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EXHIBITIONS

2005

New Works 2005: Celebrating Recent Gifts to RAM, by The Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, Nov, 2005- Jan, 2006

Collector’s of Wood Art Forum, by del Mano Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September

“Turned and Sculpted Wood 2005,” del Mano Gallery, July-Aug.

SOFA New York, represented by del Mano Gallery, May-June

2004

SOFA Chicago, represented by del Mano Gallery, November

“Beneath the Bark,“ Utah Wood Turning Symposium, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Mar.-July

“Nature Transformed: Wood Art From the Bohlen Collection,” University of Michigan Art Museum, June-Oct.

“Turned and Sculpted Wood 2004,” del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Aug.-Sept

SOFA, New York, represented by del Mano Gallery, May-June

Mint Condition Gala, for the Mint Museum of Craft+Design, Charlottesville, NC, April

“Selected Works…in Wood and Fiber,” del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jan.-Feb.

2003

“Into the Woods,” Long Beach Museum of Art, curated by Kevin Wallace, Oct.-Apr.2004

SOFA, Chicago, represented by del Mano Gallery, October

“One Step Back, Two Steps Forward,” curated by Robyn Horn, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Sept.-Oct.

Collectors of Wood Art Forum, by del Mano Gallery, La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM, Sept.

“Turned & Sculpted Wood 2003,” del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA June-July

“Your Turn: Collecting Wood Art,” Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan June-July

‘Turned Wood - Small Treasures,” del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Mar.-Apr.

2002

November Salon Exhibition, home of Danny Castle, Hollywood Hills, CA, November

SOFA Chicago, represented by del Mano Gallery, October

Clay and Wood, the Fine Arts Federation of Burbank, CA, July-August

Turned Wood 2002, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July-August

SOFA New York, represented by Barry Friedman Gallery, May-June

Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Mar.-April

Masters of Wood, Gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ, Mar.

Branching Out: Contemporary Wood Turning in 2002, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA Mar.-June

Wood Turning in North America Since 1930, Wood Turning Center and Yale University Art Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sept.-Dec.*******

2001

SOFA Chicago, represented by del Mano Gallery, October

SOFA New York, represented by Barry Friedman Gallery, May-June

2000

SOFA Chicago, represented by del Mano Gallery, November

Turning Wood Into Art, the Jane and Arthur Mason Collection, Mint Museum of Craft+Design, Charlotte, NC, May - Oct.

Out of the Woods - Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, Mobile Museum of Art *******

Living With Form, the Horn Collection of American Crafts, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Feb.-April

1999

Forms In Wood, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Mass. Sept.-Nov.

The Art of Turned Wood: Selections From the Irving Lipton Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA Dec. 1999 -

De Young Artist Studio, Artist/Exhibitor M. H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Aug. 10-14

The Dorothy and George Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, June 26 to October 17

SOFA New York, represented by Barry Friedman Gallery, May 18 to 23

The Art of Turned Wood: Selections from the Irving Lipton Collection, the World Forestry Center, Portland, OR, May-September

1998

“Constructed”, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA October

Wood Art Collectors’ Conference, San Francisco, represented by del Mano Gallery, September, 1998

SOFA Chicago, del Mano Gallery, October

“The Art of Turning: Masters in Wood,” Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, NY, Mar.-Apr.

Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Mar.-April

Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection, American Craft Museum Symposium, New York, N.Y. Jan.-Feb.

1997

Feast On Art; Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, CA, October

Curators Focus: Turning in Context; 1997 World Turning Conference, Berman Museum, Collegeville, PA September ******

Turned Wood ‘97; del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA June/July Small Treasures; del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA March/April

From Ancient Craft To Fine Art: The Burton Creek Collection; The Tifton Museum of Art and Heritage, Tifton, GA, May

Homage To Osolnik; Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA April/May

Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Feb.*****

1996

Artists of the White House Collection: del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA July-Aug,

Craft At Gump's: The Helen Heninger Years; San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA Jan.-March

1995

Nature Turning Into Art, the Ruth and David Waterbury Collection of Turned Wood Bowls: Carlton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Oct.-Nov.

Soup To Nuts, the Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA Sept.-Dec.

Three Generations of Wood Turners: The Making of an Art Form, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA July-Aug.

American Association of Wood Turners Symposium; presenter, Davis, CA July

James Renwick Alliance Auction, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. April

1994

White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington, D.C. Feb. ****

http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/whc/whc-intro.html

Spectrum Auction, Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN, Nov.

Turning Plus, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ, Dec.1994-Feb. 1995

64th Annual Statewide Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Aug.-Sept.

