Ron Wigginton
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Ron Wigginton is an American artist and landscape architect. Wigginton has won numerous awards for his landscape designs and built projects. His paintings and sculptures are found in West Coast museums and many private collections. His landscapes are known for their narrative and aesthetic qualities, and his art work typically involves and explores human perceptions of natural and built landscapes.
(California) High School. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Montana and an M.F.A from the University of Oregon
. As a young man he studied briefly with painter David Simpson in the Bay Area, and at Montana he worked with ceramicist and sculptor Rudy Autio
. At Oregon, he met and befriended painter Charles Stokes
, later sharing studios and exhibiting together in Portland and Seattle. In 1973 he met sculptor J.B. Blunk
, with whom he maintained a friendship and working relationship until Blunk’s death in 2002. In the book San Diego Artists (1988), Wigginton tells of an early and ongoing affinity for Japanese culture which led to a hitchhiking trip through Japan in 1970. There he met Japanese potters and Living National Treasure
s including Shoji Hamada
, Fujiwara Kei, and others: “I was able to travel through the central spine of the country tracking down the ancient dragon kilns and meeting masters, very unusual people, very inspiring."
He returned to Japan in 1977 for an extended stay, establishing a painting studio close to the Mizumi Gallery in Tokyo and meeting international artists including Agnes Martin. On his return to the U.S., he settled in San Diego, where he studied with Niwa landscape master Takendo Arii.
, the Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Center for Folk Art and Contemporary Crafts in San Francisco, the Rainer Bank Collection in Seattle, and the Museum of Northwest Art
in La Conner, Washington
.
Reviewing Source of Power, a 1981 exhibit at the Quint Gallery in La Jolla, California, Robert McDonald wrote in Artweek that the series consisted of “twelve works combining painting and sculpture," all “visual metaphors for physical and spiritual power, for nature and man. . . . The paintings are abstract landscapes, skyscapes, or simply atmospheres. The sculptural forms . . . represent both man-made, architectural forms . . . and natural, topographic features, such as mountains and oceans. Installed at eye level, the pieces are small worlds for exploration.” Elise Miller, reviewing Source of Power in the Los Angeles Times, noted that “the multifaceted process and sheer beauty of Wigginton’s art work are immediately intriguing” and that the “pieces reward on many levels. The more time taken, the more they are understood.” Thematically, Miller observed the focus on “power over death, power to create, spiritual power, and power as energy, from land, sun, water, wind, the atom.” But “rather than define sources” of this power, Miller wrote, “Wigginton seeks to expose human concepts about sources, as if he were a compassionate observer of all time and space, sitting on the edge of the universe.”
In 2002, Wigginton began working at his mountain studio in Cascadel Woods, North Fork, California. There, he began a new series of ethereal paintings on canvas and aluminum panels.
The founder of a landscape architecture firm, Land Studio, Wigginton entered the field following a decade as an exhibiting painter and sculptor. He is one of a relative few without a degree in Landscape Architecture to pass the state exam and become certified to practice in California. Wigginton founded Land Studio in San Diego in 1981 and after a brief partnership continued as the sole principal of the firm. Land Studio completed numerous projects in the San Diego area, many of which are open for public view, including the Union Bank Building Plaza at La Jolla Center One, the Nexus Technology Park, and the Linda Vista Library and Community Center.
Wigginton was the landscape architect for numerous college campuses in California, including the University of California, San Diego
during the mid-1980s. Land Studio designed the site and landscape architecture for a new Price Student Center, amphitheater and fountain which also included the concept for the subsequent Library Walk (subsequently developed and implemented by Peter Walker's office), and the Molybiological Unit Two building sited and designed to create a campus-wide central pedestrian walk. Over the next two decades his work included campus design and implementation at San Diego Mesa College, Grossmont-Cuyamaca College in San Diego County, the Stanford University reservoir project in Palo Alto, and the precedent-setting work for Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.
Wigginton has continued his work in painting and sculpture throughout his career in landscape architecture, and his work in the latter field has been praised for its aesthetic qualities. The introduction to his works collected at the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley
notes that “Wigginton has been recognized for his art-informed approach to landscape design, continuing to work on art installations and paintings throughout his professional career."
