About

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ARTIST STATEMENT

James Calderwood is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work explores the relationship between the architectural imagination and the natural/cultural landscape. A trained landscape architect, he studied sculpture at Syracuse University with Rodger Mack who encouraged him to explore welded steel sculpture, portrait sculpture, and the foundry process of casting molten metal. Since then he has continued to blur boundaries and celebrate cross-pollination between disciplines. Drawing from surrealist and minimalist art, as well as 1970’s land art, his pieces often reference natural and architectural symbolism and frequently incorporate or reconfigure found domestic objects. Like Maya Lin, Allan Wexler, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Tony Smith he draws on his architectural background to express a unique artistic vision. His work has been exhibited in galleries and outdoor installations throughout New England, and has been favorably reviewed by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Providence Journal.

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RESUME

2024 INSTALLATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2024: The Fence Series (Solo Show) 82 Parris (New Systems Laundry), Portland, Maine (September 6 - September 27)

SELECTED PAST INSTALLATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2023: Building the Future out of the Past (Biennial One Exhibit) The Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, N.H. (September 1 - September 30), Juror was Lorenzo Fusi from The Currier Museum

  • 2022: Driftwood Piece (Group Show) Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA (October 20 - November 20)

  • 2021: The Treatment (From Made in America Fence Series), “Art in the Time of Carona” Online Artsey Exhibition, Dab Arts, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2020: All Together Now (From Made in America Fence Series), The Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA (July 19 - October 30 2020), Curated by Kimberly Barnes

  • 2019: Tetris Bench Models, Assemblage Art Space, Boston, MA (December 2019) Curated by Meredith Gisness and Kelly Pederson

  • 2018: Three Walls Site Model, “Three” (Group Show), Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA (June 19-July 19) Curated by Alexander Castro

  • 2017: Marker, “20th Annual Sculpture Exhibit,” Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH (May-September)  

  • 2016: Three Graces, “Sculpture Now, 2016,” (The Mount 2016 Exhibition), The Mount/Edith Wharton’s Home, Lenox, MA  (June 1-October 31) Curated by Ann Jon

  • 2015: Red Cube,  “2015 Regional Juried Show,” Center for the Arts, New London, NH  (November)

  • 2014: Star, in “Sculpture Now, 2014,” (The Mount 2014), The Mount/Edith Wharton’s Home, Lenox, MA (June 1-October 1) Curated by Ann Jon

  • 2013: The Dream, “Sketch 2013”, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY  (February 21-March 20)

  • 2012: Marker, “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, 2012,”  Chesterwood:  A Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, MA (May-September) Curated by Cameron Shay and Priscilla Caldwell

  • 2012: Green Wave Bench, “Art of the Garden,” Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA (May 4-July 15), Curated by Richard Lacasse

  • 2011: Untitled Park #3, “New Hampshire Art Association Annual Juried Show,” The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (January-February), Curated by Dina Deitsch and Jen Mergel

  • 2010: Art as Architecture, “Art in Architecture Exhibit,” Center for Contemporary Art, Somerset, NJ (September18-October 10)

  • 2009: Flat Iron Park, New Hampshire Art Association Sixty-First Currier Exhibition,” The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (January 17-February 16), Curated by Trever Smith

  • 2008: A Fake Human Skull, “Pot Shots at Hot Shots,” 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY (March 8-April 12), Curated by Christine Milo 

  • 2007: Tree Wrap, “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, 2007,” Chesterwood:  A Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, MA (June 22-October14), Curated by Janet Riker

  • 2006: Figure-Late 20th Century,  “New Hampshire Art Association Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition,” The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (January 20-February 20), Curated by Mary P. Harding, Awarded McKerley Award for Sculpture (NHAA)

  • 2005: Dog Bone and Wish Bone, “New Hampshire Art Association Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition,” The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (January 28-February 28), Curated by Inez McDermott, Awarded Costello Memorial Award (NHAA)

  • 2004: Chair in the Air, “Group Show,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY. (Summer), Curated by Alison Beth Levy

  • 2003: Glass House, “Group Show,” Moses Kent House Museum, Exeter, NH (Summer), Curated by John Knapp

  • 2002: Chair in the Air, “20th Anniversary Show,” (Group Show),  Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY (August 3- September 2), Curated by Ursala Clark and Richard Brachman

  • 2001: Sitings-House of Mirrors,  “Arts & Environment,” New England Artist Trust, Woodstock, VT (February-March) 

  • 2000: Architectural Bronze Series, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA (February  - April)

  • 1999: Chair in the Air, “Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture 6,” Group Show, Moses-Kent House Museum, Exeter, NH (Summer), Curated by John Knapp

  • 1997: One Foot of Topsoil, “Between the Bridges” (Group Show), Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY (August 2-September 6), Curated by Jan Hoogenboom

  • 1997: Caged Chair, “Forest City Annual Sculpture Exhibit,” Deering Oaks Park, Portland, Maine (July 26-October 18), Juried by Nick Capasso, John Chandler, Ken Wayne, and Anne Alexander

  • 1996: Ghost House, “Eighth Triennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit,” Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA (August 15-November 17), Curated by Linda Steigleder

