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Male
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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art in nature. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Sculpture Other
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Bauhaus School - (1919 - 1933)
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| Your Personal Biography |
ROY F. STAAB
8629 West Maple Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53214
telephone/fax (414) 258-1366
roystaab@yahoo.com
www.greenmuseum.org/staab
BORN: 1941, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
EDUCATION:
1969 B.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
1966 Milwaukee Institute of Technology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1965 Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2007 HISTORIC RHYTHMS, ARTSCAPE, Third Ward Sculpture Walk, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ALIEN BEAUTY, Teaneck Creek Conservancy, Teaneck, New Jersey
SYMBIONIC, Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI
HASU, International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
SIX INSTALLATION, Sacatar, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil
2006 RECYCLABLE HARVEST, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
FOUNTAIN IN THE SKY Art’s afair, West Allis City Hall courtyard, West Allis, Wisconsin
FOLDED SWALLOW Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2006 Gongju, South Korea
CROSSING, Hotcakes Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
NATURE BELLE, Hank Aaron Trail, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2005 YOKOHAMA-ARTIST-IN-MUSEUM Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
BERCEAU BORÉAL Boréal Art/Nature, Lac Labelle, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada
KATSURA PASSAGE ‘PASSAGE’S, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 TOPANGA COCKSCOMB [video], Pasadena Garden Lab, Pasadena, California
STAAB’S INSTALLATIONS, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin
ART ON SITE, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art -- at Olbrich Botanic Gardens, Madison, WI
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS, ecoartspace, Bull Dog Studios, Beacon, New York
2003 ecoart=radical approaches to restoring the earth, ecoartspace, Beacon, New York
RIVER SURFACE ‘Imaging the River’, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York.
Festival d’art contemporary d’Laurentides, Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada.
DAS BOOT ‘Lure of the Lake”, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
2002 Clarity of Vision, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Water, Land and Air, ECOARTSPACE, Garrison, New York.
BOTANICA, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, Massachusetts.
Four-leaf Clover, Otofuke Culture Center, Otofuke, Japan.
Big Shimenawa in Small Mountains, Free Space Praha, Sapporo, Japan.
Skogsring, Bjorklunden, Bailleys Harbor, Wisconsin.
Spring Ring, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Celestial Rings, Un-natural Landscape, Flatefile Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2000 Incontri Internazionali D'arte Natura, ARTE SELLA 2000, Borgo Valsugana, Trento, Italia
1997 What Site Installations Are, Osaka College of Art, Osaka, Japan.
Growth Rings [site installation], Green Festival of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
Swan's Tail [site installation], LongHouse, East Hampton, New York.
The Golden Ring [site installation], Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois.
Indoors & Out, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Photographs of Site Installations made in Japan, Art Space, HAP, Hiroshima, Japan.
1990 Jyvaskyla Opus [site Installation], Jyvaskyla Arts Festival, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Photographs of Reed Sculptures, Gallery Fotokram, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
1983 Projects International, Galerie Articule, Montreal, Canada.
Earworks, Grommet Gallery, New York City.
1977 One Man Show, Galerie Bel Espoir, Paris, France.
1976 Accrochage d'ete, Galerie Stevenson & Palluel, Paris, France.
Since 1979, I have made site installation works. In 1983, I started to make them in nature out of natural materials from the site…Environmental Site Installations. I have made many installation sculptures that are not listed on this resume -- only the ones associated with institutions.
Selected Bibliography
[commissions], Alien Beauty, American Craft Magazine, August/September 2007 pg 32.
Richer& Rosenzweig. “No.1 First Works by 362 Artists, 2005, pg 355.
Grande, John K. “Roy Staab – Boréal ArtNature”, SCULPTURE magazine, April 2006 pg 76.
Lipton, Amy. “Ephemeral Rhythms”, Hudson River Art Magazine, fall/winter 2004 issue vol. three, pages 35-45.