In honoring Wigginton as a fellow in 2002, the American Society of Landscape Architects
declared that Wigginton “has advanced the standing of landscape architecture through his exacting technical expertise in innovative design and sculptural form. [He] was the first landscape architect to use fiber optics in the built landscape at La Jolla Centre Plaza and to create exterior freestanding elevator corridors to solve complex ADA problems at Cabrillo College. He was also the first artist or landscape architect appointed a Resident Fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute.”
In “Places about Art, Places about Mind” (collected in Profiles in Landscape Architecture, 1992), J. William Thompson wrote that Wigginton “conceives of landscapes to awaken thought.” According to noted landscape architect Peter Walker
, "he's not just doing pretty things. He has a strong sense of narrative; he has been trying to make landscapes which respond to a person's intelligence as well as visual sense." Rob Wellington Quigley, an architect with whom Wigginton frequently worked, remarked on Wigginton’s "fresh approach to the whole discipline of landscape architecture . . . . He brings a fine artist's approach to the design process. . . . Ron's value is that he practices as a site-specific sculptor whose medium happens to be landscape. He is not burdened with any of the clichés of conventional landscape architecture."
Wheat Walk, Land Studio’s design for an expansion of the University of California, Davis
, Arboretum
was awarded first prize in a 1988
NEA International Design Arts competition. According to Jory Johnson, writing in Landscape Architecture (January 1989), the jury noted particularly the aesthetic achievement of the design. The jury, whose members included the university chancellor as well as artist and professor Robert Arneson
, wrote, "The winner, Wheat Walk, reconciles modern agriculture with its spiritual and vernacular origins. . . . More than the (second and third place winners), Wheat Walk belongs to the world of art. . . . The success of Wheat Walk lies in its sophisticated transformation of both Noguchi
and Van Gogh.”
Architectural critic Sally Woodbridge wrote in Progressive Architecture (July 1989) that Wigginton “seeks to objectify [the] experience” of being “moved, elevated, transported” by the landscape. Woodbridge quoted Wigginton on one of his primary purposes: “I build platforms and bridges, places to sit and stand in order to intensify these moods.” Wigginton, Woodbridge said, “wants his landscapes to take hold of people and convert observers into participants.” Woodbridge emphasized Wigginton's focus on the time and place in which people find themselves. "I would never," she quoted him, "use a classical arch or any symbolic form that refers to some other time and place." Rather, Wigginton said, he wants people to "tap into that memory" of the landscape that has shaped their unique collective experience.
In 1990 Wigginton relocated Land Studio to Berkeley, California
. The firm completed several significant designs for public spaces. Vision Harlem was a conceptual study including drawings and recommendations for re-integrating culture, place, and history in the Harlem landscape. The study, containing ten illustrated site visions, was commissioned by the Harbor for Boys and Girls/United Settlement Houses and supported by the office of Rep. Charles Rangel but never implemented. Wheat Walk, the prize-winning proposal for the Arboretum at the University of California, Davis, has yet to be constructed.
Projects completed in Northern California included Rutherford Square in Napa Valley, Communication Arts Magazine Headquarters in Menlo Park, Cabrillo College
in Aptos, and New Orchard School in San Jose. In addition to public work, Wigginton designed landscapes for private residences in locations such as La Jolla, Del Mar, Saratoga, and Los Altos Hills. Among Land Studio’s last public projects, still available for viewing in the area, are the site plan for the Marina Reconstruction of Jack London Square
in Oakland, the Alma Place SRO in Palo Alto, the Berkeley Amtrak Rail Stop, and the site and landscape design concept for the new Berkeley Bowl Market. A majority of his work may be accessed through "The Ron Wigginton Collection" established in 2006 at the University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives.
: The Continuance of the Classical Tradition in Architecture and the Humanities. In addition to his early years on the faculty at Cornish School of the Arts (Seattle), Wigginton has guest-lectured at several universities. In 1985 he served as guest lecturer at the University of California, Davis and California Polytechnic University
, San Luis Obispo. He appeared as guest lecturer at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC), in Santa Monica (1986), as featured speaker in the Design Lecture Series at the University of California, Berkeley (1988), as guest lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design
(1989), and as visiting lecturer at Stanford University
(1995). In 1989 he was visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
and delivered a series of public lectures, "The Landscape as a Fulcrum for the Mind."
