Location | Carlos Museum Reception Hall |
University Event Topic | Arts, College |
Department/Organization | Visual Arts Program |
Artist | John Grade |
Type of Art | Visual Arts & Art History - Exhibitions, Lectures, & Events |
Series | Water 2011-2012 |
Speaker/Presenter | John Grade |
Event Open To | All |
Building/Room | Carlos Reception Hall |
Cost | FREE |
Contact Name | Mary Catherine Johnson |
Contact Email | mcjohn7@emory.edu |
More Info / Register | www.visualarts.emory.edu |
Environmental
artist John Grade returns to campus to speak about his work as well as
the experience of creating Piedmont Divide, a two-part sculptural
installation that visually and conceptually links two of Emory’s most
beloved and frequented locations - the Quadrangle and Lullwater Preserve
(on view through April 2012).
John Grade is the
recipient of the 2010 biennial Willard Metcalf Award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, an Andy Warhol Foundation Award
(NY), two Pollock Krasner Foundation Awards (NY), a Louis Comfort
Tiffany Foundation Award (NY), A Contemporary Art Award from the
Portland Art Museum, five grants from Artist Trust, five grants from
4Culture and four grants from the city of Seattle. His work has been
exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. He recently
exhibited at Galerie Ateliers L'H Du Siege in France, Fabrica in the UK,
and Cynthia Reeves Gallery in New York. Grade has been a fellow at the
Djerassi Foundation (CA), the MacDowell Colony - twice - (NH), the Espy
Foundation (WA) and the Ballinglen Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland.
His work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture,
Artweek, American Craft, ARTUS, the Boston Globe, and on NPR’s All
Things Considered and Studio 360. Two monographs of the artist’s work
have been published coinciding with major museum surveys of his work.
Articles about his current work are forthcoming this spring in
Sculpture, The Huffington Post, Art in America, The Seattle Times,
American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Arcade, Conde de Nast Traveller and
Italian and Russian Domus.
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