Petah Coyne: How Much A Heart Can Hold at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin

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Petah Coyne’s solo exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is on view through December 23rd. The New York-based artist is renowned for her large-scale sculptures and installations incorporating diverse materials such as wax, silk flowers, taxidermy, and resin, which examine themes of life and death, spirituality, and fragility. How Much A Heart Can Hold explores multiple decades of Coyne’s career, featuring expansive sculptural works made of cloth, human hair, scrap metal, wax, silk flowers, and other unorthodox materials that challenge conventional aesthetics and reflect life’s complexities.

“We looked across Coyne’s long career and were inspired to focus on the creative work of women as interpreted through Coyne’s artistic process,” said Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen Museum of Art and exhibition curator. “Coyne looks at the woman as a heroine, cultural leader, dissident and activist and as a fellow creative who seeks to transform the deep aspects of consciousness and societal awareness.”



Duration: Sept. 9-Dec. 23, 2024
Opening Hours: 10:00am-19:00pm
Venue: Chazen Museum of Art
University of Wisconsin
750 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706

Petah Coyne Honored with 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award

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On January 18, the International Sculpture Center in New York honored Petah Coyne and Melvin Edwards with its 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards.

Established in 1960, the Center promotes the creation and critical understanding of sculpture through multiple initiatives. Its members include artists, art writers, dealers, educators, and collectors.



Petah Coyne featured in THE SKY'S THE LIMIT, NMWA

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THE SKY'S THE LIMIT, the inaugural group exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, after a two-year building closure, features works by Petah Coyne and 12 other contemporary artists. Coyne's Untitled #1458 (Marguerite Duras), Untitled #1273, and Untitled #1563, are on display in this celebration of sculptural scale and materiality.  

In an interview with Cultured Magazine, Petah Coyne discussed her artwork Untitled #1458 (Marguerite Duras) (image 2-3), “I was told by a very special Canadian curator that the women in French Canada use Duras’s name as a verb when they wish to encourage one another to be strong and tough enough to get through difficult situations. I loved this idea almost as much as I loved her writing. Knowing her strength and the verb “duras” has helped me through the pandemic and many other difficult times.”

Read full interview on Cultured Magazine: https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/10/23/female-sculpture-national-womens-museum

More information for "The Sky's the Limit": https://nmwa.org/exhibitions/the-skys-the-limit/

 

Petah Coyne on view now at the State Gallery of Art, Poland

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Three artworks by Petah Coyne are currently on view until October 22 at the State Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland. The pieces—"Untitled #1396 (Catherine the Great)," "Untitled #1397 (Elena Ferrante)," and "Untitled #1398 (Empress Dowager Cixi)”—are meticulously crafted in hand-blown glass, honoring significant female figures and their impact.

The Glasstress project, launched in 2009 as an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale, showcased Coyne's glass installation "The Feminine" in 2015 satellite exhibition. The project addresses critical issues such as environmental degradation, pandemics, colonialism, feminism and societal structures, while interpreting and expressing diverse perspectives through the medium of glass.

Petah Coyne’s Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird) Exhibited in You Know Who at Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion, Turkey

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Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), 1997-98. (Photo: Wit McKay. Courtesy of the artist)

Renowned American artist Petah Coyne’s Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), is currently shown in You Know Who, an exhibition curated by Selen Ansen and Brigitte Pitarakis at the Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition showcases works of over 45 artists and explores the connection between Byzantium and the contemporary art through the theme of supernatural and their effects on human emotions, behaviors, and artistic production.

Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), created in 1997-98, is an example of the hair and taxidermy works Coyne made in the late 1990s that explore a dark fantasy world populated by animals. Tangled in web of woven black hair, the once recognizable silhouettes of the taxidermied birds have been reimagined as a fantastic, amalgamated creature, whose web, reminiscent of black Irish lace and dust bunnies, crawls out toward viewers

Petah Coyne is scheduled to have her new solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, in May 2023.

Petah Coyne Added to Collection of “National Academy of Design”

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Petah Coyme's early black sand sculpture “Untiled #697” (1991) is now part of the Naional Academy of Design's pemanent collection. Founded in NewYork City in 1825 by renowned artists Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, and others. lt aims to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition. To date the National Academy of Design had elected 8,000 works from talented artists, including Petah Coymes “Untitled #697”, which presents beauty and fragile imagery alluding to death and decay.

Petah Coyne at "Womanology. José Ramón Prieto Collection", The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain

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Petah Coyne “Untitled #959 (1999-2000)” in Spain at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum'

Petah Coyne “Untitled #959 (1999-2000)” in Spain at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum'

See Petah Coyne's Untitled #959 (1999-2000) in Spain at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum's new exhibition Womanology which highlights works from the private collection of José Ramón Prieto.

