Ron Kent
Vessel AB-1(Interior)
6"H x 20" Dia x 1/4" thick
Brushed Acrylics on Wood
Vessel AB-16"H x 20" Dia x 1/4" thick
Brushed Acrylics on Wood
Vessel MV7"H x 6" Dia - Translucent Norfolk Pine
Vessel EH
6"H x 8" Dia - Translucent Norfolk Pine
Vessel OV (Interior)
"Post Nuclear Series"
6"H x 20" Dia
Vessel OV
"Post Nuclear Series"
6"H x 20" Dia
Vessel PJ (Interior)
9"H x 13 Dia - Translucent Norfolk Pine
Vessel PJ
9"H x 13 Dia - Translucent Norfolk Pine
RON KENT
CURRICULUM VITAE (Abbreviated)
(updated December, 2000)
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2000 - 2002 Honorary Director, James Renwick Alliance
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SELECTED MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Louvre (Musée des Arts Decoratifs), Paris
det Danske Kunstindustrimusee, Copenhagen Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
The White House Permanent Collection
Smithsonian Institution:
Renwick Gallery (S.A.A.M.), Washington, D.C.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
American Craft Museum, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Yale University Art Gallery
Mint Museum of Art + Design, Charlotte, NC
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hawaii
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Others.
SOLO and SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000 Ron Kent: Translucent Vessels, Barry Friedman Ltd. Gallery,
New York
1999 Translucent Wood: Norfolk Island Pine Vessels by Ron Kent, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu
1997 The Art of Turning: Masters in Wood, Barry Friedman Ltd. Gallery,
New York (five invited artists)
1996 Ron Kent, The Translucent Bowl, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Ron Kent: Recent Works, Ramsay Galleries, Honolulu
1991 Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu
(Featured invited artist)
Others dating from 1974.
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
1997-99 Turning In Context: International Lathe-Turned Objects, Wood Turning Conference 1997, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia / Traveling Exhibition venues: USA Various.
1995-96 The White House Collection of American Crafts, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. / Traveling venues: USA Various
1992 Woodturning As An Art Form: The Lipton Collection, Traveling venues:
USA Various
1991-93 Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL / Traveling venues: European Cities
1989-93 Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum / Traveling exhibition venues: European Cities
Others dating back to early 1980's
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 The Artful World of Turned Wood: The Irving and Mari Lipton Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (scheduled)
2001 The Artful World of Turned Wood: The Irving and Mari Lipton Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at LACMA (scheduled)
2000 American Woodturning; An Emerging Contemporary Art Form: Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Across the Grain: Evolutions in North American Wood Turning: 1930- 2000, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven (scheduled)
Fine Art of Wood at the Millennium (The Bohlen Collection), Detroit Institute of Art
Living With Form, selections from the John and Robyn Horn Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Turning Wood into Art; Selections from the Jane and Arthur Mason
Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
1999 The White House Collection-Selected Works, Zazen Gallery, Paoli, WI
The Warmth of Wood; A Showcase of Outstanding Turned Wood and Wood Sculpture, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Turned Wood '99, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles
Irving and Mari Lipton Collection of Turned Wood, LA Cty Museum of Art
Woodturners Profile Duane Reed Galleries, St.Louis and Chicago Collectors of Wood Art Invitational Exhibition, Chicago
1998 Masterworks of Contemporary Craft, The Newark Museum
Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection,
Others since 1971.
SOME SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
1994 Emperor Akihito of Japan by Kensaku Hogen, Consul General of Japan in Hawaii, and the Japan-America Society
1993 President William Jefferson Clinton, by Congressman Neil Abercrombie
1990 President George Bush, by Congresswoman Patricia Saiki
1987 His Holiness Pope John Paul II, by Drs. Roger and Maria Brault
1985 Crown Prince Hitachi of Japan, by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce
Senator Daniel Inouye, by Hawaii Democrat Party
1984 President Ronald Reagan, by Hawaii Republican Party
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jacobson, Edward, and Lloyd E. Herman, Dale L. Nish, and Rudy H. Turk, The Art of Turned Wood Bowls, New York: E.P.Dutton, Inc., 1985, pp. 39-41.
Kangas, Matthew, John Perreault and Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection, Seattle: Oakland Museum
Leier, Ray, and Jan Peters, and Kevin Wallace, Contemporary Turned Wood: New Perspectives, Madison: Hand Books Press, 1999
Lineberry, Heather Sealy, and John Perreault, Turned Wood Now: Redefining The Lathe-Turned Object IV, Tempe: Arizona State University Art Museum, 1997,
Miller, R. Craig, Modern Design (1890 - 1990) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
Monroe, Michael W., and Barbaralee Diamonstein, The White House Collection of American Crafts, New York: Smithsonian Institution, and Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
Ramljak, Suzanne, Michael W. Monroe, and Mark Richard Leach, Turning Wood into
Art: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000, pp 12, 38, 102-104, 201-202.
