Karla Black

Karla Black is a Scottish sculptor whose work, Doesn't Care In Words, was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011.^[1]

She was born in 1972 in Alexandria and went to the Glasgow School of Art, where she graduated from the sculpture department in 1999 and received her M.F.A. in 2004. She currently lives and works in Glasgow.^[2]

She uses mostly traditional art-making materials such as plaster, paint, paper and chalk in her work, along with a small amount of everyday substances such as cosmetics and toiletries. Her sculptures are either 'almost' or 'only just' objects and skirt amongst the mediums of painting, performance art and installation, often contrasting large scale with a fragility of form. Artists who have influenced her work include Helen Frankenthaler, Karen Kilimnick, Lynda Benglis, Robert Smithson and Richard Tuttle.^[3][4]

Karla Black is represented by Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London and David Zwirner, New York.^[5]

Exhibitions

Karla Black's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at renowned institutions such as kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Dallas Museum of Art; and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.^[6]

Publications

• Karla Black (2010), Karla Black: It's Proof That Counts, JRP/Ringier, ISBN 978-3-03764-084-5 
• Karla Black: ten sculptures, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2010 

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