In this exhibition, the curators have chosen works by women artists— of which there are many in Prieto's collection. Womanology showcases 43 works from 35 different artists working in a variety of media and touches upon various art historical movements and various female perspectives. Untitled #959 is a pristine white plaster sculpture, with plaster being a media Coyne worked most heavily with in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Petah Coyne’s “Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words)” currently on view at Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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Photo Courtesy of Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2021, Photo credit: K2 Studio, 2021

Photo Courtesy of Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2021, Photo credit: K2 Studio, 2021

Petah Coyne’s “Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words)” is currently on view in "APMA, CHAPTER THREE", Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

APMA-- a museum run by Korea’s cosmetics giant Amorepacific Group -- has unveiled its collection of contemporary and antique art through three exhibitions since its opening in 2018. While "APMA, CHAPTER ONE and THREE" focus on contemporary, “CHAPTER TWO” showcases artworks spanning from paintings, folding screens, ceramics, ornaments to clothing from the prehistoric era to the modern times.

Petah’s “Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words)”(2007) takes its name from the award-winning 2005 movie about a war-ravaged, deaf female Bosnian refugee and a blind man. Directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet, the film alludes to the lost cause, thwarted lives, and the healing between souls. The “Untitled #1243", with a sagging net catching the frosty, divine, drooping blossoms, seems to capture the similar vulnerability and allow one to pay tributes to those dear friendships and support that ever happened in one’s life.

Petah Coyne is Included in Publication "Great Women Artists" 

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圖片來源｜Image Credit： Phaidon 

Image Credit： Phaidon 

"Great Women Artists" is the most comprehensive female artist's book of all time, with over 400 fascinating artworks and showcases captivating female creativity for five centuries: Petah Coyne, Marina Abramović, Helen Frankenthaler, Agnes Martin, and Frida Kahlo are listed in this book. In the museums, art galleries, and art markets, female artists who have been neglected in the past are rising irresistibly and gradually gaining recognition.

The book not only introduces the artist's masterpieces, but also intersperses brief comments, revealing an appealing art history, and opening up the path of multiple voices in this era. As the New Yorker commented: "Real changes are upon us, and today one can reel off the names of a number of first-rate women artists. Nevertheless, women are just getting started." Nunu Fine Art joins you to witness the precious moment when women shine.

Petah Coyne is lecturing at the Frost Art Museum in Miami

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The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is one of the largest academic art museums in South Florida, providing the community with free access to world-class art that spans cultures and time periods. The Frost Art Museum’s permanent collection includes over 6,000 objects with a strong representation of American printmaking from the 1960s and 1970s, photography, pre-Columbian objects dating from 200-500 AD, and a growing number of works by contemporary artists, especially from Latin American and Caribbean countries.

This is the 15th annual Breakfast in the Park, an official Art Basel Miami Beach event. Each year since 2004, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum has welcomed guests to enjoy a complimentary breakfast, a lecture by a noted sculptor, and guided tours of our Sculpture Park and exhibitions. Contemporary sculptor and photographer Petah Coyne will be the featured speaker this year. Known for her elaborately detailed assemblages that hang from ceilings and erupt from the floor, Coyne uses molten wax, silk flowers, sumptuous fabric, and pristine taxidermy to create works that evoke gothic narratives and the excess of the Rococo.

Coyne’s work can be found in numerous permanent museum collections, including MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and many more. She is also the recipient of numerous prestigious national awards, including The Rockefeller Foundation Award, three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, among others.

Petah Coyne is honored by the Bruce Museum

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〈無題#1408 (迷失的風景)｜Untitled #1408 (The Lost Landscape)〉，2015-18

Untitled #1408 (The Lost Landscape), 2015-18

Petah Coyne receives the artist's honor from the Bruce Museum's 10th Icon Awards in the Arts. The Bruce Museum's Icon Awards in the Arts recognizes the contributions of distinguished figures in the art world who enrich the cultural life of the community. Coyne was also recently inducted into National Academy of Design, one of the highest honors in American art and architecture that is earned through nomination.

Rose Wylie, Petah Coyne, Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan in the exhibitions of 56th La Biennale di Venezia

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 NUNU FINE ART congrats on Rose Wylie, Petah Coyne and Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan in the exhibitions of 56th La Biennale di Venezia. Rose Wylie presents her artworks curated by Susie Allen, Laura Culpan, and Dea Vanagan of Artwise. Petah Coyne is pleased to announce her inclusion in Glasstress 2015 Gotika, a joint exhibition co-curated by The State Hermitage Museum and Berengo Studio and Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan also present their artworks curated by Tagore Foundation International and the Polo museale del Veneto named Frontier Reimagined. Welcome here and share their remarkable success with us.