Willard Boepple (American, born )

Timeline

1945
Born Bennington, Vermont
1963
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1963–1964
University of California at Berkeley
1967
Rhode Island School of Design
1968
City College of The City University of New York. B.F.A.
1969–1973
Asst. Faculty, Bennington College, Vermont
1977–1987
Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Prizes and Fellowships
2001 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London
1997 United States Department of State Information Service Visiting Cultural Specialist to Kenya
1995 British Council U.S. Participant Africa 95 International Sculpture Workshop, Yorkshire, U.K.
1993 United States Department of State Information Service Visiting Cultural Specialist to Jamaica
1989 United States Department of State Information Service Visiting Cultural Specialist to Zimbabwe
1988 The New York State Association of Architects' Citation for the Triangle Collaborative Architecture Project
1986 Francis Greenburger Foundation Prize
1982 Ford Foundation Faculty Enrichment Grant

Exhibitions

2016
Willard Boepple Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Form and Abstraction, CYNTHIA-REEVES, Walpole, NH (solo exhibition)
2015
Willard Boepple Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Willard Boepple: Sculpture, Maddox Arts, London, UK (solo exhibition)
National Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
2014
Willard Boepple Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Willard Boepple: Monoprints, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Willard Boepple: Sculpture, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Come Like Shadows, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
Carved, Cast, Crushed, Constructed, FreedmanArt, New York, NY
National Academy Annual, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Art in Nature, Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, NJ
2013
Willard Boepple Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Heavy Metal, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition 2013, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London, UK
2012
Willard Boepple Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
New Sculpture, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Tower, Temple, Shelf, Room & Loom, Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT (solo exhibition)
2008
New Sculpture, Broadbent, London (solo)
2007
Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, ‘Room’ (solo)
2007
London Art Fair
2007
'Willard Boepple, Charles Ginnever, John Henry' Broadbent, London
2007
“Four Sculptors, Other Dimensions” Brattleboro Museum, Vermont
2007
Celebrating 10 Years, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
2006
“Some Sculpture: Albee’s Choice” Long House Reserve, East Hampton, New York
2006
9th Annual Art Park, North Bennington
2006
London Art Fair, installation (solo)
2006
“Willard Boepple: Resin, Paper and Wood” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York (solo)
2005
Broadbent, London (solo)
2005
"Look Don't Think" Broadbent, London
2005
“Hand Made” Clare Hall, Cambridge University
2005
“The Print Show” Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
2005
“Recent Modernist Sculpture: Joined, Modeled, Cast, Carved, Poured, Painted” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
2004
Salander O'Reilly, New York (solo)
2004
"The Body Disembodied" MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
2004
179th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The National Academy Museum, New York
2003
Colourspace, The Gallery at APT
2003
Willard Boepple & Peter Griffin, Gallerie Aalders, St Tropez
2003
“The Archive Show” Broadbent, London
2003
Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland
2003
Arte Bologna, Italy
2003
Art 2003, London
2003
Broadbent, London (solo)
2002
Willard Boepple, Ori Gersht, Albrect Schäffer; Andrew Mummery Gallery, London Art 2002, London
2002
New Work, Broadbent, London
2001
Broadbent, London (solo)
2001
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island (solo)
2001
Sculpture, Robert Steele Gallery, New York
2001
The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
2001
North Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont
2000
The Way Things Work, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art
2000
Parker's Box, Williamsbugh, Brooklyn
2000
North Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont
2000
Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York (solo)
1999
Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York (solo)
1999
New York Studio School Gallery, New York (solo)
1999
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island
1999
North Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont
1998
