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Ursula Meyer
Born1915
Hanover, Germany
Died2003 (aged 87–88)
Education
  • Reggia Scuola, Faenza, Italy
Known forSculpture

Ursula Meyer (1915–2003) was a German-born American artist and a professor of sculpture.

Biography

Ursula Meyer was born in Hanover, Germany in 1915.[1] She studied ceramics at the Reggia Scuola in Faenza, Italy.[2] Meyer became a professor of sculpture at the City University of New York in New York City in 1963, and she would remain at CUNY's Lehman College until her retirement in 1980.[3][4] She wrote a number of articles and reviews in newspapers and art magazines in the United States.[5] Her perspective on minimalist art was one of many recognized voices in the art world of the 1960s.[6] Meyer authored the book Conceptual Art published by E.P. Dutton in 1972.[7] After her death, she received a retrospective exhibit at the Art Gallery of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.[4]

Meyer's sculpture has been described as focused on the interplay of transiency and stability,[8] flexible and transcendent of size and shape,[9] and deeply aware of the historical and political dimensions of the monumental.[10]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Special exhibitions, permanent installations

References

  1. ^ a b "Ursula Meyer: Euclidean Geometries - 1960s Sculpture and Drawings". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  2. ^ ""Ursula Meyer (1915-2003)". clara.nmwa.org. Clara Database of Women Artists. 2012. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  3. ^ Meyer, Ursula (1974-12-01). "Notes on Studio Art Education at the College Level". Art Journal. 34 (2): 141–142. doi:10.1080/00043249.1975.10793671. ISSN 0004-3249.
  4. ^ a b "Ursula Meyer, Euclidean Geometries: 1960s Sculpture and Drawings", The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center The City University of New York, July 13, 2005.
  5. ^ Meyer, Ursula. "How to explain pictures to a dead hare." ArtNews vol. 68, no. 9 (January, 1970)
  6. ^ Meyer, James (2004-01-01). Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300105908.
  7. ^ " In Conversation: Alain Kirili with Robert C. Morgan", The Brooklyn Rail, May 3, 2012.
  8. ^ Willard, Charlotte. "The Third Dimension." New York Post 13 January 1968.
  9. ^ Artnews vol. 66, no. 10 (February 1968)
  10. ^ Wallach, Alan. "CAPS Sculptors." Arts Magazine 1983.

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