Jonathan Kirk

Jonathan Kirk was born in Saffron Walden, Great Britain in 1955. He earned his BFA from St. Martins School of Art, London in 1978 and his MFA from Syracuse University in 1980. Kirk has received grants and awards from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.
He has shown widely in group and solo exhibitions and has work in permanent collections throughout the East Coast. From 1980 to 2000 Kirk was the Studio Manager at Sculpture Space Inc. He continues to live and work in Utica, New York, and is represented by Robert Steele Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.

My sculptures, while abstract, are evocative of a wide range of sources, from the natural and organic world, to forms of industrial and naval architecture. The work illuminates the ways in which the forms of the artist as well as the engineer still embody the mysterious intelligence of their natural models and points to the idea that making is, in a sense, the invention of what might be called cultural machinery. My sculptures are rigorously committed to sculptural object-hood, yet at the ...

EDUCATION
1980 MFA Sculpture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
1978 BFA Sculpture, St. Martins School of Art, London, England.

REPRESENTATION
Robert Steele Gallery, 511 W. 25th ST. New York, NY 10011
Tel: (212) 243 - 0165, www.robertsteelegallery.com

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2001 Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY
2001 Visiting Artists Program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
1993 New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship, New York, NY
1992 The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1991 The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
1991 Change, Inc. New York, NY
1987 The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, New York, NY
1986 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1980 The Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation, Montreal, Canada

COLLECTIONS
2005 Lincoln Financial Sculpture Park at Riverfront, Hartford, CT
2004 Greater Hartford Arts Council, Hartford, CT
2000 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
1992 City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
1990 Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, NY
1986 BE&K, Inc. International Park, Birmingham, AL

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