  • 1995: Caged Chair, “Exposure and Vulnerability,” Group Show, Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY (July 29-September 9), Curated by Daniel Georges

  • 1994: Tree House Maquette, “Lookout Sculpture Park Maquette Exhibit,” Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA; Lookout Urban Space East, New York, NY; Internatonal Sculpture Conference, Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA; Curated by Susanne Wibroe

  • 1995: Tree House Maquette, “Lookout Sculpture Park Maquette Exhibit,” Valle d’Aosta, Italy; Curated by Susanne Wibroe 

  • 1993: Edge Species, “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood,” Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA (June-October), Curated by David Collens and Maureen Megerian  

  • 1991: Miles Davis Series, Group Show, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA (February)

  • 1990: Sentry Post, “Spending Our Children’s Inheritance:  Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of Earth Day,” Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI (April 8-May 6)

  • 1989: Bird Series, Scherer Gallery, Marlboro, NJ (May-September) 

  • 1988: Miles Davis Series, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL (February-March)

  • 1987: Dogman and Sun Worship, Chandler Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (June-August)

  • 1986: Wave, Soroban Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (June- August)

COMMISSIONED WORK:

  • 2013: Fish Net, Gloucester Harbor Walk Public Art Challenge, City of Gloucester, MA(Latex Paint, 200’ x 15’)

  • 2010: Rolling Green Bench, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (Artificial Turf, 4’ x 16’ x 3.5’ht.) 

  • 2008: Inside/Out, City of Portsmouth, NH (Mixed Media, 4’ x 4’ x 8’ht.)

  • 2007: Sky Box, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA (Welded Steel and Polished Stainless Steel, 4’ x 4’)

  • 2005: Art as Architecture/Architecture as Art, City of Portsmouth, NH (Granite, 30” x 30” x 30”)

  • 2003: Inner Space, Two International Group, Inc., Portsmouth, NH (Painted Aluminum, 3’ x 14” x 9’ Ht.)

  • 2002: Picture Frame, City of Pawtucket, Pawtucket, RI (Painted Aluminum, 7’ x 7’)

  • 1995: Tilted House, City of Providence, Providence, RH (Painted Aluminum, 8’ x 8’ x 15’ Ht.)

  • 1993: Tree House, Art Residency, Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA (Welded and Painted Steel), Curated by Susanne Wibroe

  • 1985: Whale’s Tail, Community College of Rhode Island, Flanagan Campus, Lincoln, RI (Welded and Painted Steel, 6’ x 20’ x 9’ ht.)

AWARDS:

  • 2006: The Forest D. McKerley Award for Sculpture, The New Hampshire Art Association, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (for Figure – Late 20th Century)

  • 2005: Costello Memorial Award, The New Hampshire Art Association, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (for Dog Bone and Wish Bone) 

  • 2002:  Citation for Sculpture from the Mayor of Pawtucket, RI (for Picture Frame)

REVIEWS:

  • Holland Cotter, “Sculpture Not Meant to Last Forever,” Art Review, The New York Times, August 18, 1995. Review of Caged Chair, in “Exposure and Vulnerability,” Group Show, Empire Fulton Ferry State Park 

  • Dustan Knight, “Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture 6,” Art New England, Vol 21: No 1 (December/January 2000):  Review of Chair in the Air, in “Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture 6,” Group Show, Moses-Kent House Museum 

  • Jo Page, “Contemporary Sculpture, Classic Setting,” Times Union (August 8, 1993):  Review of Edge Species, in “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood,” Group Show

  • Christine Temin, “Best of Show,” Boston Globe (September 20, 1996):  Review of Ghost House, in “Eighth Triennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit,” Fuller Museum of Art

  • Bill Van Siclen, “Oasis in a Visual Desert,” Providence Journal (August 4, 1995):  Review of Tilted House, in “Convergence Art Festival,” Group Show

  • Carrie Saldo, “AWalk in Chester’s Woods”, Berkshire Living (September, 2007) Review of Tree Wrap, in “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood,” Group Show

CATALOGS:

  • 2009: New Hampshire Art Association Sixty-First Currier Exhibition (Manchester, NH:  Currier Museum of Art)

  • 2007: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2007 (Stockbridge, MA:   Chesterwood:  A National Historic Trust Site)

  • 2006: New Hampshire Association:  Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition (Manchester, NH: Currier Museum of Art)

  • 2005: New Hampshire Art Association:  Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition (Manchester, NH:  Currier Museum of Art)

  • 1996: Eighth Triennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit (Brockton, MA:  Fuller Museum of Art)

  • 1995: Incontro tra artisti:  Lookout Sculpture Park/Valle d’Aosta (Valle D’Aosta, Italy: Aosta Valley Autonomous Region Public Education Department)

  • 1993: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 1993 (Stockbridge, MA:  National Trust for Historic Preservation) 

ORGANIZATIONS:

  • International Sculpture Center – Member

  • New Hampshire Art Association – Member

  • Fort Point Arts Community -  Member

EDUCATION:

  • 1978: BLA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY - Off Campus Thesis: “Spatial Arrangement in the Built Environment”, Village of Naoussa on the island of Paros, Greece (1977 - 1978)