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Bryan Hunt

American, born 1947

(not assigned)New York, USA

SchoolSculpture

BiographyBryan Hunt's abstract sculptures are derived from fragments of the natural world. Born in Indiana and raised both there and in Florida, Hunt first studied architecture at the University of South Florida. He later moved to California and enrolled at the Otis Art Institute, a school with a rigid classical curriculum.

In the early 1970s, Hunt began to create models of well-known architectural landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, and the Great Wall of China. By 1976 his work changed considerably. Inspired by Willem de Kooning's expressionistic sculptures, Hunt translated elements directly from the landscape--such as lakes, quarries, and waterfalls--into richly carved, abstract forms isolated from their original contexts. Source: Web-site of Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden (Quoted on Askart.com, Accessed August 13, 2004, )

from: http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/hunt/bio.html,
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26 June 2003

"Bryan Hunt

Born: Terre Haute, IN., 1947.
Education: 1969-71 Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles, CA
1972 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

1974 The Institute for Art and Urban Resources at the Clocktower, NY
Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA
1976 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussells, Belgium
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1978 Blum Helman Gallery, NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1979 Blum Helman Gallery, NY
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Blum Helman Gallery, NY
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1980 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Akron Art Institute, OH
Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Germany
Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1982 Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
1983 Blum Helman Gallery, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
1984 John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis, MN
1985 Knoedler Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1986 Gillespie, Laage, Salomon, Paris, France
Blum Helman Gallery, NY
The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"Bryan Hunt Airships: 1974-1986", Matrix, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley,
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 "Recent Sculpture", Blum Helman Warehouse, NY
Barbara Mathes Gallery, NY
Wilhelm-Lembruck-Museum, Duisburg, West Germany
1988 "Recent Sculpture", Blum Helman, Santa Monica, CA
"Falls and Figures", Blum Helman, NY. Traveled to Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Fort Worth Museum Art Museum, TX, and Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College,Allentown, PA
Evelyn Amis Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
"Bryan Hunt: Earth and Air", University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1989 Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Crown Point Press, San Francisco and New York
Galeria Arteunido, Barcelona, Spain
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 "Sculpture", Blum Helman Gallery, New York
"Bryan Hunt:Recent Sculptures", Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1991 "Bryan Hunt:17 Sculptures", Tokyo Ginza Art Center Hall, Japan
"Bryan Hunt", Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992 "Bryan Hunt Early Work: Sculpture and Drawing, 1974-80", Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
"Bryan Hunt: Paintings", BlumHelman, New York, NY
"Bryan Hunt: Paintings and Sculpture", Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1995 "Plunge Crossing Hoodoo", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1976 "Via Los Angeles", Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
"Selections", Willard Gallery, NY
1977 The Institute for Art and Urban Resources at PS1, Long Island City, NY
1979 "Up Against the Wall", Daniel Weinberg Gallery,San Francisco, CA
"1979 Biennial Exhibition",The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Visionary Images", the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL
"Young American Artists", Guggenheim Museum, NY
"Hunt,Lane,Jenney,Shapiro,Rothenberg",Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Made by Sculptors", The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
"Removed Realities: Aucock, Butterfield, Hunt, Shapiro",
The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
"Selections from the Collection:Contemporary Sculpture", The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"The Decade in Review", The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Corners", the Hayden Gallery, M.I.T, Cambridge, MA
1980 "Invitational",Brown University Art Gallery, Providence, RI
"Sculpture on the Wall", University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA
"Venice Biennale", Venice, Italy
1981 "Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"The Americans,The Landscape",Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
"The Image in American Painting andSculpture,1950-1980", Akron Art Museum, OH
"Bryan Hunt,Neil Jenney,Robert Moskowitz,Donald Sultan",
Blum Helman Gallery, NY
"E.R.A Benefit Exhibition", Zabriskie Gallery, NY
1982 "Dynamix", A Traveling exhibition organized by The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
"Great Big Drawings", Hayden Gallery, M.I.T, Cambridge, MA
"74th American Exhibition",The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
"Casting:ASurveyofCast Metal Sculpturein the 80's", Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
"Painting and Sculpture Today,1982",Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
"Variants:Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors", Sewall Art
Gallery,Rice University,Houston,TX.Traveled to Tulane University and The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, among others.
"Projects:Artists' Books",The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"Surveying the Seventies: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, CT
"Prints by Contemporary Sculptors", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
"Hassamand Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition", American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY
"American Sculpture from the Permanent Collection", Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY
1983 "A Century of Modern Sculpture",Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
"Black and White: A Print Survey",Castelli Graphics, NY
"Entering the Eighties", Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, CT
"Twentieth Century Sculpture: Process and Presence", Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NY
"Bay Area Collects: A Diverse Sampling", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
"Bronze", Wave Hill Sculpture Center, NY
"Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture Since 1965 in the Permanent Collection", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"ICA Exhibition Program",Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
"Drawing in Air: An Exhibition of Sculptor's Drawings", Traveled to Glynn Vivian Art Center, Swansea, England, and to City Art Gallery and Henry Moore Study Center, Leeds, England
"Tendencias en Nueva York", Organized by Palacio de Velazquez,Madrid,Spain.Traveled to Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, and Palais Luxembourg, Paris
"Ars 83", Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
1984 "Six in Bronze", Exhibition traveled to: Carnegie OH; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture", The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"Francesco Clemente/Bryan Hunt/David Salle", Blum Helman Gallery, NY
"ROSC '84",Dublin, Ireland
"Arabesque: Grand Gestures in Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts", Bette Stoller Gallery, NY
"ec.centric images", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Rediscovered Romanticism in New York City", New Math Gallery, NY

