Selected Available Works
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Treasures, 2008
Mixed media with cherry wood base
15 ½ x 5 x 6 inches |
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Cork Marcheschi
Slice of Heaven, 2000
wood, neon and paint
36 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 10 1/4" |
Cork Marcheschi
Biography
Born
1945
San Mateo, CA
Education
1973-75 MFA, Sculpture, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1968-73 California State College, Hayward, CA
1968-71 College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
2008 Holiday Special: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2007 Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery
2006 Cork Marcheschi | Back to Basics
2002 Cork Marcheschi | New Work
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Back to Basics, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Gallery M, Dusseldorf, Germany
2000 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Gray/McGear Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995, 96 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 CCAC, Oakland, CA
1993 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1992 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Museum Glaskasten, Cologne, Germany
1989 Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Nerlino McGear, New York, NY
1987 Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 IMS Scholes Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1984 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Manheim Kunst Museum, Manheim, West Germany
1983 Gallery Aiedes, West Berlin, West Germany
University of California, Irvine Museum, CA
1982-83 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (traveling)
1975-82 Morgan Art Gallery, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, MO
1981 Modernism Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1979 The Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1978 Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven, Netherlands
National Gallery, Berlin, West Germany
Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin, West Germany
1977 Hanson-Cowles Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1976 Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, West Germany
1975 Folkwang Museum, Essen, West Germany
1974, 78 Galerie M, Bochum, West Germany
1973, 75, 77 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1972-74 The Electric Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1972-73 118: An Electric Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1970 Sun Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 Igor Mead Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Branching Out, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Toy With Us, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2000 Museum of Art Bangkok, Thailand
1999 "New Space, New Work," Braunstein/Quay Gallery
Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA
1997 “Sculpture Walk”, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
1996 Maistri `e Scolari: Italian-American Teachers and Students of the San
Francisco Art Institute, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
Mad River Post, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Breaking Boundaries”, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Braunstein/Quay Gallery Artists”, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
Mad River, Los Angeles, CA
1993 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Humor in Art”, One Bush Street, San Francisco, CA
1992 “In Support of the Bay Area Artists”, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1989 Neimanslande Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
1988 Aldrich Museum, CT
1987 Bruce Museum, CT
1986 Summit Museum, NJ
Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
1985 DAAD Galerie, West Berlin, West Germany
1984 Laguna Beach Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1983 New Music America Festival, Washington DC
Electrica, Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Kunst Gallery, West Germany
1982 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery, West Berlin, West Germany
Art Light and Illusion, The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan (traveling)
1981 Washington Project for the Arts, Commissioned Works, Washington
1979 New Museum, New York, NY
1977 Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University, Potsam, NY
1976 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela
1975 Copenhagen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Van Abbemseum, Eidenhoven, Holland
1974 Dennison University, Grandville, OH
Rodman Art Center, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
1971 Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
1970 “The Pollution Show”, The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1968 Igor Mead Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1966 Zora Gallery, San Mateo, CA
Awards
1983 NEA Sculpture Grant
1982 McKnight Foundation Grant
1978 DAAD, Berlin Artists Program1977 Bush Foundation Fellowship
Collections
Taylor Collection, San Francisco, CA
Heitz Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Althoefer Collection, Dusseldorf, West Germany
Allan Stone Collection, Rye, NY
Asahi Shimbun Collection, Tokyo, Japan
The Bochum Museum, Bochum, West Germany
Galerie M, Bochum, West Germany
General Mills Collection, Minnesota, MN
Hoffman Collection, Koln, Germany |
Kaufman Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Sydney Lewis Collection, Virginia Beach, VI
Luak Communications, Koln, Germany
The Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Minnesota Institute of the Arts, MN
Morton Newmann Collection, Chicago, IL
The Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MI
Northwest Bank, St. Paul, MN
The State Museum of Stutgart, Germany |
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Selected Bibliography
Ebony, David, “Cork Marcheschi at Braunstein/Quay”, Art in America, January 2001.
Hamlin, Jesse, “Master of Motion Turns to Haunting Inspirations,” SF Chronicle, May, 2000.
Lawrence, Anne, “The Business of Art,” ON San Francisco, January 1995.
Bonetti, David, “Through a Glass Brightly,” San Francisco Examiner, April 1994.
Rowell, Mike, “Fifty Foot Hose,” SF Weekly, September 1994.
Berswadt, Kornilia V., “Niemansalnd,” Kunsthale Recklinghausen, 1989.
Glueck, Grace, “Decorative Abstraction,” New York Times, July 22, 1988.
-----, “Cork Marcheschi,” catalogue, Victor McNeil Gallery, New York, New York, 1988.
Levin, Gali, “Forecasts,” catalogue, Nerlino Gallery, New York, New York, 1988.
Duncan, Nancy Hall, “-----,” catalogue, Bruce Museum, CT 1987.
McClure, Michael, “-----,” catalogue, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987.
Schiess, Christian, “Cork Marcheschi,” Signs of the Times, October 1987.
Tapley, George, “Cork Marcheschi,” Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Arts Magazine, January 1983.
-----, “Kunst Wird Material,” catalogue, National Galerie, West Berlin, Germany 1982.
Sakane, Itsuo, “Art in Light and Illusion,” catalogue, The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo Japan, 1982.
Turnquist, Stewart, “Cork Marcheschi,” catalogue, The Minnesota Institute of Art, April 1982.
Wirtz, Melinda, “Experience at Coucil Grove,” catalogue, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1982.
Buddensief, Tilmann, and Henning Rogge, “Die Nutzliche Kunste,” catalogue, West Berlin, Germany, 1981.
Nelson, Carole, “Energy, Freedom, Music Keeps Artist Cork Marcheschi Going," St. Paul Press, January 18, 1982.
Meier, Peg, “Neon Sculptor Wants to Light up Our Lives,” Minneapolis Tribune, May 1, 1981.
Norklun, Kathi, “Electronic Intervals,” Artweek, September 1981.
Rosenweig, Solomon, “Light as Art: A Historic Perspective,” Designers West,1981.
Wechsler, Jeffrey, “Cork Marcheschi,” catalogue, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Jersey, 1980.
Thomas, Kathleen, “Dimensions Variable,” catalogue, The New Museum, New York, New York, 1979.
Kreutzburg, Siegrid, “Cork Marcheschi”, catalogue, Schwarze Galerie, Hannover, Germany, 1979.
Marcheschi, Cork, “Berlin Burgers,” DAAD, West Berlin, Germany, 1979.
Hegeman, William R., “Sculpture to Walk Through,” Art News, January 1978.
Breswordt-Wallarabe, Alexander V. and Cork Marcheschi, “Cork Marcheschi,” Kunsthall Tubigen, Germany, 1978.
Danoff, Michael, “Cork Marcheschi/Eric Schwartz: Electricity and Light as Sculpture,” catalogue, Milwaukee Art Center, WI 1976,
Hepper, Heiner, “Cork Marcheschi,” film, Germany Public Broadcasting, 1975.
Kruger, Werner, “Licht als Skulpturale Form,” Art International,November 20, 1975.
Frackman, Noel, “-----,” Arts Magazine, December 1974.
Marcheschi, Cork, “Heat in Motion,” Arts Magazine, October 1974.
Bell, Jane, “-----,” Arts Magazine, January 1974.
Weiler, Merike, “-----,” Arts Canada, December 1972.Marcheschi, Cork, “Objects for Producing Visual Phenomena with High Voltage Electricity,” Leonardo, Autumn 1971.
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