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Steven Montgomery

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Steven Montgomery (born 1954 in Detroit) is an American artist most often associated with large scale ceramic sculpture suggesting industrial objects or mechanical detritus. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]

Montgomery's work includes ceramic pieces in the trompe-l'œil style, creating "an optical deceit that induces a false perceptual belief."[2][3]

He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1990, 2006, 2009),[4] the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2004),[5] and awards for ceramic sculpture at international exhibitions in Korea and Taiwan (2003, 2004). He is the first ceramic sculptor to receive a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2012)[6] and is currently working as an artist in residence at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[7]

His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art[8] and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York,[9] the Smithsonian American Art Museum[10] and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,[11][12] and numerous other public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. He has had major solo exhibitions at both the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York (1998) and at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri (2006).[13]

He has lived and worked in New York City since 1980.

References

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  1. ^ "New York Foundation for the Arts, artist bio". Archived from the original on June 20, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  2. ^ Steven Montgomery. "Reviews / Publications / Steven Montgomery". stevenmontgomery.net. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  3. ^ Reif, Rita (December 6, 1998). "Fantasy Machines From Technology's Dark Side". The New York Times. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  4. ^ "New York Foundation for the Arts, fellows". Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  5. ^ "grantees". pkf.org. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  6. ^ "Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF)". si.edu. Archived from the original on November 7, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  7. ^ ""Steven Montgomery receives fellowship," EyesIn.com April 27, 2012". Archived from the original on June 20, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  8. ^ "Search the Collection - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ "Museum of Arts and Design Collection Database". madmuseum.org. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  10. ^ "Static Fuel". Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2000. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  11. ^ "Corcoran Gallery of Art collections". Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  12. ^ "Corcoran Redux". The Washington Times. March 15, 2008. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  13. ^ "Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibitions".

Further reading

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  • "Stephen Montgomery's Entropic Machines," by Robert C. Morgan. American Ceramics, February 1997.
  • The Artful Teapot, by Garth Clark. Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 1998. ISBN 9780896599239
  • "Montgomery's Machines," by Sherry Chayat. The Syracuse Herald American, June 6, 1998.
  • Postmodern Ceramics, by Mark Del Vecchio. Thames & Hudson, 2002. pp. 176, 184, 208. ISBN 9780500237878
  • "Rusted Clay and Video Paint," by Doug MacCash. The New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 8, 2002.
  • Oversea Contemporary Art Classics, by Bai Ming. Hebei Fine Art Publishing House, People's Republic of China, 2003. pp. 56–61.
  • "Is There a New York School of Ceramics?" by John Perreault. American Ceramics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2003.
  • "Steven Montgomery," by Wolfram Ladda. Neue Keramic, Jan./Feb. 2005, pp. 8–13.
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