Instagram Live with Linda Sormin
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Instagram Live with Linda Sormin
June 23, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Join Chief Curator Sequoia Miller for a virtual visit to the home studio of ceramic artist and teacher Linda Sormin. No registration is necessary. Just mark you calendar and tune in on Instagram!
About the Artist
Linda Sormin explores upheaval, fragility, migration and change through sculpture and site-responsive installation. Born in Bangkok, she immigrated to Canada at the age of five. After working in community development for four years in Thailand and Laos, Sormin studied ceramics at Andrews University, Sheridan College and Alfred University (MFA ’03).
Sormin’s newest sculptures are currently in exhibitions in San Francisco at Patricia Sweetow Gallery and in North Adams, MA at Ferrin Contemporary. Her most recent large-scale work, “Fierce Passengers”, was installed at CUAG (Ottawa, Canada) in 2018. In 2019, her sculptures were presented at Art Toronto by Patricia Sweetow Gallery (San Francisco), and “Sketch for Wet Dream Architecture was collected by the CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark. Other recent exhibitions were held at Kunstgarasjen (Bergen, Norway), Wuchangshuo Memorial Hall (Shanghai, China) and Jogja National Museum (Yogyakarta, Indonesia). Sormin lives and works in New York, NY. She is Associate Professor of Studio Art at New York University.
