EV Day

Snake, c. 2011

aluminum

60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.92 cm)

$4,500

About the artist

EV Day

b. 1967

E.V. Day is a New York based artist whose work explores themes of sexuality and humor while employing gravity-defying suspension techniques. By manipulating iconic imagery from popular culture, Day re-animates the recognizable into new forms that illuminate contradictions in gender roles and stretch the confines of social stereotypes. Recently awarded the prestigious Rome Prize for Visual Arts by the American Academy in Rome, Day worked for a year in the Eternal City where she continued a twenty-year practice of creating sculptures that interact with, and respond to grand architectural spaces. Her installation SNAP! at Philip Johnson’s Glass House cast a net, capturing and staking Johnson’s playful pavilion “Da Monsta” to the ground, taming the beast through a sound installation inside entitled Purring Chamber in 2013.

In 2010, she exhibited Divas Ascending, a 14-sculpture installation at Lincoln Center created from costumes from the archives of the New York City Opera-an exhibition, that traveled to The Kentucky Center in 2011 and The Houston Grand Opera in 2012. The first work in her Exploding Couture series, Bombshell, included in the 2000 Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art, was suspended in the lobby of The Breuer Building, and is now in the Museum’s permanent collection. Day has had numerous solo exhibitions, including the installation G-Force at The Whitney Museum at Altria in 2001, in which she suspended hundreds of thongs from the ceiling in fighter-jet formations, and a survey exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in 2004. Bride Fight, a high-tension string-up of two dueling bridal gowns, was exhibited at the Lever House as part of their collection in 2006. Day received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art.