Coleen Sterritt

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Full Name	Coleen Sterritt
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Jan 8, 1953(1953-01-08)
Age	71
Birthplace	Morris
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Capricorn

Coleen Sterritt Biography

Coleen Sterritt is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on January 8, 1953 in Morris, Illinois, United States. Sterritt was born in Morris, Illinois in 1953 and was raised in Chicago. Her first influences were her grandmother Dorothy Button, a well-known local gardener, as well as Uncle James A. Sterritt an educator and sculptor who was the co-founder of the casting conferences of the 1960s in the University of Kansas that later was renamed the International Sculpture Center. Sterritt was a student at in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BFA 1976) and was a sculptor there, creating sculptures influenced by Jackie Winsor, Eva Hesse and feminist theories. The year 1977 saw her relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles to attend Otis Art Institute (MFA 1979) and was a student of Betye Saar as well as Germano Celant. She also was exposed to the art of Artepovera and the California collage artists.

In the latter part of the 1980s, Sterritt moved to work that had more refined surfaces and a muted color which some writers have compared positively to works by Martin Puryear or Louise Bourgeois. She also took on more artistic challenges and the expression of motion, which critic Colin Gardner wrote “synthesized classical balance with rugged, idiosyncratic kinesis,” like Full Quintet (1985), Endear (1987) or Pike for Earl The Pearl (1988). Other critics noted greater psychological tenderness and “quasi-humorous pathos” in her fragile, “lovable ugly ducklings,” like the Swan-like Flush (1991) The piece includes two different forms to sexuality and sexual desire, which includes separation and union, and embrace and the entrapment of love.

After a period concentrating on drawing and her time in Roswell, Sterritt returned to Los Angeles in 1995. Influenced in part by her new studio situation, she began using tentative materials—recycled studio detritus (cardboard, carpet, plastics, plywood)—and significantly, pieces of recently dismantled sculptures. Many of the new materials were relatively flat and planar; working intuitively, she engaged in basic assemblage processes: stacking, gathering, folding, arranging, slicing. Critics suggest the change in methods both expanded her use of space and imparted a new sense of temporality and fragility in the work (e.g., My Original Face, In Two Piles, Now Hanging and Red Stack (Heartbeat) (both 1995), and later, SqueezeBox, a colorful, necklace-like construction from 2002).

Since 1998, Sterritt has been a professor and the faculty coordinator of the sculpture program at Long Beach City College, one of the state’s largest community college art departments. She is recognized for developing a sculpture program there that has enabled community college students to transfer to top art schools across the country. From 1983–1999, Sterritt taught in adjunct and full-time, temporary positions at Claremont Graduate University, Otis College of Art and Design, University of Southern California, and California State University, Fullerton, where she was a Distinguished Visiting Artist. In 1990, Sterritt taught a collaborative course, “Art Majors/Dance Majors,” at California State University, Long Beach with Margit Omar and postmodern choreographer Lucinda Childs.

The year 1979 was when Sterritt took over the studio of an abandoned Los Angeles industrial building, helping to establish a vibrant arts scene in downtown. She was also a part of the recently opened Al’s Bar, a key cultural hot spot in the era. As a female sculptor, who’s work was not in line with the dominant, mostly male Minimalist style, Sterritt was adamant about the freedom that was her Los Angeles scene, which was less influenced by male-dominated histories and mainstream conventionalities, and exhibited at museums, non- profit spaces and the well-known Ulrike Kantor Galerie. She was featured in a variety of noteworthy exhibitions, such as “Six Downtown Sculptors” (LACE 1979), “Downtown L.A. in Santa Barbara” (1980), “Southern California Artists” (LAICA 1981 with curator Barbara Haskell), and “Natural Forces in Los Angeles Art” (1990).

Coleen Sterritt Net Worth

Coleen Sterritt is one of the richest Sculptor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Coleen Sterritt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Coleen Sterritt (born 1953) is an American artist known for her abstracted, hybrid pieces made using a wide range of everyday objects and materials, and arranged in surprising ways. Writers are the primary source for her work, which is rooted in the post-minimalist tradition of Jackie Winsor, Eva Hesse and Nancy Graves, and assemblage artists like Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg and Marisa Merz. She often has a connection with contemporary artists such as Jessica Stockholder, Nancy Rubins as well as Tony Cragg. A critic of sculpture Kay Whitney suggests Sterritt’s work “expands and reinterprets three of the most important artistic inventions of the 20th Century–collage, abstraction and the readymade”that play with the tradition in Arte Povera bricolage and Surrealist psychological displacement. Curator Andi Campognone regards Sterritt as one of the artists who had the greatest influence post-1970s the development of “the Los Angeles aesthetic” in contemporary sculpture. others consider her to be an influence for the more recent West Coast artists creating hand-made free-standing sculptures that counter the trends towards interventions in public art, environmental and other sculptures. Constance Mallinson writes that Sterritt’s work “walks a line between charm and threat, the natural, the industrial and the hand fabricated, rejecting easy associations for complex reads.” Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel describes it as funny, smart as well as “subtly rebellious” in its transformation of scrap materials from trash and dumpsters, as well as artistic lineages.

Sterritt was first noticed for her these hut-like, tripodal structures made from natural and industrial materials, like the stalks of yucca on the which she sat river rocks (e.g., Loose Shorts 1978). The following decade saw critics like Joan Hugo and Peter Frank claim that her formal vocabulary and control of materials increased as her styles evolved to include stick- impregnated form, tar-covered pyramidal structures and, later, vessels-like biomorphic forms that sprouted appendages. They described works like Noche a Noche (1981) or O.W.W.I.H. (1984) in terms of being “ominous, yet vulnerable,” “fascinating and terrifying”–alien animals or plants with a physicality that was assertive (mandible tooth, thorn and quill-like shapes) attracted both admiration as well as a sense of rage. A number of writers trace this contradiction to seemingly contradictory motives that evoke the “strangely primal, poetic urge” to mix her economically-minded formal vocabulary with an dynamism of ritualistic totem and mystery, a modern punk-like angst, as well as an eccentric postmodern humor.

After losing her studio space in late 1991, Sterritt lived in Ireland for six months and focused solely on drawing through 1993. She spent six months in New Mexico after receiving a Roswell Artist-in-Residence award in 1994; the two experiences significantly influenced the direction of her work. She has since had solo exhibitions at the Riverside Art Museum (2006), the galleries d.e.n. contemporary (2006) and Another Year in LA (2014), MOAH (2016), and several university venues.

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Sterritt has exhibited throughout the United States, in Japan, Spain, Kenya and South Africa, and in major shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, among many venues. In 2016, she was named a John Simon Guggenheim Fine Arts Fellowship recipient. Sterritt’s work is featured in several public art collections and the books American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions and L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980. In 2018, Griffith Moon published the retrospective catalogue, Coleen Sterritt: 1977–2017, in collaboration with the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH). Sterritt is based in the Los Angeles area.

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