Dates: July 2009
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Location: San Antonio Botanical Gardens
Exhibit URL: http://www.sabot.org/
Exhibit Title: Art in the Garden
The San Antonio Botanical Garden will have several of John's sculptures in their Art in the Garden Exhibi
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"Serpent", 2008
"Quill", 2009
"Traveler", 2007
"Desert Flower", 2003
"Panther", 2007
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah has generously loaned, "Sun Devil", which will be featured in this exhibit in October.
Dates: April 11, 2009
- May 31, 2009
Location: Miami, FL
Exhibit URL: www.kelleyroygallery.com
Exhibit Title: New Works
STRUCTURES
Structures in association with Kelley Roy Gallery presents New Work by: John Henry, Henry Lautz, STRETCH & Robert Theile. Artist opening, April 11.
Dates: March 30, 2009
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Location: New Orleans, LA
Exhibit URL: http://www.sculptureforneworleans.org
Exhibit Title: Sculpture for New Orleans
John's Zach's Tower was installed at Harrah's Casino on Poydras St. as part of the on-going sculpture exhibition placing monumental sculptures throughout New Orleans.
Dates: March 7, 2009
- April 28, 2009
Location: New Orleans, LA
Exhibit URL: www.gallerybienvenu.com
Exhibit Title: New Works
Gallery Bienvenu
Gallery Bienvenu hosts a solo show for John Henry. The exhibition is in collaboration with Sculpture for New Orleans, a three-year program placing monumental sculptures throughout the city.
Dates: October 1, 2008
- May 30, 2009
Location: Florida
Exhibit URL: www.peninsulaproject.com
Exhibit Title: Drawing In Space: The Peninsula Project
Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project is an exhibition of sculpture in seven cities around the Florida peninsula. One of John Henry's monumental works is installed at a public site in each city, incorporating itself into the Florida landscape, and interacting with the community on a daily basis. Accompanying each monument is an exhibit at a local art museum. The unique exhibits allow deeper connections to be made between the viewer, the cities, the sculpture and the artist. For more info on individual exhibits and public sited sculpture go to:
www.peninsulaproject.com.Dates: September 12, 2008
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Location: University of Wyoming
Exhibit Title: Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational
The University of Wyoming Art Museum's official opening of the large-scale public art exhibition "Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational" is Friday, Sept. 12, with a free public reception on Prexys Pasture from 4-6 p.m. "Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational" is a series of 17 works and is an exhibition of public art on the University of Wyoming campus and in Laramie. John Henry's "River High" is from a new series of monumental sculpture and was created for the Wyoming exhibition. "River High" is the tallest sculpture in this exhibit at fifty-five feet tall and is visible from the surrounding valley, a beacon that signals contemporary public art is on view in Laramie. Located at the Laramie Community Recreation Center on Boulder Drive.
Dates: November 11, 2007
- May 26, 2008
Location: Sarasota, Florida
Exhibit Title: Sarasota Season of Sculpture
For the past several months, John's monumental sculpture "Star Pointer" has been on exhibit at the Bayfront Exhibition of The Sarasota Season of Sclupture. The biennale invitational selects 26 monumental works by sculptors from the US and abroad. This year's exhibitors were selected by leaders from distinguished art institutions including: the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the High Museum of Art.
Star Pointer is an impressive addition to the showcase of sculpture, and towers above the bay at a height of 70 feet.
Sarasota Magazine writer Mark Ormond, describes Star Pointer's presence on the bayfront as "massive" and explains how John's arrangement of the heavy metal slabs work to "actively engage and animate the space [Star Pointer] occupies."
