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 American Craft Museum, NYC
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Fuller Museum of Art, MA
Greenville County Museum of Art, SC
High Museum of Art, GA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Mint Museum of Art, NC
The Mobile Museum of Fine Arts, AL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Nations Bank Corporate Headquarters, Charlotte, NC
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
The Schenectady Museum, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
The White House, Washington, DC
The Woodturning Center, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Awards / Recognitions
1996 HONORARY BOARD MEMBER, James Renwick Alliance
1989 SOUTHERN ARTS FEDERATION/NEA FELLOWSHIP
1985 NEW WORKS GRANT, Brockton Art Museum, Mass. Council on the Arts and Humanities
1984 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANT, N.H. Commission on the Arts
1979 MACDOWELL COLONY FELLOWSHIP, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H.
Selected Exhibitions (*one person shows)
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"
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, "The White House Collection of American Crafts"
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. & travelling, "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
* 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)
* Delaware Art Museum
The Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Arts Museum, 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, and travelling, "Turned Wood by American Craftsmen"
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
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, "NEA Artists"
1989
* Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City
Wilson & Gough Gallery, London, England
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 travelling, "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 travelling 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, & travelling, "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 travelling, "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"
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
Selected Reviews and Articles
1996
KANGAS, MATTHEW: "The Rematerialization of the Art Object," Sculpture, July/August
MAC ALPINE, DAN: "Totemic Images in Modern Craft Art," American Style, Summer
WILLIAMS, DANA: "Mark Lindquist," American Way (American Airlines In-Flight Magazine), June 15
ELLSWORTH, DAVID: "Revolutions in Wood: A View of the Mark Lindquist Retrospective," American Woodturner, March (Vol. 11, No. 1)
1995
HOBBS, ROBERT: Mark Lindquist: Revolutions in Wood, exhibition catalog, HandWorkshop Art Center
BELL, JUDITH: "Mark Lindquist / Hand Workshop Art Center," American Craft, December 1995 - January 1996
1994
GEAR, JOSEPHINE: "Beyond Nature: Wood Into Art," exhibition catalog, Lowe Art Museum
1993
COOKE, EDWARD S., JR.: "Wood in the 1980s: Expansion or Commodification?", Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, exhibition catalog, Toledo Museum of Art
1992
CROPPER, CAROL M.: "Collectors:...Turned Wood," Forbes, September 14
1991
FALINO, JEANNINE J.: Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, exhibition catalog, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1990
KOPLOS, JANET: "Review: Mark Lindquist at Franklin Parrasch" Art in America, April
HOBBS, ROBERT: "Review: Mark Lindquist, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York," Sculpture, March/April
1989 PALLADINO-CRAIG, ALLYS: "Mark Lindquist," Art Today, Spring
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
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