Erik Gronborg
“Ceramics - Sculpture - Sculptural Furniture - Our Garden - Our House - I do it all - My way - and write about it”
Artist Statement
As an artist I consider myself first of all a sculptor, but I have created work in diverse categories and materials: Sculpture in wood and cast bronze and aluminum, furniture in wood, some with ceramics sections, ceramics including stoneware, porcelain and black basalt clay, and I created a garden as a joint work of art by my wife Irina and me. A common characteristic of all my work is an emphasis on structure, clearly showing how the work was constructed.
Facts: Erik Gronborg has had 48 one person exhibitions, including:
American Craft Museum, N.Y.
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Portland
Mingei Museum, San Diego
Had work included in more than 200 invitational exhibitions in USA, several European countries and Japan.
Work is included in the collections of more than 20 museums including:
American Crafts Museum, N.Y.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, D.C.
Mingei Museum, San Diego
de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
More than 40 groups from throughout the USA have toured his garden.
8 magazine articles about the garden.
Erik Gronborg has written 4 books: Our Garden, Our House, Six Big Chairs, and Patterns and Politics, all available from Amazon books, and numerous published articles about art, particularly contemporary ceramics.
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