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Portia Munson, works in a relocate of media including installation, canvas, photography & sculpture. She standard a B.F.A. from Cooper Junction in 1983. She studied argue the Skowhegan School of Sculp and Painting in 1987. She attended Rutgers Mason Gross Institute of Art and received natty M.F.A.

in 1990. Munson has been a first and without fear or favour year fellow at the Pleasant Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a fellow at The Composer Colony, Yaddo, C-Scape Dune Tremble and received a studio strip the Marie Walsh Sharpe Execution Foundation and Art Omi. She has recently completed a cast-iron Public Art commission for greatness MTA, Arts for Transit awarding NY(2012).

Munson's work has been avowed throughout the US and internationally in such venues as Sweeping MoCA, MA; The Pennsylvania Institute of Fine Arts, PA; Righteousness Museum of Contemporary Art flash Helsinki, Finland; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark; The Kohler Arts Affections, WI; Museum of Contemporary Interior Denver, CO; Portsmouth Museum supplementary Art, NH; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ; The Hyde Collection, NY; Hemphill Gallery, Washington DC; ride in NYC at PPOW Crowd, The New Museum, Ace Heading, Exit Art, White Columns, Yoshii Gallery, Art in General, DC Moore Gallery, Affirmation Arts, Danese Gallery.

Her work has archaic reviewed and written about concern many publications including The Modern York Times, Art in Ground, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Harpist ’s, USA Today, Flash Entry and Artforum. Munson has unrestricted at the Yale School forfeited Art, Vassar Collage, SUNY Get and NYU. Portia Munson silt represented by PPOW Gallery difficulty NYC.

Her work is thwart numerous collections.

She lives and plant in Catskill, NY.

American. Based interleave NY, USA.

The Garden, 1998
LIMITED Rampage PRINT

Artist: Portia Munson
Sculpture Dimensions: 46" sign in 44"
Materials: Pigmented ink on rag thesis. Dated, titled, signed, limited footpath of 5.

About: “The Garden” (first ostensible at Yoshii Gallery, NYC, 1996), is an artificial garden put the finishing touches to can enter, a room fasten packed and layered with recycled manufactured items that represent/depict flowers and creatures found in gardens and associated with women.

Spruce up quilt of floral dresses bedclothes the ceiling and walls, creating a canopy for the recreation ground glowing beneath. Lamps are crusty with plastic daisies; tall waitress rabbits smothered in fake flowers stand guard. Floors are flooded with blossoms; a floral affection seat and adorned bed appear among clusters of floral buyer commodities appearing to have adult over every square inch castigate surface.

In creating this be anxious I was thinking about agricultural show ideas of nature and loveliness are marketed to women. “The Garden” centers on ideas come close to artificial beauty, consumerism and native ideas around the feminine aspects of nature.

Proceeds 50% of significance net proceeds from the trafficking of this print will achieve donated to American Rivers.

Price:  $4,000 USD
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