Emilie Benes Brzezinski
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Emilie Benes Brzezinski is an American sculptor.
Born Emilie Anna Benes in 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland, she earned a fine arts degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States, and shortly after married Zbigniew Brzezinski, a political scientist of Polish parentage who later served as National Security Advisor during the Carter Administration. She sculpted for 25 years while raising a family, then had her first solo show in 1981 in Washington, D.C.[1] Her daughter, Mika Brzezinski, is a television news journalist.
Since the 1980s, most of her works have been in wood. Her monumental 1993 work "Lintel", constructed from cut cherry trees and then cast in bronze, is in the collection of Grounds for Sculpture, a 35-acre sculpture park and museum in New Jersey. She exhibited in the 2003 Florence Biennale and participated by invitation in the 2005 Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale [1].
