Elizabeth Demaray Wins 2003 AEM Award
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Saturday, October 11, 2025


Elizabeth Demaray Wins 2003 AEM Award



RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents today “Elizabeth Demaray: 2003 Aldrich Emerging Artist Award Recipient,” on view through August 31, 2003. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Demaray has been selected as the recipient of the Aldrich Emerging Artist Award for 2003 by the curatorial staff of the Museum. This award is given to an artist whose work exhibits bold innovation, exciting originality, clear direction, and serious dedication. As the 2003 recipient, Demaray will exhibit her work in a solo exhibition opening June 1, 2003, on view through August 31, 2003. With a background in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, Elizabeth Demaray creates sculptures that make profound connections between science, art, and cultural assumptions.
The Aldrich Emerging Artist Award is administered and the recipient selected by the curatorial staff of The Aldrich Museum, which includes associate curator Jessica Hough, assistant director Richard Klein, and director Harry Philbrick. Beneficiaries of the award, which has been presented by the Museum since 1997, receive a cash prize of $3,000 and the opportunity to exhibit at The Aldrich. Previous winners have included Roxy Paine, 1997; Paul Henry Ramirez, 1998; Bonnie Collura, 1999; John F. Simon, Jr., 2000; and Claire Corey, 2001; and Yuken Teruya, 2002.
A conceptually based sculptor, Demaray’s work has involved domesticating the great outdoors by knitting sweaters for plants, upholstering stones, and manufacturing alternative forms of housing for hermit crabs out of plastic. In a recent work titled The Nike Missile Cozy Project, Demaray upholstered a 10-ton Nike-Hercules Nuclear Warhead in eighty-eight yards of light blue quilted satin. In hand mapping the contours of the warhead in its silo at the Headlands Nike Missile Site in Sausalito, California, Demaray makes approachable the otherwise inimical object.
For this exhibition, Demaray will take the Nike Missile Cozy and stuff it, creating a lumpy, soft-bodied variant of the original form. This stuffed missile, titled Effigy, from the Nike Missile Cozy Project, will be laid out across a series of sawhorses and inhabit the entire length of an Aldrich gallery. The lumpy shell of the cozy echoes the once destructive nature of the missile, and renders the otherwise insidious object familiar and inert. Distorting our sense of order by wrapping the missile in its own cozy, Demaray explores the way our expectations of objects can affect our perceptions of the visual world.
Elizabeth Demaray has exhibited nationally and is the recipient of a 2001 National Studio Award from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. She received her MFA from UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice and has studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.










Today's News

October 11, 2025

Guggenheim honors centennial of Robert Rauschenberg's birth with exhibition

Sarah Lucas makes her long-awaited Nordic debut at Kiasma

Adventurous, provocative, fearless: Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 opens in Sydney

Bellmans October auctions impress with museum quality

Alicja Kwade: 'Dusty Die' opens at M Leuven

Olney Gleason announces representation of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné announces a call for works

Christie's Photographs sale in New York achieves $3.6 million

Hermès Himalaya Kelly sells for $125,000 at Heritage Auctions

Merikokeb Berhanu makes New York solo debut at James Cohan

Berlinde De Bruyckere's monumental sculptures explore pain, desire, and decay at Galleria Continua Paris

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Manu-Facture: The Ceramics of Lucio Fontana

Isabel Nolan connects medieval echoes to modern life in new solo exhibition

The Gay Harlem Renaissance at The New York Historical explores Black LGBTQ+ life in the early 20th century

Luc Delahaye's 25 years of documentary art on display at Jeu de Paume

The Whitney Museum opens Ken Ohara's first solo exhibition

Grace Ndiritu: Compassionate Rebels in Action opens at Cooper Gallery

Mary Kelly's new exhibition ignites debate on protest and political change

Future Horizons: Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung celebrates its 25th anniversary

Expressions of Interest now open for the 10th edition of Melbourne Design Week 2026

Art Institute of Chicago announces Diane Simpson: "Good for Future"

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens announces The Orchid Show 2025: Rebecca Louise Law

As She Descends and ikkibawiKrrr: Who Forgot the Village on view at Aranya Art Center

MCA Australia and the SharingStories Foundation present a journey through Adnyamathanha Count




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



The OnlineCasinosSpelen editors have years of experience with everything related to online gambling providers and reliable online casinos Nederland. If you have any questions about casino bonuses and, please contact the team directly.


Truck Accident Attorneys

sports betting sites not on GamStop



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)


Editor: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez


Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
       
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful