Sun, Jun 11, 2023
Episode 2: Elizabeth Tubergen
Description
Today’s episode is with an old friend, Elizabeth Tubergen [8], who created the 2021 Public Art Commission *Soft Wait*. The conversation dove into the sources of inspiration for the work, Tubergen's relationship with Long Island Sound, and the emergence of *Soft Wait* as a form of radical flatness. She also discusses her work, home renovations, and the brilliance of the late Ursula K. Le Guin. This one isn’t to be missed!
Our Guest
Bio
Elizabeth Tubergen is an artist living and working between Queens, NY, and Leyden, MA. Tubergen’s work stems from a negotiation of queerness as a spatial condition and relationship as site. Her work has been shown internationally and she is the recipient of fellowships from Socrates Sculpture Park, the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Kustlerhaus Bethanien, the Jacob K. Javits Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and Ox-Bow School of Art among others. Tubergen received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City in 2013, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015, and is presently core faculty in sculpture at the Yale School of Art.