Basics

Channel:
Art
Genre:
Figurative
Role:
Artist
Specialties:
Wood Sculpture

Biography

Self-taught, but I have studied painting and drawing:

1998 Ph.D. Boston University; Philosophy
1988 BA, Colby College; Painting, Art History, American Studies,
1987 Tyler School of Art in Rome, January-May Semester
1986 Rhode Island School of Design Summer School

Techniques

Check out the work-in-progress page of my website for this: http://www.steffrocknak.net/wip.html

Exhibitions

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2008 (Forthcoming; two person show): 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY

2007 “Recoil,” National Association of Women Artists, 80 5th Ave, Suite 1405, NY, NY

2005 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT (solo)
Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY (two person show with Philip Scalia)

2004 Upper Catskill Community Council of the Arts (UCCCA); Wilbur Mansion. Oneonta, NY (two person show with Sabine Bodemann)
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (solo)

2001 First National Bank of Damariscotta, Camden, ME (solo)

Selected Invitational Exhibitions
¤ Celebration II: Long Reach Arts (formerly known as Summergroup), Pritzker Gallery, Highland, NY
¤ Celebration I: Long Reach Arts (formerly known as Summergroup), Donskoj Gallery, Kingston, NY
¤ 74th Annual Exhibition; National Sculpture Society. Venues to include:
National Sculpture Society, 237 Park Ave, NY, NY
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
¤ Personal Totems, juried by Faith Ringgold, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.

¤ Foreplay, Group Show, Monkdogz Urban Art, 547 West 27th St, 5th Floor, Chelsea, NY, NY
¤ Sky Dancer, Group Show, Monkdogz Urban Art, 547 West 27th St, 5th Floor, Chelsea, NY, NY
¤ Group Show (projected images of work), Gateway to the Quarter Project, Finkle Street,York, England. Curated by Aesthetica Magazine, funded by the York Renaissance Project
¤ Locus, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY
¤ 2006 Award Winners Exhibition, Pen and Brush, 16th east 10th St, NY, NY
¤ Autumn’s Being; Summergroup fall show. The Washington Gallery at DCC, Poughkeepsie, NY.
¤ National Association of Women Artists, 117 Annual Exhibition, GoggleWorks, Reading, PA
¤ 60th Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Pen and Brush, 16th east 10th St, NY, NY
¤ Sculpture 2006, Yorkarts, York, PA

¤ International Assemblage Exhibition, Gallery Twenty-Four, Berlin, Germany
¤ Made in New York, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
¤ Women in Woodworking, Northeastern Woodworkers Association Show, Saratoga Springs, NY

¤ Boston International Fine Arts Show (represented by the Home and Away Gallery)
¤ Home and Away Gallery, Kennebunkport, ME
¤ A Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phonecia, NY

¤ Eleven County Regional Exhibition, juried by W. Ouellette, Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY
¤ December Small Works, Limner Gallery, NY, NY
¤ Recent Work Showcase, Limner Gallery, NY, NY
¤ Made in New York, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
¤ Distinguished Woodworkers Show, Northeastern Woodworkers Association Show, Saratoga Springs, NY

¤ (Ongoing) Captive Passage: The Translatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas. Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia; April 2002 – Jan 2003. Venues include: The Smithsonian (Anacostia Building); Feb – Sept. 2003, Washington, DC, South Street Seaport Museum, Dec.- April, 2003-4, NY, NY; Feb-Aug, 2005, Missouri Historical Society, St Louis, MO, (forthcoming; Museum of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, Feb-Sept. 2006)

¤ Mutation, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY.

¤ New Directions ’01; juried by C. Kotik. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
¤ Photograph of "Figurehead" shown in Art-e-mail; International Exhibition of E-mails of Artists. Exhibited in conjunction with MAC21, International Contemporary Art Fair, Marbella Exhibition and Congress Centre, Costa del Sol, Spain
¤ The Fine Art House, 45 South Main St., Derry, NH
¤ Showcase 2001, Northeastern Woodworkers Association Show, Saratoga Springs, NY
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¤ The Design in Wood Show, Del Mar , California


¤ Esther Wells Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Specialties

Wood Sculpture