About The Artist
www.curtbrill.com
Born: October 18, 1952
Bronx, New York
Education: BS Design Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Career: Jan. 1974 - May 1974 Clay Instructor Cornell University
Sept. 1974 - Oct. 1976 Pottery Instructor Tucson Parks
Oct. 1976 - Jan. 1978 Pottery Instructor Pima College
Oct. 1976 - June 1977 Multi-media art instructor
Oct. 1977 Arizona Sonora Desert Museum ceramic consultant
Sept. 1978 Art Director Southern Arizona Clay
Sept. 1978 - June 1986 Artist in Education
National Endowment For The Arts
Jan.1988 - May 1989 Pottery Instructor Pima College
Professional Organizations:
Southern Arizona Clay and Glass
Tucson Museum of Art
Tucson Museum of Art Craft Guild
Arizona Designer Craftsmen
Long Island Craftman’s Guild
American Craft Council
Tucson Festival Society
Santa Cruz Valley Art Association
Dinnerware Cooperative Gallery
National Sculpture Society
International Sculpture Center
Individual Shows:
2013: Tucson, Arizona Atlas Fine Art
2012: Boone, North Carolina Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
2011: Tucson, Arizona Obsidian Gallery
2009: Tucson, Arizona Tucson International Airport
2009: New York, NY Kouros Gallery
2008: Tucson, Arizona Downtown Main Library Plaza
2008: Tucson, Arizona The Gallery at 6th & 6th
2006: Tucson, Arizona The Gallery at 6th & 6th
2005: Tucson, Arizona Galleria Musou
2004: Tucson, Arizona University of Arizona Museum of Art
2004: Santa Monica, California Bill Lowe Gallery
2003: Atlanta, Georgia Bill Lowe Gallery
2003: Omaha, Nebraska MHB Gallery
2001: Scottsdale,Arizona Vanier Gallery
2000: Scottsdale, Arizona Vanier Gallery
1998: Tucson,Arizona Raw Gallery
1998: Tucson,Arizona D C Harris
1996: Tucson, Arizona Canyon Ranch Resort
1995: Santa Fe, N.M. Edith Lambert Gallery
1993: Tucson, Arizona Tucson Museum of Art
1992: Kumamoto, Japan Hondo Gallery
1992: Fukuoka, Japan Diamar Department Store
1992: Ooyano, Japan Amakusa Community Center
1992: Sumoto, Japan Machi Community Center
1991: Santa Fe, N.M. Edith Lambert Gallery
1990: Tubac, Arizona Tubac Center for theArts
1989: Tucson, Arizona Pima Community College
Albuquerque, N.M. Dartmouth Street Gallery
1988: Scottsdale, Arizona Wilhelm Gallery
Tucson, Arizona Oasis Gallery
Tucson, Arizona Dinnerware Artist.s Gallery
1987: Tucson, Arizona Tohono Chul Park
1984: Tucson, Arizona Tucson Museum of Art
1983: Ft. Worth, Texas Gallery One
1981: Tucson Arizona Pima Community College
Phoenix, Arizona Lambert/Miller Gallery
1980: Atlanta, Georgia The Signature Shop
1979: Tucson, Arizona Confluence Gallery
Tucson, Arizona Pima Community College
1978: Tucson, Arizona First National Bank
1977: Tucson, Arizona Tucson Museum of Art
1974: Ithaca, New York Cornell University
Group Shows:
2013: Tucson, Arizona Obsidian gallery
2013 New York, New York Kouros Gallery
2012: New York, New York Kouros Gallery
2011: Tucson, Arizona Tucson Museum of Art Biennial
2010: Lubbock, Texas Museum of Art Texas Tech University
2010: Boone, NC 24th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition
2006: Tucson, Arizona Obsidian Gallery
2006: Wellington, Florida Palm Beach Sculpture Biennale
2006: Tubac, Arizona Karin Newby Gallery
2005: Chicago, Illinois Skokie Sculpture Park
2005: Tucson, Arizona Galleria Musou
2005: Napa Valley, Ca. Sculpture Site
2004: San Antonio, Texas Sculptor.s Dominion
2003: Berkeley, California New Leaf Gallery
2003: Tucson, Arizona Vanier Gallery
2001: Berkeley, California New Leaf Gallery
2000: Chicago, Illinois Navy Pier Sculpture Show
2000: Chicago, Illinois 3D Chicago
1999: Berkley, California New Leaf Gallery
1999: Tucson, Arizona D C Harris Gallery
1998: Tucson, Arizona Raw Gallery
1998: Tucson, Arizona Jewish Community Center
1997: Taos, New Mexico Lumina Fine Art
1997: Sedona, Arizona Select Art Gallery
1996: Sedona, Arizona Select Art Gallery
1993: Scottsdale,Arizona “Strokes of Genius „93”