1985 "Dedication Show of the Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center", M.I.T, Cambridge, MA
"1985 Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Contemporary American Prints: Recent Acquisitions", Brooklyn Museum, NY
"Works on Paper", Turske & Turske, Zurich, Switzerland
"Correspondences: New York Art Now",Laforet Museum, Harajuku,Japan.Traveled to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
1986 Blum Helman Gallery, NY
"Sculpture", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY
"Contemporary Landscapes on Paper", The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"The Museum of Contemporary Art:TheBarryLowen Collection", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"70's into 80's: Printmaking Now", The Lois and Michael Torf Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
1988 "On View", Evelyn Amis Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
"Sculptors on Paper New Work", Madison Art Center, WI
1989 "Figuratively Speaking: Drawings by 7 Artists", The Neuberger Museum, State University New York, Purchase, NY
"MicroSculpture", Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island
1991 "Prints By Sculptors", Crown Point Press, NY
"Katherine Bowling, Bryan Hunt and José María Sicilia", Blum Helman, NY
"Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The
Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition", Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FLA
1992 "A/D at the Peter Joseph Gallery, Peter Joseph Gallery, NY
"Four Friends: Fischl, Gibson, Gornik, Hunt", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1993 Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Akron Museum of Art, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Lehmbruch Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Parc del Clot, Barcelona, Spain
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1976 Buettner, Stewart. "Six Los Angeles Artists", Artweek, January 31, p. 16
1977 Perrone, Jeff. "Bryan Hunt: Blum Helman Gallery", Artforum, Summer, p. 68
Poett, James. "A Pail of Water Without the Pail", The Village Voice, March, p. 89
1978 Dippel, Rini, and Geert van Beijeren. "Made By Sculptors: Door Beedldhouwers gemaakt", Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (catalogueue)
Frank, Peter. "Bryan Hunt at Blum Helman", Art News, October, p. 178
Shearer,Linda. "Young American Artists", The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, (catalogue)
1979 Halbreich, Kathy. "Corners: Painterly and Sculptural Work", Hayden Gallery, M.I.T, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
McShine, Kynaston. "Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art", Museum of Modern Art, NY (catalogue)
Meister, Von Helga. "Junge Kunst aus den USA: Werke amerikanischer kunstler der 80", Rheinische Post, December 13 (Germany)
"1979 Biennial Exhibition", Catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Ratcliff, Carter. "Visionary Images", Rennaissance Society, Chicago,IL (catalogue)
Rickey, Carrie. "Bryan Hunt: Blum Helman", Artforum, May, p. 58
1980 Castleman, Riva. "Printed Art: A View of Two Decades", The Museum of Modern Art, NY (catalogue)
Davies, Hugh. "Sculpture on the Wall: Relief Sculpture of the Seventies", University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, (catalogue)
Hopkins, Henry T. "20 American Artists", The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (catalogue)
Saunders, Wade. "Hot Metal", Art in America, Summer, pp. 87-95
Tomkins, Calvin. "The Art World Boom", The New Yorker, December 22, pp. 78-80
White, Robin. Interview with Bryan Hunt in View, published by Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
Wohlfert, Lee. "Young Artists New Yorkers are Talking About", Town and Country,September, pp. 200-07
Yassin, Robert. "Painting and Sculpture Today: 1980", Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN (catalogue)
1981 Cathcart, Linda. "The Americans: The Landscape", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue) Foster, Hal. "Bryan Hunt",Artforum, September, pp. 77-78 Friedrichs, Yvonne. "Dem Wasser eine feste Form: Bryan Hunt in der Galerie Streblow/ Erstmals in Deutschland", Rheinische Post, November (Germany)
Kramer, Hilton. "Bronze Makes a Comeback", The New York Times, February 8.
---------------. "Sculptors Who Triumph in Bronze", The New York Times, May 24, pp. 25,35
Larson, Kay. "Between a Rock and a Soft Place", New York Magazine, June 1, p. 56
"1981 Biennial Exhibition Catalog", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Reed, Dupuy Warrick. "Bryan Hunt", Flash Art, October- November, pp. 49-50
Smith, Roberta. "Biennial Blues", Art in America, April, pp. 92-101
1982 Becker, Robert. "Bryan Hunt", Interview Magazine, January, pp. 52-54
Elsen, Albert. "Casting: A Survey of Cast Metal Sculpture in the 80's", Fuller Goldeen Gallery,
San Francisco,(catalogue)
Kline, Katy. "Great Big Drawings", Hayden Gallery, M.I.T, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
Phillips, Lisa. "Surveying the Seventies: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield, CT branch (catalogue)

