 | Pictured is a detail from Alyson Shotz's work "The Shape of Space," a multimedia work comprised of cut plastic Fresnel lens sheets and staples. |
Multi-media artist Alyson Shotz has been named the Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence for 2005-2006 at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG).
Shotz is known for labor-intensive sculpture and digital photography designed to encourage viewers to consider the aesthetics and structure of the natural world.
"On one level, Alyson's work is about the sheer beauty of the external natural world. Yet underlying this is an intense interest in the complex structures that compose this beauty," says Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at YUAG. "Her work connects the viewer with nature, but also broadens that exploration to embrace scientific and philosophical questions."
Shotz's work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including a one-person exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut (2005); the group exhibition "Needful Things: Recent Multiples at the Cleveland Museum of Art" (2004); and "A Slight Magnification of Altered Things," a solo show with an accompanying catalogue at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York (2003). Shotz recently completed a commission for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Painting and a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Fellowship.
Shotz, who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, holds a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from the University of Washington at Seattle.
The gallery's artist residency program, now in its third year, brings renowned artists to Yale for four weeks, providing them with the opportunity to interact with campus scholars from all disciplines and to benefit from the University's research and technological resources. The artist-in-residence also meets with undergraduate and graduate students, who are able to learn about the artistic process while exploring interdisciplinary connections between the artist's work and their own studies.
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