biography

Historical Record

JOSEPH STORER WHEELWRIGHT
1 Waldorf Street
Boston MA 02124
studio: 617-288-8700
josephwheelwright@gmail.com
www.josephwheelwright.com

 

EDUCATION

1975 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Provdence, RI

1970 B.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT

 

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS

Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY

Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA

Oxenberg Fine Art, Miami, FL

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014 Wheelwright Sculpture Retrospective Exhibition, Hargate Art Center, Concord, NH

2013 Joseph Wheelwright: A Retrospective, Groton School, Groton MA.

2013 Roots, Boston Sculptor's Gallery, Boston MA.

2011-12 Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY.

2011 Miami Sculpture Biennial, Miami FL.

2011 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA

2008-10 Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA.

2009 28 Moons, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA.

2008 Oxenberg Fine Art, Miami, FL.

2008 New Carvings, Vermont Carving Studio, Rutland, VT.

2007 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA.

2004 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA.

2003 Joseph Wheelwright: Stone Heads and Tree Figures, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.

2001 Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2000 Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA.

1999 DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

1998 Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA.

1996 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

1994 Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA.

1987 Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA.

1985 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

1985 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.

1984 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA.

1983 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA.

1983 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.

1982 Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY.

1980 Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.

1979 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

1979 Hull Gallery, Washington, DC.

1978 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.

1975 Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI.

1972 Gallery 2, Woodstock, VT.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Miami Sculpture Biennale, Miami, FL

2009 Tower Hill , Worcester, MA, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition

2006 Rock On, Garden in the Woods of the New England Wild Flower Society, Framingham, MA.

2004 Refigured, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Newton, MA.

2001 Terrors and Wonders: Monsters in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.

Animals as Muse, New Art Center, Newton, MA.

Cairn Croft Sculpture Garden, Dover, MA.

1998 La Deuxieme Biennale, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France.

1996 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI. 45

Strokes of Genius, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.

1994 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.

Barbara Singer Fine Arts, Cambridge, MA.

Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.

1993 Starr Gallery, Newton, MA.

Icon Gallery, Brunswick, ME.

Cottage Gallery, Tiverton, RI.

1991 Barbara Singer Fine Arts, Cambridge, MA.

1990 37 Artists, Capital Cities/ABC Corporation, New York City, NY.

Artwalk, Town of Brookline, Brookline, MA.

1988 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

Boston Triennial, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.

1985 Sticks, Addison Gallery, Andover, MA.

Boston Triennial, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. The Eye of the Imagination, Newton Art Center

Newton, MA. Do Touch, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA. Barbara Singer Fine Arts, Cambridge, MA.

1983 The Sensuous Line, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA. Brazelton Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA.

Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA.

Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA.

Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.

1982 Boston Invitational, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA.

Painted Wood Sculpture, Webb and Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT.

Within 1982, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.

1981 Five Boston Sculptors, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA. Invitational, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.

Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA. Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, MA.

1979 Narrative Realism, Newport Art Association, Newport, RI.

1978 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA.

American Woodcarvers, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY.

Magic Spaces Show, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA.

Animal Show, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA.

Regional Selection, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

1977 New Talent Show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS

2013 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA, Sweet Face, a granite stone

2010 City of Boston, MA, Sleeping Moon, bronze for Peabody Square

City of Dublin, OH, Jaunty Hornbeam, bronze (from wood)

2008 Massachusetts Convention Center, Boston, MA, Two Tree Figures

2006 City of Carlisle, MA, Vivian's Place, installation of ten stones at Town Hall

New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA, Random Features Stone, granite

2004 Hingham Music Conservatory, Andrus Sculpture Park, Hingham, MA, Pixie Face, granite

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, OH, Rockababy Moon, granite

2004 City of Dublin, OH, Sanguine Stone, quartzite

2003 Copia Museum, Napa, CA, Fish Head, dried fish

1996 Shady Hill School, Cambridge, MA, Crater Moon, marble

1995 DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Listening Stone, granite

1994 St. Paul's School, Concord, NH, Resting Moon, granite

1987 Charlestown Naval Yard, Charlestown, MA, Whale, hemlock tree

1983 Crystal Air Sports Resort, Chattanooga, TN, Hawk Personage, cedar

 

