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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