Elizabeth King, multimedia artist and VCU School of the Arts Research Professor, spoke at the 1st Annual Powell-Edwards Lecture in Religion and the Arts. King is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and is a recipient of the 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship. Also, she was awarded the 2006 Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Currently, King is a professor in the VCU Sculpture and Extended Media department where she has taught since 1985.
King's most recent sculpture and stop motion work, that has recently been shown at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, was the subject of a small part of her lecture series. King's animated tone had the ability to grab my attention from the start and bring me into the historical journey she was about to take the audience on. Because so much of her work is research based, her lecture was heavy with historical art references concering the idea of existence and more specifically the amount of information and emotion one can gain from the recreated eye in all art. She referenced several historically known artists such as Bernini, Michelangelo and even more contemporary artists like Tony Orsler who have mastered the technique of exposing the visual spirit of substance in art. She spoke about how all of these sculptures and paintings that were discussed utilized human accurate human movement and mimicked fugitive non iconic gestures.
King also showed a few slides of her pairs of eyes that she had worked on for the past 10 years. These eyes were carefully crafted out of heat, hard acrylic, soft acrylic, and oil paint; and several years studying under her mentor. In the present, King is currently studying objects from history and reseaching the "automaton", a self operating machine sometimes referred to as a robot. She first saw this automaton in the Smithsonian and since then has done extensive work on the very mobile and brilliant creation.
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