Gretchen Faust
{{Short description|American artist}}
Gretchen Faust (born 1961 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, USA) is an American contemporary artist, performer, art historian, and yoga instructor who lives and works in Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom. She is known for her visual art and performance work at galleries in New York, Pittsburgh and Zürich.
Education
Faust earned a BA at Smith College ( 1983)and an MFA (1986) at Hunter College.{{cite web |title=Class not specified |url=https://www.huntermfastudio.org/alumni/jenna-gribbon |publisher=Hunter College |access-date=4 February 2022}}
Work
In the early 1990s she became known for using the tip of an ice pick to write text fragments from lectures on art history into gallery walls. In her more recent works, she produced mandala-like paper cutouts, engraved plinths made of Portland stone, photographs of paired handguns, or pairs of large, rug-like circles made of rabbit skins, and camouflage material laid out on the floor. In 2013, Martin Herbert wrote in Frieze magazine: "there are consistently continuities: symmetry and asymmetry, sophistication and violence and a variable and explicit focus on cutting, punching, firing - penetrating the surface of things".{{Cite news|last=Herbert|first=Martin|date=2013-11-17|title=Gretchen Faust|language=en|work=Frieze|issue=159|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/gretchen-faust|access-date=2021-12-30|issn=0962-0672}} Faust has described her artwork as similar to yoga: "I’d say the personal process is the same. Cultivating presence and intimacy. And the outcome can result in different forms, depending on the circumstances of intention".
Exhibition history
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, the New Museum, New York (with Kevin Warren),{{cite web |title=Visitor's Alcove |url=https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/221 |publisher=New Museum |access-date=4 February 2022}} {{proper name|wellwellwell}}, Vienna,{{cite web |title=Group Exhibitions |url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/artist/gretchen-faust-13740 |publisher=Contemporary Art Library |access-date=4 February 2022}} MAGASIN - Centre National d’art Contemporain, Grenoble;{{cite web |title=Portrait of the artist as a biker |url=https://kunstaspekte.art/event/portrait-de-lartiste-en-motocycliste-portrait-2009-10?hl=en |publisher=Kunst Aspekte: International Exhibition Announcements |access-date=4 February 2022}} Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal;{{cite web |title=Expositions listing |url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2181175?docsearchtext=Gretchen%20Faust |publisher=La Presse |access-date=4 February 2022}} Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, (with Kevin Warren),{{cite news |last1=Cotter |first1=Holland |title=Gretchen Faust with Kevin Warren at Pat Hearn Gallery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/arts/art-in-revi8ew.html |access-date=4 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=5 June 1992}} the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux,{{cite web |title=Secret Societies "To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence" at CAPC, Bordeaux |date=18 November 2011 |url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/secret-societies-to-know-to-dare-to-will-to-keep-silence-at-capc-bordeaux/ |publisher=Mouse Magazine |access-date=4 February 2022}} among others.
In 1988, Faust had a solo installation at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh.{{cite web |title=Vigil, 1988, Gretchen Faust |url=https://mattress.org/works/vigil/ |publisher=Mattress Factory |access-date=4 February 2022}} In 1991, she had a solo show at Pat Hearn gallery in New York.{{cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Catherine |title=Gretchen Faust, Pat Hearn Gallery |journal=Artforum |date=February 1991 |page=123 |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199102/gretchen-faust-59182 |access-date=4 February 2022}} 1992, Faust had a one-person show at Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich.{{cite web |title=Marc Jancou Archive: Gretchen Faust |url=https://www.marcjancou.com/archive/gretchen-faust |publisher=Marc Jancou |access-date=4 February 2022}} In 2003, Faust had a solo show at greengrassi, London.{{cite journal |last1=Schwabsky |first1=Barry |title=Gretchen Faust: greengrassi |journal=Artforum |date=December 2003 |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/200310/gretchen-faust-46259 |access-date=4 February 2022}} During the 1990s, she had several two person collaborative shows with Kevin Warren. In 2010, Faust created a floor installation, Shroud 1 (Start) and Shroud 1 (Stop), consisting of two 13-foot diameter circles; one fabricated from sewn together rabbit pelts, and the second constructed from commercially printed camouflage fabric. The work referenced the notion of hunter and prey.{{cite journal |last1=McLean |first1=Matthew |title=Gretchen Faust |journal=Modern Painters |date=2013 |volume=25 |issue=11 |page=114 }}
Faust has created performances that have been presented at Pat Hearn Gallery{{cite book |last1=Brentano |first1=Robyn |last2=Georgia |first2=Olivia |last3=Sangster |first3=Gary |title=Outside the Frame: performance and the object: a survey history of performance art in the USA since 1959 |date=1994 |publisher=Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and Snug Harbor Cultural Center |isbn=9781880353066 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72ZQAAAAMAAJ |access-date=4 February 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Gookin |first1=Kirby |title=Gretchen Faust at Pat Hearn Gallery |journal=Artforum |date=January 1990 |page=139 |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199001/gretchen-faust-60687 |access-date=4 February 2022}} and the Mattress Factory,
Faust has been represented by greengrassi gallery in London since 2003.
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Category:People from Stoneham, Massachusetts
Category:American women sculptors
Category:American women performance artists