Among this year's Sarasota Season of Sculpture artists are Albert Paley, Bruce White, Barry Hehemann, Gillian Christy, Heinz Aeschlimann, James Brenner, Leonardo Nierman, Niki De Saint Phalle, Rob Lorenson, and Seward Johnson. The monumental sculpture will be on exhibit through May 26, 2008. For more info please go to the corresponding website:
http://www.sarasotaseasonofsculpture.org/Dates: August 30, 2007
- October 14, 2007
Location: Venice Lido, Italy
Exhibit URL: http://www.artecommunications.com
Exhibit Title: OPEN 2007
Dates: June 1, 2007
- July 7, 2007
Location: London, UK
Exhibit URL: http://www.broadbentgallery.com/
Exhibit Title: Sculpture/Drawing Show: Willard Boepple, Charles Ginnever, and John Henry
This will be Henry’s first solo exhibition in the UK.
“Beginning in the mid 1960’s a group of young Chicago sculptors began to forge a new American sculpture from the iron-tough aesthetics of Constructivism and the industrialized cerebrations of the Bauhaus. Chicago sculpture became the unique melting pot where the internationalism of European Modernism could alloy with the singular balance of populism and individualism that marked the heartland of American enterprise. John Henry emerged as the leader of this group. The fledgling sculptor’s special vision was to unlock the potential of this unique situation.
His fledgling status quickly disappeared. Within only a few years Henry had reconfigured Constructivism’s formal grammar into monumental fabrications distinguished for their melding of Abstract Expressionism into architectonic construction. Before the close of the decade of the 1960’s, this young painter had learned to translate his expressionist bolts of color – and the Abstract Expressionists’ oft-cited belief in an heroic individualism -- into beams of steel crisscrossing a prairie sky. He had dissembled the architectonic beams of the city and re-expressed these as gigantic lines of color on the canvas of that sky.
As a result of John Henry’s innovative energy, monumentality became a key ingredient in public art, in contemporary sculpture as a whole and in the debate on the role of contemporary public sculpture. Key to this debate was this sculptor’s assertion that to carry out his search for the expressive potential of scale, then entrepreneurship and community engagement would be as much a part of making his sculpture as would his wresting of steel.”
Excerpt from text by Steven Luecking, John Henry: Sculpture
to be published October 2007
Dates: May 31, 2007
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Location: London, UK
Exhibit URL: http://www.broadbentgallery.com/
Exhibit Title: Sculpture/Drawing Show: Willard Boepple, Charles Ginnever, and John Henry
This will be Henry’s first solo exhibition in the UK.
“Beginning in the mid 1960’s a group of young Chicago sculptors began to forge a new American sculpture from the iron-tough aesthetics of Constructivism and the industrialized cerebrations of the Bauhaus. Chicago sculpture became the unique melting pot where the internationalism of European Modernism could alloy with the singular balance of populism and individualism that marked the heartland of American enterprise. John Henry emerged as the leader of this group. The fledgling sculptor’s special vision was to unlock the potential of this unique situation.
His fledgling status quickly disappeared. Within only a few years Henry had reconfigured Constructivism’s formal grammar into monumental fabrications distinguished for their melding of Abstract Expressionism into architectonic construction. Before the close of the decade of the 1960’s, this young painter had learned to translate his expressionist bolts of color – and the Abstract Expressionists’ oft-cited belief in an heroic individualism -- into beams of steel crisscrossing a prairie sky. He had dissembled the architectonic beams of the city and re-expressed these as gigantic lines of color on the canvas of that sky.
As a result of John Henry’s innovative energy, monumentality became a key ingredient in public art, in contemporary sculpture as a whole and in the debate on the role of contemporary public sculpture. Key to this debate was this sculptor’s assertion that to carry out his search for the expressive potential of scale, then entrepreneurship and community engagement would be as much a part of making his sculpture as would his wresting of steel.”
Excerpt from text by Steven Luecking, John Henry: Sculpture
to be published October 2007
Dates: January 1, 2007
- December 31, 2007
Location: Miami, FL
Exhibit Title: Masters in Sculpture: Atchugarry, Botero, Cardenas, Chia, DeStabler, DiSuvero, Henry, Lichtenstein, and Stella
Dates: January 1, 2007
- December 31, 2007
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Exhibit Title: Art Moves on Main: A Revival
Dates: January 1, 2007
- December 31, 2007
Location: St. Urban, Switzerland
Exhibit Title: American Sculptors at Art St. Urban
