Visiting Artist: Ursula von Rydingsvard
Sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard will visit Stanford in November for an intensive engagement with students, faculty and the campus community.
Visiting Artist Presentation
November 10th
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building
Free and Open to All
Contact: stanfordarts@stanford.edu
Campus Engagement
During her campus visit, Ursula von Rydingsvard will deliver a free public presentation sharing insights about her recent work and process in the Oshman Hall of the newly opened McMurtry Building for the Department of Art and Art History
While at Stanford, von Rydingsvard will meet with faculty and staff and conduct individual MFA graduate student studio visits. She will also attend Professor Terry Berlier’s hands-on studio-based sculpture course “Ecology of Materials" and engage with students in small, intimate discussions about her journey as an artist.
Artist Biography
Ursula von Rydingsvard is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York, for over 30 years. Best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work’s textured, faceted surfaces. Von Rydingsvard currently has works on view in a collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale, a monumental sculpture Bronze Bowl with Lace (2015) at the Bluhm Family Terrace at the Arts Institute of Chicago, and an upcoming installation of an 18.5 ft., hand-pounded copper sculpture at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Von Rydingsvard will share insights about her recent work and process in her presentation.
