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Beth Cavener (born 1972), also known as Beth Cavener Stichter, is full-time professional studio artist residing in the U.S. state of Montana. Born in Pasadena, California, Cavener recently relocated to Helena, Montana, where she has built a collaborative studio, called Studio 740. Cavener addresses controversial, potentially embarrassing subject matter head on and in direct opposition to the reputation of her chosen medium, clay. "The artist forms animals by hollowing out blocks of clay, giving her subjects a raw, unrefined appearance as if they sprang from the material itself". Cavener focuses her sculpture on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal forms. "This use of veiled anthropomorphism began in 2002."〔Shnabel, J.L. “Veiled Lures: The Sculptures of Beth Cavener Stichter”. Hi-Fructose Magazine Vol. 16: 39.〕 “On the surface,” says Cavener, “these figures are simply feral animals suspended in a moment of tension. Beneath the surface, they embody the consequences of human fear, apathy, aggression, and misunderstanding”. When creating her sculptures of animals, Cavener stated "...I borrowed the perceived purity and moral innocence of the animal image and imbued it with human complexity".〔 In making these painstakingly modeled works Cavener has learned to read meaning in the subtler signs; “rely() on animal body language in () work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, transforming the animal subjects into human psychological portraits. Something conscious and knowing is captured in their gestures and expressions, both an invitation and a rebuke.” ==Biography== Cavener was born in Pasadena, California, United States. She was born the daughter of a molecular biologist and an art teacher. As Cavener writes, ”The connections between art and science have always been at the heart of my work. My mother, a ceramicist, and my father, a molecular biologist, raised me with an appreciation for the world on its most minute and grandiose scale. From my mother I learned the language of clay and the power of ideas passed through hands. My father and I spent hours staring at the night sky, while he stretched the seams of my imagination with tales of recombinant DNA and evolutionary battles on the microscopic scale. Every moment of my memory has been spent investigating the natural world around me.” 〔() 〕 Cavener went on to pursue her studies in physics and astronomy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Though intent early on in her education in following her father’s footsteps with a career in science, Cavener switched her major her last year of undergraduate studies to Fine Art and received a BA in Sculpture. Cavener's interests in science and art persisted through her early professional career. Though she had been trained in the classical atelier style through the art department at Haverford College, the Cecil Academy of Art in Florence, Italy, and through an apprenticeship with sculptor, Alan LeQuire in Nashville, Tennessee, she was drawn to the surrealist movement of the 1920s, and more contemporary narrative artists, such as Francis Bacon, Joel-Peter Witkin, George Tooker, and Odd Nerdrum. After spending four years in Columbus, Ohio, developing her artistic style and voice, Cavener entered graduate school at The Ohio State University, where she received her Master's in Fine Arts degree in ceramics. Her thesis exhibition, "tremble shiver," made the transition from working with the human figure to using human-scaled portrayals of the animal body to express human emotion and psychological portraits. Following her master's studies at Ohio State University, Cavener spent two years as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts and completed a brief Guest Artist residency at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After this intense period of development where she continued to work on life-size and larger scale works, she was represented by the Garth Clark Gallery in New York, NY. Her first solo exhibition with the gallery, "A Modest Proposal" was shown in 2006. In 2008, Cavener joined the Claire Oliver Gallery on 26th St. and 10th Ave, New York City. She opened a show with the gallery called “On Tender Hooks” on October 22, 2009. In 2010, she had a show entitled "The Four Humors," inspired by the ancient Greek notion of being able to characterize one's personality by which "humor" they possessed in excess. Her most recent show, "Come Undone," was displayed in the fall of 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beth Cavener Stichter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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