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Willard Boepple
About the artist...
Internationally acclaimed sculptor Willard Boepple
has exhibited widely since the mid-seventies.
One of America's most respected sculptors, Boepple is known as
an artist's artists. The New York Times said of his last show in
New York, "…this is really beautiful work."
He has served on the faculties of Bennington College and the Boston
Museum School and is chairman of the Triangle Artists' Workshop
in New York. His work can also currently be seen in the Yorkshire
Sculpture Park.
Boepple's wooden sculptures are primarily influenced by utilitarian
objects that interact with humans, such as ladders, shelves and
mechanisms with levers and cogs.
It is not the objects themselves that are of interest but their
dimension, size and proportions. He combines enormous variations
in density, interval, and internal scale. The work can be read as
everything from abstract evocations of aspiration to oddly canted
cubist still lives. Observations of what it is to be human are transformed
into metaphorical sculptures. His craftsmanship displays a modernist
sense of connection with the long history of sculpture.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Storm King
Art Center, the National Gallery of Botswana, the National Gallery
of Kenya and numerous other public and private collections around
the world.
Biography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2003 |
Broadbent, London |
| 2001 |
Broadbent, London |
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Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island |
| 2000 |
Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York |
| 1999 |
Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York |
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New York Studio School Gallery, New York |
| 1997 |
Tricia Collins - Grand Salon, New York |
| 1995 |
Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France |
| 1994 |
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London |
| 1993 |
André Emmerich Gallery, New York |
| 1991 |
André Emmerich Gallery, New York |
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Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London |
| 1990 |
Sculpture 1970-1990, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College,
Vermont |
| 1989 |
Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York |
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Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London |
| 1988 |
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts |
| 1986 |
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston |
| 1985 |
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York |
| 1982 |
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston |
| 1981 |
Acquavella Contemporary Art |
| 1980 |
Acquavella Contemporary Art |
| 1978 |
Acquavella Contemporary Art |
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Dart Gallery, Chicago |
| 1977 |
Acquavella Contemporary Art |
| 1976 |
Acquavella Contemporary Art |
| 1974 |
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York |
| 1971 |
McCullough Park Foundation, North Bennington, Vermont |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2003 |
Colourspace, The Gallery at APT |
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Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland |
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Arte Bologna, Italy |
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Art 2003, London |
| 2002 |
Willard Boepple, Ori Gersht, Albrect Schäffer;
Andrew Mummery Gallery, London |
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Art 2002, London |
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New Work, Broadbent, London |
| 2001 |
Sculpture, Robert Steele Gallery, New York |
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The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia |
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North Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont |
| 2000 |
The Way Things Work, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art |
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Parker's Box, Williamsbugh, Brooklyn |
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North Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont |
| 1999 |
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island |
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North Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont |
| 1998 |
Substance, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art |
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Convivial, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art |
| 1997 |
National Gallery of Kenya, Nairobi |
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Wasanii International Artists'Workshop Exhibition |
| 1996 |
Tricia Collins Grand Salon, New York |
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Northern Voices..., N.O.B.I.A.S, Castleton State College |
| 1995 |
Six Sculptors/Triangle, Gallery One-Ten, New York |
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K. Pamoja, Africa 95 International
Sculpture Workshop Exhibition |
| 1994 |
A Celebration of Great American Sculpture at Naumkeag,
Stockbridge, Massachusetts |
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Across the River and into the Trees, A Sculpture Show
The Rushmore Festival |
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Lead and Follow, The Continuity of Abstraction Bede
Gallery, Jarrow, Northumberland |
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Atlantis Gallery, London |
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Corr Contemporary Art Inaugural Exhibition, London |
| 1993 |
Willard Boepple and Michael Williams, N.O.B.I.A.S.
