New Century Artists


Setha Low Website: www.anthroart.net Medium and major concentration of work: Sculpture, Pottery

Setha Low is a native Los Angeleno transplanted to East Hampton and Brooklyn, New York. She has worked with East End ceramic artists: Diane Mayo, Diane Giardi, Carolyn Bistrian, Linda Marbach, and Sandy Beckerman. She is a member of the Crazy Monkey Gallery (Amagansett) and New Century Artists (New York City) where her work can be seen in group and solo shows. Her piece, "Burdened," was included in the juried show, Art in Odd Places, September 2006. Her sculpture and ceramic vessels draw upon her experience as an anthropologist living in diverse cultural settings, her obsession with embodied spaces, and sensitivity to ethnoaesthetics.

"My sculptural pieces are about the embodied space that we live in. They express the joy and pain of everyday life, and at the same time, the materiality and permanence of the body."

Setha was educated in California at Pitzer College (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Anthropology). She has taught landscape architecture and urban planning at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently Professor of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology and Women's Studies and Director of the Public Space Research Group at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has received numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Getty Center Residency Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and the Textor Prize as well as many travel grants. She has lived and worked in Central America, Western Europe, Japan and the northeastern United States. Her ceramic art and writings focus on people's relationship to the built environment. She has published 11 books and more than an 100 articles on topics as varied as the tourist art of the Ainu, the history and culture of the Latin American plaza, and why residents move to gated communities.