 |
|||
   |
|||
| Home | ||
| About ISC | ||
| Membership | ||
| News & Events | ||
| Awards | ||
| Sculpture Magazine | ||
| Sculpture Community | ||
| Sculptor's Portfolio | ||
| Artwork for Sale | ||
| Destinations | ||
| Resources | ||
| Site Map | ||
| Store | ||
| FAQ | ||
| Donate Now | ||
| Join Email List | ||
|
SCULPTOR DIRECTORY
Gary Kulak1427 Humphrey Ave |
Click image to enlarge.     
|
||
|
Artist Statement
My work spans more than 35years in the field of sculpture. During this period of time my vision has evolved embracing cultural differences, socio-economic constructs, and psychological perspectives.
At the center of my investigations one object spans the entire timeframe. The “chair” has evolved and transformed meaning relative to time, emotion and social situations. The chair has given me a frame of reference, an identity, or basis for communication to occur. I have worked with a wide range of construction materials with an emphasis on metal and industrial processes.
I have found ideas in most situations where human contact occurs. However most ideas develop from significant events involving sociopolitical situations and scientific observations. We live in a world of ever changing images with increased clarity delivered at increasing rates of speed. We now experience events from around the world in real time with content uncensored and raw. This substance is collected and organized into material creating new thoughts and forms. It is not the representation but the impression that serves as a source for developing ideas. These memories are embedded within the thinking process, extrapolated and cross-referenced creating distinguishing thoughts that make up new images.
I am at the point in my career where the experiences I have gathered are organizing in ways I could not have imagined or understood at an earlier time. It may well be that I was unable to join thoughts in complex ways until recently. I know that what I see is a complex formulation of ideas from different periods of time. It may simply be that I have exhausted possibilities making room for others to emerge or that my thought processes developed to a new level.
The question of creating presence with absence continues to be an ongoing investigation relative to understanding psychological perspectives. What we don’t see is as important as what we see. I find that by allowing the observer to complete the question of meaning creates a passive approach to participation. Intellectual participation occurs as a direct result of observation. This leads me back to meaning being specific to individual experiences drawn upon individual histories that embrace cultural difference and socio-economic constructs.
EDUCATION: 1983 MFA – Hunter College, New York, NY 1975 BFA – Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1976-present Gary Kulak Sculpture LLP, Birmingham, MI 2005-present Artist in Residence/Head Department of Fine Arts, Cranbrook-Kingswood, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1992-2002 Design/Fabrication, Dirk Denison Architects, Chicago, IL 1997 Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art 1990-1992 Adjunct Professor, University of Toledo, OH 1989-1991 Adjunct Professor, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 1986 Artist in Residence, Plattsburgh State College, NY 1985 Instructor, Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, MI 1983-1984 Project Engineer, Alice Aycock Sculpture, NY 1981-1983 Assistant to Lyman Kipp, NY 1980 Artist in Residence, CCS, Detroit, MI 1980 Artist in Residence, Macomb Community College, Warren, MI 1976 Assistant to John Mason & Sol Lewitt, Detroit Institute of Art 1973 Studio Assistant to Richard Hunt & John Henry, Chicago, IL 1973 Assistant to Michael Hall and John Mason, Sculpture off the Pedestal, Grand Rapids, MI
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2006 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI 1995, ‘90, ‘89, ‘87, ‘84, ‘81 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1988 Gallerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Island, FL 1985, ‘83, ‘80 Kornblee Gallery, NY 1985 Henri Gallery, Washington, DC 1984 Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, MI 1981 Gallerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Island, FL 1980 Macomb Community College, Warren, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2009 Chelsea Sculpture Walk, Chelsea, MI 2009 “Art Chicago”, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago 2009 “Spring Happening”, Next Step Gallery, Curator, Narine Kchikian 2008 “Detroit Art”, Selections by Andreas Serrano, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit 2008 Marshall Fredericks Museum, Saginaw, MI 2007 G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit 2006 “AAF”, G.R.N’Namdi, NYC, NY 2006 “XXX”, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2005 “Governor of Michigan Residence”, Lansing, MI 2005 “Cartunes on Parade”, Detroit, MI & Windsor, Ontario 2005 “Michigan Annual”, Mt. Clemens Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI 2004 “Great Lakes Annual”, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI 2001 1997, ‘95, 1990-‘93, ‘84, ’82 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2000 “Bloomfest”, Birmingham, MI 1999-2001 “City-Scapes”, Birmingham, MI 1999-2001 “Outdoor Sculpture”, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI 1999 “Dysfunctional Sculpture”, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI 1999 “Chair Affair-5”, Michigan Design Center, Troy, MI 1998 “Sculpture at the Courthouse”, Dearborn, MI 1998 “Art in Public Places”, Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI 1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, West Palm Beach, FL 1996 SUNY, Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY 1996 Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1995 Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, MI 1994 “The Artful Garden”, Meadowbrook Pavilion, Rochester, MI 1993 “Image as Metaphor” Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 1992 Margaret Lipworth Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 1991 “Salon des Refuses”, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI 1991 “Great Outdoors-Forand About the Garden”, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1991 “Challenge of the Chair”, Detroit Institute of Art 1990 Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI 1990 Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 1989 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 “Michigan Outdoor Sculpture 11”, Southfield Civic Center, Southfield, MI 1989 “Pull up a Chair”, Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1989 Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI Kmart Corporation, Troy, MI Holtzman/Silverman Co., Southfield, MI Michigan Bell Telephone, Southfield, MI Royal Maccabees Insurance Co., Charlotte, SC City of Mt. Clemens, MI Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI Elm Development Inc., Chicago, IL Forbes-Cohen/Nemer Assoc., Southfield, MI Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, MI
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2008 Nawrocki, Dennis, “Detroit Art in Public Places”, Wayne University Press 2006 Carducci, Vince, Metro Times, January 2006 1999 Cho, Hanna, The Detroit News, Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1995 Birkenhauer, Tracey, Oakland Press Review, Wednesday, February 8, 1995 1994 Pasfield, Veronica, Detroit Monthly, November 1994 1993 Green, Roger, Ann Arbor News, Review, Friday, January 29, 1993 1990 Colby, Joy Hakanson, Exhibits, The Detroit News, Thursday, November 8, 1990 1990 Westenberg, W.D., Metro, The Grand Rapids Press, Friday, June 22, 1990 1989 Carducci, Vincent A., Artforum, May 1989 1989 Colby, Joy H., “Reviews”, Detroit News, Friday, March 24, 1989
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS: 2009 Miro Award, Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2007 Schulak Grant, Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2005 YMCA, Detroit, MI 1999 Art in Public Places, The Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI 1991 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC 1990 Art in Public Places, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 1987 ArtQuest ’87, First Place, Drawing 1985 Direct Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts 1983 Tony Smith Sculpture Award, Hunter College 1982 William Graff Scholarship Award, Hunter College 1981 Direct Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts |
|||
 |
|||
| TERMS AND CONDITIONS |
|
||