Elizabeth King combines figurative sculpture with stop-motion animation in works that blur the boundary between actual and virtual object. For a recent solo show, Radical Small, on view at MASS MoCA from February 2017 through January 2018, she staged a one-week stop-motion film shoot in the gallery in front of viewers, working with Seattle-based animator Mike Belzer. Film set, sculpture, and finished animation were on view for the remainder of the show. Influenced by the history of the puppet, the automaton, and literature’s legends in which the artificial figure comes to life, King's work touches on the human/machine interface, the anatomy of emotion, and the direct gaze in an increasingly mediated world. "Double Take," a documentary film on her work by Chapel Hill filmmaker Olympia Stone, was released in 2018 and shown on PBS stations nationwide. Her work is in permanent collections in the Hirshhorn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Hood Museum at Dartmouth, and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Awards include a 2014 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a 2006 Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 1996-97 Fellowship in the Visual Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was represented by Danese/Corey in New York from 2007 until the gallery closed in April 2020 following the death of Renato Danese. 

Her book, Attention's Loop (A Sculptor's Reverie on the Coexistence of Substance and Spirit) was published by Harry Abrams in 1999. She is currently finishing a second book with co-author W. David Todd of the Smithsonian Institution: Mysticism & Machinery: A Sixteenth-Century Mechanical Monk and Its Legend, with photographs by Rosamond Purcell. 

King earned BFA and MFA degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1970s, and is now a Professor Emerita at Virginia Commonwealth University where she taught from 1985 to 2015 in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media.

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Carlton Newton’s interest in science, nature and technology weaves itself into his Sumi ink drawings on paper which render imagined subjects both organic and manufactured. His precise black forms appear specimen-like; self-contained clumps of undulating lines and intertwined structures contrast a pristine white background as though laid out for careful study and inspection. These drawings demonstrate Newton’s understanding of three-dimensionality, as they exist as both unique works of art and studies of sculptural counterparts. Newton’s sculptures, made from myriad materials including plaster, wood, stainless steel, and gypsum cement, challenge our preconceptions of space, form, and weight.

Born in 1946, Carlton Newton currently lives and works in Richmond, VA.  After teaching appointments at the College of William and Mary and Princeton University, Newton joined Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts where from 1987 to 2017 he served in several key teaching and leadership capacities for the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media.  Newton received both his BFA and MFA degrees in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute.  His work has been exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Danese/Corey Gallery and the New Museum in New York; the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C; Aqua Art Miami, Florida; the Paule Anglim Gallery, Atholl McBean Gallery, and the South of Market Cultural Center in San Francisco; the Peruvian North American Cultural Institute, Lima, Peru; and the Keith Talent Gallery, London, England.  He is the recipient of the VCU School of the Arts Faculty Achievement Award of Excellence, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, an Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, an Honorarium from the New York State Council on the Arts through the New Museum; and residencies in Captiva, Florida, from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Paris, France, with La Cité internationale des arts.  Newton’s work is included in the collections of several major corporations including Markel, Altria, and Dominion.

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