Stuart Klipper
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'Photographer Stuart Klipper, was born in the Bronx borough of New York City
in 1941. He lived in Stockholm
, Sweden
, but then moved to his current residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota
in 1970.
Klipper has made six journeys to Antarctica to take photographs. He has also worked in Greenland
, Iceland
, Svalbard
, Alaska
, and the area of Lapland irradiated by the Chernobyl
disaster. Klipper became one of approximately 400 people to have stood at both the South Pole
and the North Pole
on July 15, 2009, when he visited the North Pole.
Other major forays have taken Klipper across the deserts of Israel
and Sinai as well as the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica
. Klipper's work has also taken him to Northern Australia
, Patagonia
, Tierra del Fuego
, Sri Lanka
, and Pakistan
.
He has logged thousands of miles traveling at sea while photographing on all of the Earth’s oceans and seas.
For over 30 years, Klipper traveled through the 50 United States
, capturing photographs that crystallize the defining characteristics of American regions. He also photographed major physics and astronomy research installations throughout the United States
and the Anasazi ruins of the Southwest.
Klipper has also photographed the cemeteries of World War I
and memorials of the Western Front.
Klipper's photographs have been exhibited in and collected by major museums from both the United States
and overseas. These include New York City's Museum of Modern Art
, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center
, The Jewish Museum
, The Israel Museum
, The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bonn Kunsthalle, and the Moderna Museet
in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Guggenheim Foundation
, The Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation
, and the Minnesota State Arts Board have all awarded Klipper multiple grants.
Klipper is also a recipient of the United States Navy
’s Antarctic Service Medal.
Grants, honors, and fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1980, 1990
Bush Foundation (St. Paul), 1981, 1992
National Endowment for the Arts, 1976, 1979
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981
McKnight Foundation, St. Paul/Mpls. – three grants
The Minnesota State Arts Board – three grants
The Jerome Foundaiton, 2003
The Bogliasco Foundation (N. Y. C. & Genoa, Italy, 2003
The National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2000
Nominee, McKnight Distinguished Minnesota Artist Award, 2005, 2006, 2007
Finalist, Bush Enduring Visions Award, 2008
Nominee, MacArthur Fellowship, 2008
Recipient of the United States Navy Antarctic Service Medal, 1989
Selected institutions in where work has been exhibited and/or collected
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Houston Museum of Art, Houston
The Jewish Museum, N. Y. C.
The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y.C.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
The Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul
The New York Public Library, N. Y. C.
The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
The National Museum of American Art, Washington D. C.
United States embassy, Santiago, Chile
The Addison Gallery of American Art
, Andover, Mass.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Library of the Church of Later Day Saints, Salt Lake City
The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis
Kunsthalle of the German Republic, Bonn, Germany
The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
The George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y. S.
The Winchester Museum, North Carolina
The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee
The North Dakota Museum of Art
The Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
The Historical Society of Minnesota, Minneapolis
The Historical Society Texas, Austin
The Historical Society of Colorado, Denver
The Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
The University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Winthrop College gallery, South Carolina
Prescott College gallery, Arizona
Grinnell College gallery, Iowa
Colorado College gallery, Colorado
Carleton College gallery, Minnesota
St. Olaf College gallery, Minnesota
Jamestown College art gallery, North Dakota
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The Fernbank Museum of Art, Atlanta
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
The Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
FermiLab, Ill.
Selected commissions:
The State of Texas, Cray Research Corp., the State of Minnesota, First Banks Systems (Mpls.), the Valspar Corp. (Mpls.), the University of Minnesota.
Recent achievements dating to December, 2009
Selected exhibitions—solo:
Disparate Georgraphies, Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, 1998.
Sixteen polar photographs, Arktis -Antarktis, the Kunsthalle des Deutschesrepublic, Bonn, Germany. 1998
Cardinal Points, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. (Photographs from polar regions: Antarctica and Greenland, the tropical rain forests, the desert regions of Israel and the Sinai, the agricultural Great Plains)-- an exhibition catalogue was published. 1998
At Sea Near the Poles, at the Spencer Gallery, Wickford, R.I. 1999
Antarctica 99/00, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, 2000
Selected Antarctic Work, Berler Gallery, Washington D.C., 2001 (Also shown in Denver and Christchurch, N.Z.
