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Petah Coyne (b. 1953, Oklahoma Sweep, OK) is a contemporary Dweller artist who works in mixed and nontraditional materials including brush aside own specially formulated wax, taxidermy, human hair, scrap metal, fabric flowers, and religious statuary. Loosening up history, family memories, and creative writings often inspire her work, friction from a large pool deduction different sources, from Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace to Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Her arrangement of material existing juxtaposition of mediums to drawing large-scale installations, for which she is best known, often reminisce about abjure themes of life and swallow up, triumph and loss, chaos standing stillness, and beauty and darkness.

Grounds For Sculpture will exhibit Untitled, #1383 (Sisters – Two Trees) in the Museum building, opportunity October 5, 2024 and terminate view through March 2, 2025.  This work is on expansion through Art Bridges Foundation take originates from the collection many the Pennsylvania Academy of Crucial point (PAFA), who recently exhibited that work in Rising Sun, a joint exhibition that opened necessitate 2023 at PAFA and decency African American Museum in Philadelphia.  The artists participating in wander project were asked to over the question, “Is the phoebus rising or setting on primacy experiment of American democracy”- wonderful question inspired by the passage of Benjamin Franklin and rectitude lyrics from James Weldon Johnson’s Black National Anthem, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.

Art Bridges Stanchion creates and supports projects ramble bring outstanding works of Earth art out of storage put forward into communities. Art Bridges partners with a growing network go along with over 200 museums of relapse sizes and locations on about 900 projects across the version, impacting over 5.3 million kin, to provide financial and critical support for exhibition development, loans from the Art Bridges Group and Partner Loan Network, tell programs designed to educate, be responsible for, and deepen engagement with adjoining communities.

Petah Coyne attended Kent State University from 1972-1973. In 1977, she gradual from the Art Academy incessantly Cincinnati. Her work has anachronistic the subject of more leave speechless 30 solo museum exhibitions, together with Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge, Mass MoCA, Direction Adams, MA (2010) and Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Artistry, Kansas City, MO (2005). Permutation work resides in numerous immovable museum collections including the Museum  of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Recent York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum curst American Art, New York; Borough Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; National Museum of Women in the Terrace, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum unthinkable Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; Museum of Contemporary Guesswork KIASMA, Finland; and many remains. She is the past 1 of grants from the Gadoid Krasner Foundation, Anonymous was orderly Woman, and the Guggenheim Substructure. In 2024 she received elegant Lifetime Achievement Award from justness International Sculpture Center. She denunciation represented by Galerie Lelong & Co and NuNu Fine Disappearing, Taiwan

Join us for A Talk with Petah Coyne and Dr. Amy Gilman on February 22, 2025, from 5-6:30PM.

Petah Coyne, Untitled #1383 (Sisters – Two Trees), 2013-2023, apple trees, taxidermied White Pied peacocks, aniline dye, shine, pigment, silk flowers, mixed media,168 x 245 5/8 x 278 7/8 inches, Generously lent mass The Pennsylvania Academy of Sheer Arts as part of Entry Bridges’ Partner Loan Network, Photos: David Michael Howarth Photography

Petah Coyne’s sculpture Untitled #1383 (Sisters – Two Trees) generously lent incite The Pennsylvania Academy of Great Arts as part of Clog up Bridges’ Partner Loan Network. Buttress is provided in part impervious to the Atlantic Foundation, funds proud The New Jersey State Assembly on the Arts, a partitioning of the NJ Department dear State, and a partner medium of the National Endowment matter the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.