Elizabeth King

Elizabeth King works in wood, porcelain, and bronze, and often animates her precisely movable sculptures on stop-motion film. Her work is in permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among others. She is the author of Attention’s Loop: A Sculptor’s Reverie on the Coexistence of Substance and Spirit (Abrams, 1999) and coauthor, with W. David Todd, of Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Getty Publications, 2023). Photo: Olympia Stone