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2022 Marietta-Cobb Museum of art national juried exhibition Marietta GA2022 LaGrange Art Museum Southeast regional juried exhibition Lagrange GA2016-2020 MWCA members exhibition Monroe GA2015-currently Caution Pervasive Wrongs Ahead ongoing social justice project Atlanta GA2014-2015 A Survey solo exhibition Monroe Sculpture Garden, Monroe GA2011-2014 Art in the Garden North Carolina Botanical Gardens Chapel Hill NC 2011 State of the Art/Art of the State Cameron Museum of Art Wilmington NC 2010 Pollen solo exhibition Hillsborough Nc 2008-13 Come out and Play sculpture invitational JimGin Carrboro NC 2009-11 New Explorations Exhibited at Flood Gallery Asheville NC 2009 leftovers solo exhibition Cup a Joe Hillsborough NC 2009 bio-technical-socio-economic solo exhibition Carboro Arts Center Carboro NC2008 Seven Colors of Stone Huantie International Art District Beijing China2008 Represented by Hillsborough Artist co-op Gallery Hillsborough NC2007 Global Fear street art campaign Frankfurt Germany, L.A. California2007 Art in the Garden North Carolina Botanical Gardens invitational Chapel Hill NC 2006-2005 International Invitation Exhibitions at the Picked Art Center Beijing China 2005 Noah's Arch Academy of Art and Design of the Tsing Hua University in Beijing China 2005 Bundles installation Bleaker Street Gallery Carrboro NC2005 Paper Under Pressure Carrboro Branch Library Carrboro NC 2004 Orange County Open Studio Tour Hillsborough NC2004 Implements and Silhouettes (Curated and exhibited) Bleaker Street Gallery Carrboro NC 2003 Loom2 Chatham Label Mill Pittsboro NC 2002 Open Hang Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh NC2001 48 hours of Making Art Artist in residency Lake Erie College Cleveland OH1999 Small Wonders solo exhibition Art at the Power House Cleveland OH1999 Tabloid Spaces Gallery Cleveland OH1998 Gallery V mixed media Columbus OH1997 Bybee National Stone Carving Symposium and Exhibition Bloomington IN1997 Collagescape (Curated and exhibited) Barth Gallery Cleveland OH1996 Alumni Invitational exhibition Columbus College of Art and Design Columbus OH1995 Kasama International Stone Carving Symposium Kasama Japan1994 From These Forms Other Followed outdoor solo exhibition Worthington OH

Education Symposiums Collaborations

2010 Collaborated with Form and Function Design Raleigh Nc2009 Collaborated with Yoko Ono to construct conceptual sculpture1999-2000 Archiving and consolidation of the Eve Hesse Collections at the Allen Memorial Art Museum1999 Trained at The ICA (Intermuseum Conservation Association) lab of Oberlin Ohio with emphasis on hinging works on paper and collage consolidation1998 Bybee National Stone Carving Symposium1995 BFA Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio1995 Kasama International Stone Carving Symposium

Select Collections

Stephan Jost, Director of Honolulu Museum of Art Cree LED lighting Corporation Morisville NC Children’s Hospital Columbus Ohio

Select Awards

2013 Merit Award from juror Steve Litt for Amulets 1-10, North Carolina Botanical Garden invitational exhibition Sculpture in the Garden 2002 Flicker Film Grant Chapel Hill North Carolina USA 1995 Kasama City medal Ibarake Prefecture Kasama Japan 1992 Elizabeth Greensheilds Foundation Grant Quebec Canada

Select Public Works

2004 Excerpts permanent display collaborative, installed at the Orange county Government building Hillsborough North Carolina USA1994 Spring in Flight Children’s Hospital Atrium Columbus Ohio USA

Assisted artist

Yoko OnoMeg WebsterDianna ThaterJudy Phaff BiographyJoe Gargasz was born in Lorain Ohio in 1973. He received his BFA from The Columbus College of Art and Design and went on to study in Kasama Japan in 1995. He was represented by Gallery V (Columbus Ohio) and Barth Gallery (Cleveland Ohio) and has exhibited internationally including In Beijing China, Frankfurt Germany, Kasama Japan, Cleveland Ohio and Los Angeles California. His works are included in corporate and private collections. He is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greensheilds Foundation Grant and was given a Flicker film grant to produce the experimental film short Sprawl.His art museum career has spanned over twenty years working for institutions such as The Columbus Museum of Art, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Ackland Art Museum and most recently as the Director of Exhibition Design at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.Artist Statements and quotes"I am very interested in negative spaces, in particular the negative spaces found in refuse materials. With the Amulets and Talisman series I salvaged foam, plastics and cardboard materials from discarded packing boxes, that I then orchestrate into casting forms for which I pour concrete into. Once hardened and removed, a new positive form emerges. The final sculptures are powerful reminders of our consumer driven economy, and these newly created, permanent “cast offs” serve to ward off evil and offer protection to those that posses them." “In my work there is a push and pull between nature and mans place in nature… the natural world or society and cultures we build …objects of beauty either man-made or natural … things that man battles internally, the body and mind or forces faced in the external world. …I struggle to manipulate and explore materials. In these explorations I attempt to orchestrate and create new works of art that pay homage to our social and ecological failures and successes. ” Joseph Gargasz Joe Gargasz Gargaszart Studio 211 Gargasz art gargasz sculpture Joe Gargasz Joseph Gargasz CCAD Sculpture Ackland Art Museum Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill OCAG North Carolina

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