NOW at the Corcoran – Mia Feuer: An Unkindness

November 2, 2013-February 23, 2014

Mia Feuer’s sculptural installations explore the relationships between the built landscape, environmental catastrophe, and the physical and social tensions of violated spaces. Inspired by the remains of destroyed buildings in the Middle East as well as failed infrastructure and environmental catastrophe, Feuer explores the physical and social tensions of violated spaces.  She is the first Washington, D.C.-based artist to be featured in a NOW at the Corcoran exhibition.

An Unkindness is a new project commissioned for the Gallery’s Rotunda and public spaces.  Inspired by several trips to the Canadian tar sands, Feuer’s project is a haunting vision of nature consumed, twisted, and transformed by human need.  The exhibition features three new site-specific installations, including a skating rink and field of synthetic black wheat. “An unkindness,” which refers to a gathering of ravens, is one of the exhibition’s central images.

Feuer received her BFA from University of Manitoba in Canada, and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009.  She has recently had solo exhibitions at Conner Contemporary, Washington, D.C. (2011); Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art (2010); Transformer Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2010); Arlington Arts Center (2010), and FLUXspace Gallery, Philadelphia (2009).  Feuer’s upcoming projects include exhibitions at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; the Klondike Institute for Arts and Humanities in The Yukon Territories, Canada; and RAW Gallery of Architecture and Design, Canada.

Feuer has been awarded fellowships by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, the D.C. Commission for Arts and Humanities, the Trawick Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts.  She has taken part in numerous residencies, including El Sahara Artist Residency, Dahab, Egypt; Sculpture Space, Utica, NY; Vermont Studio Center; the MacDowell Colony for the Arts, NH, the Arctic Circle Artist Residency; and the Millay Colony for the Arts, NY.  She teaches sculpture at George Mason University and lives and works in Washington, D.C.

NOW at the Corcoran is funded in part by Altria Group and the Corcoran Gallery of Art's 1869 Society.