Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist known for her wall-mounted lightboxes.[1]
Biography
Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and Goldsmiths College.[2] In 2002, Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize.[3] She teaches photography at the Royal College of Art, London.[4] She lives in London.
Works
Yass is noted for her films and brightly coloured photographs. Many of her works are mounted on light boxes.[4]
Yass has also worked with video. Descent (2002) is one film and two light boxes.[5]
In 2000, Yass designed the Christmas tree for Tate Britain,[6] and in the same year along with Richard Wentworth she designed the public square around The New Art Gallery Walsall.[7] Yass has had solo exhibitions including Lighthouse at Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2012);[8] a mid-career retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2011);[9] Flight, The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C.;[3] The China Series, Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands (2009);[3] Descent, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO (2009).[3]
Yass participated in the 13th Montreal Photo Biennale (2013).[3] Her work is in the collections of the Jewish Museum, New York, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Tate Britain.[3] it is also in the National Museum of Women in the Arts collection.[10]
In July 2014 Yass was refused permission to drop a piano from the 27-story Balfron Tower in Poplar, London as part of a "community workshop to explore how sound travels".[11]
References
- ^ Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 439. ISBN 978-0714878775.
- ^ "Catherine Yass". Alison Jacques Gallery. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Vertigo in the City: Conversations between the Sciences, Arts & Humanities". Vertigo in the City. 1 December 2001. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Catherine Yass". Cristea Roberts Gallery. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ Godfrey, Mark. "Catherine Yass". Frieze. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Christmas Tree 2000 by Catherine Yass – Press Release". Tate. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Town by Catherine Yass". The New Art Gallery Walsall. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Lighthouse, 2011". Alison Jacques Gallery. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Catherine Yass". The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, East Sussex. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Artist Spotlight: Catherine Yass Lights Things Up". Broad Strokes: The National Museum of Women in the Arts' Blog. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ Tom Brooks-Pollock. "Artist's plan to drop piano off 27-storey tower block falls flat".
External links
- images of Yass' work at the Galerie Lelong & Co
