December
9, 2003
Oakton Presents Jerry Peart Sculpture Exhibition
A new exhibition, "Alpha and Omega: Small Sculptures and Models by Jerry Peart," opens Thursday, Dec. 18, at Oakton Community College. The public is invited to a free artist's reception, 5 - 8 p.m., in the Koehnline Gallery, 1600 E. Golf Road. The exhibition runs through Friday, Jan. 30, 2004.
Over the past three decades, Chicago artist Jerry Peart has completed 34 public commissions and dozens of smaller works for private clients. His large-scale, abstract sculptures are site-specific, and suggest, through the juxtaposition of materials and form, both the industrial and the organic.
In August 2003, Peart installed "Morning Breeze," a 26-foot-high sculpture at the Canton Museum of Art in Ohio. "Nobody knows what effect it will have because nobody has seen such a thing before," Peart recently told Sculpture Magazine. "Sculpture's power is greater than people imagine. Think of the Picasso in downtown Chicago. It identifies the city now."
Born in Winslow, Arizona, in 1948, Peart earned his B.F.A. from Arizona State University, and his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University. In 1972 he moved to Chicago, drawn by the city's thriving community of sculptors, including Richard Hunt, John Henry, and Steven J. Urry. Other major influences include Joan Miro and Tony Cragg.
In addition to Oakton's permanent art collection, Peart's sculptures are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Illinois State Museum, Springfield; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA; Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque; University of Arizona Museum, Tucson; Chicago Children's Museum and Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, University Park, IL.
For more information, contact Nathan Harpaz, curator, at 847-635-2633.
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