Selected American photographs, The Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Va., 2001
Photographs from the Arctic and Antarctica, Smith-Dean Gallery, Phila., PA, 2001
Wyoming, Univ. of Wyo. Museum Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2001/02
In the Australian Outback, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, 2002
The United States, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY, 2002
Rock art, bush fire, termite mounds and other aspects of the outback
of the Top End of Australia, Gallery 360, Mpls.,2002
Portraits about Pakistan, 1987, Icebox Gallery, Mpls., 2002
Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica’s First Highway, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 2002
The Louisiana Purchase, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis & Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, 2003
Selected photographs, Medtronics Corp. corporate headquarters, Minneapolis, 2006
Antarctica, Electrolift Artworks, Minneapolis, Minn. 2006 (+ other venues)
20 Years of photographing Louisiana, The Ogden Museum, New Orleans, 2008
Antarctic Photographs, City Museum of Charleston, S.C., 2009
Local Places – Remote Terrains, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, 2009
The Dead Sea Region, Israel, The Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, 2010
Selected exhibitions -group:
Photography of New York City, Minneapolis Institute of Art. 1998
Sea Change, The Center for Creative Photography, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson.
(An eponymous book was published in conjunction with the exhibition and is in national distribution), 1998/99
American farms and farming, Candace Perish Gallery, Katonah, NY.
(Traveled to Washington D. C.), 1998/99
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, NYC. 1999
Claiming Title: Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land,
St, Olaf & Carleton Colleges, Northfield, Minn., 1999
The Infinite and the Intimate; Waterscapes of Stuart Klipper and Frank Gohlke,
Dorsky Gallery, N.Y.C. 1999
An Eclectic Focus: Photographs from the Vernon Collection ( + catalogue),
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999
Aqua, Gallerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France 1999
Restructuring the Prairie, Grinnell College, 1999
The Mural as Muse, Deutsches Bank Gallery, NYC, 2000
earth sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta,GA, 2000
Western Panoramas, Huntington Museum, Sta. Barbara, CA, 2001
I Love New York (W. T. C benefit), NYC, 2001
Melodrama, inaugural show, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain, 2002
Contemporary Desert Photography, Palm Springs Art Museum, 2005
Antarctic Visions & Voices, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., 2005
Downriver: New Orleans before the flood, Minnesota Center for Photography, 2006
Midwestern View: Contemporary Photography in Minnesota,
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2007
Visions of Music, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, La., 2007
Four Antarctic Photographers, Museum of Art, Univ. of Wyo., 2007
Photographs from the Ends of the Earth, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007
Antarctica on Thin Ice, The United Nations, NYC, 2007
Remembering Dakota, The North Dakota Museum of Art, 2008
Animals –Them and Us, The North Dakota Museum of Art, 2009
NSF Antarctic Artists, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Md., 2009
New Orleans photographs, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, 2009
The Minnesota Eye, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, 2009
Summarized history of selected projects:
Polar regions and high latitude domains. Northern forays in each decade since I first sallied north in the 1960s. This roster includes: Newfoundland and Labrador; Iceland and Greenland; northern Scandinavia and Lapland; Svalbard and several smaller Arctic islands; the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans – and polar ice pack; Alaska. And as of a half year ago, a crossing of the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole, visiting islands in Franz Josef Land en route. Bodies of work: Most North, Bearing South, Radiation in Lapland, To the North Pole; and several phases of On Antarctica.
In 1987 joined a sailing expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. Following that daunting initiation to The Ice, made 5 other visits to the continent and its encircling seas (in 1989, 1992, 1993/4, 1999, 2000), all as a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Was given an inordinate amount of air support, and made three long cruises on research icebreakers. Has attained access to more of that near-extraterrestrial continent than most who have ever ventured there.
The World in a Few States – the American regions work being made since 1979. It began with a commission to photograph the cultural and geographical identities of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana. TWFS is an ongoing endeavor. Its ever-expanding inventories now number in the neighborhood of 30,000+ pictures, and it embraces all 50 states. Scoping out the lay of the land and ‘the hand of man’ -- and what may have been wrought in places where each overlay: the fruit of enterprise, and, the sullied tumult. Evidence of the land we are on and the world we find ourselves in; where we are at and who we are; what we have done; and, where we can go.
