Joan Danziger

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Joan Danziger
Born1934 (1934)
New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education
Known forSculpture
Website joandanziger.com

Joan Danziger (born 1934) [1] is an American sculptor. Her work is largely of large sculptures of beetles and hybrid human-animals.

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Early life and education

Danziger grew up in Queens, New York City. [2] She graduated from Cornell University with a BFA, and studied at the Art Students League of New York, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome. [3]

Career

Her work has been shown at the Morris Museum, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey State Museum. Her work is in: the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [4] the National Museum of Women in the Arts Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Susquehanna Art Museum, [3] and the Glen Burnie District Courthouse in Maryland. She is known for her large sculptures of beetles [5] [6] and hybrid human-animal forms. [7]

Her image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. [8]

Personal life

She resides and works in Washington, D.C. [6]

Reviews

References

  1. ↑ "Joan Danziger". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Now in my garden there's this magical band. « Studio Neptune". January 10, 2012. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Sculptors on View". Grounds For Sculpture. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Two Rhinoceri by Joan Danziger / American Art". Americanart.si.edu. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Beetle Mania: The Art of Joan Danziger". Reading Public Museum. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  6. 1 2 Gambino, Megan. "Beetles Invasion: One Artist's Take on the Insect". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Joan Danziger - Biography". AskArt. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
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