Virtual Lecture, April 16, 2021
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Virtual Artist Lecture Friday, April 16, at 9:00 am via Zoom.
Open to all CVPA students and Ceramics alumni. Register here
For questions or additional information contact Kelly Devitt kdevitt@umassd.edu
About Petah Coyne
Petah Coyne is a contemporary sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations. Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral, from incorporating dead fish, mud, sticks, hay, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk flowers, to more recently, velvet, taxidermy and cast wax statuary. Unafraid to confront a range of subjects, or tackle contemporary themes, Coyne’s innate dualities are transposed in the dichotomous themes of her work: transformation and constancy; life and loss; beauty and darkness. In a 2018 New York Times article by Hilarie Sheets, Amy Gilman, director at the Chazen Museum of Art adeptly describes Coyne’s sculptures as “evocative in the way that great literature stays with you . . . Petah’s work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship.”