TWFS is subsumed by a life-long concern with the nature of Place and placement in Nature. Its photographs examine the manifold ambient and manifest characteristics that define and crystallize the identity of American places; they plumb, depict, document, and clearly view the nature and the temper of American regions.
Portraits.
An overall catalogue of other projects:
- Along the Mississippi: Observing a metaphysical landscape, #1: piecing together the routes, river infrastructure, and industrial and railroad topography that hug the banks of the river from Minneapolis to St. Paul; very new and uncertain terrain for me at the time. [1975]
- Scans of Greenland and Iceland: Observing a metaphysical landscape, #2: my first comprehensive foray to explore Polar Regions, in particular the realms settled by the medieval Norse.[1976]
- The Heart of Illinois: Observing a metaphysical landscape, #3: a meditative and poetic photographic pulse-taking of one very limited rural locale deep in the American Heartland. [1978]
- Anasazi Places: the ruins of the Anasazi people in N. M., Ariz., and Colo., and the pueblos of their inheritors; the sacred lands of the Hopi and Navajo across the American Southwest – a NEH-supported project organized and directed by Evan Maurer. [1980]
- High Energy, Fusion, and Space: an expansive and complexly-phased body of work looking at the research laboratories and installations of high energy and particle physics, astronomy, fusion, and space exploration: Fermilab, SLAC, Kennedy Space Center, the VLA and Arecibo radio telescopes, Jet Propulsion and Livermore Labs; my art, as I see it, is subsumed by the passions, mysteries, and constructs of science. [1980-83]
- Graves and Memorials. 1914 1918: a vast inventory of the cemeteries and memorials of The Great War on the Western Front in France and Belgium – Klipper was driven to immerse him self and my soul in the grim residue of the signal event that determined the nature of the era in which he would be living out his life. [1984]
- From Emptiness: the bare and stark deserts of the Biblical Holy Land in Egypt and Israel: the Sinai, the Negev, and the Judean Wilderness – geology as theology; plus the sacred sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; a personal religious inquiry – hid ‘going out into the desert wilderness’. [1985]
-Portents in the North: Radiation in Lapland: a comprehensive scrutiny of the terrain of Sweden and Norway irradiated by the Chernobyl catastrophe fallout – he felt had to be in this damaged place, one that might stand as a bellwether for yet worse; and, to be amidst the Sámi whose culture was sorely bruised; radiation maps acted as guides. [1988]
- In the Rain Forest: The Specifications of Life, photographs made deep inside the rain forest preserves of Costa Rica; these forests are essential to planetary health and threatened everywhere; he wanted to ‘swim’ in the densest soup of DNA anywhere. [1989]
- Talking to Heidegger: a protracted inter-related series of b/w photographs of both the common and enigmatic constituents of the world on hand as passed by. [1985 - 1989]
- Along the Songlines: a peripatetic transect of the Top End of Australia; the Outback, the sacred places of the Aboriginal tribes – rounding out a triad of holy land work. [1996]
- Liguria; as a Fellow of the Bogliasco Fountain; Klipper needed to take a break to head off on an unexpected and quixotic tangent; to go to the sort of place his more ‘normal’ friends went to; for once sybaritic surrounds instead of doing my normative ‘hardship duty’. [2003]
- Parkchester: two returns to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth—after over 3 decades of absence; mapping out the world he first knew, where his identity was first forged – this, finally, after having had carefully looked at the home places of so many others, this evocative attempt to look at my own. [2003, 2005]
- Hands On Know How – a long-term occasional survey (in b/w) of tools, machinery, manufacturing, fabrication, craftwork, and artisanship; a continuing meditation on the instruments used by deft and skillful individuals who can and do still make things.
- Other places explored in these decades: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ireland, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, New Zealand; the North Atlantic under sail from Cape Cod to Newfoundland and on to Greenland to Ireland – completing a multi-voyage recapitulation of Norse seafaring routes to North America.
New York City
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in 1941. He lived in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, but then moved to his current residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
in 1970.
Klipper has made six journeys to Antarctica to take photographs. He has also worked in Greenland
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
, Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
, Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...
, Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
, and the area of Lapland irradiated by the Chernobyl
Chernobyl
Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932....
disaster. Klipper became one of approximately 400 people to have stood at both the South Pole
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...
and the North Pole
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface...
on July 15, 2009, when he visited the North Pole.
Other major forays have taken Klipper across the deserts of Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and Sinai as well as the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
. Klipper's work has also taken him to Northern Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Patagonia
Patagonia
Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...
, Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of , and a group of smaller islands including Cape...
, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, and Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
.
He has logged thousands of miles traveling at sea while photographing on all of the Earth’s oceans and seas.
For over 30 years, Klipper traveled through the 50 United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, capturing photographs that crystallize the defining characteristics of American regions. He also photographed major physics and astronomy research installations throughout the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and the Anasazi ruins of the Southwest.
Klipper has also photographed the cemeteries of World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
and memorials of the Western Front.
Klipper's photographs have been exhibited in and collected by major museums from both the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and overseas. These include New York City's Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...
, The Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum may refer to:Australia* Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, VictoriaAustria* Jewish Museum ViennaCzech Republic* Jewish Museum of PragueDenmark* Danish Jewish Museum, CopenhagenGeorgia...
, The Israel Museum
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bonn Kunsthalle, and the Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet
Moderna museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, that was first opened in 1958. Its first manager was Pontus Hultén...
in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Guggenheim Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
, The Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation
McKnight Foundation
The McKnight Foundation is a philanthropic organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The foundation's interests lie in the environment, the arts, community development, and other areas....
, and the Minnesota State Arts Board have all awarded Klipper multiple grants.
Klipper is also a recipient of the United States Navy
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
’s Antarctic Service Medal.
Grants, honors, and fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1980, 1990
Bush Foundation (St. Paul), 1981, 1992
National Endowment for the Arts, 1976, 1979
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981
McKnight Foundation, St. Paul/Mpls. – three grants
The Minnesota State Arts Board – three grants
The Jerome Foundaiton, 2003
The Bogliasco Foundation (N. Y. C. & Genoa, Italy, 2003
The National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2000
Nominee, McKnight Distinguished Minnesota Artist Award, 2005, 2006, 2007
Finalist, Bush Enduring Visions Award, 2008
Nominee, MacArthur Fellowship, 2008
Recipient of the United States Navy Antarctic Service Medal, 1989
Selected institutions in where work has been exhibited and/or collected
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Houston Museum of Art, Houston
The Jewish Museum, N. Y. C.
The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y.C.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
The Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul
The New York Public Library, N. Y. C.
The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
The National Museum of American Art, Washington D. C.
United States embassy, Santiago, Chile
The Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art
The Addison Gallery of American Art, as a department of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, is an academic museum dedicated to collecting American art...
, Andover, Mass.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Library of the Church of Later Day Saints, Salt Lake City
The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis
Kunsthalle of the German Republic, Bonn, Germany
The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
The George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y. S.
The Winchester Museum, North Carolina
The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee
The North Dakota Museum of Art
The Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
The Historical Society of Minnesota, Minneapolis
The Historical Society Texas, Austin
The Historical Society of Colorado, Denver
The Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
The University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Winthrop College gallery, South Carolina
Prescott College gallery, Arizona
Grinnell College gallery, Iowa
Colorado College gallery, Colorado
Carleton College gallery, Minnesota
St. Olaf College gallery, Minnesota
Jamestown College art gallery, North Dakota
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The Fernbank Museum of Art, Atlanta
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
The Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
FermiLab, Ill.
Selected commissions:
The State of Texas, Cray Research Corp., the State of Minnesota, First Banks Systems (Mpls.), the Valspar Corp. (Mpls.), the University of Minnesota.
Recent achievements dating to December, 2009
Selected exhibitions—solo:
Disparate Georgraphies, Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, 1998.
Sixteen polar photographs, Arktis -Antarktis, the Kunsthalle des Deutschesrepublic, Bonn, Germany. 1998
Cardinal Points, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. (Photographs from polar regions: Antarctica and Greenland, the tropical rain forests, the desert regions of Israel and the Sinai, the agricultural Great Plains)-- an exhibition catalogue was published. 1998
At Sea Near the Poles, at the Spencer Gallery, Wickford, R.I. 1999
Antarctica 99/00, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, 2000
Selected Antarctic Work, Berler Gallery, Washington D.C., 2001 (Also shown in Denver and Christchurch, N.Z.
