Stoney Lamar
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Episcopal Diocese of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2004 Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art, New York, NY
Nature Transformed, Wood Art from the Bohlen collection, University of
Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
2003 Into the Woods, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Collectors' Choice, Collectors of Wood Art Forum, SOFA, Chicago, IL
Wood Turning in North America Since 1930,
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2001 Nature Takes a Turn, International Juried Exhibition,
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
University of California, Davis, CA
University of New York, Purchase, NY
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Challenge VI: Roots-Insights & Inspirations in Contemporary Turned
Objects, Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
2000 Turning Wood into Art, The Jane & Arthur Mason Collection, Mint
Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
1999 The Art of Turned Wood: Selections from the Lipton Collection, World
Forestry Center, Portland, OR
Revolution/Evolution I, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Arida Foundation Artist of the Year Exhibition, Blue Ridge Community
College, Hendersonville, NC
Evolution in Form: Furniture, Turnings & Sculptural Objects, Co-Chair,
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Solo Exhibition, Mendelson Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
1997-98 Turned Wood Now: Redefining the Lathe-Turned Object IV, Arizona
State
University, Tempe, AZ
1997 Curators Focus: Turning In Context, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum
of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA and touring
Beyond Tradition: A Turned Wood Invitational, Decorative Arts Museum,
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Solo Exhibition, Sansar Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
1993-97 Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, European tour
Sponsored by the Arts American Program, U.S. Information Agency
1995 Nature Turning Into Art: The Ruth and David Waterbury Collection of
Turned Wood Bowls, Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College,
Northfield, MN
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Solo Exhibition, Kipp Gallery, Indiana
University, Indiana, PA
1995 National Objects Invitational, Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts
Center, Little Rock, AR
1994 Turning Plus: Redefining the Lathe Turned Object III, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ
Challenge IV: International Lathe Turned Objects, Philip and Muriel
Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Fall Colors, Solo Exhibition, Blue Spiral 1, Ashville, NC
1993 Hand of the Craftsman: Eye of the Artist, Hunter Museum of Art,
Chattanooga, TN
Solo Exhibition, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fifth Annual Lathe-Turned Objects Show: Stoney Lamar, Sansar Gallery,
Washington, DC
1992 Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, Fine Arts
Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
Revolving Techniques: Thrown, Blown, Spun and Turned, James A.
Michener Arts Center, Doylestown, PA
1991 Turner’s Challenge IV, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia,
PA
Woodturning: Vision and Concept II, Award, Arrowmont School of Arts
and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Revolutions-Revelations, Solo Exhibition, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
1990 Contemporary Works in Wood: Southern Style, Huntsville Museum of Art,
Huntsville, AL
Lathe-Turned Objects by Robyn Horn and Stoney Lamar, Chelsea Gallery,
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Revolving Techniques: Thrown, Blown, Spun and Turned, James A.
Michener Arts Center, Doylestown, PA
Turned Vessels Defined, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Transitions, Solo Exhibition, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
1989 Arkansas Collects Decorative Arts, Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas
Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Turner's Challenge III, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Materials Hard and Soft, Award, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
1988 International Turned Objects Show, Port of History Museum,
Philadelphia, PA and touring
Regional Selections, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1987 Works Off the Lathe: Old and New Faces, Craft Alliance Gallery, St.
Louis, MO
Art in Wood, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC
1986 American Woodturners, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
Fall Exhibit, Solo Exhibition, Wilson Arts Council, Wilson, NC
1985 Woodturning: Vision and Concept, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
Gatlinburg, TN
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I am interested in the possibilities of an emotional response to work
using a geometric reorganization of line that represents both the
object/idea and my understanding of them. The original development
of multiple axis techniques became a way of sculpting asymmetrical
forms on the lathe that led to an exploration of the power of a
single line to represent gesture, attitude, and emotion. These compositions
dealt both with figurative and architectural concerns that where
influenced by both process and material. The addition of steel to
the wood forms has enhanced the narrative opportunities in the objects
through the natural tensions produced between the two materials.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2004 Nature Transformed, Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, Hudson
Hills
Press
2002 Scratching the Surface: Art and Content in Contemporary
Wood, Michael
Hosaluk, Guild Publishing
2001 Wood Turning in North America Since 1930,Wood Turning
Center &
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000 Turning Wood into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason
Collection, Harry N.
Abrams, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
1999 Living With Form: The Horn Collection of Contemporary
Crafts,
Arkansas Arts Center, Bradley Publishing
Contemporary Turned Wood, Ray Leier, Jan Peters, Kevin
Wallace, Hand
Books Press
1997 Civic Partners, Report from the Pew Partnership
for Civic Change, "Civic
Leadership for the New Century," Retta B. Kelly
1993 Woodshop News, "Lamar's Wood Sculpture...," Daniel
MacAlpine,
January
1992 American Craft Magazine, "Portfolio," Vol. 52, No.
5
1989 The Arts Journal, "Transforming Nature's Mutations: The
Turned Wood
Sculpture of Stoney Lamar," Thomas Rain Crowe, Vol. 14, No
7
1988 Contemporary American Craft Art: A Collector's
Guide, Barbara Mayer,
Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.