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FORWARD MARCH, AMERICA!
2000
Cloth, aluminum, ribbon, plastic
58"x70"
$800
MEMORIAM: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
Tissues, cardboard tissue box
18" x 15" x 18"
NFS
BUBBA
2000
Pork rinds, wood, hot glue
20" x 12" x 18"
Private Collection
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Backgound/Education
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Stuart Wagner, a native of Connecticut, has lived in the Bay Area for all but six years since
1964. He served in the Marine Corps after high school and completed his undergraduate work at
The University of Connecticut and his graduate studies at Stanford. His Ph.D. dissertation
research took him to Bogota, Columbia where he lived for a year. Stuart taught Latin American
history at the University of Minnesota for five years. He returned to the Bay Area in 1974 to
begin an electronics business, which he administered until 1989, when he retired. Stuart became
an art student in 1992. He considers himself primarily a 3 dimensional artist who works with a
wide variety of materials from steel to digital images.
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Group Shows
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2005 |
Democracy for America, Sausalito, CA: The Art of Politics
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Belvedere-Tiburon Library, Tiburon, CA: knowl.EDGE
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Sausalito Arts Commission, Sausalito, CA: Ro Sham Bo-Rock Paper Scissors
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600 Townsend, San Francisco, CA: Pacific Rim Sculpture Group, Strange Days
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San Francisco Bay Model Gallery, Sausalito, CA: Fiber Dimensions
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Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA: Falkirk 2005 Annual Juried Exhibition of Marin Artists
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Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA: Small Works
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2004 |
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, fiber/Dimensions at Pacifica
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Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA: Bags and Baggage
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Herbst International Exhibition Hall at the Presidio of San Francisco:
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fiber/Dimensions: Intersections II
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Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA: Third Dimension
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2003 |
Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA: Artisans 2003 National Juried Exhibition
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Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA: Open Sculpture & Crafts of Craft
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ten78 Gallery, Chico, CA: Naked Phoenix Rising
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2002
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Sight & Insight Gallery, Mill Valley, CA: Phoenix Rising
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The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz: Refuse/Reuse/Redux
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Herbst Pavilion at the Presidio of San Francisco: fiberDimensions: Intersections |
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Society of Artists, Ross: Open Sculpture & Crafts
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Downtown Art Works, San Rafael: The Fine Art of Craft
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Sight & Insight Gallery, Mill Valley: The Rhythm of Change: Artists Responding to an Evolving World
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ARTIST STATEMENT
If I could draw, I'd be a cartoonist. Instead, I use more dimensional materials. I enjoy exploring and as a result I am equally comfortable working with fiber, steel, ceramics, wood, precious materials, Recycled materials and both conventional and digital photography.
I am essentially a 3-D artist; even my photography often has a third dimension. I emphasize the real over the abstract and usually work in life size or larger. My art is conceptual in that I construct visual representations of thoughts, memories and ideas. These, in turn, derive added meaning from the materials and construction techniques I use. My work is rarely personal in the sense of being introspective, but it is subjective, nearly always evincing a strong point of view. In rare fits of sanctimony I occasionally sally forth in a quixotic delusion to point a spear at some imagined or real injustice. During these times -- when I realize that I've crossed the line from art to therapy -- I hurry back to satire. Actually, humor and irony underlie the vast majority of my work. If my art simply makes someone smile -- even if they do not go deeper into the underlying motives for creating the piece -- I feel that I have accomplished my purpose. As I said, if I could draw I'd be a cartoonist.
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