Rebecca
Welz
Pendulum, 2010
Welded steel
53.5 x 38 x 27 inches
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Born Sausalito, California
Lives and works in New York City |
Education |
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Boston Museum School
of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
BA, Empire State College, City University of New York |
Solo Exhibitions |
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2010 |
Rebecca Welz,
Sculpture, Humanities Gallery, Long Island University,
Brooklyn, New York |
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2008 |
Inner and Outer
Spaces: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2005 |
Steel Kites: Painted
Steel Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York;
catalogue |
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2004 |
Rebecca Welz:
Wishing Poles and Other Incarnations, Gallery 555, Oakland
Museum of California at City Center, CA |
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2003 |
Wishing Poles,
Shingle Pieces and Floating Arcs, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR |
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2002 |
Arcs,
Orbs and Other Flying Objects: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New
York |
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2001 |
Rebecca Welz,
Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, OR |
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2000 |
Constructions,
June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue |
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1997 |
Constructions,
June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1994 |
New
Work, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York |
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1991 |
Constructions,
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York; catalogue |
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1989 |
Constructions,
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York |
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1985 |
Constructions,
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York |
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1979 |
Landmark
Gallery, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2008 |
To Infinity and
Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, co-curated by
Elizabeth Meryman and Lynn Gamwell,
Heckscher Museum of Art,
Huntington, NY |
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2006 |
The Shape of
Things, Butters Gallery, Portland, CA |
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2005 |
Vernissage,
Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2003 |
Uncommon Threads,
curated by Kathleen Spicer, Delaware Valley Arts Center
Loft Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY |
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2001 |
Collections
Installed: Ten Women Who Make Sculpture, curated by Judith K.
Brodsky, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers Center
for
Innovation Print and Paper, New
Brunswick, NJ
Collage, Butters Gallery, Portland, Oregon |
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1998 |
Small
Works, PSD-X Gallery, New York
Faculty Group Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
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1996 |
Akim
Masks, Invitational, Sotheby’s, New York;
catalogue |
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1995 |
Selections,
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York |
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1995 |
Selections, Adam
Baumgold Gallery, New York
Faculty Group Show, Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery and The
Schafler
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Collaborative Work for Grace Borgenicht, Borgenicht Gallery, New
York
Group Show at Office Environments,
organized by Joyce Creiger Gallery, Boston,
MA; catalogue |
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1993 |
Hand
Workshop, Virginia Center for the Craft Arts, Richmond, VA
Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD |
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1992 |
Benefit
for the Organization of Independent Artists, Rosa Esman Gallery,
New York
Process as Issue, College of New Rochelle, NY |
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1989 |
Climate‘89,
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York; catalogue
Plane Into Form, World Trade Center, New York |
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1987 |
Invitational,
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York; catalogue |
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1983 |
Put
Together Again, 4 Sculptors, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York |
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1982 |
Polychrome
Sculpture: Views by Women Artists, Lever House, New York;
catalogue
Put Together, 4 Sculptors, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York
10th Anniversary Show, Landmark Gallery, New York |
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1976 |
Auction 393,
393 West Broadway, New York; catalogue |
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1973 |
Boston City Hall,
Boston, MA |
Selected Bibliography
Articles and Reviews |
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2006 |
Little, Carl,
“Rebecca Welz at June Kelly,” review, Art in America, January |
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2005 |
Wright, Jeffrey
Cyphers, review, Hung Steel, Offoffoff.com |
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2004 |
Goodman, Jonathan,
review, Sculpture Magazine, March |
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2003 |
Morgan, Robert,
review, ARTnews, January |
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2001 |
Ellertson, Karen, “A
sense of place infuses the work of two artists,” The
Oregonian, Friday, July 20 |
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1997 |
Bell, J. Bowyer,
“Constructions,” Review, September 15
Youens, Rachel, “Curving Space Frees Her Form,” Cover, Vol.11,
No.4
Wolff, Theodore F., essay in exhibition brochure, June Kelly Gallery,
New
York |
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1994 |
Nunn, Emily, review, The New Yorker, July 11 |
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1991 |
Wright, Jeff, review,
Cover, September |
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1989 |
Wright, Jeff, review,
Cover, May |
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1985 |
Moss, Jacqueline,
article, Arts Magazine, September |
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1983 |
Wolff, Theodore F.,
“The Many Masks of Modern Art Series,” The Christian
Science Monitor, October 27
Morris, Diana, review, Women Artists News, summer, pp. 8 and 9 |
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1982 |
Wolff, Theodore F.,
“Series on Art,” The Christian Science Monitor, February 10,
p.18 |
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1979 |
Erlich, Robbie, review,
Arts Magazine, September, p.34
Kingsley, April, “Nature Takes It’s Course,” The Village Voice,
April 2, p. 79
Wolff, Theodore F., review, The Christian Science Monitor, March
9, p. 15 |
Selected Bibliography
Catalogues |
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2005 |
Steel Kites,
essay by Jonathan Goodman, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2000 |
Constructions,
essay by Gerrit Henry, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1991 |
Constructions,
essay by Theodore F. Wolff, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New
York |
Selected Public Collections |
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AXA Corporation, New
York
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York
Cortec Corporation, New York
Credit Lyonnais, New York
Goldman Sachs & Company, New York
Merck, New Jersey
Mound, Cotton, Wollan, New York
Pfizer Incorporated, New York
Prudential Life Insurance Corporation, New York
Warburg Pincus, New York
William Kaufman Organization, New York
Windmueller Fine Arts, Scarsdale, New York |
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