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Patrick Dougherty
Born1945 (age 78–79)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Education
MovementEnvironmental art

Patrick Dougherty (born 1945) is an American environmental artist. He is best known for his sculptures and installations built with sticks and saplings.[1]

Life and career

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Patrick Dougherty was born in Oklahoma in 1945 and raised in North Carolina.[2] He earned a B.A. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967 and an M.A. in Hospital and Health Administration from the University of Iowa in 1969. He later returned to the University of North Carolina to study art history and sculpture.[3]

Dougherty's first work, “Maple Body Wrap,” was included in the North Carolina Biennial Artists’ Exhibition in 1982. Since that time he has constructed over 300 works using stick and saplings. His sculptures are temporary in that the materials disintegrate and break down over time.[4]

Over the years, Dougherty has received a number of awards and grants, including the 2011 Factor Prize for Southern Art from the Gibbes Museum of Art,[5] Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship from England, Japan-US Creative Arts Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.[3]

Dougherty also published a book about his art, Stickwork, through Princeton Architectural Press in 2009.[6]

Directors Kenny Dalsheimer and Penelope Maunsell created a documentary about Dougherty and his sculptures, Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty, which was released in 2013.[7] The film was featured at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital in 2013 due to the environmental nature of Doughtery's work.[8]

Dougherty currently lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Linda Dougherty, who is the chief curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art.[9]

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References

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  1. ^ Green, Penelope (2010-10-06). "Building With Sticks and Stones". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  2. ^ Gelfand, Janelle (April 6, 2018). "Stirred by sticks: Magical sculptures to grow on lawn of Taft Museum". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  3. ^ a b Dougherty, Patrick (2016-04-17). "Entanglements | Stick Sculptures". Terrain.org. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  4. ^ Vinnitskaya, Irina (2012-04-16). "Stickwork / Patrick Dougherty". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  5. ^ Wall, Pam (2011-05-25). "Patrick Dougherty: 2011 Factor Prize Winner". Gibbes Museum of Art. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  6. ^ Dougherty, Patrick (2011). Stickwork. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989761.
  7. ^ Vitiello, Chris (2012-11-28). "New documentary about sculptor Patrick Dougherty brings his life and work to flower". INDY Week. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  8. ^ "Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty". Environmental Film Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  9. ^ Roberts, Liza (2016-09-30). "Stick artist Patrick Dougherty". WALTER Magazine. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  10. ^ Py-Lieberman, Beth. "This Tilting, Twirling Artwork, Sculpted Entirely of Sticks, Is Having a Shindig". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  11. ^ "Patrick Dougherty stickwork installation | United States Botanic Garden". www.usbg.gov. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
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