Jerry C Monteith

Jerry C Monteith

Cobden, IL, United States

About Jerry C Monteith

I was born in 1951 in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, USA. I learned to clog and fish for speckled trout in small headwater streams. My newest work takes the fishing fly as paradigm object and departs radically in terms of form and complexity. I make an armature from steel welding rod, temper it and then apply natural and synthetic materials using the techniques familiar to fly tiers. The resulting hybrid creatures are difficult to place and most recently have ventured into the realm of the fantastically botanical. It is my goal to create work which is first of all, interesting to look at.

Education:

Education: BFA, UNC- Chapel Hill, 1975, MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1978.

Events:

Future Shows: pending

Exhibitions:

2019 Two-Person show with Lindsay Obermeyer, St. Louis Lambert International Airport, Lambert Art
and Culture Program
2018 Two-person show with Chris Kahler, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL
2017 “Public Sculpture: The Art of the Proposal”, Catapult Gallery, Southeastern Missouri University,
Cape Girardeau, MO
Cedarhurst Biennial, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL
2016 “Exposure 10 Years”, artists shown in the annual “Exposure” show over the past 10 years, Gallery
210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
National Sculpture Invitational, Clemens Fine Arts Center, Paducah, KY
“Natural Shift”, 4-person invitational, Fort Collins Museum of Art, Ft. Collins, CO
2015 Cedarhurst Biennial, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL
2014 Jerry Monteith and Yamini Nayar, two-person show, Duet, St. Louis, MO
2013 “Attractors”, solo show, OK Harris Gallery, New York City, USA
“Exposure 16, Primal Forms”, Three-person annual exhibition, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St.
Louis, St. Louis, MO