Monica Petzal (born 22 June 1953) is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker.
Monica Nicole Sophie Petzal | |
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| Born | 22 June 1953 London, England |
| Known for | Painting and printmaking |
| Website | https://monicapetzal.com/ |
Petzal was born in London, the daughter of German Jewish refugees.[1]
Petzal's recent work concerns her family's displacement from Germany under the Nazi regime and the broader themes of dissent, displacement and destruction in the twentieth century and beyond.[2]
Career
editIn the 1980s, Petzal worked as a journalist and arts critic for Time Out and Art Monthly.[3][4][5][6][7]
In 1994, she and Belinda Harding developed a plan to establish a Museum of Women's Art (MWA) in London. The plan was not implemented, though an inaugural exhibition, Reclaiming the Madonna, was held at the Economist Building that year.[8]
From 2000 to 2007, she was an interviewer for the British Library and Tate Gallery Archive's Artists' Lives oral history project and was considered a catalyst for the 'Art Professionals' portion, recording life story interviews with curators, critics, dealers and gallery owners.[9]
Selected solo exhibitions
editHer one-person exhibitions include:
- 2015 The Dresden Project - Indelible Marks, Kreuzkirche, Dresden and Herbert Art Gallery and Museum[10]
- 2015 75/70 The Coventry Dresden Towers, Coventry Cathedral[11]
- 2020 Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery[12]
Selected group exhibitions
edit- 2010 Originals 10, at the Mall Galleries[13]
- 2012 Process and Innovation, British Printmaking Japan, at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (co-curator with Rebecca Salter)[14]
- 2015 Printmakers Council, at the Bankside Gallery[15]
- 2016 To a death in sweating wakefulness, Pie Factory Margate[16]
- 2018 Reconciliations, The Exchange, Bush House, King's College London and The Knapp Gallery, Regent's University London[17]
- 2020 9th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Portugal[18]
Selected public collections
editReferences
edit- ^ Bohm-Duchen, Monica (1 March 2023). "Chasing Shadows: The Uses of Photography in the Work of Second-Generation Visual Artists in the UK". European Judaism. 56 (1): 22–39. doi:10.3167/ej.2023.560103. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Making art to ease the pain in a city of sorrow". TheJewish Chronicle. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Contributors". Art Monthly. No. 27. Britannia Arts Publications Ltd. 1 June 1979.
- ^ Petzal, Monica (1 June 1985). "London Round-up". Art Monthly. No. 87. Britannia Arts Publications Ltd.
- ^ "Amikam Toren". Anthony Reynolds Gallery. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae". Stephen Barclay. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Biography". Trevor Sutton. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ Morrison, Blake (2 July 1994). "The Independent". Arts: Buried treasure?. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "National Life Stories - Annual Report and Accounts 2005/2006". British Library. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "Monica Petzal – The Dresden project exhibition". The Dresden Project. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "A Greeting from the Bishop of Coventry, Christopher Cocksworth, on the occasion of the 10thAnniversary of the Re-Consecration of the Frauenkirche, Dresden on 25th October 2015" (PDF). Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch". Insider Outsider Festival. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ a b c "Monica Petzal, artist". Ben Uri Research Unit for the Study of the Jewish and Immigrant Contribution to the Visual Arts in Britain since 1900. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ^ Love, Joanna. "British Printmaking Japan: 6th International Kyoto Hanga 2012 International Print Exhibition: Process and Innovation". University of Northampton. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Miniprints @ 50 Years of Artists Prints". Printmakers Council. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ Love, Joanna. "To a death in sweating wakefulness". University of Brighton. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Art and Reconciliation: A Conversation". King's College London. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Monica Petzal". Global Prints - Bienal do Douro. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Print". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Monica Petzal". The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College. Retrieved 28 May 2023.