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Joyce Cutler-Shaw
www.joycectutlershaw.com
Artist Name: Joyce Cutler-Shaw
Title of Piece: Scale Model for Orbital Loops: Orbital Loops is a sculpture commissioned by the County of San Diego and installed in the new County Administration Center at 5500 Overland Avenue, San Diego
Media: plastic tubing, metal, paint
Dimensions: 4’H x 9’W x 2.5’D
Retail Price: $10,000 + tax
Artist’s Statement: Orbits are inherent in our common origins and significant pathways of our daily lives: as our solar system’s planetary orbits, migratory paths of birds, and routes to work and back. Orbital Loops was inspired by visual traces of the spacecraft, Cassini’s orbits around Saturn, to observe that planet’s rings and moons.
Artist Bio: Joyce Cutler-Shaw is an artist of drawings, installations, public sculptures, and artist’s books. Drawing is her primary language from two dimensional pen and ink works on paper to their three dimensional sculptural translations. Her subjects are human identity, the natural world, and issues of ecology. Since 1972, Cutler-Shaw’s artworks include two and three-dimensional images for private and public sites. Her 15 year project, The Messenger Cycle (1975-90), was widely exhibited and published. Her current project, The Anatomy Lesson (1990-present) is its sequel. She is the first visual artist to be appointed Artist-In-Residence, as a Visiting Scholar (1992-Present), by the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego, and the first nationally, to have such a medical school residency for an independent fine art project. Cutler-Shaw has exhibited her artwork internationally in museum and library special collections including the Albertina Museum in Vienna, The Wellcome Institute and the Tate Museum Library in London, New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Artists Book Collection and the 42nd Street Library, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and in California, the Athenaeum Music and Art Library, the Getty Library, and the University of California San Diego and Los Angeles. Since 1999, her numerous public commissions have included the East San Jose Carnegie Library, the Mission Valley Branch Library in San Diego for which she received a San Diego American Institute of Architects Design Award, and the Balboa Park Activity Center
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