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== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
De St. Croix earned a BFA in sculpture from the [[Massachusetts College of Art and Design|Massachusetts College of Art]], Boston, MA and an MFA in sculpture from [[Cranbrook Academy of Art]], Bloomfield Hills, MI.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/blane-de-st-croix/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Blane De St. Croix|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
De St. Croix earned a BFA in sculpture from the [[Massachusetts College of Art and Design|Massachusetts College of Art]], Boston, MA and an MFA in sculpture from [[Cranbrook Academy of Art]], Bloomfield Hills, MI.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/blane-de-st-croix/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Blane De St. Croix|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
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=== Early works ===
=== Early works ===
Early in his career De St. Croix was interested in ecology, nature, landscape and perception. In works like ''Excavation (1994) and Bed of Wicker, Bed of Straw, Bed of Clay (1995)'' De St. Croix brought outdoor environments indoors, and initiated his work with sculptural landscape. De St. Croix began to sculpt in miniature after being employed to build scale model theater sets, which brought him to experiment with scale in his own work.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag11/dec_11/dec11_features1.shtml|title=December 2011 Sculpture Magazine - Blane De St. Croix|website=www.sculpture.org|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
Early in his career De St. Croix was interested in ecology, nature, landscape and perception. In works like ''Excavation (1994) and Bed of Wicker, Bed of Straw, Bed of Clay (1995)'' De St. Croix brought outdoor environments indoors, and initiated his work with sculptural landscape. De St. Croix began to sculpt in miniature after being employed to build scale model theater sets, which brought him to experiment with scale in his own work.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag11/dec_11/dec11_features1.shtml|title=December 2011 Sculpture Magazine - Blane De St. Croix|website=www.sculpture.org|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
[[File:Landscape Section, North-South Korea by Blane De St. Croix.jpg|alt=|thumb|Landscape Section: Border: North/South Korea (2008)]]


=== Landscape Section: Border: North/South Korea (2008) ===
=== Landscape Section: Border: North/South Korea (2008) ===

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Blane D St. Croix
Born
Boston, MA
NationalityUnited States
EducationCranbrook Academy of Art

Blane De St. Croix (born in Boston, MA) is an American artist best known for his monumental sculptures and installations.

His sculpture investigates the human relationship to the contemporary landscape and the ecological and geopolitical conflicts imbedded in that relationship.[1] His practice is founded on extensive field research and incorporates discourses on art, cultural geography, ecology and the repurposing of the landscape genre, traditionally associated with painting, into sculptural statements.[2]

De St. Croix has been awarded numerous awards and fellowships including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors in 2009,[3] a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, The Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship in 2015, a Massachusetts College of Art and Design Alumni Award for Outstanding Creative Accomplishment in 2011,[4] and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Lee Krasner Award, in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement, in 2019.[5]  



Life and career

De St. Croix earned a BFA in sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA and an MFA in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.[6]

De St. Croix has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at venues including: Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; The Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; The Asia Society, Houston, TX; Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden; The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA. Additionally, his work is included in both institutional and private collections in the United States and abroad. His residencies include multiple MacDowell Colony Fellowships, Peterborough, NH; a Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY; a Joan Mitchell Center Residency, New Orleans, LA; The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Award Space Program, Brooklyn, NY.

His work has been written about in publications including New York Magazine, The New York Times, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Artnet, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Art Daily, ABC News, New Art Examiner, and The Miami Herald. His work is represented by Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY. [7]

Selected works and projects

Early works

Early in his career De St. Croix was interested in ecology, nature, landscape and perception. In works like Excavation (1994) and Bed of Wicker, Bed of Straw, Bed of Clay (1995) De St. Croix brought outdoor environments indoors, and initiated his work with sculptural landscape. De St. Croix began to sculpt in miniature after being employed to build scale model theater sets, which brought him to experiment with scale in his own work.[8]

Landscape Section: Border: North/South Korea (2008)

Landscape Section: Border: North/South Korea (2008)

De St. Croix’s depopulated small-scale model of the topography and fence-architecture of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea observes the success of the structure and barrier[9] while reflecting on the constructed and artificial nature of borders.[10]

Mountain Strip (2009)

