PETER WOYTUK | Large Sculpture

 


John Scofield


The MORRISONGALLERY
8 Old Barn Road
Kent, Connecticut 06757

860.927.4501

Hours
weds-sat 10.30 - 5.30
sunday 1-4

  

JOHN SCOFIELD | Bio

Education

  • 1995 Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, NY, Topics in Ancient Furniture.
  • 1975-78 Studio assistant to Robert Motherwell.
  • 1972-73 Studio assistant to Wendell Castle under a Tiffany Foundation Grant.
  • 1970-72 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, School for American Craftsmen.

Selected Public Collections

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
  • Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT.

John Scofield has been awarded numerous grants and honors, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Apprenticeship Grant, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts - Artist’s Project Grant, the Progressive Architecture International Conceptual Furniture Design Competition Award and First Prize for Sculpture, “Art of the Northeast USA,” Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts.

He has had one-artist exhibitions at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Frank Marino Gallery in New York, and at the Paul Mellon Arts Center and University of New Haven in Connecticut. The numerous group shows he has participated in have included exhibitions at the Max Protech Gallery, New York; the Crafts Council of Ireland, Dublin; Lever House, New York; the Boston Visual Artists Union; NEOCON, Chicago, IL; the Anne O’Brien Gallery, Washington, DC; the University of Hartford, CT and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

While working as studio assistant to the abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell, he coauthored and contributed photographs for the National Gallery’s 1980 Skira/Rizzoli monograph on Motherwell’s Reconciliation Elegy. Since 1995 he has conducted workshop seminars for the course entitled “Topics in Ancient Furniture” at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York City.

 




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