Bio | AboutGerald K. Stone is a visual artist who divides his time between south Florida and small-town southwestern Ontario. The son of Holocaust survivors, he was born and raised in Montreal and vicinity. He earned his B.A. in Communication Arts and Master of Library Science degrees, respectively, from Concordia University and McGill University, Montreal. During his undergraduate years he studied with artists Charles Gagnon and Gunter Nolte. Gerald retired in 2009 after working for 25 years at National Archives of Canada and Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. In 2012, after viewing an exhibition of the work of the renowned artist Louise Nevelson at the Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, Gerald was inspired to start making assemblages, augmenting his long-standing interests in photography and book collecting.
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StatementMy interest in photography was nurtured by my father during my adolescence. As an undergraduate student, I was fortunate to have teachers who challenged me to develop my own vision and step outside of my comfort zone. Making assemblages is a more recent undertaking. By re-purposing found wooden objects into assemblages, I create personal narratives and explore aesthetic qualities such as abstraction, color, balance and harmony.
I create my assemblages from wooden objects found in thrift stores, garage sales or which have simply been discarded. Toy blocks, knobs and fragments of furniture and scrap lumber are staples. Supports are usually wooden trays or boxes of one sort or another. “Think outside the box” was a mantra I heard often in my professional career. It was an invitation to blue-sky, innovate and depart from conventional ways of problem-solving. Now, as an artist, I find delight and creative expression working, quite literally, inside of and across the box. “Think inside the box” challenges me to create artwork within prescribed boundaries, not unlike photography's format boundaries. Creativity comes from standing the box, and the objects with which I populate it, on its head, re-contextualizing these through arrangement and color. |
Exhibitions
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2019 "Think Inside the Box," ARTspace, Chatham, Ontario (solo exhibition, forthcoming fall 2019)
2018 "Eye for Art Show," Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario (Award of Excellence) 2018 "Far Out Show," Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, Ontario (unjuried exhibition) 2018 "Breaking Barriers Art Show," Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario (unjuried exhibition) 2017 "Hello Yellow," Naples Art Association, Naples, Florida 2016 "Putting It Together: The Art of Assembling," Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri 2016 "Add Some/Take Some: An Abstractions Show," Armory Arts Annex, Lake Worth, Florida 2016 "Art 2016," Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida |
Member |
ARTspace (Chatham-Kent, Ontario)
International Council of Museums (ICOM) |
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Copyright © 2019 Gerald K. Stone. All rights reserved.
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