"...I see a piece of paper as a clean slate, white as light, perfect and full of potential..."
KEVIN BOX
BORN: 1977, Oklahoma
EDUCATION:
2000 Master Foundry Apprenticeship, Michael Hall Studio Foundry,Austin, TX
1999 BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC
1995 Graphic Arts Diploma, Tri-County Technical School, OK
1994 Design Major, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
“I create work that celebrates the delicate nature of paper in museum quality bronze. My compositions emerge from my desire to describe the nature of creativity and, as I see it, the architecture of the soul.
As an artist, I see a piece of paper as a clean slate, white as light, perfect and full of potential. This potential is activated by light and shadow as decisions crease into the surface. Composition emerges through the paper as it documents these decisions, remembering, revealing and recording the experience of creation.
By combining wax and contemporary casting techniques I developed, each piece is cast into bronze and finished with refined patinas that recall aged parchment. Paper planes, origami, crumpled ideas and innovative abstraction are all themes contained within a portfolio that continues to unfold.
I desire that my sculptures uplift, inspire and encourage those with whom I interact and those I may never have the opportunity to meet.”
Kevin Box, National Sculptors Guild Member
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Selby Fleetwood Gallery, SFe, NM
2008 Knoxville Museum, TN
2008 Thornwood Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 La Quinta Art Festival, CA
2007 Bayou City Art Festival, Houston, TX
2007 Austin Museum of Art, TX
2007 Austin Fine Art Festival, TX
2007 Main Street Fine Art Festival, Fort Worth, TX
2007 Festival of the Arts, Oklahoma City, OK
2007 Thornwood Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Benson Sculpture Garden, Loveland, CO
2007 Cottonwood Art Festival, Dallas, TX
2006 "In the Fold" Austin, TX
2006 Tansu Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 Columbine Galleries, SFe, NM
2006 Tucson Museum of Art, AZ
2005 National Sculptors Guild, SFe, NM
2004 Driskel Hotel Gallery, Austin, TX
2001 Lotus Gallery, Bay City, TX
1999 17th St Sculpture Gallery, NYC
1998 SVA Sculpture Studio, NYC
PUBLICATIONS:
Southwest Art, “21 Under 31, Introducing 21 Young Artists You Should Know” by Bonnie Gangelhoff and Julie Osterman, September 2005
Houston Chronicle, “In the Fold” by Eillen McClelland, April 4, 2006
COLLECTIONS:
2008 "Paper Planes" monument, Greenspoint Redevelopment, Houston, TX
2008 "Resotration" monument, City of Paramount, CA
2008 "Ladder of the Rising Stars," Boulder, CO
2007 "Crane Unfolding" & "Plane Folding," City of Little Rock, AR
2007 "Crane Unfolding" monument, Wester Kentucky U, KY
2007 "Rock Paper Scissors," Longview Museum of Art, TX
2007 "Pony Pair" monument Benson Sculpture Garden, Loveland, CO
2006 "Pony" monument, City of Paramount, CA
2006 "Star Unfolding" monument, City of Paramount, CA
2006 "Crane Unfolding" monument, Fine Arts Institute, Edmond, OK
2005 "Moonlight Sonata," Austin Symphony, TX
2005 "Star Unfolding," Fine Arts Institute, Edmond,OK
2002 "Seed Song," Institute of Applied Ontology, Dahlonega, GA
1999 "H.T. Maclin," bronze portrait of founder, United Methodist Mission Society
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY:
Kevin Box was born in 1977 and grew up beneath "the tree that escaped the crowded forest," referring to Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper in Bartlesville, OK. There he developed an early passion for creativity and realizing his visions through art. Aesthetically, Box did not fall very far from Mr. Wright’s tree.
In 1993, with a growing interest in design and printmaking, Box apprenticed in his Uncle’s graphic design firm in Atlanta gaining valuable experience in digital graphics and marketing.
Refocusing his energy on fine art, Box spent three years studying Art and Art History at the School of Visual Arts in Savannah. In 1999, he received his BFA at their prestigious New York campus.
That same year, Box began his career in a bronze foundry, and he found that bronze spoke his artistic language and it became his medium of choice. Over the next seven years, he labored under a self-imposed apprenticeship to become proficient in bronze casting. By working within the industry for sculptors and foundries, he attained an exhaustive knowledge of the casting techniques and fabricating processes necessary to create monumental works of art. Eventually his interest and initiative helped build one of the largest fine art foundries in Texas, just outside of Austin, in Bastrop. Box took every opportunity within this context to develop his own work.
Box’s exceptional intelligence, talent, initiative and personality gave him early success, and he was able to support himself as a sculptor. By 2004 he was placing his work in numerous public and private collections throughout the country. Also in 04, he was elected the youngest member of the National Sculptors Guild. In September of 2005 Box was also recognized by Southwest Art Magazine as one of the top 21 artists under 31 in the Southwest. He currently lives and works in Santa Fe with his wife, Jennifer.
Knowledge of process, combined with a vision for innovation defines the style and sensibility of Box’s work as he works to establish a place within contemporary art history.