Substance, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art
1998
Convivial, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art
1997
Tricia Collins - Grand Salon, New York (solo)
1997
National Gallery of Kenya, Nairobi
1997
Wasanii International Artists'Workshop Exhibition
1996
Tricia Collins Grand Salon, New York
1996
Northern Voices..., N.O.B.I.A.S, Castleton State College
1995
Six Sculptors/Triangle, Gallery One-Ten, New York
1995
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K. Pamoja, Africa 95 International Sculpture Workshop Exhibition
1995
Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France (solo)
1994
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London (solo)
1994
A Celebration of Great American Sculpture at Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
1994
Across the River and into the Trees, A Sculpture Show The Rushmore Festival
1994
Lead and Follow, The Continuity of Abstraction Bede Gallery, Jarrow, Northumberland
1994
Atlantis Gallery, London
1994
Corr Contemporary Art Inaugural Exhibition, London
1993
Willard Boepple and Michael Williams, N.O.B.I.A.S. Gallery, North Bennington, Vermont
1993
Table Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery
1993
Xayamaca International Artist's Workshop Exhibition, Kingston, Jamaica
1993
André Emmerich Gallery, New York (solo)
1992
Grounds for Sculpture Inaugural Exhibition, Johnson Atelier, Mercerville New Jersey
1992
CrossSection, Battery Park City & The World Financial Center
1992
Ten Sculptures, André Emmerich Gallery
1992
Painting and Sculpture by Leading Contemporary Artists, Gallery 90, Guildford, Surrey, U.K.
1991
Table Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery
1991
Spring Show, Woltjen/Udell Gallery,Vancouver, British Columbia
1991
André Emmerich Gallery, New York (solo)
1991
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London (solo)
1991
Group Show, Woltjen Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1990
The Thapong Exhibition, National Gallery of Botswana,Gaborone
1990
Wood, Douglas Drake Gallery, New York
1990
Steel Works, curated by Phyllis Tuchman and Corolla van den Houten, USX Tower, Pittsburgh, PA
1990
Sculpture 1970-1990, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont (solo)
1989
Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York (solo)
1989
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London (solo)
1989
Delta Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
1989
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1988
Artists of the Pachi Pamwe Workshop, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
1988
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts (solo)
1987
Modern and Contemporary Masters, Lever/Meyerson Gallery, New York
1987
Triangle Artists' Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1987
Matthew Scott Gallery, South Miami, Florida
1986
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston (solo)
1986
Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Awards Show, Ruth Siegel Ltd., New York
1986
Made in the U.S.A., 909 Third Avenue, New York
1985
Group Show, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
1985
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York (solo)
1984
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York
1983
Abstract Art in New England, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
1982
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston (solo)
1981
Acquavella Contemporary Art (solo)
1980
Acquavella Contemporary Art (solo)
1980
Columbia Plaza Sculpture Show, Columbia Plaza, Washington, D.C.
1979
Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1978
Ten by Ten/Sculpture Space, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1978
Fifteen Sculptors in Steel Around Bennington, 1963-1978, Park McCullough House, North Bennington, Vermont
1978
Acquavella Contemporary Art (solo)
1978
Dart Gallery, Chicago (solo)
1977
Acquavella Contemporary Art (solo)
1977
Sculpture Space, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York and Munson Williams Proctor Institute
1977
Artists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Galleries, New York
1976
Acquavella Contemporary Art (solo)
1974
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York (solo)
1973
New New England Sculpture, Currier Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Art Gallery of the State University at Postdam, New York
1972
Five Sculptors From Bennington, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
1971
Regional Exhibition, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New York
1971
McCullough Park Foundation, North Bennington, Vermont (solo)

Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
National Gallery of Botswana, Gaborone
National Gallery of Kenya, Nairobi

