MARK LINDQUIST Born 1949,
Oakland, CA , Resides in Quincy,
FL Education M.F.A. Florida
State University, Phi Kappa Phi - 1990 B.A. New
England College - 1971 Museum and Public Collections The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Arizona State University Art Museum Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Bank of America Corporate Headquarters, Charlotte,
NC The Cincinnati Museum, OH The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI Dallas Museum of Art, TX The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young
Museum), CA Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA Greenville County Museum of Art, SC High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Michigan University Art Museum Mint Museum of Craft and Design, NC The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Mobile Museum of Fine Arts, AL Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN Museum of Arts and Design (formerly American Craft
Museum), NYC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI The Schenectady Museum, NY Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National
Museum of American Art), Washington, DC University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA The Woodturning Center, Philadelphia, PA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Awards / Recognition 2007 Fellow,
American Craft Council 2006 POP
Fellowship, American Association of Woodturners 1999 Distinguished
Alumni Achievement Award, New England College 1996 Honorary
Board Member, James Renwick Alliance 1989 Fellowship,
National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation 1985 New Works Grant, Fuller Museum
of Art, Brockton, Mass. Council on the Arts and Humanities 1984 Individual
Artist Grant, N.H. Commission on the Arts 1983 New England Living Art Treasure,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1979 MacDowell
Colony Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H. Selected Exhibitions
(*one person shows) 2009 "Soul's
Journey: Inside the Creative Process," The Center for Craft, Creativity
and Design, Hendersonville,
NC, companion exhibition to the documentary film of the same name by Chanse
Simpson 2008
SOFA Chicago "ICONS: A Tribute to Mel
Lindquist", rakovaBreckergallery Southern
Arts Federation, "Tradition/Innovation:
American Masterpieces of Southern Craft &
Traditional Art" (traveling exhibition) rakovaBreckergallery,
Miami, FL, "Inaugural Exhibition" 2007
"POP
Merit Fellowship Award Exhibition", American Association of Woodturners,
Portland and MN
"Far From The Tree",
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport, Maine, and traveling 2006
The International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects
& Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago Donna
Schneier Fine Art
"The
Presence of Absence: Celebrating the Void in Contemporary Wood
Sculpture"
at SOFA Chicago, curated by Hal Nelson, Director of the Long Beach Museum
of Art, CA Museum
of Art & Design, NYC, "Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen
Collection" University
of Idaho Prichard Art Gallery, "Woodturning on the Edge" 2005-06 Racine
Art Museum, Racine, WI, "East Meets West: The Contemporary Asian Aesthetic in
RAM's Collection 2005 Northern
Michigan UniversityŐs DeVos Art Museum, "Out of the Woods" The
Wood Turning Center, "ArtistsŐ Reflections: Selections from the Wood Turning
CenterŐs
Collection" 2004 Arkansas
Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, "Rooted in Innovation: Contemporary Wood
Sculpture" Los
Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Celebrating Nature:
Craft
Traditions/Contemporary Expressions" University
of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, "Nature Transformed: Wood Art from
the Bohlen Collection The
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, "Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen" Brigham
Young University Museum of Art, "Beneath the Bark: Twenty-Five Years of Woodturning" 2003 Kanazawa
World Craft Forum Invitational Exhibition, Kanazawa, Japan * The Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia,
PA, "Millennial Mysteries 1990-2000" 2001- 02 Renwick
Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Yale University, and The
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Wood Turning in North America Since
1930" 2000 Mint
Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina "The Founders' Circle Collection", Inaugural Exhibition, and
"The
Jane and Arthur Mason Collection" 1998 * Mendelson Gallery, Washington
Depot, CT Delaware
Art Museum, "The White House Collection of American Crafts" 1997 * Florida Gulf Coast Art Center,
Belleair, FL,
"Revolutions
in Wood: Mark Lindquist, 25 Year Retrospective" * Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St..
