Evan Penny: Ask Your Body — Venice 2017
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Texts from the exhibition catalogue
Evan Penny: Ask Your Body -
Ask Your Body—an Invitation
Chiedi al tuo corpo: un invito (italiano)
Demande à ton corps : une invitation (français)
Michael Short (essay)
This essay appears in the exhibition catalogue for Evan Penny: Ask Your Body, presented at Chiesa di San Samuele, Venice, Italy, 2017
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Close Encounters of a Corporeal Kind
Incontri ravvicinati di un genere corporeo (italiano)
Rencontres rapprochées d’un genre corporel (français)
Robert Enright (interview)
This conversation between Robert Enright and Evan Penny appears in the exhibition catalogue for Evan Penny: Ask Your Body, presented at Chiesa di San Samuele, Venice, Italy, 2017
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Why do you peel me from myself?
Perché mi estrai da me stesso? (italiano)
Pourquoi m’arraches-tu à moi-même ? (français)
Alexander Nagel (essay)
This essay appears in the exhibition catalogue for Evan Penny: Ask Your Body, presented at Chiesa di San Samuele, Venice, Italy, 2017
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Press
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Evan Penny: Ask Your Body
Queen’s Quarterly 125, Fall 2018
by Anne Koval
Article reviews Evan Penny’'s 2017 exhibition at the Venice Biennale -
Evan Penny Enters His Next Phase – In Venice
Canadian Art, May 8, 2017
by Caoimhe Morgan-Feir
The Toronto artist’s uncanny figurative sculpture heads into new territory in his Venice showing: the art-historical past -
The Body and Its Beautiful Damage
Border Crossings 2017, Vol.36 No.1 Issue 141, pp.20-21
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Chiesa di San Samuele: Evan Penny
Monopol magazine — Special Venice 2017 Edition
Collateral Events section, feature spread
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L’inquietante e familiare reliquiario contemporaneo
di Evan Penny (italiano, english)
Arte: Speciale Biennale 2017
Collateral Events section, review
Evan Penny's disturbing and familiar contemporary relics
Other articles
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Figuration: Kathy Venter and Evan Penny
[sculpture.org]
by Gill McElroy
International Sculpture Center (ISC Blog), July 19, 2017
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Haunting Holbein
by Richard Rhodes
written for the exhibition Haunting Holbein at Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, 2016
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Face to Face with Evan Penny
[pdf 12.1 Mb]
C: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (interview)
Spring/Summer 2013
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Evan Penny—Re Figured
Museum der Moderne Salzburg (video)
A video presentation of the exhibition Evan Penny—Re Figured at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in Austria, November 2011 to February 2012.
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The Awkward Joys of Anamorphosis
[hyperallergic.com]
by Daniel Larkin (review)
Hyperallergic, March 23, 2011
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Evan Penny
[pdf 2.7 Mb]
by Katy Donoghue (interview)
Whitewall, Spring 2011, pp.102-109
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Evan Penny at Sperone Westwater
[pdf]
by Michaël Amy (review)
Sculpture, April 2010, Vol. 29
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On scanning, or skewing off into virtual space
by Nancy Tousley
Evan Penny discusses digital 3-dimensional scanning and its relationship to his practice in this interview with Nancy Tousley.
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Opposites show each other off
by Nancy Tousley
Sculptors remake the figure in contemporary art.
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Artforum PICKS: Evan Penny
by Blake Gopnik
"...for all the stunning three-dimensionality that seems so central to them, the real referent of this sculpture is photography..."
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The Art Fair as Outlet Mall
[nytimes.com]
by Ken Johnson
This review of Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 describes Murray, 2008 as: " ...oversize head-and-shoulder portrait of a grizzled middle-aged man ... by Evan Penny is so realistic in every detail that you can't help feeling ... in the presence of a supernaturally living being.
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Evan Penny: The Flesh is Weak
by Kenneth E. Silver
Catalogue essay for 2009 exhibition at Sperone Westwater
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Heads or Tales:
Michael Awad and Evan Penny’s Conversation
by David Clark
This essay considers the collaboration between Michael Awad and Evan Penny that produced Panagiota: Conversation, 2007
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Evan Penny
by Joe Houston
This essay was written for the 2007 exhibition Currents: Evan Penny at the Columbus Museum of Art.
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Focus | Evan Penny
[pdf]
by Ute Krepler
This German-language article appears in ARTinvestor Nr.04, 2006.
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Ron Mueck / Evan Penny / Richard Stipl
Reality and Its Excesses
[pdf 3.7 Mb]
by Begoña Rodríguez
This cover article appeared in LAPIZ 224, June 2006.
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The Artful Doubter:
Evan Penny & the making of extraordinary objects
[pdf 576 Kb]
by Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh
This interview with Evan Penny is the cover story of Border Crossings Issue 98, 2006
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Art in America: review
A review of the 2005 Sperone Westwater exhibition No One - In Particular appears in the February 2006 edition of Art in America, on page 125.
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Sculpture: review
[pdf 1.0 Mb]
by William V. Ganis
A review in Sculpture magazine of the 2005 Sperone Westwater exhibition No One - In Particular.
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Arte Al Limite: Evan Penny / Esculturas Vivas
by Juan Pablo Colin
This article appears as the cover story in the Chilean magazine Arte Al Limite Nº17, Jan–Feb 2006.
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How We See Ourselves Now
by David Moos
Catalogue essay for the 2005 Sperone Westwater exhibition No One - In Particular.
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Art in Review: Evan Penny: No One - In Particular
By Ken Johnson
This review appeared in the New York Times on
Monday October 14, 2005. -
What It Takes to Get a Head
by Kathryn Shattuck
This review appeared in the New York Times on
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Artist Statement:
L. Faux and No One - In Particular
by Evan Penny
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Skin Deep
By Sarah Milroy
This article appeared in The Globe and Mail on March 1, 2004.
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Challenging Perceptions
By Noel Gallagher
This article appeared in the The London Free Press in January 2004.
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Absolutely Unreal
The Sculpture and Photography of Evan Penny
by Nancy Tousley
This essay is from the Absolutely Unreal catalogue, 2004
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Evan Penny's Uncertainty Principle
by David Clark
This essay is from the Absolutely Unreal catalogue, 2004
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Miami Herald
Front page - December 4, 2003
Stretch #2, appears on the front page of the Miami Herald on the opening day of Art Basel Miami Beach...
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Més enllà de l'hiperrealisme
[pdf]
by Xavier Barral i Altet, 2002
Avui. Barcelona, Spain.
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Evan Penny:
L. Faux and No One - In Particular
by Xandra Eden, 2002
Through hyper-realistic sculptures and their corresponding photographs, Penny examines the terrain between the real and the replica...
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A New Perspective
by Nancy Tousley, 2002
Evan Penny makes the kind of sculpture that is so realistic, so detailed and so obviously a display of skill that it literally stops people in their tracks...
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Human, all too human
by Gary Michael Dault, 2001
Evan Penny's monstrous creations examine how photography distorts the way we see ourselves...
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A Field of Interpretation: The Work of Evan Penny
by Meeka Walsh, 1995
The particular rather than the general, the detail rather than the whole, metonymy rather than mimesis...
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Evan Penny: A Survey
by Michael Burtch, 1987
Throughout history, the human figure has been the most significant and the most problematical symbol...
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Evan Penny
by Gary Michael Dault, 1986
Evan Penny is building his career as an artist upon one central and absorbing problem: how to Make It New...