Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture Series: Elizabeth Turk

Please join us for the 2024 Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture with artist Elizabeth Turk. Light refreshments will be served following the lecture.

Elizabeth Turk is an award-winning artist, known for her complex artistic vision that includes intricate marble sculptures that push the material beyond its traditional expectations. Her work has been praised for its beauty, its technical virtuosity, and its ability to inspire wonder.

Turk has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011). Turk’s work resides in numerous prestigious private and public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; the Jewish Museum, New York, NY; American University, Washington, D.C. (formerly, the Corcoran Gallery of Art) and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; the Catalina Museum for Art & History, CA; and the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN. Institutional monographic exhibitions include Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction, Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI (2022); Double Take, with Mel Chin, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (2022), Elizabeth Turk: Heaven, Earth, Home, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT (2018-19); Elizabeth Turk: Sentient Forms, Laguna Art Museum, CA (2015); Elizabeth Turk: Wings, The Dayton Art Institute, OH (2013); and Elizabeth Turk, The Collars: Tracings of Thought, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (2004).

Elizabeth Turk received a B.A. (1983) from Scripps College and an M.F.A. (1994) from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Host or Publisher Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania