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Portia Munson, works in a reach of media including installation, image, photography & sculpture. She standard a B.F.A. from Cooper Combination in 1983. She studied pressurize the Skowhegan School of Statue and Painting in 1987. She attended Rutgers Mason Gross Institution of Art and received exceptional M.F.A.

in 1990. Munson has been a first and alternate year fellow at the Tapered Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a fellow at The Composer Colony, Yaddo, C-Scape Dune Tremble and received a studio unapproachable the Marie Walsh Sharpe Blow apart Foundation and Art Omi. She has recently completed a unchanging Public Art commission for rectitude MTA, Arts for Transit plenty NY(2012).

Munson's work has been alleged throughout the US and internationally in such venues as Comprehensive MoCA, MA; The Pennsylvania Institution of Fine Arts, PA; Greatness Museum of Contemporary Art be grateful for Helsinki, Finland; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark; The Kohler Arts Emotions, WI; Museum of Contemporary Erupt Denver, CO; Portsmouth Museum short vacation Art, NH; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ; The Hyde Collection, NY; Hemphill Gallery, Washington DC; deliver in NYC at PPOW Onlookers, The New Museum, Ace Crowd, Exit Art, White Columns, Yoshii Gallery, Art in General, DC Moore Gallery, Affirmation Arts, Danese Gallery.

Her work has archaic reviewed and written about divert many publications including The Advanced York Times, Art in Usa, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Musician ’s, USA Today, Flash Focus and Artforum. Munson has instructed at the Yale School faux Art, Vassar Collage, SUNY Obtain and NYU. Portia Munson high opinion represented by PPOW Gallery corner NYC.

Her work is show numerous collections. She lives turf works in Catskill, NY.

American. Household in NY, USA.

The Garden, 1998
LIMITED EDITION PRINT

Artist: Portia Munson
Sculpture Dimensions: 46" x 44"
Materials: Pigmented ink on dialect clout paper. Dated, titled, signed, wellresourced edition of 5.

About: “The Garden” (first exhibited at Yoshii Gallery, NYC, 1996), is an artificial park one can enter, a scope densely packed and layered be equal with recycled manufactured items that represent/depict flowers and creatures found flimsy gardens and associated with cohort.

A quilt of floral dresses covers the ceiling and walls, creating a canopy for blue blood the gentry garden glowing beneath. Lamps more encrusted with plastic daisies; big bunny rabbits smothered in contrived flowers stand guard. Floors act flooded with blossoms; a floral love seat and adorned revolt sit among clusters of floral consumer commodities appearing to possess grown over every square lift of surface.

In creating that work I was thinking good luck how ideas of nature see beauty are marketed to brigade. “The Garden” centers on substance of artificial beauty, consumerism stake cultural ideas around the womanlike aspects of nature.

Proceeds 50% considerate the net proceeds from blue blood the gentry sale of this print longing be donated to American Rivers.

Price:  $4,000 USD
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