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

2010 Peter and Maria Matthiessen, Sagaponak, NY

2008 Private Collection, Mystic, Connecticut, Sea Gazer, large stone head

2008 Private Collection, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, Jaunty Hornbeam, bronze

2005 Glenn and Faith Parker, Lexington, Massachusetts, "Black Eyed Stone", granite

2004 Sally & George Pillsbury, Wayzata, Minnesota "White Birch Kouros," wood

2003 Gus and Arlette Kayafas, Concord Massachusetts, Rock Climber, granite

2003 Harvey Oxenberg Coconut Grove FL, Swirly Gneiss Face, gneiss

2002 Jerry Scally, Chelsea Massachusetts, Wrinkled Abe Face, quartzite

2002 Amy Thompson, Lexington, Massachusetts, Orange Stone, granite

2001 Betsy Wakeman, Weekapauge, Rhode Island, Watching Stone, granite

2000 George & Lynne Fifield, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Smiling Moon, gneiss

2000 Steven and Sybil Stone, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, Pretty Face Stone, granite

1997 Dayton Family, Wayzata, Minnesota, Granite Moon, granite

1993 Garry Trudeau, Jane Pauley, Stony Creek, Connecticut, Water Moon, granite

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abrahams, Paul. "Review," London Financial Times, August 17, 1989.

Acosta, Debra. "House Rocks," The Miami Herald, October 5, 2008.

Allara, Pamela. "Joseph Storer Wheelwright," ARTnews, May 1983.

Anderson, Leslie. "In sculptor's world the woods are alive," The Boston Globe, May 29, 2003.

Art New England, "Joseph Wheelwright: Stone Carvings and Bronze Castings," Dec./Jan. 2009.

Baker, Kenneth. "Joseph Wheelwright," The Boston Phoenix, June 19, 1984.

Bergeron, Chris "Tree of Life," The Daily News, June 29, 2008.

Boston Globe, "The trees have eyes," July 21, 2008.

Boston Globe, "Sleeping Moon will rise over Peabody Square," June 4, 2008.

Buskirk, Martha. "Report From Boston: Art Around the Hub," Art in America, June 1999.

Carlock, Marty. "Review," Sculpture Magazine, April 2004.

Day, Meredith Fife. "Joseph Wheelwright: New Carvings and Bronze Castings From Stones and Trees," Art New England, April/May 2001.

Denison, D.C. "The Interview: Joseph Wheelwright," The Boston Globe, December 28, 1986.

Docimo, Michelima, "New York's Katonah Museum Displays Looming Creations by Contemporary Sculptor: Sculptor Joseph Wheelwright's Theory of Evolution: 'Man is Tree'," Artes Magazine, Oct. 2011.

Dorchester Reporter, "Large crowd gathers to welcome 'Sleeping Moon' sculpture," Oct. 26, 2010.

Fein, Michael. "N-Ice Work," Boston Sunday Herald, December 30, 1990.

Gaines, Judith. "DeCordova mounts and exhibition on monsters and myth," The Boston Globe, November 18, 2001.

Hodara, Susan, "It's a Giant Person! And It's a Tree? It's Art," The New York Times, Sept. 23, 2011.

Jermanok, Stephen. "Artist in Residence," Boston Magazine, Feb. 2002.

King, Loren. "Ancient Methods, Modern Work," Arts MEDIA, Dec.-Jan. 2000.

Lloyd, Barbara. "And You Don't Need a Key," The New York Times, Sept. 23, 1989.

McKown, Rich. "DNA Gallery/Provincetown: Joe Wheelwright," Art New England, Oct./Nov. 1999.

McQuaid, Cate. "Wheelwright molds rocks into moods" The Boston Globe, Aug. 1, 2003.

Miami Herald, "Boulders with faces enliven landscape of Miami estate," Oct. 5, 2008.

Narrett, Eugene. "Joseph Wheelwright: Zoe Gallery," New Art Examiner, March 1987.

Nathan, Norma. "Three Wheeler," Boston Herald, Feb. 27, 1986.

Parcellin, Paul. "About Trees," Art New England, Feb./ March 1995.

Public Art Review, "U.S. Recent Projects," Fall/Winter 2008.

Ravgiala, Gail. "Hard Rock Cachet," The Boston Globe, March 2, 1997.

Raymond, David, "Joseph Wheelwright: Branching Out," Art New England, Dec./Jan. 2010.

Taunton Press, Biennial Design Book II: Sculpture, Fine Woodworking, 1979.

The Wall St. Journal, "Time Off/Sculpture," Aug. 25, 2005.

Christopher A. Yates, "Shape-shifting," The Columbus Dispatch, Nov. 1, 2009.