Joyce Cutler–Shaw
{{Short description|American multidisciplinary artist (1932–2018)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Joyce Cutler–Shaw
| birth_name = Joyce Arlene Cutler
| birth_date = June 25, 1932
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|03|18|1932|06|25}}
| death_place = San Diego, California, United States
| education = New York University (BA),
University of California, San Diego (MFA)
| occupation = Visual artist, illustrator, educator
| known_for = Installation art, performance art, artists books, drawings, multimedia art, conceptual art
| movement = Ecoart
| spouse = Jerome Shaw (m. c. 1958–2018; death)
| children = 3
}}
Joyce Arlene Cutler–Shaw (née Joyce Cutler; 1932–2018) was an American multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and educator.{{Cite book |last=Tufts |first=Eleanor |url=http://archive.org/details/americanwomenart0000tuft |title=American Women Artists, Past and Present: A Selected Bibliographic Guide |date=1984 |publisher=New York City, NY: Garland Publishing |isbn=978-0-8240-9070-8 |pages=68 |via=Internet Archive}} She is known for her drawings of human and small animal bones. She also worked in many other mediums, including in installation art, sculpture, performance art, multimedia art, and artist books. Cutler–Shaw was also the founder of the Landmark Art Project, Inc., and Landmark Art Collaborative.
Early life and education
Joyce Cutler was born on June 25, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, and was raised in New York.{{Cite web |last=Schimitschek |first=Martina |date=2018-03-29 |title=Obituary: Joyce Cutler-Shaw — pioneering San Diego artist and humanitarian — dies at 85 |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/obituaries/sd-me-obit-joyce-cutler-shaw-20180329-story.html |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=The San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last1=Heller |first1=Jules |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA143 |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary |last2=Heller |first2=Nancy G. |date=2013-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-63882-5 |pages=143 |language=en}}
She studied at New York University, and received a B.A. degree in 1953, followed by further study at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she received a M.F.A. degree in 1972, in the first M.F.A. graduating class in visual arts at the university.{{Cite web |title=Frozen Bureaucracy: The Politics of Joyce Cutler-Shaw's Ecological Ice Monuments |url=https://www.getty.edu/news/frozen-bureaucracy-the-politics-of-joyce-cutler-shaws-ecological-ice-monuments |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Getty |language=en}}
She was married to Jerome "Jerry" Shaw in the 1950s, and together they had three children.{{Cite web |title=Jerome Shaw Obituary (1926–2018), La Jolla, CA |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sandiegouniontribune/name/jerome-shaw-obituary?id=9658287 |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |via=Legacy.com}}
Career
Cutler–Shaw taught at the University of California, San Diego Extension (1972 to 1974), Palomar College (1974 to 1978), and at San Diego State University (1978 to 1980).{{Cite web |title=Cutler-Shaw (Joyce) Papers: Biography, UC San Diego |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8199p8s2/admin/#aspace_96daad70ceb2f6a503d47a83d909573b |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Online Archive of California (OAC)}} She served in an artist-in-residence from 1992 to 2015, at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.{{Cite web |last=Morlan |first=Kinsee |date=2017-10-16 |title=Innovative UCSD Program Aims to Draw Compassion Out of Future Doctors |url=http://voiceofsandiego.org/2017/10/16/innovative-ucsd-program-aims-to-draw-compassion-out-of-future-doctors/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Voice of San Diego |language=en-US}} Her artwork often focused on the cycle of life and death. While in graduate school, she frequently visited the UCSD School of Medicine to draw the dead bodies and bones. Cutler–Shaw launched the artist-in-residence program in 1992, and served as the first artist.
Cutler–Shaw was the founder of the Landmark Art Project, Inc., and Landmark Art Collaborative (1985 to 1992). She had an "Art and Artist Lecture Series," which consists of interviews with visual artists that were documented on video, which included David Antin, Eleanor Antin, Edward Rusha, Christo, Allan Kaprow, John Cage, and John Baldessari.
She was part of the group exhibition 'Women of the Book" (1998) which traveled to four locations in Los Angeles, including to Finegood Art Gallery, the West Valley Jewish Community Center, 22622 Vanowen St., and West Hills Gallery.{{Cite news |last=Woodard |first=Josef |date=1998-01-08 |title=Spiritual Ties |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-spiritual-ties/143396524/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=146 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 2007, Cutler–Shaw had a two person show alongside artist Sarah Perry, featuring drawings of the bones of small animals at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles.{{Cite news |date=2007-02-11 |title=The Bone and Bird Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw and Sarah Perry |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-the-bone-and-bird/143396461/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=151}}
Death and legacy
Cutler–Shaw died on March 18, 2018, in San Diego, after struggling with a progressive neurological disease called corticobasal degeneration.
The UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives holds the Cutler–Shaw Papers.{{Cite web |last=Davies |first=Dolores |date=March 30, 2017 |title=UC San Diego Alumna Joyce Cutler-Shaw Honored for Major Contributions to the Library |url=https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc_san_diego_alumna_joyce_cutler_shaw_honored_for_major_contributions2 |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=UC San Diego Today |language=en}} She has work in museum collections, including at the Walker Art Center.{{Cite web |title=Joyce Cutler-Shaw, 1932–Present |url=https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/joyce-cutler-shaw |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Walker Art Center}}
She was the subject of the documentary film She is Fierce: the Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw (2016), directed by Becky Cohen.{{Cite web |last=Hewitt |first=Lonnie Burstein |date=2016-11-22 |title=Joyce Cutler Shaw: 'Fierce' La Jolla artist shines in documentary |url=https://www.lajollalight.com/art/sd-artist-cutler-shaw-20161122-story.html |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=La Jolla Light |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/joyce-cutler-shaw-papers-10102 Joyce Cutler Shaw papers, 1974-1977], from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Video: [https://www.uctv.tv/shows/She-is-Fierce-The-Art-of-Joyce-Cutler-Shaw-31162 She is Fierce: the Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw (2016)] from UCTV
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Category:American illustrators
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