Cyrilla Mozenter is a New York-based artist known for her hand stitched industrial wool felt freestanding and wall pieces that include the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived, and pictogram-like shapes, as well as her hybrid works on paper, incorporating drawing, writing, painting, and collage.
12 Facts About Cyrilla Mozenter
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Cyrilla Mozenter's works make reference to the writings of Gertrude Stein.
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Cyrilla Mozenter has worked with a variety of techniques and materials ranging from the ready-made to the hand-made as well as from the nearly imperceptible to the bold and graphic over the course of her career her consistent focus has been described as the interior landscape of thought.
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Between 1982 and 1990 Cyrilla Mozenter produced an extensive body of work in charcoal drawing.
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Myrtle leaves, allspice, arnica, beeswax, Chinese laundry soap, dried eggplant skins, walnuts, hazelnuts, fruit pits, string, lima beans, sugar cubes, thread, and peanuts are among the unlikely materials that Cyrilla Mozenter used in her work in the 1990s.
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Cyrilla Mozenter has been working with industrial wool felt since the late 1990s.
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Cyrilla Mozenter has continued with industrial wool felt and works on and with paper.
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Cyrilla Mozenter has taught at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and at Parsons School of Design.
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Cyrilla Mozenter has had solo exhibitions at 57W57 Arts, New York; Lesley Heller Gallery, New York; FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Dieu Donne Papermill, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Espaco Cultural Municipal Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro; Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York; and a two person exhibition at Ryugaheon Gallery, Seoul.
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In 1995 Cyrilla Mozenter was commissioned to create an installation in conjunction with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra's Orientalism series for the Majestic Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Cyrilla Mozenter is the recipient of a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ; Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts ; Project Grants from The Fifth Floor Foundation ; Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grants ; Dieu Donne Papermill, Artist Sponsorship Program ; and Artists Space Artist Grants.
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Cyrilla Mozenter has been an artist-in-residence at Pianpicollo Selvatico, Alta Lange, Piemonte, Italy ; Dieu Donne Papermill, New York ; Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura, Rioarte, Rio de Janeiro ; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.