, and near Yosemite National Park
. Recent work is held in several private collections as well as the Computer History Museum
in Mountain View, California. His painting "Birth Puzzle" was featured in the 2009 exhibit, "Dreaming: Selections from the Permanent Collection," and "Earth Forming/Logic Forming" was included in the 2011 exhibit, "Velocity," at the Museum of Northwest Art
in La Conner, Washington In 2011, Wigginton was awarded a Morris Graves
Residency Fellowship by the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA.
Education and Influences
Ron Wigginton graduated from El CerritoEl Cerrito High School
El Cerrito High School is a public school in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. It is located at 540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito, California 94530.-Overview:The original main school building was built in the late 1930s as a WPA project...
(California) High School. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Montana and an M.F.A from the University of Oregon
University of Oregon
-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
. As a young man he studied briefly with painter David Simpson in the Bay Area, and at Montana he worked with ceramicist and sculptor Rudy Autio
Rudy Autio
Rudy Autio was an American sculptor, best known for his figurative ceramic vessels.Rudio Autio was born Arne Rudolph Autio to a family of Finnish immigrants in Butte, Montana. As a child, he first learned to draw by taking evening classes from Works Progress Administration artists working in Butte...
. At Oregon, he met and befriended painter Charles Stokes
Charles Stokes
Charles Stokes was a painter and sculptor and a prominent member of the last generation of artists identified with the Northwest School. He was the first winner of the prestigious Betty Bowen Award in concert with the Seattle Art Museum in 1979...
, later sharing studios and exhibiting together in Portland and Seattle. In 1973 he met sculptor J.B. Blunk
J.B. Blunk
J.B. Blunk was a sculptor working primarily in wood and clay. In addition to his monumental pieces in wood and highly original work in ceramics, Blunk produced iconic works in diverse media including jewelry, painting, bronze, and stone....
, with whom he maintained a friendship and working relationship until Blunk’s death in 2002. In the book San Diego Artists (1988), Wigginton tells of an early and ongoing affinity for Japanese culture which led to a hitchhiking trip through Japan in 1970. There he met Japanese potters and Living National Treasure
Living National Treasure
Living National Treasure or Living Human Treasure is a title awarded in several countries, and denotes a person or a group which is regarded as a national treasure while still alive....
s including Shoji Hamada
Shoji Hamada
was a Japanese potter. He was a significant influence on studio pottery of the twentieth century, and a major figure of the mingei folk-art movement, establishing the town of Mashiko as a world-renowned pottery centre.- Biography :...
, Fujiwara Kei, and others: “I was able to travel through the central spine of the country tracking down the ancient dragon kilns and meeting masters, very unusual people, very inspiring."
He returned to Japan in 1977 for an extended stay, establishing a painting studio close to the Mizumi Gallery in Tokyo and meeting international artists including Agnes Martin. On his return to the U.S., he settled in San Diego, where he studied with Niwa landscape master Takendo Arii.
Painting and Sculpture
During the 1970s, Wigginton taught painting and sculpture at Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle. Paintings and sculptures from this period and afterward are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Oakland Museum, the Seattle Art MuseumSeattle Art Museum
The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, USA. It maintains three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened on...
, the Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Center for Folk Art and Contemporary Crafts in San Francisco, the Rainer Bank Collection in Seattle, and the Museum of Northwest Art
Museum of Northwest Art
The Museum of Northwest Art is an art museum located in La Conner, Washington, and is focused on the Northwest School art movement, which had its peak in the mid-20th century. The Museum was founded by Art Hupy in 1981....
in La Conner, Washington
La Conner, Washington
La Conner is a town in Skagit County, Washington, United States with a population of 891 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon–Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. In the month of April, the town annually hosts the majority of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival...
.
