User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Mia Feuer
Mia Feuer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1981 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design |
| Known for | contemporary art, installation art |
| Awards | 2011 Trawick Prize 2012 Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts[1] |
Mia Feuer (born in 1981 in Winnipeg, Manitoba[2]) is a sculptural artist based in Washington, DC.
Biography
[edit]Feuer graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 2004 and obtained a master’s degree from the world-famous sculpture program at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009.[2] She is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture and Art Foundation at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Feuer "has received numerous travel/research, production and creation grants from the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba and The Lila Acheson Readers Digest Foundation. In 2007, supported by The Winnipeg Arts Council, she travelled to Palestine to facilitate sculptural workshops in the West Bank with Palestinian children. She has received a full two-month fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, a two month fellowship at Seven Below Arts Initiative in Burlington, VT and has been invited to participate in a Millay Colony for the Arts residency in 2010 and a residency with Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in 2011."[2]
She first came to international attention for her work at the in ,
Her largest show to date was an exhibition entitled "An Unkindness" at the prestigious Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC from November 2013 to February 2014, which was informed by her "experiences in the oil-producing landscapes of the Canadian tar sands, the Arctic Circle, and the Suez Canal."[3]
In his exhibition review, Haig-Brown Heritage House's writer-in-residence Andrew Nikiforuk, who met with Feuer several times, described her visit to reclamation sites in the Athabaska Oil Sands (AOS) in the Fort McMurray area several years ago.[4]
After digging up low-lying peat lands, fens and rivers to mine bitumen, industry replaces complex boreal landscapes with artificial, man-made hills made with layers of mining waste, including petroleum coke and salt-laden sands. The process also includes dumping toxic mining waste into pits and then capping the pits with freshwater: an untested form of reclamation. Because peatlands, which occupy 65 per cent of the mineable area, take 10,000 years to make, there is no requirement for industry to restore them. Nor is there any legal requirement to replace wetlands with wetlands, as most industrial nations now mandate, because of the high cost to industry -- up to $12 billion. After building sandy uplands, industry then attempts to grow salt-tolerant plants on engineered soils. Scientists calculate that it may take 200 years to determine if the man-made sculptures can survive droughts, forest fires, erosion, insects, pathogens, or bitumen pollutants.
— Nikiforuk 2014
The title the unkindness of ravens was inspired in part by trees planted upside down on one reclamation site to attract ravens by providing potential nesting areas. The ravens would prey on destructive rodents that destroyed the newly planted wheat crops on the reclaimed land. Feuer described it as a "twisted-demented nursery rhyme."[4]
I stood in a land that was once boreal forest, that was now a bunch of toxic wheat grown in toxic earth
— Mia Feuer 2014
Citations
[edit]- ^ Faculty Member: Mia Feuer, Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre, 2013, retrieved 5 March 2014
- ^ a b c Lynch 2011.
- ^ Mia Feuer: An Unkindness, Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, November 2013, retrieved 22 February 2014
- ^ a b Nikiforuk, Andrew (23 Jan 2014), The Oilsands-Inspired Creation that Looms in Washington: Winnipegger Mia Feuer's art reflects the 'sculptural' transformation of Alberta's landscape, TheTyee.ca, retrieved 22 February 2014
References
[edit]- "Biography Mia Feuer", artnet
- Capps, Kriston (1 November 2013), Gas Menagerie, Washington City Paper, retrieved 4 March 2014
- Mia Feuers an Unkindness at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Post, 7 November 2013, retrieved 4 March 2014
- Suspended landscape of Mia Feuer, 2010
- Nikiforuk, Andrew (23 Jan 2014), The Oilsands-Inspired Creation that Looms in Washington: Winnipegger Mia Feuer's art reflects the 'sculptural' transformation of Alberta's landscape, TheTyee.ca, retrieved 22 February 2014
- Mia Feuer: An Unkindness, Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, November 2013, retrieved 22 February 2014
- Mckee, Brad (1 November 2013), "Trashing Up North", Landscape Architecture Magazine, retrieved 4 March 2014
- Judkis, Maura (7 November 2013), "Mia Feuer's An Kindness at the Corcoran", The Washington Post
- Gilbert, Sophia (31 October 2013), "Mia Feuer, An Unkindness at the Corcoran", Washingtonian Magazine
- Heuser, Tara (10 October 2011), Site Aperture, Using Materials in Unconventional Ways
- O’Sullivan, Michael (13 October 2011), "Site Aperture, Editor's Pick", The Washington Post
- Ager, Lisa (12 September 12 2011), Best In Show! Mia Feuer
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)
- Rosseau, Claudia (15 September 2011), "Trawick Prize Winners Hit the Mark", The Maryland Gazette
- Jenkins, Marc, Celebrate Labor: Where Art and Politics Meet”, Washington Post, September 12th
- Capps, Kriston (24 March 2011), "review of "Stress Cone" Conner Contemporary, Washington DC", Washington Post
- Lynch, Elizabeth (January/February 2011), "Double Review, "Suspended Landscape, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC" and "Evacuation Route with Rubies, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA"", Sculpture Magazine, retrieved 4 March 2014
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)
- Fox, Katherine (29 October 2010), "Three Exhibits for Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art", Access Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
- Rahn, Amy (25 May 2010), "Bridge to Nowhere?", Seven Days: Vermontʼs Independent Voice, Burlington, VT
- "Inside the Artists Studio: Mia Feuerʼs Suspended Landscape", brightestyoungthings.com, 3 March 2010
{{citation}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Missing pipe in:|first=(help)
- "Washington's U Street takes a U-turn", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, 24 March 2010, retrieved 4 March 2014
{{citation}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Missing pipe in:|first=(help)
- "Reviewed: ʻMia Feuer: Suspended Landscapeʼ", Washington City Paper, Washington, DC, 23 March 2010
{{citation}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Missing pipe in:|first=(help)
- "Mia Feuer", Art in America, September 2009
{{citation}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Missing pipe in:|first=(help)
- "Mia Feuer: "Displacement" at FLUX Space", theartblog.org, 6 April 2009
{{citation}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Missing pipe in:|first=(help)
- Capps, Kriston (January/February 2009), "Here and Now", Sculpture Magazine
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)
- Abrahamson, Stacy (14 October 2006), "When Guns are Toys", Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg, MB
- Abrahamson, Stacy (December, 2006), "Winnipegʼs Top 10 Best Exhibitions of 2006", Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg, MB
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)
- “Artists Young, Work Mature (12 May 2005), Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, MB
- Ball, John (19 May 2005), "Stroke of Genius", Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg, Manitoba
External links
[edit]
- Category:Living people
- Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
- Category:Artists from Manitoba
- Category:University of
- Category:Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
- Category:faculty George Mason University
- Category:Canadian installation artists
- Category:Canadian contemporary artists
- Category:Queen's University alumni
- Category:People from Winnipeg
- Category:People from ? County, Manitoba
- Category:Artists from Manitoba
- Category:Living people
- Category:1981 births
- Category:Canadian women artists