spaces in which they are situated. Monumental in scale and intensely colored and textured, the work aims to physically affect the body of the viewer. These installations take various forms: parasitic-like growths that cover interior architectural elements and outdoors structures; hanging tent forms that immerse the viewer; suspended walls that curve and divide spaces; excessive, organic masses that transform rooms into caves.