RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Offscreen, October 18, 2023 - October 22, 2023 Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris, France
The Dialectic of the Shadow, June 1, 2023 - July 15, 2023 Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris, France
Light & Space, December 3, 2021 - September 4, 2022 Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
Light & Space features both historical and new works from the American light and installation art movement that emerged in Los Angeles in the 1960s. At the time, a number of young artists were experimenting with making art out of light and new materials inspired by Los Angeles’ mix of sun, surf culture, Hollywood glamour, spirituality, and endless traffic jams. The artists worked separately but are collectively known as the Light and Space movement, and several of them have become some of the most coveted in the world. The new materials that became available after WW2 triggered explorations of space and light. In turn, the Light and Space artists in various ways contributed to a radical shift in art, away from a focus on object and meaning to an awareness of how art and space are experienced with the body. Light & Space highlights the connections between art from the American West Coast and contemporary European art across time and place. The exhibition offers fresh perspectives on the often-overlooked affinities between the Light and Space movement and today’s phenomenologically oriented European contemporary art.
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Art Collection of University of California, Los Angeles
Heaven’s Breath XXVII at the Faculty Club
Heaven’s Breath XXXX at the Faculty Club
MARABAR Relocation Project
4/7/23: Smithsonian Magazine: How to Move a 450,000-Pound Sculpture
4/6/23: Artnet: For Years, This Historic 225-Ton Landscape Art Installation Was at Risk of Demolition—Now It Officially Has a New Home
4/6/23: The Architect’s Newspaper: Saved from destruction, a rock installation by artist Elyn Zimmerman is relocated to American University and renamed
4/5/23: Artforum: Displaced Elyn Zimmerman Sculpture Finds New Home, New Name
4/4/23: Washingtonian: “Marabar” Has a New Home—and a New Name—at American University
4/4/23: Archinect: Elyn Zimmerman’s Marabar sculpture redebuts as Sudama in D.C.
4/3/23: The New York Times: They Have Finished Moving 225 Tons of Reimagined Art
3/14/23: The Cultural Landscape Foundation: From Marabar to Sudama – A Q&A with Artist Elyn Zimmerman
COMPLETION OF PERMANENT PROJECT: Mississippi Meanders
Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Opened May 14th, 2019
Click here to view it in ‘Projects’
PUBLICATION
Elyn Zimmerman: Places + Projects, Forty Years
Essays by Tom Moran, Charles Stuckey, Marc Treib, and John Beardsley
This monograph documents 40 years of projects and sculptures by American artist Elyn Zimmerman (b. 1945), from her ephemeral Light and Space works done in Los Angeles in the 1970s to her recent exhibition at Grounds for Sculpture.
ISBN 9780966564440 / US $80.00 / 12.25 x 11.25 in. / 180 pgs / 176 color / January 2018
Distributed by D.A.P. See Online Catalog
ARCHIVE ACQUISITION
2015 Acquisition of archives by Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
DOCUMENTARY ARTIST VIDEOS
Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, 2020, Artist conversation with Matthew Sims
Elyn Zimmerman: Wind, Water, Stone, 2016, video produced by Grounds for Sculpture accompanying Wind, Water, Stone and Sensitive Chaos exhibitions.
An Artist at Work, 2005, a video produced by Checkerboard Film Foundation, New York, NY, documenting Elyn Zimmerman's creative process and the building of Assembly of Friends, a project commissioned by the US State Department and FAPE for the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2004.
WRITING
What Diebenkorn and Matisse Taught Me About the Hard Work of Making Art, 2017, Essay by Elyn Zimmerman for Zócalo Public Square.