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Roy Staab - Resumé

BORN

1941
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin

EDUCATION:

1969
  • B.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1966
  • Milwaukee Institute of Technology, Milwaukee
1965
  • Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

INSTALLATIONS:

2001
  • Similar Geometric Movements, in Water & Trees,
    K.M. Fine Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Rings in Thistle, Art Street Window, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1999
  • Peareed, Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Tom's Snow, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Mecox-Three, Mecox Bay, Bridgehampton, New York
  • Diminution, Fresh Pond, Amagansetta, New York
  • Delta II, Hudson River, Cold Spring-on-Hudson, New York
  • Ring-Cross, Hudson River, Peekskill, New York
  • Floating Ring, Three Lakes, Wisconsin
  • Center Three, Northern Michigan
  • Windsor, Port Gibsons, Mississippi
  • Bluebird, Wisconsin River, Blue River, Wisconsin
  • Cressent, Wisconsin River, Port Andrew, Wisconsin
1998
  • Aftertide Merridian & Luminary Lines, Pugwash, Nova Scotia
  • Celestial Rings & Viscaya on Fresh Pond, East Hampton, New York
  • Long Leap, Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, Massachusetts
  • Moors' Monitor, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Rings of Glory, Pamet Harbor, Truro, Massachusetts
  • Strong Willow, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1997
  • Suzuki Cloud Roll, Miki Culture Center, Miki, Japan
  • Tsuyama MON, Public Art on the River, Tsuyama, Japan
  • Courtyard Shimenaw, Osaka College of Art, Osaka, Japan
  • Growth Rings, Green Festival, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Visionar Quest, Oconomowoc Arts Festival,
    Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
  • Golden Ring, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
  • Swan's Tale, Long House Foundation, East Hampton, New York
  • Artist Space, Hiroshima Art Project, Hiroshima, Japan
1996
  • Counter Spiral, Mssohkan Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan
  • Water Tie, Kamogawa Arts Festival, Japan
  • Wings Inside, Miyama Festival, Miyama, Kyoto, Japan
  • Royal Crest, Fukumisu, Shimane, Japan
  • To the Outer Edge, Osaka Art University, Osaka, Japan
  • Gallery Marya, Takatsuki, Japan
1995
  • Site-Specific Sculpture Installation Using Materials from Nature:
    Oval Sanctuary, Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Natural Order, North Pond of Lincoln Park, Chicago
  • Euclid's Crop, Lincoln Park Cultural Center, Chicago
  • Emphasized Arcs: Reductive Star (sea weed), Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Provincetown Heritage Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Briant's Tower, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Homage to Tatlin, Castle Hill Center for the Arts,
    Truro, Massachusetts
  • Oval Crossed by Arcs, Cortland Jessup Courtyard,
    Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Star for Margarette Worthington, Pamet Harbor,
    Truro, Massachusetts
  • San Simeon Beach Works, (three works) San Simeon, California
  • Gibbous, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994
  • Arc in Truro, Central School, Truro, Massachusetts
  • Transformation, reed sculpture, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • From Long Point, reed sculpture, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Ark for DNA Rafters, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massaschusetts
  • Alexandra's Energy, reed sculpture, Amagansett,
