Sculptor Nancy Lovendahl Info - Sculpture.org

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Born: Chicago Suburbs, Illinois, USA

EDUCATION:

1971-72 Triton Junior College, Melrose Park, IL – Studio Ceramics

1972-73 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL – Crafts (Ceramics)

1973-75 Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs, CO - Photography

1980-82 Loretto Heights College, Denver, CO: Special Student - Studio Art

AWARDS:

2010 Art In Public Places Commission Winner, Lowry Foundation Park Design, Denver, CO

2009 Artist in Residence, The Red Gate Residency Program, Beijing, China (2 Months)

2003 Art In Public Places Commission Winner, Colo. Law Enforcement Memorial, Golden, CO

1999 Visiting Artist, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

1998 Best New Public Art, "Best of Denver"- Westword, Denver, CO

Art In Public Places Commission Winner, Cuernavaca Park, City of Denver, CO

Art In Public Places Commission Winner, Snowmass Village, CO.

1997 Art In Public Places Commission Winner, "Backbone of Our Community" (AIPP),

Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Morrell Station, Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX

1993 Art In Public Places Commission Winner, Lund Kelly Memorial, Aspen Art Museum, CO

Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

1985 Artist-In-Residence Fellowship, Colorado Council for the Arts (CCA)

1984 Artists Fellowship, Colorado Council For The Arts (CCA)

Certificate of Merit, 9th Biennale Internat’l de Ceramique D'Art,Vallauris, Fra

EXHIBITIONS: Selected

2010 Atelier Munsteiner 9^th Biennial, Stipshausen, Germany

Roentgen Museum, Neuwied, Germany

2009 Shangri La Visiting Artist Exhibition, Beijing, China

The Red Gate Residency Exhibition, Beijing, China

2008 Contemporary Collage, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2007 Women Touch:Ceramics, Curated by Sylvia Netzer & Ron Kuchta, AIR Gallery,NYC

2006 EX OVO OMNIA, From The Egg, Everything; Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO

ORGANICS, Red Brick Center for the Arts, Aspen, CO

The Nature of Things & Things in Nature, The Arts Student's League, Denver,CO

Contemporary Clay 2006, 9^th Annual; Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO

Women In Clay, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2005 Drawings Into Sculpture, Montgomery Center for the Arts, Skillman, NJ

Texas National, Stephen Austin State Univ, Nacogdoches, TX - Catalog

2004 Integral Nature, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO - Brochure

2003 ISC@GFS, Internat'l Sculpture at The Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Sculptural Object & Functional Art Expo (SOFA), Javitts Center, NYC, NY

Ceramics Biennial, Denver Intern'l Airport, Denver, CO

2002 An Oasis Of Wonder (solo), The Aspen Institute, Adelson Gallery, Aspen, CO

Aspen Biennial, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, Curated; Dean Sobel

2001 Life As Collaboration, MC Ginsberg Gallery, Iowa City, IA

SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (2001, 99, 98)

1995 Art & Politics, DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung e. V., Berlin,Germany

Art & Politics, Obere Galerie, Berlin, Germany -Catalog

1992 Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, FLA

1987 Elements Gallery, New York, NY

1986 The New West, Colorado Springs Art Center, CO - Catalog

Looking At Earth, National Air & Space Mus, Smithsonian Inst, Wash.,D.C.:Cat.

1984 Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL

Loewenstern Gallery, Houston, TX

1983 Colorado '83, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colo.Spgs., CO: Cat

Colorado Biennial, Denver Art Museum, CO

COLLECTIONS: Public, Selected

The Smithsonian Institution, Wash., D.C.; The American Embassy, Belmopan, Belize; The Aspen Art Museum, CO;

Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers, Denver, CO; Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority, Dallas, TX;

Mayor's Office Of Art Culture & Film, Denver, CO; Town of Snowmass Village, CO; Phillips Petroleum Corp,

Denver, CO;Fagadau Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX; Midland Bank Corporation, Loveland, CO;

National Bank of Commerce, Houston, TX.

VISUAL AND WRITTEN RECORDS: Selected

2007 Colorado Report, Art In America, January Issue, pg. 82

Plum TV, Nancy Lovendahl, Mixed Media Sculpture, Aspen Artbeat Series

2006 EGGS & TREES, Catalog Essay, Arlene Raven, Phd., Art Historian, Professor and former Art Critic for The

Village Voice, New York

2003 A Show With A Good Sense of Humor, NY Times Art Review of ISC@GFS- Hamilton,NJ; written by

Benjamin Genocchio, Sunday Ed., Aug. 10, 2003

SCULPTURE MAGAZINE Review, An Oasis Of Wonder, by Laura Dixon, April,Vol.22,#3,p75

2000 Thine Art, Denver Awash in Public Murals, Sculpture, Denver Post-The Scene Section,Sept. 20 issue,

by Wm. Porter

1997 Nancy Lovendahl's Art Reconnecting With Nature, Exhibition Essay by Ron Kuchta, Curator and Editor of American Ceramics Magazine

1996 DART Art, More Than Icing On The Cake, by Gail Sachson, Dallas Post,Aug. 15 Edition, page 2B.

Nine Aspen Artists, Book Edited by Barbara Seidel, Published by Third Eye Press,

San Francisco, Ca, pgs. 74-86. (ISBN listed)

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

2010 Board Of Trustees, Carbondale Clay Center

2009-Ongoing Wyly Studio Mentorship Founder, Wyly Community Arts Center, Basalt, CO

2008-10 ARTISTA Teaching Artist, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

2006 Faculty Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Sculpture

2002 Guest Lecturer, University of Iowa, Dept. of Ceramics

2001 Trustee, The Tripura Yoga Foundation; An education non-profit teaching many styles of yoga.

2000- Present Brand Management Consultant

1996-99 Board Of Trustees, AspenSnowmass Council for the Arts; The Red Brick Arts Center, Aspen, CO

1995 Cultural Liaison, City of Aspen /Japan Cultural Exchange, Katsuyama, Japan

Conference Panelist, Art & Politics Conference, Aspen Institute- Berlin

1994 Conference Panelist, Art & Politics Conference, Aspen Institute- Aspen

1993-97 Non-Bored Member, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

1985- 2000 Vice President, Scott Keating Design, A Jewelry Design and Manufacturing Company; Aspen,

NYC, Mumbai, India; In Charge of All Marketing and Brand Management Worldwide

1982-84 Teacher & Ceramics Dept. Head, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen Campus

1982-Present Studio and Public Artist

1979-80 Assistant Director, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts (now-The Aspen Art Museum)

1979-Current Exhibition Curator, Selected: Please Touch, Cowboys and Indians, Architectural Craft

ARTISTS STATEMENT(Abbreviated): While growing up in the midwest of The United States, art was my touchstone opening a mystical and magical inner world in me. I was schooled in ceramic sculpture and consider Anderson Ranch Arts Center my graduate school and cultural home here in Colorado. I currently work in many 3-D media, including stone, to install my work outside in the public domain. I began The Egg Series of studio artwork in the mid-1990s. Notions of lives in the balance or out of balance, in the midst of rebirth or renewal are on my mind while I make these works. I live in a very physically challenging, mountainous place and make physical works of sculpture to help me grapple with this dynamic reality and all that it inspires and demands of me.