John Van Alstine (born 1952) is an American

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sculptor and former assistant professor of fine arts at the

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in Laramie and the

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in College Park where he taught drawing and sculpture. He primarily creates abstract stone and metal sculptures. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States, as well as Europe and Asia.

Personal life and education

John Van Alstine was born in 1952 in

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and raised in the Adirondack region of the state. He attended

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in 1970–1971. In 1973, he received a scholarship to attend the Blossom Festival School in

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, where he studied sculpture with

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and Richard Hunt. In 1974, he earned a

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degree from

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. In 1976, he earned a

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from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

Professional background

Academia

In 1976, Van Alstine was hired as an assistant professor at the

in Laramie, where he taught drawing and sculpture through 1980. He moved to Washington, D.C. and joined the faculty of the

in College Park in 1980, where he taught in the art department through 1986. In 1986 he left teaching and moved to the New York City area to pursue studio work full-time. The following year he purchased a 19th-century industrial complex on the banks of the Sacandaga River and in 1991 returned to the Adirondacks, where he works in the restored historic structure. He continues to give lectures on his work at colleges and universities, throughout the United States and abroad. , Van Alstine lives in

Wells, New York Wells is a town in Hamilton County, New York, United States. The population was 674 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Joshua Wells, a land agent, who built the first mills in the area. It is in the Adirondack Park and on the eastern bor ...

, alongside the

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Awards

Van Alstine has been awarded fellowships, grants and citations from the

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Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation was established in 1976. It is an American nonprofit organization that provides funding for the arts. History The Gottlieb Foundation was established after Adolph Gottlieb’s death in 1974. Esther Gottlie ...

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, the Yaddo Fellowship,

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, New Jersey Council of the Arts, and the Merit Award in Beijing for his construction of a large-scale public sculpture in the Olympic Park Garden.

Artistic works

;Sculpture Van Alstine works primarily with granite and steel mediums in a large scale format. He is known for stone and metal abstract sculptures exhibiting exceptional balance and poise. The works are often multilevel with references to the figure, classical, nautical,

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and western mythological themes. Stone is used in an assemblage method, the way a welder uses steel, rather than in the traditional manner of subtraction. His work has touched on themes of

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, specifically the myth of

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. In 2008, Van Alstine was one of 50 artists to have his work chosen to be display at the

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. The piece displayed, ''Rings of Unity – Circles of Inclusion,'' was based on the Sisyphus myth, consisting of a large piece of stone suspended in the middle of a 16-foot ring made of bronze. The piece took two weeks to create in a

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. As of 2008, Van Alstine was represented by David Floria Gallery in Aspen, Colorado. Prominent solo gallery exhibitions have included Gerald Peters in

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; Nohra Haime in New York City; and C. Grimaldis Gallery in

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, Maryland. ;Public Works Towards the Heavens – Large Scale and Broad Reaching
Beginning in 1986 while continuing to work on human scale work in his studio, Van Alstine embarked on the first in a series of "Celestial" works where he combined the character of large-scale contemporary sculpture with the tradition and function of humankind's oldest scientific instrument – the calendar. Inspired by his travels to England, Mexico and the American west, he created works that together with their impressive scale, placement and design, simultaneously combine aspects of astronomy, physical science and contemporary art. "In our contemporary society we often lose sight of the natural occurrences that once impacted our ancestors and played an important role in shaping our collective conscious. The cyclical nature of the days, and seasons with their patterns light/darkness, plant/harvest, birth/ death have historically given meaning, structure and richness to our lives. This project offers the viewer an opportunity to regain awareness of these fundamental rhythms that continue to subconsciously shape our lives," Van Alstine wrote in 1986. Responding to a specific site in Texas, Van Alstine created his first "celestial" sculpture using the calendar to connect art and science on the

Austin College Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and located in Sherman, Texas."Solstice Calendar"
(1986) produces shadows of varying lengths based on the time of year marking the rhythms of season through solstice, equinox, solstice. Similar large scale works were created for SCR Super Computer Research Center in Washington in 1991

(1993) in Washington, DC an

(2005–06) in Terre Haute, Indiana at Indiana State University. Van Alstine's most recent public projects includ
"Passage" 2011
commissioned by

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in Beijing, China and installed on campus as part of the university's Centennial Sculpture Exhibition. On September 11, 201
"Tempered by Memory"
a 35-foot memorial sculpture fabricated with steel beams from the fallen New York World Trade Center was dedicated in High Rock Park, Saratoga Springs, NY. It was a collaborative effort with sculptor Noah Savett. In 201
"Funambulist"
a 30-foot high painted steel sculpture was permanently installed on the

