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What interests me is the internal structure: how its aesthetic dimension is made visible on the surface, exploring and responding to the relationship of mechanical structures becoming organic. My sculpture, is more than a spiritual reference to the pioneering machinery of aviation or nautical history it is about the belief in ones self. In making art I believe that the simpler the execution of an idea is the more pure the concept or soul of the piece is.
-Bob Emser-
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
CURRENT PROJECTS
Pinellas County Arts Council, FL Belleair Causeway
Royal Publishing Peoria, IL
RECENT PROJECTS
Park Ridge, IL Uptown Plaza, 2009
Wayne State College, Wayne, NE, 2008
City of Orland Park, IL Marcus Theater Plaza, 2007
Dennos Museum Northwest Michigan College, Traverse City, MI 2007
Lake Land College Alumni Park Plaza Mattoon, IL 2006
Jørpeland, Norway Commune Sculpture Park 2005
State of Illinois State Collection 2004
City of Peoria, IL Riverfront Festival Park 2003
Elmhurst Art Museum South Entrance Plaza Elmhurst, IL 2003
Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, IL 2002
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Swope Museum of Art Terra Haute, IN
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, IL
Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
University Museum, Rio Grande, OH
Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL
Hinkhouse Collection, Eureka College, Eureka, IL
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITS
Sydney, Australia, Sculpture by the Sea-Bondi 2002, 2008, 2009
Stavanger, Norway, Symposia 18-8, Stainless Steel Symposium, June 2005
Cordoba, Argentina, Mask, Another Skin, November 2004
Rome, Italy, "Six Chicago Sculptors" EUR Lake, September-October 2000
Paris, France, Salon de Marly le Roi, February 1999
Friedrichshafen, West Germany, Stadt. Bodensee-Museum, April-May 1985
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS
Prudential Plaza, Chicago, IL January-June 2008
Zone Gallery, Kansas City, MO June 3 – July 7, 2006
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO March 24-April 30, 2006
FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago, IL January 6- February 24, 2006
Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Shadow Drawings, Aug. 22 - Dec. 12, 2005
Purdue University, Nov.-March 2004-5
Krasl Art Museum, St Joseph, MI July-Aug. 2004
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL February 28-April 18, 2004
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, February 2000
Gallery, 33 Springfield, IL, December 1999
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL November - December 1998
Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL, July 1998
Gallery 510, Decatur, IL, August 1997
Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL, January 1997
Peoria Art Guild, New Environments, Peoria, IL, March 1994
University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, OH, April 1993
Round River Gallery, Works for the Future, Peoria, IL, October 1992
Eureka College, It's About Time, Sculpture Installation, March 1990
Bradley University, Ten Years After: A Space in Time, Peoria, IL, November 1988
Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL, September 1981
Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL, April 1981
Rockford Council for the Arts and Sciences, Rockford, IL, September 1980
SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITS
David Weinberg Gallery, Framework, Chicago, IL July – August 2009
Elmhurst Art Museum, Inside Out Chakaia Booker & Bob Emser, IL Oct. 18, 2008-Jan.11, 2009
TADU Contemporary, Fluid Form, Santa Fe, NM June-July 2003
Illinois Central College, Exteriors Within, Peoria, IL, October 1999
University of Illinois, Mentor / Mentee, Springfield, IL, October 1979
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
Sculpture Invasion Koehnline Museum of Art July 12-August 30, 2006
Krasl Biennial Sculpture Invitational Chicago Sculpture International September – October 2006
CSI BIENNALE 2006 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibit, May 5 – June 16, 2006
9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibit, University of Hawaii’s Art Gallery, March -April 2006
Chicago, IL Artist/Model-maker/Sculptor Continental Building October 2005
Chicago, IL Art on the River June-October 2005
Greeley, Colorado 8th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit February 2005-06
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit Mill Brook Gallery, Concord. NH June-October 2004
Somerby's Landing Sculpture 2004 / 05 Newburyport, MA
Purdue University North Central Sculpture Symposium Westville, IN Oct 2003
Convergence Outdoor Sculpture Providence, RI July 2003 - 2004
ISC @ GFS Hamilton, NJ July 2003
New Hope Sculpture Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit New Hope, PA June – May 2003-4
Lincoln Park Outdoor Sculpture Chicago Sculptors Chicago, IL April – October 2003
Soho20 Gallery Art in America Curated “Spring Invitational” New York, NY. March-April, 2003
Polk Museum “Third Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition” Received Best of Show. Lakeland, FL March 2003 - February 2004
Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Sarasota, FL November-May 2003
Monarch Sculpture Park Olympia, WA October 2002- 2004
Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition 2002 Bellevue, WA June 21- October 7, 2002 Invited Artist
