Polk Museum of Art: Swimmers and Floaters
EXHIBITION ANNOUNCMENT
Robert Stackhouse: Swimmers and Floaters
Dorothy Jenkins and Emily S. Macey Galleries
December 8, 2007 - February 10, 2008
Robert Stackhouse was born in Bronxville, New York in 1942 and moved with his family to Polk County in 1954.
He lived at Lundy’s Fish Camp in Auburndale, graduating from Auburndale High School in 1960. After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of South Florida in 1965, and his Master’s Degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1967, he began teaching at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington D.C.
He quickly achieved the reputation as an important young sculptor and rose to national prominence after his one-man show at Max Hutchinson’s Sculpture Now Gallery in New York in 1976. Subsequently, Stackhouse began to receive commissions for his outdoor installations all over the world. He has served as a visiting artist and professor of art at colleges, universities, and art schools across the country.
This thirty-year retrospective, organized by Polk Museum of Art from the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, traces the roots of his most widely known imagery—boats and snakes—to his formative years on Lake Julianna.
The exhibition is part of a Tampa Bay-wide celebration of Stackhouse’s work with USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, and The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, presenting exhibitions and projects on different aspects of his career.
Robert Stackhouse: Swimmers and Floaters
Dorothy Jenkins and Emily S. Macey Galleries
December 8, 2007 - February 10, 2008
Robert Stackhouse was born in Bronxville, New York in 1942 and moved with his family to Polk County in 1954.
He lived at Lundy’s Fish Camp in Auburndale, graduating from Auburndale High School in 1960. After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of South Florida in 1965, and his Master’s Degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1967, he began teaching at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington D.C.
He quickly achieved the reputation as an important young sculptor and rose to national prominence after his one-man show at Max Hutchinson’s Sculpture Now Gallery in New York in 1976. Subsequently, Stackhouse began to receive commissions for his outdoor installations all over the world. He has served as a visiting artist and professor of art at colleges, universities, and art schools across the country.
This thirty-year retrospective, organized by Polk Museum of Art from the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, traces the roots of his most widely known imagery—boats and snakes—to his formative years on Lake Julianna.
The exhibition is part of a Tampa Bay-wide celebration of Stackhouse’s work with USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, and The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, presenting exhibitions and projects on different aspects of his career.
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