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| Artists | Exhibitions | About Us | Contact | |
JOHN BJERKLIE |
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| WORKS | BIOGRAPHY | ||
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Born 1953 Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works Brooklyn, NY John Bjerklie has exhibited his work nationally and internationally for over two decades. He is an artist whose interest in art making has always been rooted in a need to give form to the sense of presence that underlies our everyday experience. His work includes painting, sculpture, collaborations, installations, performances, and transparent drawings executed directly onto television screens. He holds a BFA from the Maine College of Art and an MFA from Washington University in St Louis. Mr Bjerklie has shown with Lennon-Weinberg Gallery, AU Base Gallery and Parker's Box in New York City. He has shown with the Neville-Sargent Gallery in Chicago, Elliot Smith Gallery in St Louis and Galerie du Tableau in Marseille, France. Mr Bjerklie has been a resident at Socrates Sculpture Park in New York City, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Ateliers Triangle in Marseille France. He has been a visiting artist at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Washington University, Webster University, Fairfield College, University of Missouri at Columbia and the Ecole Superieure Des Beaux Arts, Marseille. He has taught in various capacities at Rutgers University, Marymount Manhattan College and the Maine College of Art. He is currently an independent artist living in Brooklyn, NY and serves on the board of the Triangle Artists Residency Program in New York City. |
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| SOLO shows | ||
| 2009 | When A River Changes Its Course, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA | |
| 2008 |
K.O. Hothead/Coolhead 2008, Gatewood Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC I Am Not A Candidate: Hothead-Coolhead/On the Move USA 2008!, Endicott College, Boston, MA |
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| 2006 |
Dreams & Delusions, The Phatory, New York City, NY Do Not Be Afraid, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Parker's Box, NYC, NY Do Not Be Afraid of the Flotsam, SCAD Galerie Bleue, Savannah, GA Do Not Be Afraid to Dance, All Over Town, Savannah, GA KBRD 2000, CR3, Savannah, GA |
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| 2003 | Work in Progress, Union University, Jackson TN | |
| 1997 |
Project Room Installation, Au Base Gallery, New York City, NY Sculpture Park for the Birds, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY AIR, Friche De La Belle De Mai, Triangle France, Marseille, France |
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| 1996 | Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France | |
| 1994 |
Malaparte Theatre, New York City, NY Taylor University Gallery, Upland, IN |
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| 1988 |
Paintings and Sculpture, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO Sculpture, Neville-Sargent Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| 1987 | Bjerklie at MOSSA Center, MOSSA Center-Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1985 |
Angelic Forms, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO Krannert Fine Arts Gallery, Anderson College, Anderson, IN |
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| 1984 | Angelic Forms, Gordon College Art Gallery, Gordon Conwell Seminary, Boston, MA | |
| GROUP shows | ||
| 2010 |
WNTRSLN, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA Ten Years Hunting, Parker's Box Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
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| 2009 | Blackwell and Bjerklie's World Tour, Art Lot, Brooklyn, USA | |
| 2008 |
From Brooklyn with Love, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY |
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| 2007 | Marseille Artistes Associes, 1997-2007, Musee D'Art Contemporain, Marseille,France | |
| 2005 |
Return on Investment, New England College of Art, Boston, MA Floating Studio, Floating Studios, Lawrence, MA Ecstasy 2 x 3, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY |
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| 2004 |
Big, Red & Green, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Enriched, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY |
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| 2002 |
Phoenix, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Four Walls Projects Drawings for Sculpture, Studio Fachetti, Brooklyn, NY |
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| 2001 | Summer Show, The Painting Center, New York City, NY, curated by David Fratkin | |
| 2000 | The TV Show, Soapbox, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Sandra Korsak | |
| 1999 |
Invisible, Calvin College Art Center, Grand Rapids, MI, curated by Conrad Bakker The Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Gene Pool |
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| 1998 |
All That Is Solid, Socrates, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY Gramercy Art Fair, Au Base Gallery, New York City, NY Tenri Biennale 1998, Doyusha Gallery, Japan Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan Aicha Museum of Art, Aicha, Japan |
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| 1997 |
It Does Not Follow, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York City, NY Wicked, Wonderful, Wooly. . . So Williamsburg!, Open Studio, Brooklyn, NY Reunion, Long Island University Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Luisa Caldwell and Kathleen Gilrain; sponsored by the Sculpture Center |
