Kevin Box

I look at a piece of paper as 'tabla rosa' a clean slate, perfect potential.  This potential is activated by light and shadow as each decision creases into the paper.   

My work celebrates the delicate nature of paper in museum quality bronze.  Beginning a career in printmaking, my love for paper continued with my transition into sculpture.  While working in a foundry, I developed an "organic burnout" technique specifically designed for casting paper that risks each original as the are burned out within the ceramic mold.  The result is a one of a kind bronze sculpture, chased by hand and completed with finishing touches exclusive to my work.  To meet the growing response from collectors, a few pieces each year are selected for limited edition casting.  These also give me more time in the studio to continue exploring new ideas (the whole point of being an artist).  Origami, paper planes, crumpled ideas and innovative abstraction are all themes that inspire this unfolding portfolio that strives towards a most archival form of paper.  My greatest joy is in creating work in a way that provides an opportunity for interaction and surprise when the viewers read the sign: Please Touch!

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EDUCATION

2000 Master Foundry Apprenticeship, Michael Hall Studio Foundry, Austin, TX
1999 BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC
1995 Graphic Arts Diploma, Tri-County Technical School, OK
1994 Design Major, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Kevin Box, National Sculptors Guild Member

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 Selby Fleetwood Gallery, SFe, NM
2008 Knoxville Museum, TN
2008 Thornwood Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 La Quinta Art Festival, CA
2007 Bayou City Art Festival, Houston, TX
2007 Austin Museum of Art, TX
2007 Austin Fine Art Festival, TX
2007 Main Street Fine Art Festival, Fort Worth, TX
2007 Festival of the Arts, Oklahoma City, OK
2007 Thornwood Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Benson Sculpture Garden, Loveland, CO
2007 Cottonwood Art Festival, Dallas, TX
2006 "In the Fold" Austin, TX
2006 Tansu Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 Columbine Galleries, SFe, NM
2006 Tucson Museum of Art, AZ
2005 National Sculptors Guild, SFe, NM
2004 Driskel Hotel Gallery, Austin, TX
2001 Lotus Gallery, Bay City, TX
1999 17th St Sculpture Gallery, NYC
1998 SVA Sculpture Studio, NYC

PUBLICATIONS

Southwest Art, "21 Under 31, Introducing 21 Young Artists You Should Know" by Bonnie Gangelhoff and Julie Osterman, September 2005
Houston Chronicle, "In the Fold" by Eillen McClelland, April 4, 2006

COLLECTIONS

2008 "Paper Planes" monument, Greenspoint Redevelopment, Houston, TX
2008 "Resotration" monument, City of Paramount, CA
2008 "Ladder of the Rising Stars," Boulder, CO
2007 "Crane Unfolding" & "Plane Folding," City of Little Rock, AR
2007 "Crane Unfolding" monument, Wester Kentucky U, KY
2007 "Rock Paper Scissors," Longview Museum of Art, TX
2007 "Pony Pair" monument Benson Sculpture Garden, Loveland, CO
2006 "Pony" monument, City of Paramount, CA
2006 "Star Unfolding" monument, City of Paramount, CA
2006 "Crane Unfolding" monument, Fine Arts Institute, Edmond, OK
2005 "Moonlight Sonata," Austin Symphony, TX
2005 "Star Unfolding," Fine Arts Institute, Edmond,OK
2002 "Seed Song," Institute of Applied Ontology, Dahlonega, GA
1999 "H.T. Maclin," bronze portrait of founder, United Methodist Mission Society