Smith, Paul J., Craft Today USA, New York: American Craft Museum
Tambini, Michael, The Look of the Century, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, London: DK Publishing, 1996, p. 51.
CURRICULUM VITAE (Abbreviated)
(updated December, 2000)
_________________________________________________________________
2000 - 2002 Honorary Director, James Renwick Alliance
_________________________________________________________________
SELECTED MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Louvre (Musée des Arts Decoratifs), Paris
det Danske Kunstindustrimusee, Copenhagen Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
The White House Permanent Collection
Smithsonian Institution:
Renwick Gallery (S.A.A.M.), Washington, D.C.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
American Craft Museum, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Yale University Art Gallery
Mint Museum of Art + Design, Charlotte, NC
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hawaii
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Others.
SOLO and SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000 Ron Kent: Translucent Vessels, Barry Friedman Ltd. Gallery,
New York
1999 Translucent Wood: Norfolk Island Pine Vessels by Ron Kent, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu
1997 The Art of Turning: Masters in Wood, Barry Friedman Ltd. Gallery,
New York (five invited artists)
1996 Ron Kent, The Translucent Bowl, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Ron Kent: Recent Works, Ramsay Galleries, Honolulu
1991 Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu
(Featured invited artist)
Others dating from 1974.
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
1997-99 Turning In Context: International Lathe-Turned Objects, Wood Turning Conference 1997, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia / Traveling Exhibition venues: USA Various.
1995-96 The White House Collection of American Crafts, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. / Traveling venues: USA Various
1992 Woodturning As An Art Form: The Lipton Collection, Traveling venues:
USA Various
1991-93 Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL / Traveling venues: European Cities
1989-93 Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum / Traveling exhibition venues: European Cities
Others dating back to early 1980's
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 The Artful World of Turned Wood: The Irving and Mari Lipton Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (scheduled)
2001 The Artful World of Turned Wood: The Irving and Mari Lipton Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at LACMA (scheduled)
2000 American Woodturning; An Emerging Contemporary Art Form: Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Across the Grain: Evolutions in North American Wood Turning: 1930- 2000, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven (scheduled)
Fine Art of Wood at the Millennium (The Bohlen Collection), Detroit Institute of Art
Living With Form, selections from the John and Robyn Horn Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Turning Wood into Art; Selections from the Jane and Arthur Mason
Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
1999 The White House Collection-Selected Works, Zazen Gallery, Paoli, WI
The Warmth of Wood; A Showcase of Outstanding Turned Wood and Wood Sculpture, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Turned Wood '99, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles
Irving and Mari Lipton Collection of Turned Wood, LA Cty Museum of Art
Woodturners Profile Duane Reed Galleries, St.Louis and Chicago Collectors of Wood Art Invitational Exhibition, Chicago
1998 Masterworks of Contemporary Craft, The Newark Museum
Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection,
Others since 1971.
SOME SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
1994 Emperor Akihito of Japan by Kensaku Hogen, Consul General of Japan in Hawaii, and the Japan-America Society
1993 President William Jefferson Clinton, by Congressman Neil Abercrombie
1990 President George Bush, by Congresswoman Patricia Saiki
1987 His Holiness Pope John Paul II, by Drs. Roger and Maria Brault
1985 Crown Prince Hitachi of Japan, by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce
Senator Daniel Inouye, by Hawaii Democrat Party
1984 President Ronald Reagan, by Hawaii Republican Party
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jacobson, Edward, and Lloyd E. Herman, Dale L. Nish, and Rudy H. Turk, The Art of Turned Wood Bowls, New York: E.P.Dutton, Inc., 1985, pp. 39-41.
Kangas, Matthew, John Perreault and Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection, Seattle: Oakland Museum
Leier, Ray, and Jan Peters, and Kevin Wallace, Contemporary Turned Wood: New Perspectives, Madison: Hand Books Press, 1999
Lineberry, Heather Sealy, and John Perreault, Turned Wood Now: Redefining The Lathe-Turned Object IV, Tempe: Arizona State University Art Museum, 1997,
Miller, R. Craig, Modern Design (1890 - 1990) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
Monroe, Michael W., and Barbaralee Diamonstein, The White House Collection of American Crafts, New York: Smithsonian Institution, and Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
Ramljak, Suzanne, Michael W. Monroe, and Mark Richard Leach, Turning Wood into
Art: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000, pp 12, 38, 102-104, 201-202.
Smith, Paul J., Craft Today USA, New York: American Craft Museum
Tambini, Michael, The Look of the Century, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, London: DK Publishing, 1996, p. 51.
Numerous others, plus reviews and features in periodical publications
More comprehensive information available upon request
