Exhibition

Howard McCalebb
Global Jungle & Marshall Plan

May 20—June 12

Howard McCalebb currently has dual residencies: one in Oroville, CA, and the other in Berlin, where he runs the gallery and artist residency Dadapost in an old factory in Berlin/Wedding. He earned his MFA in sculpture from Cornell in 1972 and his BA in sculpture from CSU Hayward (now called CSU East Bay) in 1970. In 1971, he participated in the Hobart School of Welding Technology 5th Annual Sculpture Workshop in Troy, OH.

McCalebb has taught at San Jose State, University of Massachusetts, University of North Carolina, Rutgers, Hunter, Cornell, Pratt, Parsons, and Amherst. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and in numerous international venues. He was invited by Romare Bearden to appear in the film Bearden Plays Bearden in 1981. His sculpture was featured in the historic Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century exhibition in Purchase, NY, in 2001, alongside works by Julio Gonzalez, Pablo Picasso, Anthony Caro, and David Smith. In 2003, he was one of the American artists representing the U.S.A. at the Sharjah International Biennial 6 in the United Arab Emirates. In 2001 he lectured at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. In 2005, he did a series of public sculpture projects in Bulgaria, Norway, and Lithuania. In 2008 he was commissioned for a large-scale public sculpture by the Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art for Intrude: Art and Life 366. In June 2009, McCalebb’s large-scale outdoor sculpture Butterfly was shown in Berlin at galerie Exile. Solo exhibitions include Kulturfabrikken in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Momenta Art, NY.

McCalebb will be showing two separate installations at his 1078 exhibit in May/June 2010. The Marshall Plan explores ideas consistent with his geometric sculptures. The main icons are rendered in high key (near primary) colors and are configured from within a matrix constructed by the Greek Golden Mean. There will be 20-30 mixed-media/collage/paintings that incorporate various aspects of American/German history, cultural references, and iconography. In Global Jungle, a sculpture installation of five 7-foot medallions featuring iconography from Western, Asian, and African cultures is mediated by two American pop images from the 1960s: the “happy face” and the “peace sign.” A number of 2-D mixed-media pieces will accompany this installation.

Marshall Plan

 

Global Jungle