    New York
  • Aborigine, sea shell work, Amagansett, New York
  • Fanned Almond, reed sculpture, Amagansett,
    New York
  • Ark of Solitude, reed sculpture, Amagansett,
    New York
  • Yumiko's Golden Ring, reed sculpture, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
  • Hovering Arcs, reed sculpture, Amagansett, New York
  • Pointed Swan, reed sculpture, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Cortland's Ark, Cortland Jessup Gallery Courtyard,
    Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Six Different Reed Sculptures, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
  • Hoppers Volutes and Spiral, reed sculptures, Truro, Massachusetts
1993
  • Clock Spring, reed sculpture, Indian Neck, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
  • Eye of Pamet, reed sculpture, Pamet Harbor, Truro, Massachusetts
  • Spiral Infinity, reed sculpture, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Black Beach Shards, wood shard work, Cahuita, Costa Rica
1992
  • Napeaque, sand drawings/sea weed work, East Hampton, New York
  • Aurora, sculpture, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York
  • Parquet, wood/swamp grass sculpture, Atlanta Arts Festival, Georgia
  • Rehoboth, reed sculpture, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
  • Sirene, reed sculpture, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Prairie Ring, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1991
  • Ovum/Ova II/Ova III of Fresh Pond, reed sculptures,
    Amagansette, New York
  • Shorewood Beach Work Series, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Sand Drawing Series, Drakes Beach, Point Reyes, California
  • Mountains of the East, fabric installation, Windows on One Main, Brooklyn, New York
1990
  • Earth Day Ziggurat, Earth Day, New York City
  • Jyvaskyla Opus, reed sculpture, Jyvaskyla Arts Festival, Jyvaskyla, Finland
1989
  • Albany, reed sculpture, Albany, New York
  • Copernicus Eclipse, reed sculpture, Athens, New York
  • Whale of Hudson (two works), reed sculpture, Hudson, New York
  • Arklike, reed sculpture, Catskill, New York
  • Rondout Round, reed sculpture, Kingston, New York
  • Storm King, reed sculpture, Storm King (Cornwall-on-Hudson), New York
  • Delta, reed sculpture, Cold Spring-on-Hudson,
    New York
  • Hudson Barka, reed sculpture, Croton-on-Hudson, New York
  • Hopscotch for Giants, paper work, Brooklyn (river front), New York
  • St. George Island Sea Weed Works, St. George Island, Florida
1988
  • Fresh Pond Round, reed sculpture, East Hampton, New York
  • Lost Ark, sapling work, MacDowell Colony, Peterboro,
    New Hampshire
  • Lulu's Pyramid - Off the Wall: Fabric Installation, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
1987
  • Tribute to Philip Guston/Gossamer Pyramid/Esoteric Triangles, reed sculptures, Southampton, New York
  • Golden Triangles, reed sculpture, Central Park, New York City
1986
  • Gods Eye, reed sculpture, East Hampton, New York
  • Mecox Star/Bulbous Triangle, reed sculptures,
    Bridgehampton, New York
1985
  • Georgica/Sagaponic, reed sculptures, Georgica and Sagaponic Ponds, East Hampton, New York
  • Mecox I/Mecox II/Mecox III, reed sculptures, Mecox Pond,
  • Bridgehampton, New York
  • Greek Cross/Brooklyn Heart, reed sculptures, Brooklyn, New York
1983
  • Arc of Barcelona Neck, reed sculpture, East Hampton, New York
  • C.F.P. of Dead Horse Bay, reed sculpture, Brooklyn, New York
  • Ocracoke Cartouche, reed sculpture, Ocracoke, North Carolina
1982
  • Vinegar Hill Work, cord sculpture, Brooklyn, New York
1979
  • 3 Walls in Port Vendre & Private Property, (billboard), South France

