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American artist
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.
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Montgomery's work includes ceramic pieces in the
trompe-l'œil
style, creating "an optical deceit that induces a false perceptual belief."
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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
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Further reading
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- "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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