1983 Glenn, Constance. "Artist's Dialogue: A Conversation with Bryan Hunt", Architectural Digest, March, pp. 68-74
Glueck, Grace. "Two-Gallery Shows are Catching On", The New York Times, April 8, pp. C1, C25
Ratcliff, Carter. "Bryan Hunt", Blum Helman Gallery, NY (catalogue)
Phillips, Lisa. "Twentieth Century Sculpture: Process and Presence", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (catalogue)
Klein, Michael. "Bronze", Wave Hill Sculpture Park, NY (catalogue)
Brooks, Valerie. "Bryan Hunt", Flash Art, Summer, p. 63
Wulffen, Thomas. "Die dekorative Wende: Neue Meister, Stellen im Amerika Haus aus.", Der Tagensspeigel, October 5 (Germany)
Peltola, Leena. "Ars '83 Helsinki", The Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
Haskell, Barbara. "Bryan Hunt", Amerika Haus Berlin, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Ratcliff, Carter. "New York, New York: The Glamour of History", Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
Gimenez, Carmen. "Tendencias en Nueva York", Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
Garcia, Angel. "Vanguardia biologica", El Pais Semanal, November 6 (Spain)
1984 Kuspit, Donald. "Artist Choose Artists", CDS Gallery, NY (catalogue)
Raynor, Vivien. "Art: 3 Friends Who Share Attitudes and a Show", The New York Times, July 20, p. C20
Freeman, Phyllis. "New Art", Harry Abrams & Co., Publishers, NY (book)
Pradel, Jacques-Louis. "Art 83-84 World Art Trends", Jacques Legrand International Publishing, Paris, France
Reynolds, Gary. "American Bronze Sculpture from 1850 to the Present", Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (catalogue)
Brenson, Michael. "A Lively Renaissance for Sculpture in Bronze", The New York Times, November 4, p.H29
Ratcliff, Carter. "Pressures of the Hand: Expressionist Impulses in Recent American Art",The Brainerd Art Gallery, Potsdam, NY (catalogue)
Glueck, Grace. "Bronze in the Hands of American Sculptors", The New York Times, December 23, p. H29
Robinson, John. "Francesco Clemente/ Bryan Hunt/David Salle", Arts, September, p. 34
1985 Billeter, Fritz. "Amerikanisch Wurzelt in Europa", Tages Anzeiger, January 11 (Switzerland)
Larson, Kay. "Boomtown Hype--and Real Quality", New York Magazine, June 17, pp. 46-47
Comorera, Ramon. "Las Plazas de Barcelona se Llenan con el Mejor Arte Mundial de Vanguardia", El Correo Catalan, July 14, p. 5 (Spain)
Raynor, Vivien."Bryan Hunt", The New York Times, May 10, p. C26
Tuchman, Phyllis. "The Whitney Biennial: The MTV of Art", Newsday, March 29
Larson, Kay. "The Bad News Bearers". New York Magazine, April 8, pp. 72-73
Haskell, Barbara. "Bryan Hunt: Skulpturen und Zeichnugen", Knoedler AG, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
"1985 Biennial Exhibition Catalog", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1986 Maille, Loic. "Sculpture du sensuel", Decoration Internationale, September
Richard, Paul. "The Museum and the Friend in Need", The Washington Post, January 10, Sec. B1
1988 Stephen Westfall, "Touched in Bronze", Art in America, April 1989, pp. 251-254.
1989 Interview with Bryan Hunt, Independent Curators Incorporated Newsletter, Winter, 1989, vo. 4, no. 1.
1992 Bourdon, David. Review, Art in America, July 1992, pp.105-106."

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