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The Museum of Art exhibition spaces are currently closed and will re-open in August, 2013.
Public Sculpture On View...
Currently on view near Johnson Theatre at the Paul Creative Arts Center is a new full-size metal sculpture created by artist Wendy Klemperer.
Wendy Klemperer, Caribou (Ihumataq), 2009, steel and epoxy, 138" x 106" x 80",
photo by Lisa Nugent, UNH Photographic Services.
Wendy Klemperer earned a bachelor’s in biochemistry at Harvard before moving to NYC to pursue art full time, earning a B.F.A. in sculpture at Pratt Institute in 1983. She has received residency grants from the Skowhegan School, ME, MacDowell Colony, NH, Ucross Foundation, WY, Sculpture Space, NY, IKONS, Newfoundlad, Canada, Sias University, Xingzheng, China, and Denali National Park in Alaska. Her work has been exhibited extensively in NYC and throughout the United States, including installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, Bridgewater-Lustberg Gallery, NY, NY, Pratt Institute Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, and Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, as well as comprehensive solo shows at Maine Audubon, Freeport, and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, organized by June LaCombe. Her large scale permanent installations include: Portland International Jetport, ME, 560 Broadway in NYC, Lay Sculpture Park in Missouri, Somersby Landing Sculpture Park in Newburyport, MA, California State University, Bakersfield, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, the LL Bean Company, Freeport, Maine, and SIAS University, Xinzheng, China.
Klemperer teaches welded sculpture at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, NY, and the Carving Studio and Sculpture Ctr in West Rutland VT. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and Nelson, NH. She is represented in Maine by June LaCombe: www.junelacombesculpture.com
To learn more, visit http://www.wendyklemperer.com