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Liz Deschenes

2024 Stepping Stone Grantee

Bio

Liz Deschenes lives and works in New York. Solo institutional exhibitions of her work include Liz Deschenes, ICA Boston (2016); Gallery 4.1.1, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2015); Gallery 7, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2014); Parcours, with Florian Plumhösl, Art Institute of Chicago (2012); and the Secession, Vienna (2012). Deschenes's work has also been included in notable recent group exhibitions at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, and Punta della Dogana, Venice; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ICA Los Angeles; and Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. Her work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ArtInstitute of Chicago; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among others.

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Artwork details

Tilt/Swing

, 2009
Installation View of survey exhibition, ICA Boston 2016136 ×192 × 58 inches
Tilt/Swing, 2009. Installation View of survey exhibition, ICA Boston 2016. 136 ×192 × 58 inches.

Artwork

  • Five rectangular steel panels circle from the gallery floor to wall to the ceiling and back to the gallery floor in a modern gallery space.
  • Installation with colorful, transparent, and minimalist squares suspended from the ceiling, featuring red, blue, yellow, and purple hues in a gallery space with white walls and gray floors.
  • Rows of vertically long strips of steel panels installed throughout the wall, side by side in a gallery space with white walls and gray floors.
  • Gallery space with white rectangle with light source on the left wall, and vinyl black rectangle artwork with wooden frame to the right wall.
  • Installation in a gallery hall of black vertically long rectangular panels agains a large window wall overlooking a pier with boats on a cloudy blue sky day.

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