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Gerrit Van Ness
12505 Parkside Lane
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360.757.2205

Representation:

Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art
511 West 25th Street
New York, NY
To visit gallery website, click here.

Selected Exhibitions:

2008:

2008 Biennial
"Contemporary Realism"
Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN
Catalogue

"Mass Consumption"
Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ

"Dimensions 2008"
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

Amsterdam Whitney Fine Arts Gallery, New York

"Red Dominant"
The Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM

"Materials Hard and Soft"
Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
catalogue

"The Shere"
American Association of Woodturners, St. Paul, MN and Richmond, VA
catalogue

2007:

"Evening News"
Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Aug.-Oct.

"24th Anniversary Exhibition"
Manhattan Arts International

"Rythm and Blue"
Mongomery College, Rockville, MD

"Turning Green"
Hoffman Gallery, Oregon Gallery of Art and Craft
Catalogue

"Texas National 2007"
Steven Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
Catalogue

"Dimensions"
Associated Artists, Winston-Salem, NC
Catalogue

Sabatini Gallery
28th National Competition, Topeka, KS

Chase Gallery
Juried Show, Spokane, WA

"Loud"
Arts and Literature Laboratory, New Haven, CT

"reTurn to the Land of Oz"
World Forestry Center, Portland, OR

2006:

"To hold within: redefining the container, Part 1"
Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA

"It Matters How You Slice It"
Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA
Jurors: Jim Coleman, Albert LeCoff, Mansfield Bascom

"Hair"
Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD

"Contain It"
Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA

"The Art of Music"
Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY

“49th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art”
Chautauqua, NY

“Step Up to the Plate”
Louisville Slugger Museum, Louisville, KY
Catalogue

National Juried Exhibit
Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA

“Crafts National”
Lancaster Museum, Lancaster, PA
Catalogue

Regional Sculpture Exhibit
Moscow Arts Commission, Moscow, ID

“Materials: Hard and Soft”
Meadows Gallery Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
Juror: Lloyd Herman
Catalogue

“Blues”
The Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Frederickburg, VA
Juror: Betty Glassie

2005:

"Art Beneath the Bark"
Lakewood Center for the Arts
Lake Oswego, OR
Juried by William Moore and Dan Kvitka

Capitol Building Rotunda
Olympia, WA
Invitational

“reTurn to the Land of Oz”
Overland Park Convention Center
Overland Park, KS
AW Gallery
St. Paul MN, Grove Arcade Arts and Heritage Gallery, Asheville, NC
Juried by Binh Pho and Craig Nutt
Catalogue

15th Annual Juried Art Show
Arts Council of Snohomish County Gallery
Everett, WA
Jurors: Jane Buckman, Chris Giffin and Terri Shinn

“Beauty Revisited”
Mt. Scott Art Center, Portland, OR
Juror, Julie Martin

Box and container show
Northwest Fine Woodworking Gallery
Seattle, WA
Invitational

“Expressions Northwest”
Northwind Arts Center
Port Townsend WA
Juror, Esther Luttikhuizen

“5th Annual Winter Solstice Exhibition”
Third Street Gallery
Moscow, ID
Juried

2004:

“Sit and Reflect”
Arts Council of Snohomish County
Everett, WA

“Spirit of the Tree”
Civic Gallery, Third Street Gallery
Moscow, ID
Invitational

2003:

“Steeped in Tradition: The Contemporary Art of Tea II”
Mesa Contemporary Arts
Mesa AZ
Juror: Leslie Ferrin

“Put a Lid On It”
Brand Library Art Galleries
Glendale, CA
Jurors: Bonnie Klein and David Sengel
Catalogue

Open Gallery
American Society of Wood Turners
Pasedena, CA

2002:

Box and Container Show
Northwest Fine Woodworking Gallery, Seattle, WA
Invitational

Open Gallery
American Society of Wood Turners, Providence, RI

2001:

Open Gallery
American Society of Wood Turners, St. Louis, MO

Publications:

Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton Times, pp. 9 & 10, 1/31/08
American Wood Turner: 2002, 2003, 2005
Woodworker West: 2003, 2005
Woodturning Magazine: 2002
More Woodturning: 2002
Woodturning Design: 2005

Awards:

2008:
Juror's Award
Materials Hard and Soft
Denton Arts Council

2007:
Best in Sculpture
24th Anniversary Exhibition
Manhattan Arts International

2005:
Honorable Mention, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts
Second Place
Box and Container Show
Northwest Fine Woodworking Gallery
Seattle, WA

2003:
Judges’ Choice Award
West Coast Woodturning Competition
Vancouver, BC

2002:
Honorable Mention
Box and Container Show,
Northwest Fine Woodworking Gallery
Seattle, WA

2001:
Second Place
West Coast Woodturning Competition
Vancouver, BC

Miscellaneous:

Co-curator
“Woodturning On The Edge” and exhibit of cutting edge North American lathe artists
Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho

Demonstrator (US representative)
Whole Earth Turning Conference, Ontario, CA, 2004

Judge
Artistry in Wood Competition, Spokane, WA, 2003

Demonstrator
Pacific Northwest Woodturning Symposium, 2002

Demonstrator
Northwest Washington Woodturners, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005;
Greater Vancouver BC Woodturners Guild, 2002; Spokane Lathe Artists, 2003;
South Puget Sound Woodturners, 2003

Artist in Residence, kestrelcreek.com

Featured Artist, woodturnersresource.com

Collections:

Joe Seltzer, Elkins Park, PA

Linda and Kelly Dunn, Hawi, HI

Carl Voss, Des Moines, IA

James Christiansen, Moscow, ID

Ron Scrimscher, Anacortes, WA