Petersburg, FL,
"Mark
Lindquist: Technoancients – Paint and Robotics" Oakland
Museum of California,
"Expressions
in Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection" Connell
Gallery, Atlanta, GA, "Homage to Osolnik" Peter
Findlay Gallery, New York, NY Mendelson
Gallery, Washington Depot, CT,
"Mark
and Melvin Lindquist" 1996 * The Renwick Gallery of The National
Museum of American Art, Washington, DC,
"Revolutions
in Wood: Mark Lindquist, 25 Year Retrospective" * Virginia Beach Center for the Arts,
Virginia Beach, VA, "Revolutions in Wood" * The Museum of Arts and Sciences,
Daytona Beach, FL, "Revolutions in Wood" * Maurine Littleton Gallery,
Washington, D.C., Solo Exhibition of sculpture
Palm
Beach College Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL, Group Sculpture Exhibition The
International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art, Miami The
LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA,
"The
White House Collection of American Crafts" 1995 * The International Exposition of
Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art, Miami (Gail
Severn Gallery) National
Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. & traveling, "The White House Collection
of American Crafts" * Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond,
VA & touring, "Revolutions in Wood: Mark
Lindquist, 25 Year Retrospective," curated by Robert Hobbs
1994 Lowe
Art Museum, University of Miami, "Beyond Nature: Wood Into Art" Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, "The
Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum" Fuller
Museum of Art, Massachusetts, "Treasures in our Midst" * The International Exposition of
Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art, Chicago (Concurrent
solo exhibition w/ Dale Chihuly, Gail Severn Gallery) 1993 The
White House, Washington, DC, "The White House Collection of American
Crafts" 1993 * Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA The
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, "Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe
Collection" Fine
Arts Museum of the South/Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, European Tour
including Rome, Athens, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Luxembourg High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, "The Art of the Woodturner" Gail
Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID (Seattle Art Exposition) * Dorothy McRae Gallery, Atlanta, GA
(Inaugural exhibition) 1993 * Delaware Art Museum The
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, "National Objects
Invitational" * Chicago International New Art Forms
Exposition, Gail Severn Gallery 1992 Renwick
Gallery, National Museum of American Art, "American Crafts: The Nation's
Collection" * Snyderman Gallery, inaugural
exhibition, Cherry Street location, Philadelphia, PA * Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
(Painted Reliefs) Fine
Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL, & traveling, "Turned Wood by
American Craftsmen" 1992 del
Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Master Woodturners" 1991 Southern
Arts Federation, Atlanta, GA (SAF NEA Grant Recipients) Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, "Collecting American Decorative Arts &
Sculpture" * Mendelson Gallery, Washington
Depot, CT 1990 * Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
City 1990 Florida
State University, Tallahassee, Florida, "NEA Artists" Wilson
& Gough Gallery, London, England 1989 * Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
City
Franklin
Parrasch Gallery, Washington, DC, "The Grand Masters of Woodturning" 1988 * Mendelson Gallery, Washington
Depot, CT Gimpel
Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York City 1987 * School of Architecture, Florida A
& M University, Tallahassee, FL * Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1986-88 American
Craft Museum, NYC and traveling, "The Poetry of the Physical" 1986 * Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL * Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Brockton
Art Museum, Brockton, MA, "New Works 1986" Ob'Art,
Les Ateliers D'Art, Paris, France Chicago
International Art Exposition (G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery) 1985 Arizona
State University, Tempe, Arizona and traveling exhibition, "The Edward
Jacobson Collection of American Turned Wood Bowls" G.H.
Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1984 Currier
Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH * Human Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX * Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village,
MI 1983 American
Craft Museum, NYC, "The Art of Wood Turning" Jesse
Besser Museum, Alpena, MI, "Masterworks" 1982 * National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, "Featured Object May/June" * American Art, Inc., Atlanta, GA Columbus
Museum of Art, Columbus, OH The
Elements Gallery, NYC The
Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Galerie
Ninety-Nine and Medici-Berenson Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1981-83 Bowdoin
College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, and traveling, "Art in Craft
Media" 1981 Brockton
Art Museum, Brockton, MA, "Woodforms" N.H.
