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If sculpture’s basic task is to think imaginatively about three-dimensional form and challenge the relationship between space and objects, Anna Sew Hoy does so beautifully in “Invisible Tattoo.” But as the enigmatic title of the exhibition suggests, Ms. Hoy sets out to do more, teasing the boundaries between art and craft, melding different artistic lineages and evoking a sense of vision and form as a kind of mirage.
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Anna Sew Hoy is interested in the ability of materials to facilitate some sort of intimacy. Often she works with clothing, using the effects that...
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Another Thing Coming: New Sculpture in L.A." is the kind of exhibition more museums should do, and more often. It checks in on the status of a misplaced but provocative artistic thread, providing a welcome update.
Read MoreAnother Thing Coming: New Sculpture in L.A." is the kind of exhibition more museums should do, and more often. It checks in on the status of a misplaced but provocative artistic thread, providing a welcome update.
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When Anna Sew Hoy moved into the Highland Park bungalow she shares with her husband in fall 2008, she brought her studio — formerly housed
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The artist Anna Sew Hoy most often works with fabric and clay, materials usually associated with craft and handiwork, and yet the sculptures she makes are more tough than homespun.
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Anna Sew Hoy (b. 1976) was born in Auckland, NZ and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2008 and her BFA from School of Visual Arts in 1998. Anna Sew Hoy has held solo exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., NY; Koenig & Clinton, NY; LAXART, Los Angeles; and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles. Her work has also been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Asia Society, NY.
Sew Hoy was awarded a Creative Capital Grant for Visual Arts (2014); a California Community Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists (2013) and the United States Artists Broad Fellowship (2006) and has held residencies at Heart of Los Angeles, the Space Program at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, and Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico. She is in the permanent collections of notable institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Altoids Museum.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
