Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016

Tom Loeser Professor UW–Madison Department of Art, since 1991 Wood 1993 Master of Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Boston University 1979 Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College Recent achievements 2014 Details, Details, Details, solo show, Haigo and Irene Shen Architecture Gallery, University of Hawai´i at Mōnoa, Honolulu 2014 Crafting a Collection: Fuller Craft Museum Recent Acquisitions, group show, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2014 Tom Loeser: It Could Have Been Kindling, solo show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI 2013 Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Museum of Wisconsin Art, Wisconsin Visual Artists, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences 2012 Elected to American Craft Council College of Fellows Artist’s statement Chair of the UW–Madison Department of Art from 2009-2014 and currently a Vilas Research Professor and C.R. “Skip” Johnson Professor of Art, Loeser has been head of the Wood/Furniture area at UW–Madison since 1991. Loeser designs and builds one-of-akind functional and dysfunctional objects that are often carved and painted and always based on the history of design and object making. He received four Visual Artist Fellowship Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1993 he spent six months in Japan on an NEA Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship. In 2003 he spent six months teaching and researching in London. In 2010 he collaborated with his wife Bird Ross on the design and fabrication of the highly kid-friendly, very interactive, and not at all traditional reception desk for the new Madison Children’s Museum. In 2013 Loeser worked with willow-furniture maker Dave Chapman and built three large willow and steel pod forms that are permanently installed reading retreats in the children’s section of the new downtown public library in Madison, WI. He again collaborated with Bird Ross on the Stoop Project as part of the 2013 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The Stoop Project is based on the interactive and community-building nature of stoops as a location for social interaction, and offered an unusual version of public seating in the lobby area of the museum. Work in the show Tom Loeser (American, b. 1956) Bench “Dig 23”, 2015 Spalted maple, tool handles 37 x 66 x 26 ½ in. (Illustrated) Dig for Three, 2015 Walnut, tool handles 34 x 46 x 34 in. 38 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty

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