Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – multimedia installation

Elizabeth Tubergen

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – multimedia installation
Region: Sunnyside, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008

Elizabeth Tubergen is an artist and sculptor living and working between Queens, NY and New Haven, CT. 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 Jacob K. Javits Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and Ox-Bow School of Art among others. Ms. Tubergen received her M.F.A. in sculpture from Hunter College in New York City in 2013 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015. She was appointed lecturer in sculpture at Yale in 2016.

Studios

Heinz

Elizabeth Tubergen worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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