Reviewing Source of Power, a 1981 exhibit at the Quint Gallery in La Jolla, California, Robert McDonald wrote in Artweek that the series consisted of “twelve works combining painting and sculpture," all “visual metaphors for physical and spiritual power, for nature and man. . . . The paintings are abstract landscapes, skyscapes, or simply atmospheres. The sculptural forms . . . represent both man-made, architectural forms . . . and natural, topographic features, such as mountains and oceans. Installed at eye level, the pieces are small worlds for exploration.” Elise Miller, reviewing Source of Power in the Los Angeles Times, noted that “the multifaceted process and sheer beauty of Wigginton’s art work are immediately intriguing” and that the “pieces reward on many levels. The more time taken, the more they are understood.” Thematically, Miller observed the focus on “power over death, power to create, spiritual power, and power as energy, from land, sun, water, wind, the atom.” But “rather than define sources” of this power, Miller wrote, “Wigginton seeks to expose human concepts about sources, as if he were a compassionate observer of all time and space, sitting on the edge of the universe.”
In 2002, Wigginton began working at his mountain studio in Cascadel Woods, North Fork, California. There, he began a new series of ethereal paintings on canvas and aluminum panels.
Landscape Architecture
The founder of a landscape architecture firm, Land Studio, Wigginton entered the field following a decade as an exhibiting painter and sculptor. He is one of a relative few without a degree in Landscape Architecture to pass the state exam and become certified to practice in California. Wigginton founded Land Studio in San Diego in 1981 and after a brief partnership continued as the sole principal of the firm. Land Studio completed numerous projects in the San Diego area, many of which are open for public view, including the Union Bank Building Plaza at La Jolla Center One, the Nexus Technology Park, and the Linda Vista Library and Community Center.
Wigginton was the landscape architect for numerous college campuses in California, including the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
during the mid-1980s. Land Studio designed the site and landscape architecture for a new Price Student Center, amphitheater and fountain which also included the concept for the subsequent Library Walk (subsequently developed and implemented by Peter Walker's office), and the Molybiological Unit Two building sited and designed to create a campus-wide central pedestrian walk. Over the next two decades his work included campus design and implementation at San Diego Mesa College, Grossmont-Cuyamaca College in San Diego County, the Stanford University reservoir project in Palo Alto, and the precedent-setting work for Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.
Wigginton has continued his work in painting and sculpture throughout his career in landscape architecture, and his work in the latter field has been praised for its aesthetic qualities. The introduction to his works collected at the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
notes that “Wigginton has been recognized for his art-informed approach to landscape design, continuing to work on art installations and paintings throughout his professional career."
In honoring Wigginton as a fellow in 2002, the American Society of Landscape Architects
American Society of Landscape Architects
The American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional association representing landscape architects, with more than 17,000 members in 48 chapters, representing all 50 states, U.S. territories, and 42 countries around the world, plus 68 student chapters...
declared that Wigginton “has advanced the standing of landscape architecture through his exacting technical expertise in innovative design and sculptural form. [He] was the first landscape architect to use fiber optics in the built landscape at La Jolla Centre Plaza and to create exterior freestanding elevator corridors to solve complex ADA problems at Cabrillo College. He was also the first artist or landscape architect appointed a Resident Fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute.”
In “Places about Art, Places about Mind” (collected in Profiles in Landscape Architecture, 1992), J. William Thompson wrote that Wigginton “conceives of landscapes to awaken thought.” According to noted landscape architect Peter Walker
Peter Walker (architect)
Peter Walker is a landscape architect in the United States.-Biography and Influences:Peter Walker grew up in California and attended the University of California, Berkeley. Walker initially started out in Journalism but quickly changed his field...
, "he's not just doing pretty things. He has a strong sense of narrative; he has been trying to make landscapes which respond to a person's intelligence as well as visual sense." Rob Wellington Quigley, an architect with whom Wigginton frequently worked, remarked on Wigginton’s "fresh approach to the whole discipline of landscape architecture . . . . He brings a fine artist's approach to the design process. . . . Ron's value is that he practices as a site-specific sculptor whose medium happens to be landscape. He is not burdened with any of the clichés of conventional landscape architecture."
