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 flyfish for speckled trout in creeks you could practically step across. 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. Yearly one-person shows at Franz Bader Gallery in Washington, D.C. from 1987 until its closure in 1994. 2 Group shows at Klein ArtWorks, Chicago. Installatons at Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City and Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland. Permanent custom bus shelter in St. Louis, Missouri, and permanent site work at Cedarhurst Sculpture Grounds, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Artist Fellowships at Ucross Foundation, Wyoming and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA.,

Events:

Future Shows: pending

Exhibitions:

2014, Two-person show: Jerry Monteith/Yamini Nayar, Duet, St. Louis, Missouri
2013 Attractors, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Exposure 16, Gallery 210, University Missouri, St. Louis
2012, Array, site work at Metro Transit Division, Public Art League, Urbana, Illinois
2011 Chunks, site work, St. Louis Community College Florissant Campus Sculpture Biennial