Christina Shmigel
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Texts
- Heavy Load, wire bicycle made for tourist trade, plastic string, 90 x 56 x 132 cm, 2011
- Hat for Sustained Attention (Remember Impermanence), calligrapher’s felt, wire, glass, cicada , 26 x 75 x 23 cm , 2012
- Hats for the Contemporary Literati Hat for Cutting Thru Delusion (True/False), calligrapher’s felt, wire and glass, 63 x 15 x 12cm, 2012
- The View in Fragments, mixed media installation, paper, vitrines, cardboard, dimensions variable, 2009-2010
Exhibitions
- Make Over January 24th, 2009 - March 13th, 2009
Education
1993
Metals: MFA, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, USA
1987
Sculpture: MFA, Brooklyn College, New York, USA
1980
Painting: BFA, Rhode Island School of Design,Providence,
Rhode Island, USA
Teaching
1995
ongoing Webster University, Asst. Professor, Sculpture, St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002
Workshops, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, USA
1987-90
Asst. Professor, University of Southwestern Louisiana,
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2003
Project Room, Saint Louis University Museum, St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
2002
Saint Louis Art Museum, Currents Exhibition, St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
2001
Webster University Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Gallery W.D.O, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2000
Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1999
Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1998
Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
1995
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1994
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro,
North Carolina, USA
1992
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1991
West Baton Rouge Museum, Louisiana, USA
Group Exhibitions
2004-2005
Eliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2003
“A Social Affair,” University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
“Philip Slein Gallery, Inaugural Show,” St. Louis, Missouri, USA
“Regarding Objects,” Sheldon Theater Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2002
“ArtCache,” 2003 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
“A New Era of Sculpture,” National Museum of History,
Taipei, Taiwan
2001
Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
“Ancient Futures,” Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2000
“International Environmental Art Symposium,” Seoul, South Korea
“Ironing,” National Ornamental Metals Museum,
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
John Elder Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1999
“Kunst in der Landschaft,” Gut Gasteil Gallery, Gasteil, Austria
1998
“Women of Iron,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville,
North Carolina, USA
“Bottomland: Forum for Contemporary Art,” St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
1997
“Drawing Invitational,” Galerie Simonne Stern,
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1996
“Dwellings,” Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Florida, USA
1995
“Drawings,” Marcia Woods Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Commissions
2004
“Garden for the Floating Life,” Greensboro Public Library,
Hemphill Branch, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
“Industrial Rococo,” Grand Hall, Ziegler House, St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
2003
“Bus Shelter Pipe Dreams,” Arts-in-Transit Public Art in Action,
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Grants & Awards
2001
The Project Room (w/Kurt Perschke) Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
National Endowment for the Arts Residency, Penland School of
Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, USA
1998
The Project Room, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
1993-95
Artist-in-Residence, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North
Carolina, USA
1995
Finalist, Southern Arts Federation Fellowship, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Bibliography
Watkin, Mel, “Christina Shmigel at St. Louis University Museum of Art,” Art in America, Jan 2005, Vol. 1, P.133
Dugan, Cory, “A Social Affair Climbs So Hard…,” The Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tennessee, Nov 23, 2003, F6
Cooper, Ivy, “Review of Regarding Objects,” Riverfront Times, June, 2003
Castro, Jan, “Reviews: St. Louis, Christina Shmigel, St. Louis Art Museum,” Sculpture, June 2003, Vol.22 No 6, pgs 72-73
Allen, Michael, “Beautiful Pipes: Reflections on Christina Shmigel’s The Logic of Attachment,” Confluence, April-May 2003, Vol. 9,No.2
Daniels, Jeff, “Sculptor Turns Pipe Dreams Into Art,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sunday, Dec 15, 2002, pg. C11
Cooper, Ivy, “Inside Out: Shmigel Evokes Our Gutted Past Without Dewy-eyed Nostalgia,” Riverfront Times, Dec 18-24, 2002, pg. 59
Zapf, Rudy. “SLAM Goes Local,” Playback, January 2003, pg.22
The First International Sculpture Exhibition 2002, catalog, National Museum of History, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Taiwan pgs. 12, 24-25
“Currents 87: Christina Shmigel,” St. Louis Art Museum Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Huck, Chris, “Ancient Futures: The Art of the Blacksmith at the Third Millenium,” Nova Scotia, Canada, 2001
Kunst in der Landschaft V., [deA] Verlag: Gumpoldskirchen-Wien. 2000
Meilach, Dona, Decorative and Sculptural Ironwork, Schiffer Publishing: Pennsylvania, USA, 1999
Hansson, Bobby,The Fine Art of the Tin Can: Techniques and Inspirations, Lark Books: Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 1996
“Gambit,” New Orleans Weekly, Bookhardt, Eric. “The Art of the Tower,” Jan 17, 1995
McClellan, Marian, “Shmigel’s Sentinels,” New Orleans Art Review, Jan/Feb, 1995
Duffy, Robert, “The Ship of the Unconscious,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Sept 15, 1995
Patterson, Tom, “Four Artists in Solo Shows Make Their Case
For Beauty,” Winston-Salem Journal, November, 1994
