Professional Certification:
Indiana university of pa -BFA mfa-long island university
Professional Resume:
Gene Fenton
535 Fenton Road
Indiana, PA 15701
724-349-0382
www.genefenton.com
Education:
1993 Graduated with a MFA degree in Sculpture, University of Long Island, Brookville, N.Y.
1991 Graduated with a BFA degree in Sculpture, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana PA
Majoring in Sculpture with a Minor in Printmaking
Work Experience:
1995 ? 2007 Indiana Cleaning and Refinishing Indiana PA 724-463-0648 Indiana PA
Cleaning and painting large equipment
1993 ? 1995 Hunington School Hunington, NY
Security weekend detail, walked and drove around school complex
1992 ? 1995 Michael Casal Investigations Roslyn, NY
Security booth work for security complex
Juror Experience
July 15, 2007 Summerfest 2007
CCAC Boyce Campus 412-373-0277 Monroeville, PA
Visiting Artist Section
February 21, 2007 ?Monster Making by Gene Fenton.?
Demonstration at the CCAC Boyce Campus Art Dept. Monroeville, PA
mostwantedfineart@yahoo.com
July 15, 2007 ?See Gene Demonstrate Papier Building,
Learn to Build Monsters the Quick Way?
CCAC Boyce Campus 412-373-0277 Monroeville, PA
October 9, 2007 ?See Papier Mache Creatures Built the Easy Way?
Penn Hills Senior Center (412) 795-4551 Pittsburgh, PA
September 16, 2006 ?Creature Making with Papier Mache? ART 24 Event
The Butler Art Center 724-283-6922 Butler, PA
June 23, 2006 ?Learn to Build Monsters the Quick Way?
CCAC Boyce Campus 412-373-0277 Monroeville, PA
Volunteer Service:
2004 ? 2007 Coordinated, promoted and planned events for the
http://www.myspace.com/mostwantedfineart in Pittsburgh, PA 570-575-6557
2004 ? 2007 Helped coordinate, promote and plan events for www.butlerartcenter.net 724-283-6922
2004 ? 2007 Helped promote events for various bands in Western, PA including:
http://www.myspace.com/forthemourningsun
1995 - 2007 Helped promote various events for the www.indianaartassociation.org 724-388-1353
2007 Helped promote the website for www.smalltownlifemagazine.com 724-349-7366
2007 Helped promote events for www.danecastle.com 814-749-7341
Performance Art:
July 27, 2002 Aliquippa Embraces Art Aliquippa, PA
May 27, 2002 Unblurred No. 6, ?Shadow Project? Pittsburgh, PA
October 27, 2001 FLUX 5, ?Shadow Project? Homestead, PA
December 19, 2000 Beehive Theater, ?2001 Infectious Variety Show? Pittsburgh, PA
July 18, 2000 Lester Hamburg Studio Theatre, ?Supersaurian Shakespeare? Pittsburgh, PA
May 13, 2000 Monroeville Library, ?Beauticus Imperfect Parsec? Pittsburgh, PA
Art Organizations
Sept 2001 - 2007 The Art Center 724-283-6922 Butler, PA
www.butlerartcenter.net
Gene Fenton
535 Fenton Road
Indiana, PA 15701
724-349-0382
www.genefenton.com
List of Art Exhibitions:
Oct 2007 ?See Various Interpretations of the Theme Mask?
Wax - Jewelry Design Studio Shadyside, PA
412-363-0999
heybetty1@comcast.net
Jan ? Mar 2007 Albert Michael?s Gallery Altoona, PA
814-940-8307
Jan ? Feb 2007 The 3rd Annual Age of Aquarius
http://www.butlerartcenter.net/exhibit/exhibit.htm
Jan 2007 Altoona Area Public Library Art in Common Exhibit
Feb 2007 Art Dept at CCAC Boyce Campus Monroeville, PA
570-575-6557
mostwantedfineart@yahoo.com
December 1, 2006 ? 11th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition
February 25, 2007 Hosted by Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley
724-283-6369
www.spcarts.org
October 27, 2007 Diffingoffhallowseve Party
The Union Project Pittsburgh, PA
www.unionproject.org
September 14 ? ?Bugs, Creatures, Toys?Fun!?