Wheat Walk, Land Studio’s design for an expansion of the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
, Arboretum
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
was awarded first prize in a 1988
NEA International Design Arts competition. According to Jory Johnson, writing in Landscape Architecture (January 1989), the jury noted particularly the aesthetic achievement of the design. The jury, whose members included the university chancellor as well as artist and professor Robert Arneson
Robert Arneson
Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at UC Davis for four decades.- Career :...
, wrote, "The winner, Wheat Walk, reconciles modern agriculture with its spiritual and vernacular origins. . . . More than the (second and third place winners), Wheat Walk belongs to the world of art. . . . The success of Wheat Walk lies in its sophisticated transformation of both Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
and Van Gogh.”
Architectural critic Sally Woodbridge wrote in Progressive Architecture (July 1989) that Wigginton “seeks to objectify [the] experience” of being “moved, elevated, transported” by the landscape. Woodbridge quoted Wigginton on one of his primary purposes: “I build platforms and bridges, places to sit and stand in order to intensify these moods.” Wigginton, Woodbridge said, “wants his landscapes to take hold of people and convert observers into participants.” Woodbridge emphasized Wigginton's focus on the time and place in which people find themselves. "I would never," she quoted him, "use a classical arch or any symbolic form that refers to some other time and place." Rather, Wigginton said, he wants people to "tap into that memory" of the landscape that has shaped their unique collective experience.
In 1990 Wigginton relocated Land Studio to Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
. The firm completed several significant designs for public spaces. Vision Harlem was a conceptual study including drawings and recommendations for re-integrating culture, place, and history in the Harlem landscape. The study, containing ten illustrated site visions, was commissioned by the Harbor for Boys and Girls/United Settlement Houses and supported by the office of Rep. Charles Rangel but never implemented. Wheat Walk, the prize-winning proposal for the Arboretum at the University of California, Davis, has yet to be constructed.
Projects completed in Northern California included Rutherford Square in Napa Valley, Communication Arts Magazine Headquarters in Menlo Park, Cabrillo College
Cabrillo College
Cabrillo College is a public community college offering associate degrees and certificates in more than 70 fields of study such as: engineering, computer science, allied health , public safety, marine biology and the visual and performing arts. The college itself is named after the explorer Juan...
in Aptos, and New Orchard School in San Jose. In addition to public work, Wigginton designed landscapes for private residences in locations such as La Jolla, Del Mar, Saratoga, and Los Altos Hills. Among Land Studio’s last public projects, still available for viewing in the area, are the site plan for the Marina Reconstruction of Jack London Square
Jack London Square
Jack London Square is a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront of Oakland, California. Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, restaurants, hotels, an Amtrak station, a ferry dock, the historic Saloon, the cabin Jack London lived in the...
in Oakland, the Alma Place SRO in Palo Alto, the Berkeley Amtrak Rail Stop, and the site and landscape design concept for the new Berkeley Bowl Market. A majority of his work may be accessed through "The Ron Wigginton Collection" established in 2006 at the University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives.
Academic Work
During the 1991-92, Wigginton was a Resident Fellow in a year-long symposium at the University of California, IrvineUniversity of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
: The Continuance of the Classical Tradition in Architecture and the Humanities. In addition to his early years on the faculty at Cornish School of the Arts (Seattle), Wigginton has guest-lectured at several universities. In 1985 he served as guest lecturer at the University of California, Davis and California Polytechnic University
California Polytechnic State University
California Polytechnic State University, or Cal Poly, is a public university located in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. The university is one of two polytechnic campuses in the 23-member California State University system....
, San Luis Obispo. He appeared as guest lecturer at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC), in Santa Monica (1986), as featured speaker in the Design Lecture Series at the University of California, Berkeley (1988), as guest lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...
(1989), and as visiting lecturer at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
(1995). In 1989 he was visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and delivered a series of public lectures, "The Landscape as a Fulcrum for the Mind."
Present Activities
In 2007, Wigginton closed Land Studio’s regular operations. Wigginton now maintains Land Studio on a consulting basis for site architecture. He continues to paint at studios in Berkeley, CaliforniaBerkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
, and near Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain...
