Leila Daw
Leila Daw (born 1940)[1] is an American installation artist and art professor; her work uses diverse materials to explore themes of cartography and feminism.
Life and work
Leila Daw received her
Daw's works include permanent installations at the
DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts.[13][14] Other works of Daw have been more ephemeral: her Pre-Historic River Channel (1981), for instance, used skywriting to map the course of the Mississippi River at an earlier age when it bypassed the current location of St. Louis.[15]
Over the years, Daw has incorporated a great diversity of materials into her work. As Joanna Frueh writes, "Since the early 1980s she has used acrylic, pencil, bronzing powders, metal leaf, Mylar, foil, and other mixed media on paper and canvas in order to create maps that replicate the terrain in regions where she has lived – St. Louis and Boston – and traveled, by car, plane, and imagination, such as the American desert West."[16]
References
- ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2.
- ^ Resume Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine from artist's web site, retrieved 2010-04-17.
- ^ Artist information Archived 2010-03-23 at the Wayback Machine from Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, retrieved 2010-04-17.
- ^ Langdon, Philip (April 27, 2003), "Vertical Leap: Bradley Airport Reaches For The Sky With Its Expanded Terminal – But Is It Soaring Or Just Tall?", Hartford Courant.
- ^ Percent for Art Program, City of New Haven, retrieved 2010-04-17.
- JournalNews.
- ^ Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, May 17 – August 17, 2008, retrieved 2010-04-17.
- ^ Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, Mass MoCA, May 24, 2008 – April 12, 2009, retrieved 2010-04-17.
- doi:10.3141/1549-11.
- ^ Adams, Alice (1994), "St. Louis Metrolink: Changing the Rules of Transit Design", Places, 9 (2).
- ISBN 978-0-415-13943-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8133-8163-3.
- DeCordova Museum, retrieved 2010-04-17.
- ^ Sherman, Mary (August 5, 1999), "Pike pique – How Leila Daw's maps made a left turn to Lincoln", Boston Herald.
- S2CID 192942081.
- JSTOR 777540.
Further reading
- Schwartz, Helen (September 1977), "Leila Daw, opening new layers of women in art", Curtain Call, the Magazine of St. Louis Arts: 9. As cited by Heller & Heller (1995).
- Eckstrom, Kevin (March 8, 1989), "Daw's Works Reflect Topography Of Life", St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Review of a show by Daw at the Atrium Gallery in St. Louis.
- Harris, Paul A. (May 10, 1991), "Daw's Abstract 'Maps' of Metaphors", St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Temin, Christine (February 9, 1994), "Inside the Chapel, Leila Daw's great outdoors", Boston Globe. Review of a show by Daw at Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery in Boston.
- Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy (1995), North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary, Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 1219, Garland, p. 148, ISBN 978-0-8240-6049-7.
- Zimmer, William (June 29, 1997), "Making the Leap From Science To Art and Beyond", New York Times. Review of a group exhibit at the Mystic Art Association, featuring a four-part painting of natural disastersby Daw, Doesn't Stand a Chance.
- Burnham, John (January 27, 2009), "Artist in the Galapagos: After visiting the Galapagos, Leila Daw discusses her work and the influence of her trip to the islands", Cruising World.
- Harmon, Katharine; Clemans, Gayle (2009), The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Princeton Architectural Press, pp. 176–177, ISBN 978-1-56898-762-0.