Historical Record

JOSEPH STORER WHEELWRIGHT
1 Waldorf Street
Boston MA 02124
studio: 617-288-8700
josephwheelwright@gmail.com
www.joewheelwright.com

EDUCATION
1975 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Provdence, RI
1970 B.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008-10 Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA.
2009 28 Moons, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA.
2008 Oxenberg Fine Art, Miami, FL.
New Carvings, Vermont Carving Studio, Rutland, VT.
2007 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA.
2004 Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA.
2003 Joseph Wheelwright: Stone Heads and Tree Figures, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.
2001 Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2000 Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery, West Newton,MA.
1999 DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
1998 Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery, West Newton,MA.
1996 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1994 Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery,West Newton,MA.
1987 Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA.
1985 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.
1984 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA.
1983 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA.
Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.
1982 Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY.
1980 Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.
1979 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
Hull Gallery, Washington, DC.
1978 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.
1975 Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI.
1972 Gallery 2, Woodstock, VT.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Tower Hill , Worcester, MA, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
2006 Rock On, Garden in the Woods of the New England Wild Flower Society, Framingham, MA.
2004 Refigured, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Newton, MA.
2001 Terrors and Wonders: Monsters in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.
Animals as Muse, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
Cairn Croft Sculpture Garden, Dover, MA.
1998 La Deuxieme Biennale, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France.
1996 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI. 45
Strokes of Genius, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.
1994 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.
Barbara Singer Fine Arts, Cambridge, MA.
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
1993 Starr Gallery, Newton, MA.
Icon Gallery, Brunswick, ME.
Cottage Gallery, Tiverton, RI.
1991 Barbara Singer Fine Arts, Cambridge, MA.
1990 37 Artists, Capital Cities/ABC Corporation, New York City, NY.
Artwalk, Town of Brookline, Brookline, MA.
1988 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
Boston Triennial, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
1985 Sticks, Addison Gallery, Andover, MA.
Boston Triennial, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. The Eye of the Imagination, Newton Art Center,
Newton, MA. Do Touch, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA. Barbara Singer Fine Arts, Cambridge, MA.
1983 The Sensuous Line, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA. Brazelton Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA.
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.
1982 Boston Invitational, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA.
Painted Wood Sculpture, Webb and Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT.
Within 1982, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.
1981 Five Boston Sculptors, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA. Invitational, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA. Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, MA.
1979 Narrative Realism, Newport Art Association, Newport, RI.
1978 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA.
American Woodcarvers, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY.
Magic Spaces Show, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA.
Animal Show, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA.
Regional Selection, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
1977 New Talent Show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2010 City of Boston, MA, Sleeping Moon, bronze for Peabody Square
2006 City of Carlisle, MA, Vivian’s Place, installation of ten stones, two carved, at the Town Hall
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA, Random Features Stone, MATERIAL??
2004 Sara Stakenberg Sculpture Garden, South Shore Conservatory, Hingham MA, Pixie Face, granite
1996 Shady Hill School, Cambridge, MA, Crater Moon, marble
1995 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Listening Stone, granite
1994 St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH, Resting Moon, granite
1983 Crystal Air Sports Resort, Chattanooga, TN, Hawk Personage, cedar

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2008 Massachusetts Convention Center, Boston, MA, Two Tree Figures
2004 Hingham Music Conservatory, Andrus Sculpture Park, Hingham, MA, Pixie Face, granite
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, OH, Rockababy Moon, granite
2003 Copia Museum, Napa, CA, Fish Head, dried fish
1987 Charlestown Naval Yard, Charlestown, MA, Whale, hemlock tree

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2008 Private Collection, Mystic, Connecticut, Sea Gazer, large stone head
2008 Private Collection, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, Jaunty Hornbeam, bronze
2003 Gus and Arlette Kayafas, Concord Massachusetts, Rock Climber, granite
2003 Harvey Oxenberg Coconut Grove FL, Swirly Gneiss Face, gneiss
2002 Jerry Scally, Chelsea Massachusetts, Wrinkled Abe Face, quartzite
2002 Amy Thompson, Lexington, Massachusetts, Orange Stone, granite
2001 Betsy Wakeman, Weekapauge, Rhode Island, Watching Stone, granite
2000 George & Lynne Fifield, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Smiling Moon, gneiss
2000 Steven and Sybil Stone, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, Pretty Face Stone, granite??