North Carolina Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit Greensboro, NC June 2002-April 2003
Flossmoor Sculpture Park, Flossmoor, IL November 2001-2003
Chicago’s Navy Pier, Pier Walk ‘2001 International Sculpture Exhibit, Chicago, IL
Milwaukee River Walk, Milwaukee, WI May - October 2001
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL October 2000-2002
Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mt. Vernon, IL October 1999 Purchased for the permanent collection
Atrium Gallery, Form and Function St. Louis, MO July - August 1999
Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Arts Council, Sculpture on Second Cedar Rapids, IA July 1999- June 2000
Lakeview Museum, Works on the Move (kinetic sculpture) Peoria, IL December -January 1998-99
Vedanta Gallery, Maquette Exhibition, Chicago, IL January - February 1999
Klein Art Works, Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Chicago, IL 1997-98
West Bend Friends of Sculpture, River Park, West Bend, WI 1997-2000
River Gallery, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Chattanooga, TN 1997-98
Chicago’s Navy Pier, Pier Walk ’96, ‘97, ’98, ’99 and 2000 International Sculpture Exhibit, Chicago
Peoria’s Festival Park, Riverfront Sculpture Walk ‘97, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Peoria, IL July – October 1997
University of Rio Grande, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, 2year sculpture exhibit, Rio Grande, OH, 1996-98
Festival Park, Riverfront Sculpture Walk ‘96, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Peoria, IL July - October 1996
Lexington Art League, The Nude 94, Lexington, KY, January 1994
John A. Logan College Museum, Crafts Regional 1993, Carterville, IL November 1993
Mitchell Museum, 15th Southern Illinois Artists' Competition and Exhibition, Mount Vernon, IL September 1993
Illinois State Fair, Professional Art Exhibit, Springfield, IL August 1993
East Bluff Art Gallery, Sculptors Seven, Peoria, IL, November 1992
Art Works Gallery, Figures 7, Peoria Hts, IL, July 1991
Illinois Central College, Four Professors, Peoria, IL, February 1989
Lakeview Museum, Five Sculptors, Peoria, IL, June 1988
Peoria Civic Center, Peoria Area Sculptors' lnvitational, summer 1983
Lakeview Museum, Selections V, Peoria, IL, November 1982
Illinois State Museum, 32nd Illinois Invitational, Springfield, IL Summer 1980
Ball State University, 26th Annual Small Sculpture Show, Muncie, IN, May 1980
Illinois Arts Council, The Illinois Traveling Sculpture Exhibition Statewide, 1978-1979
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2008 Bob Emser American Sculptor by Jeff Huebner, Foreword by Glenn Harper
2007 Kennedy Publishing Best Of America Sculpture Vol. 1
2004 Crow Wood Publication living Artists Edited by Ivy Sundell
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
December 2008 The Chicago Reader by Deanna Issacs
May 2006 Art in America by Victor M. Cassidy
Sept. 8, 2005 The Northern Star Drawing on Walls by David Rauch
June 24 2005 Strandbuen, Jorpeland Norway Fra skrap til Kent by Bente L. Henriksen
June 8,2005 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Riverwalk
June 25, 2004 Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, MN Gallery Wise Bob Emser: Fluid Form by Craig Smith
June 21 2004 Artnet Prairie Smoke by Victor M. Cassidy
July 23, 2004 The Daily New, Newburyport, MA New works to sculpture Park by Sonya Vartabedian
July 22 2004 The Herald-Palladium Mixed media at the Krasl by San Dee Wallace
April 2004 Sculpture Magazine vol. 23 no. 3
March 26, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times Gallery Glance by Margaret Hawkins
CATALOGS
August 2009 Framework David Weinberg Gallery, Essay by Aaron Ott
October 2008 Inside Out Elmhurst Art Museum, Essay by D. Neil Bremer
July 2007 Sculpture Invasion Koehnline Museum of Art
September 2006 Krasl Art Museum Chicago Sculpture International, forward by Susan Wilczak
March 2006 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibit
February 2004 Elmhurst Art Museum Structural Space Forward by D. Neil Bremer
Summer 2003 Grounds for Sculpture ISC@GFS 2003 forward by Brooke Barrie
Summer 2003 Kingston New York Kingston Sculpture Biennial 5 forward by Judy Pfaff
March 2003 Polk Museum of Art 3rd Outdoor Sculpture Forward by Daniel E. Stetson
Aug. 2002 Krasl Art Museum 4th Biennial Krasl Sculpture Invitational Exhibit catalog forward by Dar Davis
EDUCATION
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY - Master of Fine Art, 1978
EUREKA COLLEGE - Bachelor of Arts - Art, 1976
WORK EXPERIENCE
FULL-TIME SCULPTOR/Lecturer
1996 – Present
NATHAN MANILOW SCUPTURE PARK, University City, IL
Member of the Board of Directors 2005 -Present
INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER
Member of the Board of Directors 2005- 2008
CHICAGO SCULPTURE INTERNATIONAL
President/Co-Founder 2004- Present
3-D CHICAGO - Chicago, IL
Executive Director, Pier Walk 1999-2001
CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER OF PEORIA - Peoria, IL
Founder/ Executive Director 1995-1999
EUREKA COLLEGE - Eureka, IL
Associate Professor of Art, 1989-1996
Chairperson-Fine and Performing Arts Division, 1987-1990
Assistant Professor of Art, 1983-1989 Gallery Director, 1983-1995
LAKEVIEW MUSEUM - Peoria, IL
Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, 1980-1983
PEORIA PARK DISTRICT- Peoria, IL
Landscape Designer, 1979 1980
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