Gary Stevens – Profile
Born 1957 in San Francisco, Ca. Currently residing in Soquel, CA.
Education:
Attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA
Individual studies with Mark Lindquist at Lindquist Studios
Lindquist Studios Assistant 2000
Selected Collections
Presentation to Jordan’s King Abdullah II by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Woodturning Center, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions / Shows / Awards
SOFA Chicago 2008 – Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
ICONS – At Tribute to Mel Lindquist
Nov. 6-9, 2008
NBC “In Wine Country”
May 18, 2008
Gumps Mastercrafts Show
February – March, 2006
Solo Exhibition/Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
September 30 – October 29, 2005
Gumps Mastercrafts Show
February – March, 2005
“Celebrating Nature” – Craft Tradition/Contemporary Expressions
Craft & Folk Art Museum
August 12, 2004 – October 31, 2004
“By Hand” – KQED “Spark” television show
July 14, 2004
Gumps Mastercrafts Show
February – March, 2004
Selected Exhibitions / Shows / Awards, continued:
Inspired Vessel Exhibition
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
December 14, 2003 – February 15, 2004
SOFA/Chicago 2003 – Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Oct 16 – 19, 2003
Collectors of Wood Art – Santa Fe, NM
Sept. 11 – 14, 2003
“Turned Wood” – del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
June 28 – July 25, 2003
“Carol Duval Show” HGTV
Featured Artist, March 2003
Gumps Mastercrafts Show
February 25 – March 8, 2003
SOFA/Chicago 2001 – Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Oct. 5 – 7, 2001
“California Heartland” KVIE – TV Sacramento
Featured Artist , October 2001
Pacific Craft Show – Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Sept. 13 – 16, 2001
“Spirit of Wood” – California State Fair – Sacramento, CA
Aug. 17 – Sept. 3, 2001
“NATURE TAKES A TURN”
Exhibition Schedule:
Minnesota Museum of American Art; St Paul, Minnesota
June 22 – August 12, 2001
University of California at Davis; Memorial Union Art Gallery
September 24 – November 2, 2001
Arrowmont School for the Crafts – Sandra Blain Gallery; Gatlinburg, Tennessee
January 5 – May 5, 2002
University of New York at Purchase – Neuberger Museum of Art
June 16 – September 8, 2002
“Turned Wood” – del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
June 16 – July 14, 2001
SOFA – New York City, NY
May 30 – June 4, 2001
Selected Exhibitions / Shows / Awards, continued:
“Turned Wood – Small Treasures” – del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 3 – Mar. 31, 2001
“Mastercrafts Show 2001″ – Gumps, San Francisco, CA
Feb. 1 – April 1, 2001
“Selected Wood” – del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jan. 27 – Feb. 24, 2001
SOFA/Chicago – Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Nov. 2-5, 2000
“Pacific Craft Show” – Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Sept. 15 – 17, 2000
“The Fine Art of Wood at the Millennium” – The Detroit Institute of Arts
June 2000 – January 2001
Invited Artist – “Horizons 2000″, curated by David Ellsworth
The Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery at the Brookfield Craft Center
June 18 – Aug. 13, 2000
“Turned Wood 2000″ – del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
June 16 – July 14, 2001
SOFA – New York City, NY
June 1-4, 2000
“Master Woodturners” – Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
May 5 – July 1, 2000
“Turned Wood – Small Treasures” – del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 18 – April 15, 2000
“Mastercrafts Show 2000″ – Gumps, San Francisco, CA
Jan. 18 – March 18, 2000
SOFA/Chicago – Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Oct. 4-7, 1999
“American Woodturners Profile” – R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL
July 16 – August 28, 1999
Mark Lindquist/Gary Stevens Collaborative Work SOFA – New York, 1999
Selected Exhibitions / Shows / Awards, continued:
“Arrowmont National 1999 Juried Exhibition” -
Arrowmont’s Sandra J. Blain Gallery
Feb.26 – May 15, 1999.
“Spectrum ‘98 ” – Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN December, 1998
“Wood Art Collector’s Conference” - San Francisco, CA Sept. 11-13 1998
Second Place/Sculpture Division
“The American Experience” 1997 – Perry House Galleries, Alexandria, VA
January – May 1997
Selected Books, Reviews and Articles
ICONS A Tribute to Mel Lindquist, 2008 rakovaBRECKERgallery.
By Terry Martin
“C” California Lifestyle Magazine, August 2006. By Amy Gurvitz
Celebrating Nature (Catalog), Craft and Folk Art Museum. 2004
500 Wood Bowls, published by Lark Books,
a division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2004
Meilach, Dona; Wood Art Today: furniture, vessels, sculpture. 2003
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Nature Takes A Turn (Catalog), Co-Sponsored by The American Association of
Woodturners and the Minnesota Museum of American Art; June, 2001
Adamson, Glenn; “The Fine Art of Curating”, Turning Points,
(published by The Wood Turning Center) Winter, 2001
Liebenson, Bess; “Taking Wood to New Places”, The New York Times,
July 30, 2000
Fike, Bonita; The Fine Art of Wood, Abbeville Press Publishers, July 2000
Leier, Ray; “New Artists in Turned Wood”, Woodworker West
July/August 2000
Turner, Tran; “Wood Art Collectors’ Conference”, Craft Arts International , #45
Selected Books, Reviews and Articles, continured:
Lacer, Alan; “Collectors of Wood Art”, American Woodturner , Winter 1998
De Coster, Andre; “International” (featured Artist), De Vlaamse Houtdraaier (The Flemish Woodturner), June 1999