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campus in Lansing, Michigan. Van Alstine received a merit award in 2008 for his commissioned wor
"Rings of Unity-Circles of Inclusion"
created in conjunction with the

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and installed permanently in the

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"Cardinalis"
a 40-foot high piece made partially from a titanium wing of F-14 fighter was commissioned and installed at the

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, Indianapolis, Indiana. ;Drawings Van Alstine's drawings have been an informal, spontaneous form of expression. In contrast to the typically long and drawn out creation of one sculpture, he is attracted to drawing precisely because it is immediate and tactile and allows an important opportunity to experiment with color. He equates drawing with the process of clay modeling – adding material by building up layers of pastel or charcoal, removing or excavating through the layers by vigorous erasures. Like a clay sculpture, his drawings are "shaped" rather than "drawn" in the traditional sense. John Dorsey, staff art critic for the ''

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'' wrote, "Van Alstine's jaunty drawings recall his sculptures; they also exhibit a line reminiscent of

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's, combined with sensitive use of color." Van Alstine's early drawings were tight and functional, often used as "blueprints" for his system-based, arrested energy sculpture of the late 70s and early 80s. Like the sculpture that followed, the drawings soon became more loose and lyrical. By 1983, black and white charcoal drawings like ''Totem with Spike'' (1982) and ''Arch with Spikes'' (1983) were in keeping with the aggressively expressive three-dimensional works of that time; ''4th Beast of Daniel'' (1983), and the unpainted version of ''Drastic Measures'' (1984). The drawings have continued to evolve, sometime foreshadowing changes in his sculpture such as in drawings like ''Sphere with Spikes'' (1990). At other times, the drawings parallel and act as two-dimensional interpretations of the 3D work, as in ''Implement XIII'' (1993). In his collaborative 2011 ''Tempered by Memory'' 35-foot high memorial sculpture built for the City of

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, New York Citying salvaged steel from the fallen World Trade Center in New York City, Van Alstine executed a number of drawings based on the 3D models he built for the project. ;Photography Amish Easel Landscape 1979

Van Alstine's photographs ask knowing questions about sentiment, perception, and the history of art. Created in the late 1970s early 1980s when Van Alstine was in the western U.S., the ''Easel Landscape Series'' was a site-specific installation project designed to question and examine the accepted convention of frame as "signal" or "sanctioning" device for art. The series takes clues from many sources, including the "on site"

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paintings of

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, such as the ''

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'' or ''

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'' series, and surrealist

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in paintings like ''The Promenades of Euclid'', where Magritte presents the viewer with the image of a painted canvas on an easel simultaneously in front of a window while acting as a window. The photographs, shot in the field with a medium format film camera, were created before the days of

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and easy digital photo manipulation. The series was exhibited in 1981 at New York's Marlborough Gallery exhibition ''Color Photography: Five New Views''. '' Artforum Magazine'' wrote, "Color photography's relationship to the other arts is investigated in John Van Alstine's landscapes. His scenes of majestic mountains and rolling plains are of the sort made famous not only by the 'nature is beautiful' school of black and white photography but also by the plein air school of landscape painting. In ''Amish Easel Landscape'', (1979) and ''Easel Landscape after Monet'', (1980), the landscape contains a steel easel which frames a detail from the same scene. The juxtaposition of 'the photograph within the photograph' and 'the photograph' gives the image a biting conceptual edge that draws attention to the distinctive ways of seeing that photography and painting each offer'."

Selected Large Scale Public Works

* 1982: ''Trough'',

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* 1986: ''Solitace Calendar'',

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* 1993: ''Artery Sunwork'',

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* 2004: '' 2nd Street Sunwork'',

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* 2006: ''Via Solaris'',

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* 2006–8: ''Cardinalis'',

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* 2008: ''Sacandaga Totem'',

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* 2008: ''Rings of Unity – Circles of Inclusion'',

, Beijing, China * 2008–10: ''Funambulist'',

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* 2010–11: ''Tempered by Memory'',

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* 2011: ''Passage'',

, Beijing, China

Public collections

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, Albany, New York *

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, Baltimore, Maryland * Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland *

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* City of Beijing, China, 2008 Olympic Park Exhibition Collection *

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, Washington, D.C. *

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, Gift of List Foundation, New York City *

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, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. * Museum of Fine Arts,

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, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. *

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, Washington, D.C. *

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* Museum of Modern Art,

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, Blue Mountain Lake, New York *

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, Washington, D.C. * Tsinghua University Museum, Beijing, China *

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References

External links

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