Steven Montgomery

Steven Montgomery (born 1954 in Detroit) is an American artist most often associated with large scale ceramic sculpture suggesting industrial objects or mechanical detritus. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan and a Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]

Montgomery's work includes ceramic pieces in the trompe-l'œil style, creating "an optical deceit that induces a false perceptual belief."[2][3]

He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1990, 2006, 2009),[4] the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2004),[5] and awards for ceramic sculpture at international exhibitions in Korea and Taiwan (2003, 2004). He is the first ceramic sculptor to receive a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2012)[6] and is currently working as an artist in residence at the National Air And Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[7]

His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art[8] and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York,[9] the Smithsonian American Art Museum[10] and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[11][12] and numerous other public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. He has had major solo exhibitions at both the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York (1998) and at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri (2006).[13]

He has lived and worked in New York City since 1980.

References
  1. New York Foundation for the Arts, artist bio
  2. Steven Montgomery. "Reviews / Publications / Steven Montgomery". stevenmontgomery.net.
  3. Reif, Rita (1998-12-06). "Fantasy Machines From Technology's Dark Side". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  4. New York Foundation for the Arts, fellows
  5. "grantees". pkf.org.
  6. "Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF)". si.edu.
  7. "Steven Montgomery receives fellowship," EyesIn.com April 27, 2012
  8. "Search the Collection - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org.
  9. "Museum of Arts and Design Collection Database". madmuseum.org.
  10. "Static Fuel". Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2000. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  11. Corcoran Gallery of Art collections
  12. "Corcoran Redux". The Washington Times. 2008-03-15. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  13. Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibitions

Further reading
  • "Stephen Montgomery's Entropic Machines," by Robert C. Morgan. American Ceramics, February, 1997.
  • The Artful Teapot, by Garth Clark. Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 1998. ISBN 9780896599239
  • "Montgomery's Machines," by Sherry Chayat. The Syracuse Herald American, June 6, 1998.
  • Postmodern Ceramics, by Mark Del Vecchio. Thames & Hudson, 2002. pp. 176, 184, 208. ISBN 9780500237878
  • "Rusted Clay and Video Paint," by Doug MacCash. The New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 8, 2002.
  • Oversea Contemporary Art Classics, by Bai Ming. Hebei Fine Art Publishing House, People's Republic of China, 2003. pp. 56–61.
  • "Is There a New York School of Ceramics?" by John Perreault. American Ceramics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2003.
  • "Steven Montgomery," by Wolfram Ladda. Neue Keramic, Jan./Feb. 2005, pp. 8–13.
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