Selected American photographs, The Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Va., 2001
Photographs from the Arctic and Antarctica, Smith-Dean Gallery, Phila., PA, 2001
Wyoming, Univ. of Wyo. Museum Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2001/02
In the Australian Outback, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, 2002
The United States, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY, 2002
Rock art, bush fire, termite mounds and other aspects of the outback
of the Top End of Australia, Gallery 360, Mpls.,2002
Portraits about Pakistan, 1987, Icebox Gallery, Mpls., 2002
Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica’s First Highway, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 2002
The Louisiana Purchase, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis & Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, 2003
Selected photographs, Medtronics Corp. corporate headquarters, Minneapolis, 2006
Antarctica, Electrolift Artworks, Minneapolis, Minn. 2006 (+ other venues)
20 Years of photographing Louisiana, The Ogden Museum, New Orleans, 2008
Antarctic Photographs, City Museum of Charleston, S.C., 2009
Local Places – Remote Terrains, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, 2009
The Dead Sea Region, Israel, The Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, 2010
Selected exhibitions -group:
Photography of New York City, Minneapolis Institute of Art. 1998
Sea Change, The Center for Creative Photography, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson.
(An eponymous book was published in conjunction with the exhibition and is in national distribution), 1998/99
American farms and farming, Candace Perish Gallery, Katonah, NY.
(Traveled to Washington D. C.), 1998/99
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, NYC. 1999
Claiming Title: Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land,
St, Olaf & Carleton Colleges, Northfield, Minn., 1999
The Infinite and the Intimate; Waterscapes of Stuart Klipper and Frank Gohlke,
Dorsky Gallery, N.Y.C. 1999
An Eclectic Focus: Photographs from the Vernon Collection ( + catalogue),
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999
Aqua, Gallerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France 1999
Restructuring the Prairie, Grinnell College, 1999
The Mural as Muse, Deutsches Bank Gallery, NYC, 2000
earth sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta,GA, 2000
Western Panoramas, Huntington Museum, Sta. Barbara, CA, 2001
I Love New York (W. T. C benefit), NYC, 2001
Melodrama, inaugural show, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain, 2002
Contemporary Desert Photography, Palm Springs Art Museum, 2005
Antarctic Visions & Voices, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., 2005
Downriver: New Orleans before the flood, Minnesota Center for Photography, 2006
Midwestern View: Contemporary Photography in Minnesota,
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2007
Visions of Music, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, La., 2007
Four Antarctic Photographers, Museum of Art, Univ. of Wyo., 2007
Photographs from the Ends of the Earth, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007
Antarctica on Thin Ice, The United Nations, NYC, 2007
Remembering Dakota, The North Dakota Museum of Art, 2008
Animals –Them and Us, The North Dakota Museum of Art, 2009
NSF Antarctic Artists, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Md., 2009
New Orleans photographs, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, 2009
The Minnesota Eye, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, 2009
Summarized history of selected projects:
Polar regions and high latitude domains. Northern forays in each decade since I first sallied north in the 1960s. This roster includes: Newfoundland and Labrador; Iceland and Greenland; northern Scandinavia and Lapland; Svalbard and several smaller Arctic islands; the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans – and polar ice pack; Alaska. And as of a half year ago, a crossing of the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole, visiting islands in Franz Josef Land en route. Bodies of work: Most North, Bearing South, Radiation in Lapland, To the North Pole; and several phases of On Antarctica.
In 1987 joined a sailing expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. Following that daunting initiation to The Ice, made 5 other visits to the continent and its encircling seas (in 1989, 1992, 1993/4, 1999, 2000), all as a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Was given an inordinate amount of air support, and made three long cruises on research icebreakers. Has attained access to more of that near-extraterrestrial continent than most who have ever ventured there.
The World in a Few States – the American regions work being made since 1979. It began with a commission to photograph the cultural and geographical identities of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana. TWFS is an ongoing endeavor. Its ever-expanding inventories now number in the neighborhood of 30,000+ pictures, and it embraces all 50 states. Scoping out the lay of the land and ‘the hand of man’ -- and what may have been wrought in places where each overlay: the fruit of enterprise, and, the sullied tumult. Evidence of the land we are on and the world we find ourselves in; where we are at and who we are; what we have done; and, where we can go.
