Patrick dougherty sculpture at burroughs wellcome building

Patrick Dougherty (artist)

American artist

Patrick Dougherty (born ) is an American environmental artist. He is best known for his sculptures and installations built with sticks and saplings.[1]

Life and career

Patrick Dougherty was born in Oklahoma in and raised in North Carolina.[2] He earned a B.A.

in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in and an M.A. in Hospital and Health Administration from the University of Iowa in He later returned to the University of North Carolina to study art history and sculpture.[3]

Dougherty's first work, “Maple Body Wrap,” was included in the North Carolina Biennial Artists’ Exhibition in Since that time he has constructed over works using stick and saplings.

Patrick dougherty sculpture at burroughs wellcome building The New York Times. Toggle the table of contents. Patrick Dougherty was born in Oklahoma in and raised in North Carolina. On January 18, , images appeared on Twitter showing the last standing portions of the building being torn down.

His sculptures are temporary in that the materials disintegrate and break down over time.[4]

Over the years, Dougherty has received a number of awards and grants, including the Factor Prize for Southern Art from the Gibbes Museum of Art,[5]Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship from England, Japan-US Creative Arts Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.[3]

Dougherty also published a book about his art, Stickwork, through Princeton Architectural Press in [6]

Directors Kenny Dalsheimer and Penelope Maunsell created a documentary about Dougherty and his sculptures, Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty, which was released in [7] The film was featured at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital in due to the environmental nature of Doughtery's work.[8]

Dougherty currently lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Linda Dougherty, who is the chief curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art.[9]

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References

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    Interview with American Sculptor Patrick Dougherty Martin School of the Arts and Heidi Ehle then assistant director worked with Dougherty to decide where on campus to build the sculpture. Grace's Guide to Industrial History. There's a kind of water tower somewhere — we went up there and gathered the material. Environmental Film Festival.

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  10. ^Vitiello, Chris (). "New documentary about sculptor Patrick Dougherty brings his life and work to flower". INDY Week. Retrieved
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  17. ^Py-Lieberman, Beth. "This Tilting, Twirling Artwork, Sculpted Entirely of Sticks, Is Having a Shindig". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved
  18. ^"Patrick Dougherty stickwork installation | United States Botanic Garden". . Retrieved

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