Emilie Brzezinski began her art career in the 1970s, initially
working in a variety of media such as plastic, latex and wood
fiber. Equally inspired by Minimalism and natural forms, her early
work consisted of transparent resin casts of trees and
site-specific arrangements of expressionistic, figurative molds.
Since the early 1990s, she has focused entirely on monumental wood
sculpture, using a chainsaw and axe to carve forms that breathe new
life into found wood--arches, bowls, chairs, columns and discs.
"Nature has a grand design," she writes, "but its manifestations
unfold in imperfection and specificity. Respect to this persistent
individuality in natural form is the underpinning of my work as I
carve the trunk, I retain the essential outline and gesture of the
tree." Brzezinski's sculptural approach, which conjures the work of
artists as varied as David Nash, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ursula
von Rydingsvard, celebrates the knots, hollows, wounds and cracks
of wood, and the myriad possibilities suggested by organic forms.
"The Lure of the Forest," designed by Katy Homans, explores the
entirety of the artist's career, documenting over 80 works.
Highlights include her magnum opus "Forest "(1997-2005), a
monumental work composed of 46 tree trunks, and "Family Trees"
(2010-2013), in which she combines sculpture and photography to
create a vivid portrait of her family members. In addition to
contributions by art historians John Beardsley, Barbara Rose and
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, the book includes an introduction by Mika
Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and the artist's
daughter.
Born in 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland, Emilie Brzezinski immigrated
to the US and grew up in California. She graduated from Wellesley
College in Massachusetts with a degree in the history of art.
During the last two decades, the artist has had many gallery and
museum installations in the US and overseas. Her work is in the
permanent collection of the Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC and has
been shown at the Virginia Museum of Art, Katzen Art Center,
Washington, DC, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. It
can also be seen at sculpture parks across North America, such as
the Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park,
New York and the Socrates Art Park, New York.
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