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Artist Bio
STEPHEN PORTER

BORN: 1941, Chicago, IL. Raised in Santa Fe, NM

EDUCATION:

1963 Colorado College, B.A. Degree
1967 Cornell University, M.F.A. Degree

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:(partial listing)

2000  Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Huston, TX
1998 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
1986 Gallery G, Pittsburgh, PA
1985 Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1984 Suzanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
1983-84 Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
1981 Diane Brown Sculpture Space, Washington, D.C.
1981 Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV
1981 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1977 Gallery One, University of Maine at Orono, ME
1977 Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University
1976 Parsons-Truman Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
1973 Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1972 Gallery Without Walls, Buffalo, NY
1966 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (partial listing)

1998  Abstract Geometric Work, PDX, Portland, OR
1995 Beyond the 3rd Dimension, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1995  Elastic Visions, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA
1994 Triennial,Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1992  First Annual Outdoor Sculpture Invitational, Rhoneymeade Arboretum & Sculpture Garden, State College, PA
1991 Triennial,Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA,
1988 Triennial,Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1987  After Twenty Summers, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
1986  Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Philadelphia, PA
1986  Seven Sculptors, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA
1986  Outdoor Sculpture Invitational, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1985 Triennial,Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1983  Sculptors Who Teach, The Governor’s Home, Harrisburg, PA
1982  Sculpture 82, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
1982 Annual Sculpture Show, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, NM
1981 Sculpture ‘81, Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Annual Sculpture Show, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, NM
1981  Outdoor Sculpture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Soutdoor Sculpture, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
1980 The Porter Family, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1980  Outdoor Sculpture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1979 Contemporary Pennsylvania Sculpture, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1979  Outdoor Sculpture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1978 Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1978  Outdoor Sculpture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1977 Cornell Then/Sculpture Now, Sculpture Now Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Fore Collectors, Worcester Museum, Worcester, MA
1977  Outdoor Sculpture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1976 Sculpture Wood, Webb and Parsons Gallery, Bedford, NY
1974 Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1973 Small-Scale Works, Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
1970 ’8 Sculptures, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Parallel Program on Computers, panelist, International Sculpture Conference, Washington, D.C., June 1990
A Beginning Course in Computer Graphics, a presentation at the Foundations in Art, Technology, and Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 1992
Sculpture, poster session, International Sculpture Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 1992
Use of Computers in Sculpture, panelist, Small Computers in the arts Network Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November, 1990, 1991, 1993
Computer Modeling and Rendiring, Maquette, April 1993
3-D for Sculpture, 3-d Artist, no 15, 1994
No pane, no gain, StrataUser, Volume 2, Number 1, 1998

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:

Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, NM
Arnot Art museum, Elmira NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Pennsylvania academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
St. Mary’s Gallery, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Berks Campus, The Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA
The University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Beaver College, Glenside, PA
Messiah College, Grampian, PA
Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Pittsburgh National Bank, Pittsburgh, PA
Atlantic Record Company, New York, NY
Robert Scott Corporation, New York NY
Fairview Heights, Ithaca, New York, NY
Rouse Associates, Landover, MD
Morse Automotive, Ithaca, NY
Westfield Realty, Arlington, VA
Mckinsey and Company, Cleveland, OH
PFG/Zimmerman Development Corp., State College, PA
State of the Art, Inc., State College, PA

SAS Institute, Inc. Cary, NC
Parker/Hunter, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Armco Steel, Pittsburgh, PA

COMMISSIONS AND AWARDS

SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC commissioned sculpture, 1995
Centrex Precision Plastics, Bellefonte, PA, commissioned sculpture/sign, 1992
A.W. and Sons Enterprises, State College, PA., commissioned sculpture, 1988
The Towers State College, PA, commissioned sculpture and three signs, 1988
Art in Public Places, State College, PA, commissioned sculpture, 1988
Pennsylvania College of technology, Williamsport, PA, commissioned sculpture, 1987
Chemung Canal Trust Col, Elmira, NT, commissioned sculpture, 1987
A.W. and Sons Enterprises, State College, PA, commissioned sculpture/sign, 1987
State of the Art, Inc., State College, PA, commissioned sculpture, 1986
PFG/Zimmerman Development Corp., State College, PA commissioned sculpture, 1986
McKinsey and Company, Cleveland, OH, commissioned sculpture, 1984
Westfield Realty, Arlington, VA, commissioned sculpture, 1984
Borg Warner Automotive, Ithaca, NY, commissioned sculpture, 1984
Rouse Associates, Landover, MD, four commissioned sculptures, 1981-1983
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, winner, Art in Public Places completion, 1997
Hans Gramm Memorial Sculpture, The Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA, 1980


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