Lita Albuquerque
Lita Albuquerque, Stellar Axis:Antarctica, installation view, 2006 (courtesy of artist)
Lita Albuquerque emerged on the California art scene in the mid seventies as part of the light and space movement and has since won numerous grants and awards including: three N.E.A. Art in Public Places awards; N.E.A. individual fellowship; the Cairo Biennale prize; and an Arts International award. Her work ranges from intimate objects to large-scale installations, in many instances dealing with astronomical phenomena and land formations.
The success of her Washington Monument Project at the International Sculptural Conference in 1980 led to numerous awards and commissions at major sites around the world, including the Great Pyramids, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in L.A., the California State Capitol in Sacramento, the New Central Library in Minneapolis with Cesar Pelli and public works in Japan.
In 2011, Albuquerque has concentrated on a variety of exhibitions both in the States and abroad. Her new copper and pigment sculpture for the Washington Monument Project was seen in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s The Artist Museum exhibit; Stellar Axis was at Art/Paris; Framing Abstraction, in Los Angeles and Immaterial Spaces in Naples. Her current solo exhibition Emergence at the Laguna Museum of Art examines two continuing serial works began in 2006 that were created with pure powdered pigment and generative computer software. Albuquerque has also begun to work with 18th Street to re-create her seminal 1980 piece Spine of the Earth as part of the 2011 Pacific Standard Time project, organized by the Getty Foundation, as well as on an exhibition of the photography from her large scale ephemeral work created in Antarctica at the Craig Krull Gallery. This spring, she was the recipient of the Santa Monica Fellowship Grant and she continues to teach in the graduate studio program at Art Center College of Design.
1629 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
lita2001@aol.com
