Joan Danziger | |
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Born | 1934 New York City, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
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Known for | Sculpture |
Website | joandanziger |
Joan Danziger (born 1934) [1] is an American sculptor. Her work is largely of large sculptures of beetles and hybrid human-animals.
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]
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]
She resides and works in Washington, D.C. [6]
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