Joel Otterson
{{short description|American artist (born 1959)}}
Joel Otterson (born in Inglewood, CA, 1959, United States) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.[http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=joel+otterson&role=artist&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500090418] Getty Union List of Artist Names. Accessed June 26, 2015.
Professional life and education
Otterson received his BFA at Parsons School of Design, New York, NY in 1982. In 1983, Otterson exhibited for the first time at Gallery Nature Morte in Manhattan. He would have exhibitions with other notable artists together with artists like Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Haim Steinbach.McKenna, Kristine. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-09-ca-48307-story.html] Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 13, 2014. Amended June 26, 2015.
Joel Otterson is a sculptor who for 30+ years has worked his way through the house and remade everything inside it. His hybrid mash-ups of our domestic environment question our relationship to the home and to each other. His work addresses the gender of objects, their place in culture and what it means to be American. Otterson employs a diverse array of materials such as copper pipe, concrete, and blown glass, with techniques such as woodworking, pottery, and needlework.[http://maloneyfineart.com] Maloney Fine Art, official website. Accessed June 26, 2015.
=Selected exhibitions=
Otterson has shown his work internationally at venues such as The Museum of Modern Art (PROJECT series, 1987),[http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/projects/joel-otterson/] www.MOMA.org. Accessed May 20, 2015. the Venice Biennale (1993),[https://lamodern.com/2015/02/joel-otterson-is-a-jack-of-all-trades/] LaModern.com. Accessed May 20, 2015. the Hammer Museum (Made in L.A, 2012),[http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2012/made-in-la-2012/] Hammer.UCLA.edu. Accessed June 26, 2015 Whitney Museum of American Art (2014 Whitney Biennial)[http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/JoelOtterson] 2014 Whitney Biennial. Accessed June 26, 2015. for which he received much praise,[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/17/get-with-it] The New Yorker. Accessed June 26, 2015 and Maloney Fine Art.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150628222719/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/08/entertainment/la-et-cm-review-joel-otterson-at-maloney-fine-art-20131104] LA Times Review. Accessed June 25, 2014.
=Collections=
Otterson’s work is in the permanent collections of Cincinnati Art Museum, Israel Museum, The Broad Foundation (by Edythe and Eli Broad),[https://lamodern.com/2015/02/joel-otterson-is-a-jack-of-all-trades/] LA Modern Review. Accessed June 25, 2015. and the Jewish Museum.[http://blog.thejewishmuseum.org/candleshtick/] The Jewish Museum Blog. Accessed June 25, 2015.
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External links
- [http://joelotterson.com// Official website of Joel Otterson]
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