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
Oxenberg Fine Art, Miami, FL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abrahams, Paul. “Review,” London Financial Times, August 17, 1989.
Acosta, Debra. “House Rocks,” The Miami Herald, October 5, 2008.
Allara, Pamela. “Joseph Storer Wheelwright,” ARTnews, May 1983.
Anderson, Leslie. “In sculptor’s world the woods are alive,” The Boston Globe, May 29, 2003.
Art New England, "Joseph Wheelwright: Stone Carvings and Bronze Castings," Dec./Jan. 2009.
Art New England. “Male Figures: Current Views,” March/ April 1981.
Baker, Kenneth. “Joseph Wheelwright,” The Boston Phoenix, June 19, 1984.
Bergeron, Chris "Tree of Life," The Daily News, June 29, 2008.
Boston Globe, "Shadows and Moons," March 22, 2009.
Boston Globe, "The trees have eyes," July 21, 2008.
Boston Globe, "'Sleeping Moon' will rise over Peabody Square," June 4, 2008.
Buskirk, Martha. “Report From Boston: Art Around the Hub,” Art in America, June 1999.
Carlock, Marty. “Review,” Sculpture Magazine, April 2004.
Day, Meredith Fife. “Joseph Wheelwright: New Carvings and Bronze Castings From Stones and Trees,” Art New England, April/May 2001.
Denison, D.C. “The Interview: Joseph Wheelwright,” The Boston Globe, December 28, 1986.
Fein, Michael. “N-Ice Work,” Boston Sunday Herald, December 30, 1990.
Freedman, Lindsey. “Joe Wheelwright Speaks to the Stones,” The Vanguard, October 10, 1997.
Gaines, Judith. “DeCordova mounts and exhibition on monsters and myth,” The Boston Globe, November 18, 2001.
Jermanok, Stephen. “Artist in Residence,” Boston Magazine, February 2002.
King, Loren. “Ancient Methods, Modern Work,” Arts MEDIA, December-January 2000.
Lloyd, Barbara. “And You Don’t Need a Key,” The New York Times, September 23, 1989.
McKown, Rich. “DNA Gallery/Provincetown: Joe Wheel- wright,” Art New England, October/November 1999.
McQuaid, Cate. “Wheelwright molds rocks into moods” The Boston Globe, August 1, 2003.
Miami Herald, "Boulders with faces enliven landscape of Miami estate," Oct. 5, 2008.
Narrett, Eugene. “Joseph Wheelwright: Zoe Gallery,” New Art Examiner, March 1987.
Nathan, Norma. “Three Wheeler,” Boston Herald, February 27, 1986.
Parcellin, Paul. “About Trees,” Art New England, February/ March 1995.
Public Art Review, "U.S. Recent Projects," Fall/Winter 2008.
Ravgiala, Gail. “Hard Rock Cachet,” The Boston Globe, March 2, 1997.
Raymond, David, "Joseph Wheelwright: Branching Out," Art New England, Dec./Jan. 2010.
Rosen, Karen. “Super Show’s New Products,” Atlanta Journal, February 11, 1989.
Rossi, Lisa. “Time Off,” The Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2005.
Silver, Joanne. “Visual Arts: Out in the Open,” Boston Herald, October 15, 1993.
Taunton Press, Biennial Design Book II: Sculpture, Fine Woodworking, 1979.
Taunton Press, Biennial Design Book: Sculpture, Fine Woodworking, 1977.
Taylor, Robert. “Use of Sticks: Naturism or Traditional Creation?,” The Boston Sunday Globe, February 12, 1984.
Temin, Christine. The Boston Globe, Review of “Refigured,” McMullen Museum, Boston College, June 30, 2004.
Temin, Christine. “Joseph Wheelwright,” The Boston Globe, December 13, 2000.
The Wall St. Journal, "Time Off/Sculpture," Aug. 25, 2005.
Christopher A. Yates, "Shape-shifting," The Columbus Dispatch, Nov. 1, 2009.