October 12, 2007 Saint Vincent Gallery Latrobe, PA
724 805-2010
www.stvincent.edu
June 30 - July 3, 2007 An Annual Summer Celebration, the Free Festival
Twin Lakes Park Greensburg, PA
Annual attendance is over 100,000.
www.artsandheritage.com
2006 - 2007 Most Wanted Art and Rock Show 412-381-BREW Pittsburgh, PA mostwantedfineart@yahoo.com http://most-wantedfineart.com/
2006 - 2007 The Third Annual Age of Aquarius Art, Music and Fashion Festival
The Art Center 724-283-6922 Butler, PA
www.butlerartcenter.net
2006 - 2007 11th Annual Exhibition Greater Latrobe High School
District Collection 724-283-6369 www.spcarts.org
2006 ? 2007 Coyote Cafe 412-682-0320 Bloomfield, PA
http://www.myspace.com/the_coyote
Sept 2006 ART 24 Event at the Butler Art Center
http://www.butlerartcenter.net
July - Aug 2006 Nature & Wildlife Show at the Associated Artists of Butler County
The Art Center 724-283-6922 Butler, PA
July 15, 2006 Summerfest 2006, CCAC Boyce Campus 412-373-0277 Monroeville, PA
Company Description:
Looking as if they?ve just plodded off the set of a classic monster movie, the creatures in Gene Fenton?s menagerie are colorful, fantastic - and intentionally a little disturbing. They bring together a medium and a subject that most of us may never have uttered in the same breath before: paper mach? and dinosaurs.
Fenton, graduated from IUP in 1993, with a major in Sculpture and a minor in Printmaking. Sculpture, he says, was "a natural choice" for him. He had begun doing modeling clay sculptures back in grade school, and even then, his subject matter came easily: "I made dinosaurs, and painted the clay with car paint." He got the paint from his father's company, ICRS, an auto body and repair shop in Indiana, and recalls that he once spilled it all over the floor at home, to his parents' horror. "Let's just say?it was not a happy moment in the house," he notes dryly.
After his undergraduate work, Fenton attended graduate school at Long Island University, where he received his Master's Degree in Sculpture. He had done paper mach? on and off while at IUP, and began making dinosaur-like creatures while living in New York. He moved back home in 1996, taking a "day job" in his father's auto shop. It was then that he started working seriously in paper mach?, which, as he explains, "isn't always a medium that people necessarily look up to - it's considered a 'craft' rather than 'art.'" Does the somewhat dubious stature of his chosen medium bother him? Fenton just grins. "Well, it's a little late now," he says with complete practicality. But he is fully aware of how odd his work can sound. "When you say 'paper mach? dinosaurs'?do you have a good memory of paper mach? in school? I can safely say I don't. As a kid, you don't have the patience. It's messy, and it's fun for about five minutes. But there's some discipline behind working in paper mach?."
The reasons he chose the medium are, typically, born of practicality. Just as he used leftover paint from his father's shop to paint the clay dinosaurs he made in grade school, Fenton, as a working artist, chose paper mach? for sculpting because it was free and readily available: "I didn't have the clay." He also points out that paper mach? can be done anywhere, as it's not a material for which the artist needs a separate studio. "You can do it in front of the T.V." His main workshop is the cavernous basement . (It's amusing to imagine the surprise of anyone who wanders unawares into Fenton's herd of teeth-baring, eye-bulging creatures - especially if the lights are dim.)
His other inspirations include comic book artist Jack Kirby, creator of classic Marvel comics in the 1960s, which showcased monsters rather than superheroes. "The arms and teeth on my creatures, especially," he explains, "show the Jack Kirby influence." Another source for him is the work of Theodore Rosak, an artist who did semi-abstract bronze sculptures in the 1960s. Looking at these various sources as a whole, it's easy to see how their styles and elements overlap and influence each other. www.genefenton.com
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