Gallery, North Bennington, Vermont |
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Table Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery |
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Xayamaca International Artist's Workshop Exhibition,
Kingston, Jamaica |
| 1992 |
Grounds for Sculpture Inaugural Exhibition, Johnson
Atelier, Mercerville New Jersey |
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CrossSection, Battery Park City & The World Financial
Center |
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Ten Sculptures, André Emmerich Gallery |
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Painting and Sculpture by Leading Contemporary Artists,
Gallery 90, Guildford, Surrey, U.K. |
| 1991 |
Table Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery |
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Spring Show, Woltjen/Udell Gallery,Vancouver, British
Columbia |
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Group Show, Woltjen Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada |
| 1990 |
The Thapong Exhibition, National Gallery of Botswana,Gaborone |
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Wood, Douglas Drake Gallery, New York |
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Steel Works, curated by Phyllis Tuchman and Corolla
van den Houten, USX Tower, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1989 |
Delta Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe |
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Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London |
| 1988 |
Artists of the Pachi Pamwe Workshop, National Gallery
of Zimbabwe, Harare |
| 1987 |
Modern and Contemporary Masters, Lever/Meyerson Gallery,
New York |
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Triangle Artists' Workshop, Pine Plains, New York |
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Matthew Scott Gallery, South Miami, Florida |
| 1986 |
Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Awards Show, Ruth Siegel
Ltd., New York |
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Made in the U.S.A., 909 Third Avenue, New York |
| 1985 |
Group Show, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1984 |
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York |
| 1983 |
Abstract Art in New England, Danforth Museum, Framingham,
MA |
| 1980 |
Columbia Plaza Sculpture Show, Columbia Plaza, Washington,
D.C. |
| 1979 |
Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston |
| 1978 |
Ten by Ten/Sculpture Space, Joe and Emily Lowe Art
Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York |
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Fifteen Sculptors in Steel Around Bennington, 1963-1978,
Park McCullough House, North Bennington, Vermont |
| 1977 |
Sculpture Space, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New
York and Munson Williams Proctor Institute |
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Artists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Galleries, New York |
| 1973 |
New New England Sculpture, Currier Gallery, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH and Art Gallery of the State University
at Postdam, New York |
| 1972 |
Five Sculptors From Bennington, André Emmerich Gallery,
New York |
| 1971 |
Regional Exhibition, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady,
New York |
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EDUCATION |
| 1963 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| 1963-1964 |
University of California at Berkeley |
| 1967 |
Rhode Island Schoold of Design |
| 1968 |
City College of The City University of New York. B.F.A. |
| 1970-1974 |
Asst. Faculty, Bennington College, Vermont |
| 1977-1987 |
Faculty, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| COLLECTIONS |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada |
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Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York |
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National Gallery of Botswana, Gaborone |
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National Gallery of Kenya, Nairobi |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| 1999 |
Taplin, Robert, "Willard Boepple at the New York Studio School
and Tricia Collins", Art in America |
| May 1999 |
Naves, Mario, Review, The New Criterion, p. 57 |
| April 4, 1999 |
Halasz, Piri, "Hofmann, Boepple, and Frankenthaler," NYarts
Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 59 |