Commission on the Arts, Concord, NH, "Sculpture/New Hampshire" The
Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Aaron
Faber Gallery, NYC 1980 * Kendall Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA Louisville
Art Gallery, Louisville, KY 1979-80 American Craft Museum, NYC, and
traveling, "New Handmade Furniture" 1979 * Greenville County Museum of Art,
Greenville, SC * The Elements Gallery, NYC 1978-79 The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, "Twentieth Century Decorative Art" 1978 Renwick
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, "The Art of the Turned
Bowl"
Museum
of Contemporary Crafts, NYC,
"Young Americans: Fiber, Wood,
Plastic, Leather" Warner
Communications, Rockefeller Center, NYC, Worcester Craft Center invitational The
Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Meyer
Breier Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 Herbert
F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Grover
M. Hermann Fine Arts Center, Marietta College, Marietta, OH The
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY 1975 DeCordova
Museum, Lincoln, MA * Florence Duhl Gallery, NYC 1974 * Ten Arrow Gallery, Cambridge, MA Fairtree
Gallery, NYC
Selected
Articles
2008 WALLACE,
KEVIN V.: "Reinventing Sculpture," Craft Arts International,"
Issue 74 KAMINSKY,
CHRISTINE: "Aileen Osborn Webb Awards, Fellow: Mark Lindquist, American
Craft, June/July 2007 FOX,
NICOLS: "Far from the Tree: An Evolutionary View of Contemporary
Woodturning," American Craft,
December/January 08 2006 ELLSWORTH,
DAVID: "POP Fellowships Recognize Professional Achievements," American
Woodturner, Winter 2005 BARTOLUCCI,
MARISA: "Passion Investments: Collectibles," Worth Magazine , September
2002 WALLACE,
KEVIN: "Wood Works—Getting Beyond Function," American Style, Fall 2000 RAFFAN,
RICHARD: "The Resurgence of Wood Turning," Fine Woodworking,
Winter 2000-2001 1997 LAWRENCE,
LEE: "From Generation to Generation," American Style, Summer 1996 KANGAS,
MATTHEW: "The Rematerialization of the Art Object," Sculpture,
July/August MAC
ALPINE, DANIEL: "Totemic Images in Modern Craft Art," American Style,
Summer WILLIAMS,
DANA: "Mark Lindquist," American Way (American Airlines Magazine), June
15 ELLSWORTH,
DAVID: "Revolutions in Wood: A View of the Mark Lindquist
Retrospective,"
American Woodturner, March (Vol. 11, No. 1) 1995 BELL,
JUDITH: "Mark Lindquist / Hand Workshop Art Center," American Craft,
December
ROSAND,
ROBERT: "Sculpting Wood: Contemporary Tools and Techniques by Mark Lindquist," American
Woodturner 10:2, June 1992 CROPPER,
CAROL M.: "Collectors:...Turned Wood," Forbes, September 14 "Crafted
Environments: The Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts
Awards in Crafts," American Craft, 52:1, February/March 1990 KOPLOS,
JANET: "Review: Mark Lindquist at Franklin Parrasch" Art in
America, April HOBBS,
ROBERT: "Review: Mark Lindquist, Franklin Parrasch Gallery," Sculpture,
March/April 1989 PALLADINO-CRAIG,
ALLYS: "Mark Lindquist," Art Today, Spring RUBENFELD,
FLORENCE: "Turn, Turn, Turn," Museum and Arts Washington V:2,
March/April PERREAULT,
JOHN: "Turning Point," American Craft, February/March 1988 KOSTOF,
SPIRO: "Comment" (based on keynote address ACC National Conference,
6/4/86, Oakland, Ca.), American Craft, June/July LE
COFF, ALBERT: "Gedrechseltes auf Amerikanisch," Holz und Elfenbein
(Germany), January 1987 KERSGAARD,
SCOT: "Unleashing Wood Sculptures on the World," Wood River
Journal (Idaho), August 12 1986 O'DONNELL,
MICHAEL: "Exhibitions: Woodturning – Vision and Concept," Craftwork
(Scotland), Spring "Gallery/Wood:
Mark Lindquist," American Craft 46:3, June/July "Lathe-Turned,"
