Ursula von Rydingsvard

Ursula von Rydingsvard was awarded the 2008 Rappaport Art Prize from the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Von Rydingsvard’s work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, sculpture parks, and public art programs worldwide. Her massive abstract wood sculptures generate multiple associations and resemble vessels, tools, clothing, topography, geology, and architectural forms like walls, towers and shelters. The content of her work is deeply humanistic and elicits complex responses through its combination of monumental scale, rough materials, and suggestive shape and mass.