| March 15, 1999 |
White, Kit, "Willard Boepple: The Sense of Things, Studio
School Gallery, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art," Review
magazine |
| Feb 1999 |
Wilkin, Karen, "The Sense of Things," catalogue essay, The
New York Studio School, New York |
| 1999 |
Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries", Partisan Review,
p. 135 |
| Dec 1997 |
Frank, Elizabeth, Review, Art News, p. 166 |
| Oct 10, 1997 |
Glueck, Grace, Review, The New York Times |
| Oct 1997 |
Riley, Charles II, "The Sense of Things", WE Magazine |
| 1996-1997 |
Riley, Charles II, Catalogue essay, "Willard Boepple, Sculpture"
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| 1997 |
Tricia Collins * Grand Salon, October, 1997 |
| May 1997 |
Zaidi, Ali, "An Intense Time Away From Your Life", Executive
Magazine, p 24-30 |
| June 1994 |
Collins, Tricia & Milazzo, Richard, Catalogue essay "Across
the River and into the Trees, a Sculpture Show", The Rushmore
Festival, Woodbury, New York |
| Nov 1993 |
Taplin, Robert, Review, "Willard Boepple at Emmerich", Art
in America |
| June 14, 1993 |
The New Yorker, "Goings on About Town", Review |
| Summer 1991 |
Wilkin, Karen, "At The Galleries", Partisan Review |
| Autumn 1991 |
Morgan, Robert C, Review, Tema Celeste |
| April 1991 |
Hudson, Andrew, "On Irregularity: A December Visit to Willard
Boepple's Studio", Catalogue essay, "Willard Boepple, Sculpture
in Wood", André Emmerich Gallery |
| August 1990 |
Bijutsu Techo Monthly Art Magazine, Review, Tokyo |
| April 1990 |
Hudson, Andrew, "Breaking Loose from Conventions,Willard Boepple:
Sculpture 1970 - 1990," Catalogue essay, Usdan Gallery, Bennington
College, Vermont |
| 1990 |
Leepile, Methaetsile, "Relating To the Body", The Reporter,
Gabarone Botswana, Vol. 7 No. 1. |
| March 28, 1990 |
Hilton, Tim, Critics Choice, The Guardian |
| May 5, 1989 |
Norrie, Jane, Arts Review |
| May 2, 1989 |
Hilton, Tim, "A Mood for Minimalism, Critic's Choice" The
Guardian, London |
| May 2, 1989 |
"Going out to the Galleries," The Independent, London |
| Spring, 1989 |
Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries," Partisan Review
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| May 1989 |
Cyphers, Peggy, Review, Arts Magazine, p. 110 |
| April 1988 |
Barter, Judith, Catalogue essay, "Willard Boepple: Sculpture",
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College |
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Sandy, Stephen, Catalogue essay, "The Sculpture of Willard
Boepple", Acquavella Contemporary Art |
| 1985 |
Klein, Ellen Lee, Review, Arts Magazine, December,
p. 113 |
| 1985 |
Boepple, Willard, "Commencement Address", School of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, May 24, 1985. Published in Museum School
News, Volume VII, Fall |
| Oct 11, 1985 |
Russell, John, Review, The New York Times |
| Oct 7, 1985 |
Dunlap, David W, "Relearning the Sculptors Craft" The New
York Times |
| Dec 1984 |
Klein, Ellen Lee, Arts Magazine, Review, p. 35 |
| April 1983 |
Swan, John, "Abstract Art in New England", Review |
| Feb 1983 |
Moffet, Kenworth, "Abstract Art in New England", Catalogue
introduction, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts |
| 1980 |
Sculpture Newsletter, January-June, p.4. |
| Sept 1978 |
Saunders, Wade, "Willard Boepple at Acquavella," Art in
America, pp. 123-4 |
| April 1978 |
"The Museum Year: The 102nd Annual Report". Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, p. 24. |
| 1978 |
Hudson, Andrew, "Fifteen Sculptors in Steel Around Bennington
1963-1978", Catalogue essay, Park McCullough House, North Bennington,
Vermont |
| April 24, 1978 |
Russell, John, The New York Times, Review |
| April 24, 1978 |
Ashbery, John, The New York Magazine, Review |
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| PRIZES & FELLOWSHIPS |
| 1997 |
United States Department of State Information Service Visiting
Cultural Specialist to Kenya |
| 1995 |
British Council U.S. Participant Africa 95 International Sculpture
Workshop, Yorkshire, U.K. |
| 1993 |
United States Department of State Information Service Visiting
Cultural Specialist to Jamaica |
| 1989 |
United States Department of State Information Service Visiting
Cultural Specialist to Zimbabwe |
| 1988 |
The New York State Association of Architects' Citation for
the Triangle Collaborative Architecture Project |
| 1986 |
Francis Greenburger Foundation Prize |
| 1982 |
Ford Foundation Faculty Enrichment Grant |
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