Rooted in research done in West Virginia where he met the anti-mining environmental­ activist Larry Gibson,[11] the monumental sculptural installation Mountain Strip, over forty feet long and twenty-two feet high, reconstructed topography of a section of the strip-mined Kayford Mountain Ridge top in West Virginia.[12]

Broken Landscape II (2010)

De St. Croix’s 80 ft long sculpture Broken Landscape II depicts a section of the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas.[13] The art critic Jerry Saltz wrote that “Lovingly detailed with hills, rocks, trees, and (of course) fencing, it expresses the desolation, desperation, and absurdity of trying to wall off one country from another. It makes both the sculpture and the policy debates seem that much more diabolical and impossible.” [14]

Mountain Views (2011)

Mountain Views is a monumental landscape sculpture depicting an extinct mountain range that was installed in New York City’s Socrates Sculpture Park. Installed in 2011, the sculpture obstructed the New York City skyline, with the mountains acting as memorials to their own destruction caused by mountain top removal coal mining, and gesturing to a major source of energy for the city. [15]

Nomadic Landscape (2012)

The sculpture Nomadic Landscape depicts the Mongolian Gobi Desert and was created in situ in 2012. The sculpture uses its shipping crate as a sculptural pedestal [16] and natural materials collected from the Gobi desert. [17]

Floating Fire (2014)

The suspended sculpture Floating Fire depicts fragmented scenes of the Florida Everglades reserve in the aftermath of encroachment and forest fires[8]. The art historian Tami Katz-Freiman said of the sculpture that “The fragment of earth that appears in this work contains the scorched remains of plants and a pond of water. These natural vestiges seem to have been uprooted from the Sawgrass Plains in the aftermath of an ecological disaster, in order to be preserved in the museum as the last remains of a vanished world.”[18]

Pyramiden/Permafrost (2014)

The sculpture Pyramiden / Permafrost was created after a research trip to the Svalbard Archipelago and takes its name from the abandoned soviet settlement of Pyramiden, a utopian arctic coal mining community founded in 1927 and abandoned in 1998.[19] The sculpture depicts the iconic, eponymous mountain peak overlooking the town. One side of the sculpture is a pristine representation of the snow-covered peak, the other side exposes a cross section of the mountain’s dark interior and the deep permafrost of the arctic landscape, recalling a dystopian underside of the failed community and ideology.[20]

References

  1. ^ "Blane De St. Croix - Exhibitions - Fredericks & Freiser". www.fredericksfreisergallery.com. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  2. ^ Ketner II, Joseph D. "Dead Ice". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-04-26. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Artist Programs » Artist Grants". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  4. ^ "2011 Alumni Award Recipients". www.alumni.massart.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  5. ^ "Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards More Than $3 Million in Grants". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  6. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Blane De St. Croix". Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  7. ^ "Blane De St. Croix - Artists - Fredericks & Freiser". www.fredericksfreisergallery.com. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  8. ^ a b "December 2011 Sculpture Magazine - Blane De St. Croix". www.sculpture.org. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  9. ^ "ARTPULSE MAGAZINE » Reviews » Where Do We Migrate To?". Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  10. ^ Markus, David (2012-06-02). "Where Do We Migrate To". Art in America. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  11. ^ "A Show You Should See : #1". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  12. ^ "Blane de st croix". Black & White Project Space. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  13. ^ "publications". blane de st. croix. 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  14. ^ Saltz, Jerry (April 13, 2009). "New York Magazine" (PDF). New York Magazine. Retrieved Friday, April 26, 2019. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  15. ^ "Socrates Sculpture Park". socratessculpturepark.org. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  16. ^ Connor, Jill (November, 2013). "Thaw" (PDF). Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ McRae, Tess (January 23, 2014). "Thaw". www.qchron.com/. Retrieved Friday, April 26, 2019. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); Check date values in: |access-date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  18. ^ Katz-Freiman, Tami (September, 2012). "Unnatural" (PDF). https://www.katzfreiman.com/ (PDF). Retrieved May 3, 2019. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help); External link in |website= (help)
  19. ^ "Blane De St. Croix - Exhibitions - Fredericks & Freiser". www.fredericksfreisergallery.com. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
  20. ^ "Touched Nature" (PDF). Art Forum. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)


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