American Craft, February/March KEY,
RAY: "Superbowl," Crafts (England), January/February 1985 LINDQUIST,
MARK: "Harvesting Burls," Fine Woodworking, January/February "From
Textiles to Artwork in Greenville," Southern Living 3 (March) 1984 EHRMANN,
SIEGFRIED: "Gedrechseltes – made in U.S.A., Portrat: Melvin und Mark
Lindquist," Holz und Elfenbein (Germany), February EHRMANN,
SIEGFRIED: "Gedrechseltes – made in U.S.A.," Holz und
Elfenbein, January 1983 "Craftlife:
As the Lathe Turns," Handmade, September/October LINDQUIST,
MARK: "Ascending Bowl," Kunsthandverk (Norway),
September/October CHAMBERS,
KAREN: "Exhibitions: New York," Craft International, April 1982 LINDQUIST,
MARK: "Letters: Ascending Bowl," The Studio Potter, December "Gallery:
Wood: Melvin and Mark Lindquist," American Craft, October/November LINDQUIST,
MARK: "Ascending Bowl," The Studio Potter, June "Mark
and Melvin Lindquist at The Works," Art Now/Philadelphia Gallery Guide,
May KELSEY,
JOHN: "The Turned Bowl," Fine Woodworking 32, January/February 1981 RIPLEY,
DAMON: "Small Business and Crafts: Spalted Wood Sculpture," Yankee
Magazine, September 1980 WRIGHT,
NANCY MEANS: "Mark Lindquist: The Bowl is a Performance," American
Craft, October/November 1979 "Exhibitions/Wood:
Mark Lindquist," American Craft 39:4, August/September "Wood,
Clay, and Glass," New York Magazine, September 17 1978 "Exhibitions:
Wood," American Craft, August/September WHITLEY,
ROBERT: "Review: Melvin and Mark Lindquist, The Works Craft Gallery,"
Arts Exchange, Philadelphia, July/August LINDQUIST,
MARK, "Turning Spalted Wood," Fine Woodworking, Summer EDGAR,
NATALIE: "Sixteen American Woodcarvers," Craft Horizons, April HARRIS,
HELEN: "Art and Antiques: Crafts at Baltimore," February
1977 LINDQUIST,
MARK, "Spalted Wood," Fine Woodworking, Summer
1976 "Exhibitions:
Forms in Wood, Florence Duhl Gallery, N.Y.C.," Craft Horizons,
August GENESLAW,
RUTH: "Exhibitions: Mark Lindquist--Wayne Raab," Craft Horizons,
April 1975 NIGROSH,
LEON & SAUER, DICK: "Exhibitions: Massachusetts," Craft
Horizons, October
Selected Exhibition Catalogs and Books 2008 MARTIN,
TERRY: Icons: A Tribute to Mel Lindquist, exhibition catalog,
rakovaBreckergallery (Miami,
FL) at SOFA Chicago RICHELSON,
PAUL W.: A Perfect Marriage: Wood and Color, exhibition catalog, SOFA
Chicago, sponsored
by the Collectors of Wood Art MARTIN,
TERRY & WALLACE, KEVIN: New Masters of Woodturning: Expanding the
Boundaries of
Wood Art, Fox Chapel Publishing, East Petersburg, PA 2006 NELSON,
HAL: The Presence of Absence, exhibition catalog, SOFA Chicago,
sponsored by the
Collectors of Wood Art 2004 DUNCAN-AIMONE,
KATHERINE; WALLACE, KEVIN et al: 500 Wood Bowls, Lark Books, NYC 2003 DARLOW,
MIKE: Woodturning Design, The Melaleuca Press, Exeter, NSW, Australia 2001 COOKE,
EDWARD S., JR.: "The Transformation of Wood Turning, 1900-76," and ADAMSON,
GLENN: "Circular Logic: Wood Turning 1976 to the Present," in Wood
Turning in America Since 1930, exhibition catalog, Wood Turning Center and Yale
University Art Gallery 2000 LEACH,
MARK RICHARD, ed. & RAMLJAK, SUZANNE & MONROE, MICHAEL W.: Turning
Wood into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection, Harry N. Abrams in
association with
The Mint Museum of Craft and Design ADAMSON,
GLENN, An Inaugural Gift: The FoundersŐ Circle Collection, exhibition
catalog, Mint Museum of Craft and Design 1999 BURGARD,
TIMOTHY ANGLIN: The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe
Collection, Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco MONROE,
MICHAEL et al: Living with Form: The Horn Collection of Contemporary Crafts, The
