Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King

Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King illuminates the aesthetic and engineering questions sculptor Elizabeth King puzzles over with an acute sensitivity to both life, and the life-like. Elizabeth King is a quiet iconoclast in the art world. She has created her own genre at the intersection of the classical and automata. An accomplished artist with an eye for the intimate meaning of gesture, King obsessively manipulates her materials to produce pieces that both approximate and challenge the viewer. Consumed by questions of art and automation, King approaches each day in the studio as an opportunity to problem solve on the way to making a piece work. A sought after solo exhibitor, whose work is featured in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA and the Hirshhorn, King’s individual and group shows punctuate her workaday world that is focused on parsing the distance between the automated and the alive. Her work is informed by a passionate interest in the fabled