Jessica Drenk Artist bio

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1 Jessica Drenk Artist bio Jessica Drenk is an American artist raised in Montana, where she developed an appreciation for the natural world that remains an important inspiration to her artwork today. Tactile and textural, her sculptures highlight the chaos and beauty that can be found in simple materials. Drenk s work is also influenced by systems of information and the impulse to develop an encyclopedic understanding of the world. Drenk s work can be found internationally in private collections, as well as corporate and university collections within the US. Drenk has been the recipient of several awards, including an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the International Sculpture Center s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Her work has been pictured in Sculpture, Interior Design, and Curve magazines, as well as The Workshop Guide to Ceramics. Her work has recently become a part of the Fidelity art collection and the Yale University Art Gallery. Drenk has an MFA in 3D Art from the University of Arizona and a bachelor s degree from Pomona College where she was an art major. A working artist since, Drenk s home and studio are currently in Florida. Education University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Master of Fine Arts 2002 Pomona College, Claremont, CA Bachelor of Arts Exhibitions Solo: Falk Gallery, Christopher Newport University, Newports News, VA Riverworks Gallery, Greenville, SC Jessica Drenk: Materials and Balance, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Archaeologica, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ Reading Our Remains, Smith Campus Center, Pomona College, Claremont, CA Beard Arts Center, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN MFA Exhibition, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Imprints, Lionel Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2 Reading Our Remains, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ Two Person: Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Before, During, After, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA Compelling Matter, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ The Turning World, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Group and Juried: Un-Speak-Able, The Art Center, Corvallis, OR Reconstructions, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Aqua Art Miami, represented by Conrad Wilde Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA The Book: Wide Open, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO Continuum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Penumbra, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA Book-Art Object 08, 25th of May Museum, Belgrade, Serbia Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY Book Forms, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ She Objects II, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

3 Biennial Southwest, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN Art One Gallery, Phoenix, AZ Casa Libre, Tucson, AZ Art D Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 8th International Book Fair of Contemporary Creative Books, Marseille, France Residual Pull, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ Bound and Unbound, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ Hayward Area Forum of the Arts, Hayward, CA Re-Visions III, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ Awards Artist Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards Arizona Artist s Guild Scholarship Creative Achievement Award for graduate work in Art, University of Arizona Coris Family Trust Fine Arts Award, University of Arizona Albert Haldeman Scholarship, University of Arizona Centennial Sculpture Award, University of Arizona Medici Scholars Award, University of Arizona 2004 Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona

4 2002 Phi Beta Kappa, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 2002 Louisa Moseley Fine Arts Prize, Pomona College, Claremont, CA Bibliography SFGate.com, April 14: Jessica Drenk and Shawn Smith: Cain Schulte show Tucson Citizen.com, November 6: Jessica Drenk at Conrad Wilde Gallery East Valley Tribune, April 24: article on Jessica Drenk at Mesa Contemporary Arts Tucson Weekly, July 24: review of Conrad Wilde Gallery Book-Art Object Catalog, Belgrade, Serbia University of Arizona MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog Sculpture Magazine, October issue: description and image of work The Albuquerque Museum, Biennial Southwest Exhibition Catalog The Albuquerque Tribune, October 5: review of Biennial Southwest University of Arizona College of Fine Arts publication, Transformations KUAT-TV Arizona Illustrated PBS interview and review of Residual Pull KUAT-TV Arizona Illustrated PBS review of Arizona Biennial 2003 Pomona College Magazine, Winter issue. Lectures, Workshops and Residencies 2012 Artist-in-residence. Monte Azul, Costa Rica Visiting Artist: slide lecture and workshop. Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO Guest Speaker: gallery talk. Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Guest Speaker: slide lecture. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

5 Panelist: symposium slide lecture, Clemson Univerity, Clemson, SC Guest Speaker: slide lecture. Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ Guest Speaker: gallery talk. Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Visiting Artist: slide lectures. Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN Guest Speaker: slide lecture. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