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, in association with Bradley Publishing LEIER,
RAY & PETERS, JAN & WALLACE, KEVIN: Contemporary Turned Wood,
Hand Books Press,
Madison, WI 1997 JUDSON,
RANDALL, ed., LE COFF, ALBERT, et al: Enter the World of Lathe-Turned
Objects, Wood
Turning Center, Philadelphia 1996 KANGAS,
MATTHEW & PERREAULT, JOHN, et al: Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from The
Wornick Collection, Oakland Museum of California 1995 HOBBS,
ROBERT: Mark Lindquist: Revolutions in Wood, exhibition catalog, Hand
Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA MONROE,
MICHAEL: The White House Collection of American Crafts, Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., NYC 1994 GEAR,
JOSEPHINE: Beyond Nature: Wood Into Art, exhibition catalog, Lowe Art
Museum, Miami,
FL 1993 COOKE,
EDWARD S., JR.: "Wood in the 1980s: Expansion or Commodification?", Contemporary
Crafts and the Saxe Collection, exhibition catalog, Toledo Museum of Art DU
BOIS, ALAN: National Objects Invitational, The Arkansas Arts Center
Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR 1992 NISH,
DALE: Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, Fine Arts
Museum of the South, Mobile, AL 1991 COOKE,
EDWARD S., JR & FALINO, JEANNINE J.: Collecting American Decorative Arts
and Sculpture, exhibition catalog, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1990 HOBBS,
ROBERT: Mark Lindquist: Stratigraphs and De-Compositions, Franklin
Parrasch Gallery, NYC 1988 LE COFF,
ALBERT B.: Lathe-Turned Objects: An International Exhibition, Wood
Turning Center, Philadelphia 1987 RAFT
ALLIANCE GALLERY: Works off the Lathe: Old and New Faces, exhibition
catalog, St. Louis, MO FAULKNER,
RAY & ZIEGFELD, EDWIN & SMAGULA, HOWARD: Art Today: An Introduction
to the Visual Arts, 6th ed., Holt, Rinehart, NYC
1986 SMITH,
PAUL J. & LUCIE-SMITH, EDWARD: Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, exhibition
catalog, American Craft Museum, Weidenfield & Nicolson, NYC LINDQUIST,
MARK: Sculpting Wood, Davis Publications, Worcester, MA 1985 JACOBSON,
EDWARD: The Art of Turned Wood Bowls, E. P. Dutton, NYC NISH,
DALE L.: Master Woodturners, Artisan Press, Provo, UT 1983 WILK,
CHRISTOPHER & SMITH, PAUL J.: The Art of Wood Turning, American
Craft Museum, NYC 1982 COLUMBIA
MUSEUM OF ART: Wood and Fiber, exhibition catalog, Columbia, SC 1981 HELLER,
JOHN: Woodforms, exhibition catalog, Brockton Art Museum/Fuller
Memorial, Brockton, MA LINDQUIST,
MARK: A Selection of Works: 1975-1980, Lindquist Studios, Henniker NH 1980 AMERICAN
CRAFT MUSEUM, For the Tabletop, exhibition catalog, NYC NISH,
DALE L.: Artistic Woodturning, B.Y.U. Press, Provo, UT 1979 SMITH,
PAUL J.: New Handmade Furniture: American Furniture Makers Working in
Hardwood, American
Craft Museum, NYC FINE
WOODWORKING: Fine Woodworking Biennial Design Book II, Taunton Press,
Newtown, CT 1978 WORCESTER
CRAFT CENTER: American Woodcarvers, exhibition catalog, Worcester, MA 1977 BEVLIN,
MARJORIE ELLIOTT: Design Through Discovery, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
NYC MUSEUM
OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: Young Americans: Fiber, Wood, Plastic, Leather, exhibition
catalog, American Crafts Council, NYC FINE
WOODWORKING: Fine Woodworking Biennial Design Book, Taunton Press,
Newtown, CT NEWMAN,
JAY & THELMA: The Container Book, Crown Publishers, NYC 1976 HERBERT
F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: The Handwrought Object, 1776-1976, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 1975 DE
CORDOVA MUSEUM: Bed and Board, exhibition catalog, Lincoln, MA
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