About the Artist

Jeff Mann
sculptures

-About Jeff-

The following is a list of upcoming shows where my work will be on display and available for purchase.

-2009-
March 19-April 20
Arsenal Center for the Arts. Watertown, MA

July 26-August 21
Lynn Art Center. Lynn, MA

September 4-October 23
Straube Art Center. Pennington, NJ

October 10-November 29
Kershner Gallery. Fairfield, CT

-Resume-

2009
• Accepted to ART ALL STATE Worcester, MA (residency with Massachusetts H.S. students)

2008
• Accepted for group show at the Straube Art Center, (Pennington, NJ) (2009)
• Accepted for show and residency at Arlington Center for the Arts (Arlington, MA)
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• Three person show Krause Gallery, Providence, RI (9/30-10/24/08)
• One man show “CAR REPAIR” June 12- July 18 Belmont Gallery Belmont, MA
• Accepted for a three person show.(August 2009) Lynn Arts Center, Lynn, MA
• Accepted for two person show Kershner Galllery Fairfiled, CT. (2009)
• Proposal accepted for one man show at Arsenal Art Center Watertown, MA (2009)
• Two pieces accepted for Transforming Matter, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• Twelve mask commission for Dover-Foxcroft School, ME. Included a 2 day residency with elementary and middle school classes.

2007
• Work accepted for ARTBUZZ “the book”
• Three pieces accepted in Xavier University National Juried Show.
• One piece accepted in Craven Arts
• Four pieces accepted to Westmoreland Nationals, Latrobe, PA
• Four pieces accepted in Nave Gallery “Greenline Show” Somerville, MA.June of 2007.
• Curated “Cars: Substance and Image” show. Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME June 07

2005
• Taught Carchitecture Spring Semester at Southern Maine Community College.

2004
• Artist in Residence. Jan04-Jan05. Southern Maine Community College- Projects, meeting with various classes , taught Carchitecture ( Art/Sociology) course included commission for colored concrete plaza. South Portland, Maine.
• Chocolate Church Art Center Regional 4 artists show. Bath, ME.
• Commissioned to make a sculptural bike rack for Belfast School Project. Belfast, ME.
• Commissioned to make a sculptural bike rack for Sabattus elementary School. Sabattus, ME.

2003
• Accepted for Art in the Round Barn show. Waitsfield, Vermont.
• Three pieces in New England Sculptor’s Association show. Danvers, MA
• Mask accepted in Stage Gallery Show titled “Face to face”
• Invited to participate in a collaborative art project with Bath Middle School students and the Portland Museum of Art. Bath and Portland, Maine.

2002
• Finalist for Gorham Middle School Percent for Art
• Four pieces in New England Sculptor’s association show. New Bedford Art Museum, MA.
• Two masks accepted in Chocolate Church Juried Regional show. Bath, ME.
• Commissioned to make two sculptural bike racks for E. Atlanta. Atlanta, GA.
• One piece accepted for the Noble Horizons Sculpture Exhibition in Connecticut.

2001
• Three pictures of my work accepted to appear in “Traffik” a book about the effects of cars on our lives and the environment.
• “Planes Trains and Automobiles” national juried show. Award of Merit.
• “Truth and Humor” Juried show, Flynndog Gallery Burlington, VT.
• Piece commissioned for IDE Corporation. Concord, MA.
• Three person show at the Chocolate Church in Bath, Me.
• Two pieces in “Art in the Heart of the City” Outdoor and indoor exhibition.
• New England Sculptor’s Association show. Federal bank of Boston gallery.
• Juried regional show. Duxbury, Ma.

2000
• Chocolate Church Art Gallery Juried Regional show. Bath, ME.
• Paradise City East Show. Marlborough, MA.

1999
• Piece commissioned for Chewonki Foundation. Wiscasset, Me. 31’ Ceramic and Steel piece titled, “Leaf Cutter Ants” Price: $10,000

-Artist’s Statement-

    Currently I am engaged in a process I call “Reconstructing the car”-- making something benign from something that, generally, I regard as malignant. However, my approach is not negative-- I don’t make ugly pieces to reflect the evils of the car, but rather celebrate the incredible beauty of car parts and their complexity.

    My work responds to these pieces and is more of heart than mind, more dance than dirge. Car parts have an intrinsic dance to me that I want to respond to without intellectual or narrative limitations.

    I am not simply using any found objects; I use car parts because I believe the car is the largely invisible shaper of our world, the subliminal cultural informer and the frankensteinian monster that may eventually cause our destruction.