Ursula von Rydingsvard is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past thirty years. Born in Deensen, Germany in 1942, von Rydingsvard received her MFA from Columbia University in 1975, after which time she started to work with cedar, a material through which she has explored a wide range of images. She is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, laminates, and rubs with powdered graphite into the work’s textured faceted surfaces.
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