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Artist Statement
I am drawn to creating artworks as all-encompassing experiential environments provoking both thought and delight in its viewers. In each project, my aim is to provide the viewer with a visually layered and multi-sensory experience. My work is formally and materially diverse where in creative decisions are driven by each individual project concept. It is my aim to create art experiences that are thought provoking, experientially powerful and critically relevant to our times.
I am attracted to the conceptual framework and overall spirit of the Missouri Billboard Project and the opportunity to create an issue-driven image that would reach a very public audience.
Selected Collections/Awards
May Tveit's work is represented in the corporate art collections of Hallmark Cards, Barkley, and Fishnet Securities and numerous private collections. Her work has received national reviews in Art in America and Art Papers in addition to frequent regional coverage in The Kansas City Star, Lawrence Journal World, Review, and Kansas City's NPR station KCUR.
Her work has been exhibited in one person and group shows at The Spencer Museum of Art, Review Studios Exhibition Space Inner Package 2007, Belger Art Center United Divided 2004, Gallery Village Shalom Retail Therapy 2002, H&R Block Artspace Big and Beautiful 2002, Avenue of the Arts Curtain Wall 2001.
Tveit was a 2002 Charlottle Street Foundation Award recipient, and was recently awarded an American Institute of Architects Allied Arts & Craftsmanship Award for her permanent site-specific artworks at the National Center for Drug Free Sport. She was a 2002 Charlotte Street Foundation Award recipient, and is currently a Review Studio Artist.
Links
www.charlottestreet.org
www.pitch.com/2007-03-29/culture/made-in
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