TWFS is subsumed by a life-long concern with the nature of Place and placement in Nature. Its photographs examine the manifold ambient and manifest characteristics that define and crystallize the identity of American places; they plumb, depict, document, and clearly view the nature and the temper of American regions.
Portraits.
An overall catalogue of other projects:
- Along the Mississippi: Observing a metaphysical landscape, #1: piecing together the routes, river infrastructure, and industrial and railroad topography that hug the banks of the river from Minneapolis to St. Paul; very new and uncertain terrain for me at the time. [1975]
- Scans of Greenland and Iceland: Observing a metaphysical landscape, #2: my first comprehensive foray to explore Polar Regions, in particular the realms settled by the medieval Norse.[1976]
- The Heart of Illinois: Observing a metaphysical landscape, #3: a meditative and poetic photographic pulse-taking of one very limited rural locale deep in the American Heartland. [1978]
- Anasazi Places: the ruins of the Anasazi people in N. M., Ariz., and Colo., and the pueblos of their inheritors; the sacred lands of the Hopi and Navajo across the American Southwest – a NEH-supported project organized and directed by Evan Maurer. [1980]
- High Energy, Fusion, and Space: an expansive and complexly-phased body of work looking at the research laboratories and installations of high energy and particle physics, astronomy, fusion, and space exploration: Fermilab, SLAC, Kennedy Space Center, the VLA and Arecibo radio telescopes, Jet Propulsion and Livermore Labs; my art, as I see it, is subsumed by the passions, mysteries, and constructs of science. [1980-83]
- Graves and Memorials. 1914 1918: a vast inventory of the cemeteries and memorials of The Great War on the Western Front in France and Belgium – Klipper was driven to immerse him self and my soul in the grim residue of the signal event that determined the nature of the era in which he would be living out his life. [1984]
- From Emptiness: the bare and stark deserts of the Biblical Holy Land in Egypt and Israel: the Sinai, the Negev, and the Judean Wilderness – geology as theology; plus the sacred sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; a personal religious inquiry – hid ‘going out into the desert wilderness’. [1985]
-Portents in the North: Radiation in Lapland: a comprehensive scrutiny of the terrain of Sweden and Norway irradiated by the Chernobyl catastrophe fallout – he felt had to be in this damaged place, one that might stand as a bellwether for yet worse; and, to be amidst the Sámi whose culture was sorely bruised; radiation maps acted as guides. [1988]
- In the Rain Forest: The Specifications of Life, photographs made deep inside the rain forest preserves of Costa Rica; these forests are essential to planetary health and threatened everywhere; he wanted to ‘swim’ in the densest soup of DNA anywhere. [1989]
- Talking to Heidegger: a protracted inter-related series of b/w photographs of both the common and enigmatic constituents of the world on hand as passed by. [1985 - 1989]
- Along the Songlines: a peripatetic transect of the Top End of Australia; the Outback, the sacred places of the Aboriginal tribes – rounding out a triad of holy land work. [1996]
- Liguria; as a Fellow of the Bogliasco Fountain; Klipper needed to take a break to head off on an unexpected and quixotic tangent; to go to the sort of place his more ‘normal’ friends went to; for once sybaritic surrounds instead of doing my normative ‘hardship duty’. [2003]
- Parkchester: two returns to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth—after over 3 decades of absence; mapping out the world he first knew, where his identity was first forged – this, finally, after having had carefully looked at the home places of so many others, this evocative attempt to look at my own. [2003, 2005]
- Hands On Know How – a long-term occasional survey (in b/w) of tools, machinery, manufacturing, fabrication, craftwork, and artisanship; a continuing meditation on the instruments used by deft and skillful individuals who can and do still make things.
- Other places explored in these decades: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ireland, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, New Zealand; the North Atlantic under sail from Cape Cod to Newfoundland and on to Greenland to Ireland – completing a multi-voyage recapitulation of Norse seafaring routes to North America.
Sources
- Van Riper, Frank. Southern Exposure: Antarctica". Camera Works. Photo Essay at washingtonpost.com.