Lanny Bergner
USA (United States)
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Kunstart: Skulptur
Technik: Materialmix
Statement:
By using hands on processes of coiling, fraying, twisting, wrapping, gluing and knotting, I transform common screening, wire, silicone, monofilament and glass frit into other worldly constructions. My aim is to bring the natural/artificial and man/nature together into an assemblage of forms that appear to have grown into being. The work is shaped by my fears, quirks and joys and ultimately celebrates the mystery and wonder of it all.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Lanny Bergner is a mixed media sculptor, fiber and installation artist. Born in 1952 in Anacortes, WA., USA, Mr. Bergner went on to received his BFA in sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1981 and an MFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA in 1983. Following graduation he worked for thirteen years in Philadelphia exhibiting extensively in the eastern and Midwestern United States. In 1994 Lanny moved to the Pacific Northwest and established a studio on Fidalgo Island. Since that time he has had numerous solo exhibitions and has exhibited internationally. His work is in several public and museum collections and he has received many awards; including a gold prize at the 4th Annual Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea in 2005. In the fall of 2007 Lanny returned to Cheongju and created an installation titled, Above Earth/Below Sky at the 5th Annual Cheongju International Craft Biennale. He is currently exhibiting ten of his suspended works in "Patterns and Rhythms" at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2009-Artist Trust GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2008-Best of Show, Beyond Basketry, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens OH
2005-Gold Prize, 4th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-city, Korea,
2000-Artist Trust GAP Grant, Sagourda Familia, Gourd Project, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
1997-Artist Trust Crafts Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
Museum, Seattle, WA
1995-Artist Prize, Annual NW International Art Comp., Whatcom Museum
1995-Seventeenth Annual Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum
1991-Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
1990-Sculpture Prize, Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1989-Best of Show, Biennial �89, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1987-Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA
Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-City, Korea,
First National Bank, Columbia, MO
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Multnomah County, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA
Water Department Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
Island Hospital, Anacortes, WA
Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009-Un/Natural Construct, Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2009-Luminosity, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
2009-Cosmology, Skagit Valley College Art Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA
2007-Matrix, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007-Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2006-Entering Ether, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2003-Strange Fruit, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2002-Dream Botanica, A.N. Bush Gallery, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR
2002-Phantasmagoria, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2002-Strange Fruit, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
2001-Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001-Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR
1999/2000-Un/Natural World, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009-Web and Flow, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
2008-Pattern and Rhythms, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008-Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue City Hall, Bellevue, WA
2008-Beyond Basketry, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens OH (catalog)
2008-Featured Object, lobby of the Bellevue Arts Museum
2008-Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Fiber Art, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2008-Interlaced, Hoffman Gallery, College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2007-Cheers, A MAD Collection of Goblets, Museum of Art and Design, NY, NY
2007-Finding Lost Values, 5th Annual Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea (catalog)
2007-Baskets as Architecture, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2007-Mysteries Contained, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO (catalog)
2007-A Survey of Baskets Today, Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ
2006-Natures Matrix, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2006-5TH International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2006-Basket R/Evolution, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2005-Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Lieberman Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (catalog) (traveling)
2005-A New World View, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2005-Hide and Reveal, 4th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-City, Korea
05-08-SOFA NY and Chicago, represented by Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2005-Material Content: Basketry Sculpture in the 21st Century, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2004-Looking Forward, Glancing Back: NWDC at Fifty, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA. Traveling to the Bellevue Art Museum and the Portland Craft Museum (catalog)
2003-Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Use, Cheongju-city, Korea
2003-CraftHouston 2003: National, Houston Center for Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2002-Jellies: Living Art, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA
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