Sienna DeGovia
(b. 1975, Los Angeles, California)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Sienna DeGovia's art practice incorporates materials ranging from metal, fabric, clay, polymer, and paint, to comestibles like bread, meat, candy and sweets. Working mostly three dimensionally, Sienna makes moving motorized sculptures as well as static works and often collaborates with photographers to capture ephemeral tableaus. Sienna received her BFA from the California College of Art, and has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Carlsbad, Racine and Miami.
Education
1999 BFA, Sculpture, California College of the Arts, California
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2019 America, Feast or Folly, with Renée Anjanette, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California
2011 Angel City Eats, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, California
2002 Paper ‘Copter (installation), Pull My Daisy, Los Angeles, California
2001 Jiggle, Snow Pony, Echo Park, California
1999 Becoming Ginger, CCA’s Center Gallery, San Francisco, California
Group Exhibitions
2018 Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
2016 Go for Baroque: Opulence and Excess in Contemporary Art, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
2015 Food for Thought: A Celebration of Food in Art, Canon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2013 Good Enough to Eat: Food as subject for Craft, Craft in America Study Center, Los Angeles, California
2013 Miami Project, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Miami, Florida
2012 Home Sweet Homeless, Craft in America Study Center, Los Angeles, California
Bibliography
2016 “Featured Artist,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November.
2015 Moses, Monica, “Sweet Tooth,” American Craft Magazine, January 20.
2012 Caldwell, Ellen, “Gallerist At Home: Deb Klowden Mann,” New American Paintings, August 20.
2011 Garbee, Jenn, “Angel City Eats: Where Joe Friday + Kim Kardashian Meet Over Donuts This Weekend,” LA Weekly Blog, December 9.
Selected Collections
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Neena and Gerry Smith, Irvine, California
Deb Klowden Mann, Los Angeles, California
Vincent Cresciman, Los Angeles, California
Brianna Beaudry-Blagg, Los Angeles, California
Peri Wolfman, New York, New York
Elizabeth West, New York, New York