Feature Articles


August Issue 2002

Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, Offers 16th Annual Sculpture Exhibition

The 16th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition has been installed throughout the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. The exhibition, juired by Kerry Brougher, continues through Feb., 2003.

The eagerly anticipated Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition and its extraordinary array of contemporary sculpture is made possible annually by the generous support of Martin and Doris Rosen. The competition provides cash awards for ten artists, chosen from a wide range of established and emerging artists, with one artist named as the competition's top award winner. In 2001, Dennis Peacock was named the Rosen Award winner for his work Prometheus (still stealing fire) ­ steel.

The Rosen Competition proudly welcomes Kerry Brougher, chief curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as its juror for the 2002 season. Prior to his arrival in Washington, DC, Brougher was the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, where he co-organized such exhibitions as Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950 (which will be seen at the Hirshhorn in the summer of 2002), Ed Ruscha, Enclosed & Enchanted, Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, and Gustav Metzger. Prior to his tenure at Oxford, Brougher was a curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where he organized numerous exhibitions, including Jeff Wall, Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Irwin, and Yves Klein: The Fire Paintings.

The 2002 Rosen Competition finalists include: Rodney Carroll of Baltimore, MD, for a work of steel and stainless steel entitled, Kazimoc XXXX; Ryan Goff of Boone, NC, for a work made of found wood, entitled, Turbine; Susanna Jones of Lanagan, MO, for a work of cedar entitled, Homestead; Hanna Jubran of Grimesland, NC, for a work of steel and paint entitled, Sundance; Gretchen Lothrop of Pittsboro, NC, for a work of stainless steel entitled, Grove; Greg Mueller of Ely, MN, for a work of bronze coated steel entitled, Unity; Glenn Phifer of Boone, NC, for a work of welded aluminum and copper plated steel entitled, Totemic XIX; Rudy Rudisill of Gastonia, NC, for a work of galvanized steel entitled, FS.919 Barn; David Tillinghast of Seneca, SC, for a work of earth, steel bell, bronze and hollow space entitled, Stinger; and Wayne Trapp of Vilas, NC, for a work of corten steel entitled, Kyoto and Beyond.

The Rosen Exhibition sites allow the featured works to be complemented by the natural beauty of the Appalachian campus, and experienced in a casual and unhurried way by visitors, students, and faculty members. Selected works remain on display throughout the academic year. A catalogue featuring reproductions of each selected sculpture, and a map indicating a walking tour of the sites, is available at the Catherine J. Smith Gallery, located in Farthing Auditorium. All works featured in the exhibit are available for purchase, and a price list is also available at the gallery.

For additional information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call Hank Foreman, Director/Curator, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, at 828/262-3017.

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