 |
|
Artist Biography
JOHN KEARNEY, sculptor, creates welded steel sculpture from automobile bumpers and works in bronze. Large and small scale sculptures include themes that are primarily animal and figurative forms. Works in major museums and collections throughout USA, include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Detroit Children's Museum; Ulrich Museum in Wichita; Standard Oil Building in Chicago; Illinois State Capitol Visitors Center, Springfield, IL; and Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
Kearney studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy. Awards and honors include: Fulbright Award to Italy in 1963-64; Italian Government Grant in 1963-64; Visiting Artist American Academy in Rome, 1985, 1992, and 1998; Wallace Truman Prize, National Academy of Design in 1953 and others.
Numerous One Man exhibitions since 1951 include: New York City at A.C.A. Gallery, 1964 to 1979; Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1992 to 1997; and in Rome, Venice, Chicago, Detroit, Wichita, Wellfleet, and others with group exhibitions in Rome, N.Y., Santo Domingo, Niamey, Nigeria, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Chicago, Taipei, Sarasota and others.
For more information on the work of John Kearney please contact:
|
|
|
|
|
