Biography from AskART:
| A sculptor and art educator, John Newman is known for his large-scale
installations, many of them in outdoor settings such as at the General
Mills Outdoor Sculpture Park in Minnespolis; the Department of
Transportation in Washington DC; and the Storm King Art Center in
Mountainville, New York.
In a 2005 exhibition catalogue of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in
Lincoln, Nebraska, Janice Dreisbach, Gallery Director, wrote that many
of his works are "intimate tabletop objects that consist of
surrealistic and biomorphic shapes and forms made of fragile materials,
such as glass, papier mache, gilded paper and terra cotta. Their
small scale, graceful curves, vibrant colors, and complex and diverse
textures give them an intimate and seductive quality that is
intensified by their fragility. Newman's aesthetic also bears the
influence of Alexander Calder, Lee Bontecou, Eva Hesse, and the Italian
Neo-Dada Artists of arte povera. Newman travels widely
throughout Asia and Africa, and he is deeply influenced by non-western
art-making methods and concepts." (12)
Newman was born in Flushing, New York. He earned a BA Degree
from Oberlin College in 1972; and an MFA from the Yale School of Fine
Art in 1975. In 1972, he was a part of the Whitney Museum's
Independent Study Program, and from 1980 to 1982, was Assistant
Professor of Fine Art at Queens College, New York. From 1981 to
1984, he was Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Sarah Lawrence College;
and from 1992 has been Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at the Yale
School of Fine Art.
John Newman lives in New York City.
Source:
Janice Driesbach, Singular Expressions: Nine Artists in Three Galleries, 2005-2006 exhibition catalogue of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, p. 12
Who's Who in American Art, 2003-2004, p. 882
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