Applebome, Peter. “An Artist's Masterpiece, Until the Next Storm Arrives”, New York Times, July 21, 2004.
Grande, John K. “In Tune with Nature, a conversation with Roy Staab”, SCULPTURE magazine, July/Aug 2004 issue vol. 23 No. 6 pgs 46-51.
Consolie, Grace. “Botanica “, Arts Media Magazine, Boston, October, 2002.
Connors, Thomas. “Profile Organic Artistry Roy Staab’s medium: nature”, Wisconsin Trails magazine, May/June 2002, page 16.
Guequierre, Nathan. “Art in the Garden, Roy Staab’s rite of spring”, Shepherd Express newspaper, May 9, 2002.
Auer, James. “Art sways in the breeze”, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper, April 24, 2002.
Deho, Valerie. “In Praise of non-Difference”, ARTE SELLA CATALOGUE, summer 2001.
Whitney, Kathleen. “Going Natural”, World Sculpture News magazine, summer 2001.
Cummings, Mary. “The Artist Who Creations Float Among the Reeds”, New York Times newspaper,
May 20, 2001, LI page 47.
Rothenberg, David. “Sculpture in the Water”, Terrain.org, Bull Hill, autumn 1999.
Lyden, Jackie. “Interview with Jackie Lyden”, NPR SUNDAY MORNING EDITION [National Public Radio], August 16, 1997.
Mednick, Amy. “Putting environment on display”, Boston Sunday Globe newspaper, May 1, 1994
Moriarity, Judith Ann. “Roy F. Staab: Direct and Hard-Edged”, ART MUSCLE magazine, April 1994.
Busa, Chris. “Holes”, Provincetown Arts magazine, 1993 edition.
HARPERS magazine, April 1994.
Couture, Andrea M. “THE EARTH ART OF ROY F. STAAB” ORION magazine, COVER, winter issue 1993,
page 44-48.
Miller, Marilyn. “Artist Creates Sculpture in the Moors”, Provincetown Advocate newspaper, August 20, 1992.
Paine, Janice T. “Staab Weaves Magic with Reeds”, Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper, July 31, 1992.
Moriarity, Judith Ann. “Roy F. Staab Prairie Ring”, ART MUSCLE magazine, June/July, 1992.
Hoving, Nancy. “Building Pyramids in Brooklyn”, Fiberarts Magazine, January/February 1991.
“Americans Abroad”, AMERICAN CRAFT magazine COVER, December/January 1990.
“Earth Day Hay”, SCULPTURE magazine, picture & text, summer 1990.
Clabby, Catherine. “A reed shaken with the wind”, Times Union, Albany, New York, August 27, 1989.
“The Golden Triangles of Central Park”, American Craft magazine, October/November 1987, vol. 47/no 5.
Geibel, Victoria. “A Composition of Reeds”, Metropolis Magazine, October 1987.
Cummings, Mary. “Reed Sculptures Puzzle Passerby”, Southampton Press newspaper, July 31, 1986.
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Musee d'art moderne, ville de Paris, Paris, France. Le fond national d'art contemporain, Paris, France.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation award 1994 Massachusetts Art Lottery [Provincetown & Truro].
2006 Sacatar artist residence, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil 1993 Puffin Foundation Grant.
2006 Nature Art Prize, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 1992 Pollack/Krasner Grant.
2006 Panelist at International Sculpture Conference 1992 Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia.
2005 Artist-in-museum Yokohama Museum of Art 1991 Artist Space Exhibition Grant.
2002 Sapporo-Artist-in-Residence 1990 Summer Arts Festival of Jyvaskyla Finland.
2002 Wisconsin Arts Board Award 1989 New York State Council on the Arts (Hudson River Project).
2000 Gottlieb Foundation Award 1989 Artist Space Exhibition Grant.
1998 Art Futures Award. 1988 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
1997 Green Festival of Hiroshima (commission). 1987 New York Foundation for the Arts/Sculpture.
1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Japan Fellowship.
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