. Recent work is held in several private collections as well as the Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, USA. The Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting the stories and artifacts of the information age, and exploring the computing revolution and its impact on our lives.-History:The museum's origins...
in Mountain View, California. His painting "Birth Puzzle" was featured in the 2009 exhibit, "Dreaming: Selections from the Permanent Collection," and "Earth Forming/Logic Forming" was included in the 2011 exhibit, "Velocity," at the Museum of Northwest Art
Museum of Northwest Art
The Museum of Northwest Art is an art museum located in La Conner, Washington, and is focused on the Northwest School art movement, which had its peak in the mid-20th century. The Museum was founded by Art Hupy in 1981....
in La Conner, Washington In 2011, Wigginton was awarded a Morris Graves
Morris Graves
Morris Cole Graves was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves was also a mystic.-Early years:...
Residency Fellowship by the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA.
Selected Exhibitions
- Artists of Oregon Annual, juried exhibition, Portland Art Museum (1972)
- 60th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art museum (1974)
- Tsukubai, one-person exhibition of paintings, Foster/White Gallery (1974)
- Works On Paper, group painting exhibition, Seattle Art Museum (1975)
- First Illumination, paintings. Tokyo-American Club (1977)
- Source of Power series, painting and sculpture, Mark Quint Gallery, La Jolla (1981)
- City Forest installation at Quint Gallery, San Diego (1984)
- Landscape as Theater piece at the University Art Museum for “Celebrating 75 Years—Department of Landscape Architecture,” University of California, Berkeley (1988)
- Exhibit of landscape sculptures and lecture at the Corcoran School of Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1992)
- Exhibit of landscape paintings and lecture, School of Architecture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1994)
- Silicon Sea, large painting on canvas installed at the Computer History Museum,Mountain View, California (2005)
- Dreaming: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington (2009)
Selected Awards
- Resident Artist, Dorland Mountain Colony, Temecula, California (1981).
- First Prize International Design Arts Competition for Wheat Walk project, University of California Arboretum, Davis (1988), with J.B. Blunk and Rachada Chantaviriyavit.
- San Diego/ American Institute of Architects Award of Merit for Forecast 80's StarWalk (1982).
- American Society of Landscape Architects National Merit Award for StarWalk project (1984).
- American Society of Landscape Architects National Merit Awards for City Forest and Visual Productions projects (1986).
- San Diego/American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Miraflores Residence (1987).
- Individual Grant for Design Innovation, National Endowment for the Arts: Design Arts, Carbon-Fiber Landscape Viewing Platforms (1993).
- American Society of Landscape Architects National Merit Award for Six Metaphysical Gardens, Escondido, California (1995).
- American Society of Landscape Architects/Northern California Chapter Merit Award for Alma Place/Palo Alto SRO (2001).
- American Society of Landscape Architects/Northern California Chapter Merit Award for Los Altos Hills Residence (2002).
- Elected to College of Fellows, American Society of Landscape Architects (2002).
- American Society of Landscape Architects/Northern California Chapter Merit Award for Castor/Packard Residence (2008)
See also
- San Diego Artists. Robert Perine, I. Andrea, and Bram DijkstraBram DijkstraBram Dijkstra is a professor of English literature. He joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego in 1966, and taught there until he retired and became an emeritus in 2000. He is married to the literary agent Sandra Dijkstra.He is the author of seven books on literary and...
. Encinitas, CA: Artra Publishing, 1988. ISBN 0936725028.
- Experimental Architecture In Los Angeles. Aaron Betskey. Introduction by Frank GehryFrank GehryFrank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
. Rizzoli Press, New York (1992). ISBN 978-0847813384.
- Profiles in Landscape Architecture. Edited by James Trulove. Landscape Architecture Publication, Library of Congress. Washington D.C. (1992). ISBN 0941236198.
- The American Landscape. Christian Zapatka. Princeton Architectural Press (1997). ISBN 1568980930. Published in Italy by Lotus International as The Architecture of the New American Landscape (1995).
- Paradise Transformed: The Private Garden For The 21st Century. Gordon Taylor and Guy Cooper. Monacelli Press, New York (1996). ISBN 1885254350.