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Elizabeth Turk

Offered by HIRSCHL & ADLER

Documentation

Ample Provenance

Origin

United States

Period

New

Materials

Cherry

Dimensions

W.	14 in;	H.	81.5 in;	D.	14 in;
W.	35.56 cm;	H.	207.01 cm;	D.	35.56 cm;

Creation Date

2020

Description

Elizabeth Turk
Brown Pelican , 2020
Wood (cherry)
81-1/2 × 14 × 14 in
207 × 35.6 × 35.6 cm

Elizabeth Turk meticulously carves abstract marble sculptures of collars, ribbons, wings, and obscure latticework. She begins with drawings and then works in a subtractive process, cutting into large blocks of marble. Turk’s practice establishes a tension between the delicateness and apparent fragility of her forms and the strength of the material; her completed sculptures resemble three-dimensional drawings, or a line traced through space. “Perhaps the core question is why, as organic, curved, soft creatures, we think and find a resonance in linear structures,” she says.

Styles / Movements

Abstract Expressionism, Contemporary

Incollect Reference Number

439802