Literature

2005
Art News, Dec. review
2005
Printmaking Today Vol 14, No 2 p 19 illustration, monotype 2004
2004
The Independent, Monday 22nd November, review of Broadbent exhibition by Sue Hubbard
2004
Art in America, December edition. Review of Salander O'Reilley exhibition by Karen Wilkin
2004
The New York Sun, July 8th, review by David Cohen
2004
The New York Observer, November 1st, review by Mario Naves
2000
Zing Magazine, Autumn, “The Way Things Work" Layla Lozano
1999
Taplin, Robert, "Willard Boepple at the New York Studio School and Tricia Collins", Art in America
1999
Naves, Mario, Review, The New Criterion, p. 57, May
1999
Halasz, Piri, "Hofmann, Boepple, and Frankenthaler," NYarts Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 59, April 4
1999
White, Kit, "Willard Boepple: The Sense of Things, Studio School Gallery, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art," Review magazine, March 15
1999
Wilkin, Karen, "The Sense of Things," catalogue essay, The New York Studio School, New York, February
1999
Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries", Partisan Review, p. 135
1997
Frank, Elizabeth, Review, Art News, p. 166, Dec
1997
Glueck, Grace, Review, The New York Times, Oct 10
1997
Riley, Charles II, "The Sense of Things", WE Magazine, Oct
1997
Tricia Collins * Grand Salon, October, 1997
1997
Zaidi, Ali, "An Intense Time Away From Your Life", Executive Magazine, p 24-30, May
1996–1997
Riley, Charles II, Catalogue essay, "Willard Boepple, Sculpture"
1994
Collins, Tricia & Milazzo, Richard, Catalogue essay "Across the River and into the Trees, a Sculpture Show", The Rushmore Festival, Woodbury, New York, June
1993
Taplin, Robert, Review, "Willard Boepple at Emmerich", Art in America, Nov
1993
The New Yorker, "Goings on About Town", Review, June 14
1991
Wilkin, Karen, "At The Galleries", Partisan Review, Summer
1991
Morgan, Robert C, Review, Tema Celeste, Autumn
1991
Hudson, Andrew, "On Irregularity: A December Visit to Willard Boepple's Studio", Catalogue essay, "Willard Boepple, Sculpture in Wood", André Emmerich Gallery, April
1990
Bijutsu Techo Monthly Art Magazine, Review, Tokyo, August
1990
Hudson, Andrew, "Breaking Loose from Conventions,Willard Boepple: Sculpture 1970 - 1990," Catalogue essay, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont, April
1990
Leepile, Methaetsile, "Relating To the Body", The Reporter, Gabarone Botswana, Vol. 7 No. 1.
1990
Hilton, Tim, Critics Choice, The Guardian, March 28
1989
Norrie, Jane, Arts Review, May 5
1989
Hilton, Tim, "A Mood for Minimalism, Critic's Choice" The Guardian, London, May 2
1989
"Going out to the Galleries," The Independent, London, May 2
1989
Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries," Partisan Review, Spring
1989
Cyphers, Peggy, Review, Arts Magazine, p. 110, May
1988
Barter, Judith, Catalogue essay, "Willard Boepple: Sculpture", Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, April
1988
Sandy, Stephen, Catalogue essay, "The Sculpture of Willard Boepple", Acquavella Contemporary Art, April
1985
Klein, Ellen Lee, Review, Arts Magazine, December, p. 113
1985
Boepple, Willard, "Commencement Address", School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 24, 1985. Published in Museum School News, Volume VII, Fall
1985
Russell, John, Review, The New York Times, Oct 11
1985
Dunlap, David W, "Relearning the Sculptors Craft" The New York Times, Oct 7
1984
Klein, Ellen Lee, Arts Magazine, Review, p. 35, Dec
1983
Swan, John, "Abstract Art in New England", Review, April
1983
Moffet, Kenworth, "Abstract Art in New England", Catalogue introduction, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts, Feb
1980
Sculpture Newsletter, January-June, p.4.
1978
Saunders, Wade, "Willard Boepple at Acquavella," Art in America, pp. 123-4, Sept
1978
"The Museum Year: The 102nd Annual Report". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, p. 24., April
1978
Hudson, Andrew, "Fifteen Sculptors in Steel Around Bennington 1963-1978", Catalogue essay, Park McCullough House, North Bennington, Vermont
1978
Russell, John, The New York Times, Review, April 24
1978
Ashbery, John, The New York Magazine, Review, April 24
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