National Woodturning Exhibition, Second Prize, Nunawading, Victoria, Australia, May/June

Del Mar Fair, Del Mar, CA First and Third prizes. June/July

Challenge V International Lathe Turned Objects Exhibition, Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, PA, beginning of tour.***

1993

Sky Harbor Art Program Exhibit, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ June-Sept.

Holzschalen, Galerie fur Angewandte Kunst, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe Verein, Munchen, Deutschland

Art from the Lathe, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE

Hand of a Craftsman, Eye of An Artist, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

The Art of the Wood Turner, High Museum, Atlanta, GA

1992

Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum and U.S. Information Agency; European Tour 1989-1992**

Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, U.S.I.A. Arts in America, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL ***

A Decade of Craft-Recent Acquisitions, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

International Turned Objects Show, U.S. Tour 1988-1992

Woodturning as an Art Form, Irving Lipton Collection, Indiana U. of PA

1991

Wood, Elements Gallery, Greenwich, CT

Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

1990

Woodworking West Symposium, presenter, Brigham Young U., Utah

Turned Vessels Defined, Boston Society of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1989-1990

Artist's Choice, Mendelson Gallery, Washington Depot, CT

1986 - 1989

Turned Wood, Ten Arrow Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.

Vessels Turned and Carved, Sansar Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1988-1989

Art Form of Turning, 20th Century Decorative Arts, Birmingham, MI 1988

Turned Object Show, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1988

Works Off the Lathe: Old and New Faces - Turner's Challenge I, II, & III, Crafts Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1987, 1988, and 1989

Wood & Fiber, Gallery Eight, La Jolla, CA 1988

Turned Wood in '86, in '87, in '88, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986-1988

Miniatures, 1987; and The New Spirit: Wood Turned and Carved, 1988; The Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Vessels & Forms Exhibition, Houston Festival, Houston, TX 1987, Merit Award

Contemporary Crafts Gallery 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR 1987

The Vessel: Studies in Form and Media, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, 1986

MUSEUMS and COLLECTIONS

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, gift of Janice and Bill Wetsman, 2005

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery

M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Dorothy and George Saxe Collection, June 1999

Danske Kunstindustrimuseum, by friends of Susie and Edward Elson, Oct. 1998

Fuji Corporation, at University of California Santa Cruz, Lick Observatory presentation of optical micro chip mount. Feb. 1996

The collection of Ruth and David Waterbury

The collection of Prince Norihito Takamado, Tokyo, Japan

The collection of Kodo Okuda, Tokyo, Japan

The collection of Dr. Irving Lipton, Encino, CA

The collection of Ronald and Anita Wornick, Burlingame, CA

The collection of Michael and Alice Lerp, Norco, Ca

The collection of John and Robyn Horn, Little Rock, AR

The collection Sam Maloof, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Community Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

The White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington, D.C. April 1994

Collecting American Decorative Arts & Sculpture 1971-1991, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL

The Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA

American Craft Museum Permanent Collection, New York, the Norman Anderson Collection and the Craft Today Collection

The High Museum, Atlanta, GA

Philip Morris Corporate Collection, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Mint Museum of Craft+Design, Charlotte, NC

Other private collections are not mentioned in the interest of the privacy of the collectors.

PUBLICATIONS and ARTICLES

The Best Of Fine Woodworking, Fine Woodworking online archive

Beneath the Bark, 25 Years of Woodturning, Christiansen and Nish, Utah Woodturning Symposium, 2004

Celebrating Nature, Craft Traditions/Contemporary Expressions, Kevin Wallace, curator, by the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, 2004

500 Wood Bowls, Bold & Original designs Blending Tradition & Innovation, Ray Leier, Jan Peters, and Kevin Wallace, Lark Books, First Edition, 2004

Sacred Vessels, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Anita and Ron Wornick, Nov. 2003, Heshvan 5764

Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2003, the Original Work of Art: What It Has to Teach, Susan B. Matheson, editor, 2003

Wood Turning in North America Since 1930, Yale University Art Gallery and the Wood Turning Center, 2001

Turning Wood Into Art, the Jane and Arthur Mason Collection, Suzanne Ramljak and Michael W. Monroe, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, 2000

Woodturning Techniques, Mike Darlow, 2001

The Art of Craft, Contemporary Works From the Saxe Collection, Burgard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1999

Living With Form, the Horn Collection of American Crafts, Robyn Horn and the Arkansas Art Center, 1999

Contemporary Turned Wood, Leier, Peters, Wallace, 1999

New York Times, Living Arts, February 25, 1999

Southwest Art, Expressions In Wood, the Wornick Collection, Dec. 1997

Enter the World of Lathe-Turned Objects, York Graphic Services and the Wood Turning Center, 1997