EXHIBITIONS:

2002
  • Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Beauty, Turner Hall, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Charles Allis Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Unnatural Landscapes, Flatfile Photography Gallery, Chicago
2001
  • Similar Geometric Movements, In Water & Trees,
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2000
  • Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1999
  • Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Milwaukee Art Museum
  • K.M. Art Gallery, Milwaukee
1998
  • Nature: Point of Departure, Delaware Arts Center Gallery, Narrowsburg, New York
  • In the Realm of the Gods, Cortland Jessup Gallery,
    Provincetown, Massachusetts
1997
  • Indoors & Out, Walker's Point Center for the Arts,
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • 10 Years of Site Installations by Roy F. Staab, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Wisconsin
1996-97
  • Photographs of Site-Installations Made in Japan, travelling exhibition: Gallery HAP, Hiroshima, Japan; Gallery Marya, Takatsuki, Japan; Mssohkan Gallery, Kobe; Tokyo Textile Institute, Japan; Hiroshima City Festival, Japan; Cortland Jessup Gallery, New York City
1995
  • Photographs of site specific installations, Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Photographs of site specific installations from 1994,
    Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Last Picture Show, Internos Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994
  • Artists of Family Day, Cape Museum of Fine Art,
    Dennis, Massachusetts
  • Photographs of site specific installations, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Sculpture in the Garden, Cape Museum of Fine Art,
    Dennis, Massachusetts
  • Photographs of site specific installations from 1993,
    Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Photographs of site specific installations, Chestnut Hill Mall, Boston,
  • Fused, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, Massachusetts
  • Nature by Designs, Kohler Clark Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1993
  • Spiral Inside, Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Five Reed Sculptures in Five Windows on Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, New York
1992
  • Prairie Ring, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1991
  • Sculptors on Paper, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1990
  • Photographs of Reed Sculptures, Gallery Fotokram,
    Jyvaskyla, Finland
1989
  • Hudson River Project Photographs, Kleiner Art Center, Woodstock, New York
  • Photographs of Reed Sculptures, Albany City Hall, Albany, New York
  • Photographs of Reed Sculptures, Kattskiller-Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, New York
  • Photographs of Reed Sculptures, Kingston Area Library, Kingston, New York
  • Photographs of Reed Sculptures, Gallery 93 Main,
    Cold Spring-on-Hudson, New York
  • Fabric Installation Reed Sculpture Photographs,
    Cornelia Cotton Gallery,Croton-on-Hudson, New York
1988
  • The New Generation: Works on Paper and Installation, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
1987
  • Photographs of Site Installations from Summer 1987, Twining Gallery, New York, New York
  • Documentary Photographs of Reed Sculptures, Twining Gallery, NewYork
1986
  • Photographs of 1985 Reed Sculptures, Provisions, Sag Harbor, New York
1985
  • Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Open Studio Show, Brooklyn, New York
  • Nature Conservancy Show, Fabric Installation, Elaine Benson Gallery,Bridgehampton, New York
  • State of the Art II, Twining Gallery, New York, New York
1984
  • 2nd Fulton Ferry, Empire State Park Sculpture Show,
    Brooklyn, New York
  • B.W.A.C. Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn,
    New York
  • Mail Art, Franklin Furnace, New York, New York
1983
  • Projects International, Galerie Articule, Montreal, Canada
  • B.W.A.C. Open Studio Show, Brooklyn, New York
  • Earworks, Grommet Gallery, New York, New York
1982
  • 75 artistes...a la carte, Galerie Avant-Premiere, Paris, France
  • Computer Work, ARTA, Musee Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • B.W.A.C. Open Studio Show, Brooklyn, New York
1980
  • Bobsband's Open House, New York, New York
  • Uniquely Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Actualities du dessin, Maison de la Culture,
    Grenoble, France
  • Oblique et angle, Galerie Alain Oudin, Paris, France
1979
  • Tranvauz sur papier-object, Centre culturel de a ville
    de Paris, France
  • Livre d'art et d'artistes. Galerie NRA, Paris, France
  • Even Artists Have Friends, Gallery Sight 225, Milwaukee,Wisconsin
  • 55th Rockford & Vicinity Jury Show, Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
1978
  • Livre d'art et d'artistes, Galerie NRA, Paris, France
1977
  • One Man Show, Galerie Bel Espoir, Paris, France
1976
  • Seme de l'Estampe et du Multiple, Centre culturel de la ville de Paris, France
  • Accrochage d'ete, Galerie Stevenson & Palluel, Paris, France

AWARDS:

1997
  • Commission, Green Festival of Hiroshima
1996
  • National Endowment for the Arts Creative Artists Fellowship to Japan
1994
  • Massachusetts Art Lottery
1993
  • Puffin Foundation Grant
1992
  • Pollock Krasner Grant
1991
  • Artist's Space Exhibition Grant
1989
  • New York State Council on the Arts
1988
  • New York Foundation for the Arts
  • Artist's Space Exhibition Grant
  • Macdowell Colony Fellowship
1987
  • New York Foundation for the Arts/Sculpture

COLLECTIONS:

  • Le Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  • Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
 

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