Lorrie Goulet

Lorrie Goulet (born August 17, 1925[1]) is an American sculptor and painter, known primarily for her direct carving of stone and wood, and her natural and spiritually inspired works which often celebrate women, families and cultures. Her works are presented in museums, institutions and galleries including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The National Academy of Design, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Corcoran Gallery, the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art in NYC, The Kennedy Galleries in NYC, The Harmon Meek Gallery in Naples and Florida.

Goulet’s works include philosophical and educational writings and books, and poetry. A teacher and mentor, Goulet was educated at Black Mountain College from 1943 to 1944[2][3] and taught at the Art Students League of New York.[2] She continues to create art, publish her writings, and teach in her studio in Chelsea, New York.

Life and career

Goulet’s arts studies began when at age seven she met Aimee Voorhees at the Inwood Pottery Studio in 1932 and continued working with Ms. Voorhees for four, formative years.[4] Her first group exhibition included two of her ceramic figural groups included in a children’s exhibition in 1936 at the New York Museum of Natural History.

Shortly thereafter, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she continued her education. In 1940 she became an apprentice to Jean Rose, a ceramicist in Southern California.[3]

In the autumn of 1943, Goulet entered Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where she studied painting and drawing with Joseph Albers[3] and weaving with Annie Albers. In the summer of 1944, she met Jose de Creeft, a visiting sculptor and instructor, and in November 1944, Goulet and de Creeft were married. Two years later, they acquired a farm in Hoosick Falls, New York, where they worked part of each year until 1968, and gave birth to artist Donna Maria de Creeft.

Goulet's first solo exhibition occurred in New York, in 1948. Kennedy Galleries in New York began presenting her work in 1971, and a regular stream of solo exhibitions continued through 1986. Her work continues to be presented by David Findlay Jr. Gallery, in solo and group exhibitions, and the Harmon Meek Gallery in Naples, Florida.

Her work has been represented in group shows since 1948, among them, a number of Annual Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,[2] and in the fine arts pavilion of the New York World's Fair of 1964/1965. Goulet's first position as a teacher of sculpture was with the Museum of Modern Art's Peoples Center, New York, in 1957, and she also began teaching privately in that year.

From 1961 to 1975 she was on the faculty of The New School, New York, and began teaching at the Art Students League of New York starting in 1981 until 2004. CBS Television aired twenty-three program segments featuring Goulet’s teaching, with demonstrations for children for a program called “Around the Corner” sponsored by the New York City Board of Education. These programs were aired between 1964 and 1968.

Artistic contributions

Goulet's work is characterized by figures, predominantly of women, the forms of which have an organic relationship to the stone or wood from which the sculptor has released them.

Goulet has had solo exhibitions at museums and galleries. Her sculpture can be found in the permanent collections of museums including the Wichita Museum of Art in Kansas, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Academy of Design in New York City and the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.

In 1998, she had a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. entitled "Fifty Years of Making Sculpture." [5]

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Public collections

Commissions

Selected articles & publications

Television & radio

References

  1. ↑ "A Life's Work: The Sculpture of Lorrie Goulet". asllinea.org. 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Heller Jules and Heller Nancy G (1997). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. p. 220. ISBN 978-0815325840.
  3. 1 2 3 "Collections | National Academy Museum". nationalacademy.org. 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Inwood Pottery Studio: An Oral History with Lorrie Goulet". myinwood.net. 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Lorrie Goulet : fifty years of making sculpture | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.

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