Expressions in Wood, Masterworks from the Wornick Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, 1996

Curators’ Focus: Turning In Context, 1997, The Wood Turning Center

The White House Collection of American Crafts, the White House Historical Association, 1995

Woodworker West, pg. 25, May-June 1995

The American Wood Turner, "Rediscovering Polychrome" pg. 12,13, June 1995

Australian Wood Review, #6, March 1995. "Between Centers: The Irving Lipton Collection"

American Craft Magazine, Challenge V article, pg. 72 June/July 1994

The American Wood Turner, " Monochrome Assembly" pg. 14-15, Dec. 1989

Holz und Elfenbein, "Schalen aus Verleimtem Segmenten" Apr., Mai, Juni 1991

Fine Woodworking, No. 76, "Segmented Turning" pg. 72-75, May/June 1989

Small Woodworking Projects, "Segmented Turnings" The Taunton Press, 1992

Wall Street Journal, June 30, 1991

*Challenge V: International Lathe - Turned Objects

Berman Museum, Collegeville, PA Jan.-Apr. 1994

Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL Apr.-June 1994

California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA Aug.-Sept. 1994

Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL Apr.-June 1995

Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL Oct.-Nov. 1995

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Dec.-Feb. 1996

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK June-Aug 1996

Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI Sept.-Oct 1996

Ella Sharpe Museum, Jackson, MI Nov. 1996-Jan. 1997

Midland Arts Council, Midland, MI Feb.-Apr. 1997

**Out of the Woods - Tour, January 1993 through March 1997

Cyril and Methodius Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria

City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

National Historical Museum, Tirana, Albania

Old Town Historic Museum of Applied Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

American Cultural Center, Zakopane, Poland

Tromso Museum, Oslo, Norway

Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Museum of Northern Bohemia, Liberec, Czech Republic

Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Varazdin City Hall Galleries, Varazdin, Croatia

Schungfabric of Tetange Cultural Center, Tetange, Luxembourg

Larel Cultural Center, Viaden, Luxemborg

Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Binational Center/Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece

American Center/Mylos, Thessaloniki, Greece

Mason do l’Artisanat/des Metiers d’Art, Marseilles, France

Natuur Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

***Crafts Today USA - Tour 1989 through 1993

Musée Des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France

Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland

Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany

Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Musée Des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland

Museum of Decorative and Applied Folk Art, Moscow, Russia

State Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey

The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway

Saint Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Belgium

America Haus, Berlin, Germany

The Zappeion, Athens, Greece

Slovak National, Athens, Greece

The Grassi Museum, Leipzig, German Sala Sant Jaume De La Fundacio "La Caixa," Barcelona, Spain

The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

****The White House Collection of American Crafts, 1994-1999

The White House, Washington, D.C. Feb. 1994-May 1995

National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. April-Sept. 1995

Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. Oct.-Nov. 1995

American Craft Museum, New York, N.Y. Dec. 1995-Mar. 1996

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass. Apr.-June. 1996

Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA July-Sept. 1996

Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Va. Nov. 1996 - Jan. 1997

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine May-July 1997

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Fla. Sept.-Nov. 1997

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Del. Dec. 1997-Feb. 1998

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. July-Oct. 1998

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C. Jan.-May 1999

Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Ark. Oct. 1999 - Jan. 2000

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich. July - Oct. 2000

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. July - Aug. 2003

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, Georgia May - Aug. 2004

*****Expressions in Wood: Masterworks From the Wornick Collection, 1997-

The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Feb.- July 1997

The McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX Oct. 1997 - Jan. 1998

The American Craft Museum, New York, N.Y. Jan. 1998 -

******Curator’s Focus: Turning In Context, International Lathe-Turned Objects

Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA Sept.-Nov. 1997

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX Dec. 1997-Mar. 1998

Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico May-Aug. 1998

Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan Sept.-Oct. 1998

Ella Sharpe Museum, Jackson, Michigan April-June, 1999

Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, Kansas July-Sept. 1999

University of Plattville, Plattville, Wis. Sept.-Oct, 1999

******Wood Turning in North America

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Oct.-Dec. 2001

Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. Mar.-July 2002

Yale University Art Gallery, Sept.-Dec. 2002

*******Out of the Woods - Turned Wood by American Craftsmen

Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI Mar.-May 2000

Cultural Center of Fine Arts, Parkersburg, WV June-Aug. 2000

Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Sept.-Dec. 2000

Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Jan.-Mar. 2001

Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, KS May-June 2001

Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL July-Sept. 2001

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neeah, WI Oct.-Dec. 2001

Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA Mar.-May 2002

Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA May-July 2002

Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, IA Aug.-Sept. 2002