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| 1995 |
Six Sculptors, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Marion Griffiths, Sculpture Center, NYC, NY Ultra Piney Xmas, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 1994 |
Art, Faith and the New Spirituality, Webster University Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO Tokyo-New York, Tamayo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 1993 |
Collage and Assemblage, Lennon-Weinberg Gallery, New York City, NY Triangle Artists, Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| 1991 |
Brooklyn Artists, Webster University Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO Drawing After Image/Image After Drawing, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 1989 |
Breaking Ground, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York City, NY Fortune Legacy, Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO |
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| 1987 | Bjerklie/Holland/Sjervelt, Neville-Sargent Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1986 |
10th Annual Small Works Competition, New York University Gallery, NYC, NY Gallery Artists, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
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| 1985 |
Fortune Artists, Bixby Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Hoyt National Drawing and Painting Show, Hoyt Institute of Art, New Castle, PA |
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| 1984 | The 27th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibit of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association, Chautauqua, NY | |
| STUDIES | ||
| 1980 | Washington University, St. Louis, MO: MFA, Painting | |
| 1977 | Maine College of Art, Portland, ME: BFA, Painting | |
| 1971-73 | Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: undergraduate work, Painting | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
| 2009 | Aaron Short, "Feel Hot and Cold About Parker's Box's Latest Exhibition", Williamsburg Courier, January 16 | |
| 2007 |
Karen Wilkin, "At the Galleries", The Hudson Review, March |
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| 2006 | Andrea Liu, "John Bjerklie at Parker's Box", Art US, May | |
| 2004 |
Karen Wilkin, "The Biennial and Beyond", The Hudson Review, September Holland Cotter, "Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames", The New York Times, January 23 |
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| 2002 | Valerie Livingston, "International Residencies, Dumbo, NYC: an interview with John Bjerklie", The Brooklyn Rail, Fall | |
| 1998 | Jane Ingram Allen, "Inspiration and Renewal: Sculpture Residencies", Sculpture, February Tenrikyo Doyusha, "Tenri Biennial '98", March | |
| 1997 |
MMC Gallery: 1996-1997 Exhibitions by Karen Harris, May Frances Chapman, "Williamsburg Natives, Pioneers, and Art", Waterfront Week, February 24 |
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| 1996 |
Radio Grenouille 88.8, "Entrevue", December 12 Alun Williams, "Petites Nouvelles", C'est La Friche, September 13 Jennifer Borum, "Six Sculptures", Long Island University, June |
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| 1995 |
Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, "The Ultra Piney Xmas Gift Guide '95", December Blender (CD ROM magazine), "Cathode Ray Canvas: John Bjerklie", November Robert Duffy, "Art, Faith and the New Spirituality", St. Louis Dispatch, February 7 |
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| 1991 | Carol Shepley, "St. Louis to Brooklyn: 7 Artists Migration", St. Louis Dispatch, October 4 | |
| 1989 |
Joan Levinson, "Live Art", Riverfront Times, January 17 Harper Barnes, "The Legacy of Fortune: Good Art and Good Business", St. Louis Dispatch, January 29 |
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| 1988 |
Nancy Rice, "Bjerklie Constructions are Threatening, Playful", St. Louis Dispatch, February 24 Joan Levinson, "Mixed Media", Riverfront Times, February 10 |
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| 1987 | Joanna Frueh, "John Bjerklie: Paintings and Sculpture, MOSSA Center", St. Louis Dispatch, May 20 | |
| 1985 |
Suzy Cheston, "Angelic Forms", KWMU-FM, May 30 Patricia Degener, "Crowded Canvases and Formalist Combats", St. Louis Dispatch, June 25 Herb Grailnick, "His Own Direction, Bjerklie's Work Strong", St. Louis Globe Democrat, June 9 John Paul Wolfe, "Strong Solo Exhibition by John Bjerklie", West End Word, June 6 |
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| RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS | ||
| 2008 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Artist in Residence, Greensboro, NC | |
| 2006 | Savannah College of Art and Design, Artist in Residence, Savannah, GA | |
| 1998 |
Doyusha Prize Winner, Tenri Biennale '98, Tenri, Japan Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City, NY |
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| 1997 | Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY | |
| 1996 |
Friche de la Belle de Mai, Ateliers Triangle, Marseille, France Mustard Seed Foundation, Arlington, VA Artists' Assistance Network, New York City, NY |
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| 1993 | Triangle Artists' Workshop, Pine Plains, NY | |
| 1976 | Malden Bridge School of Art, Malden Bridge, NY | |
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Parker's Box 193 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 |