Tucson, Arizona Tucson Museum of Art
1992: Santa Fe, N.M. Edith Lambert Gallery
Kumamoto Japan “Art of the Nineties”
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
1990: Tempe Arts Center “In Another Dimension”
1989: Tucson, Arizona Rosequist Gallery
Roswell Fine Art National Juried
Tempe Arts Center Contemporary Realism
1988: Santa Cruz Valley Arts Association
Phoenix, Arizona Shemer Art Center
1987: Tempe Arts Center
“In Celebration of Public Art”
“Fine Art For Fine Causes”
“Tucson Sculpture”
1986: Tucson, Arizona “Sculptors of the Southwest”
Tucson, Arizona “Artists of the Southwest”
“Southwest Sculpture Competition
1981: Scottsdale,Arizona Bullock.s
1980: Ft. Worth, Texas Gallery One
Great Neck, N. Y. The Artisan.s Gallery
Yuma, Arizona Yuma Fine Arts Center
Tucson Museum of Art
1979: Tucson Museum of Art
Scottsdale Center For The Arts
Tucson, Arizona Broadloom City Gallery
Phoenix, Arizona The Heard Museum
1977: Tucson, Arizona Confluence Gallery
Tucson, Arizona University of Arizona
Invitational Shows:
1999: Tucson, Arizona Tohono Chul Gallery
1998: Sedona, Arizona Select Art Gallery
1997: Sedona, Arizona Select Art Gallery
1992: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
Santa Fe, N.M. Edith Lambert Gallery
1991: Yuma, Arizona “Twenty-fifth Annual Invitational”
1988: Tucson, Arizona “Masks and Costumes”
1987: Miami, Florida OK Harris South Gallery
1986: Tucson, Arizona Obsidian Gallery
1985: Phoenix Art Museum
1984: Phoenix Art Museum
1982: Scarsdale, N.Y. The Craftsmen.s Gallery
Tucson Museum of Art
Scottsdale Center for the Arts
Atlanta, Georgia The Signature Shop
Scarsdale, N.Y. The Craftsmen.s Gallery
Springfield Illinois Art Association
1981: Ft. Worth, Texas Gallery One
Great Neck, N.Y. The Artisan.s Gallery
Sedona Fine Art Center
Awards:
Tucson Museum of Art Purchase Award
Tucson Museum of Art Exhibition Award
Long Island Craftsman Honorable Mention
“Artists of the Southwest” Honorable Mention
Pima College Honorable Mention
“Sculptors of the Southwest” Honorable Mention
University of Arizona Award of Merit
Pima College Award of Merit
Santa Cruz Valley Art Award of Merit
Hicksville Hall of Fame
Roswell National Juried Best of Sculpture
“In Another Dimension” Juror.s Award
Kumamoto Japan Best of Show
Tucson Museum of Art Juror.s Award
Rosen Outdoor Competition Finalist
Martin & Doris Rosen Award 24th Outdoor Sculpture Competition
Collections:
Cornell University
Kivelstadt Vineyards
Tucson Museum of Art
Mint Museum of Art Charlotte, North Carolina
Texas Tech Museum of Art
Tucson Jewish Community Center
Halle Berry Collection
Roberta Snyder Collection
Harris Collection
Ansel Adams Collection
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection
Canyon Ranch Resort Tucson, Arizona
Sunstone Cancer Treatment Center Tucson, Arizona
Howard Conant - Head of the University of Arizona Art Department
Bob McMillan - Head of the University of Arizona Art Department
Andrew Maas - Director of the Tampa Museum of Art
Gerritt Cone - Curator Tucson Museum of Art
Merrill Mahaffey painter
Dupont Collection
Rhod Lauffer - Preparator Tucson Museum of Art
Alice Herman - Executive Director Tohono Chul Park
Masaako Abe - Just Life Inc. Fukuoka, Japan
Clifford Smith - Barrister Hong Kong
Dr. and Mrs. David Lapan
Pamela McNair - Owner Gadabout Salons
Dr. Denis Carroll
Bill Small
TDI International New York
Mr. and Mrs. R. Greenberg - owner eegee.s restaurants
Gannett Company
Canyon Ranch Resort Lenox, Massachusetts
Casas Adobes LLC
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Grounds For Sculpture Hamilton, New Jersey
Gilinski Collection
Reviews and Publications:
Cable Channel 12 Artist profile December 2008
Luxe Magazine Artist profile December 2008
Southwest Art August 2007
Caliente July 2004
Arizona Star July 2004
Tucson Weekly July 2004
Arizona Republic May 2004
Tucson Weekly August 2004
Arizona Illustrated May 2002
Arizona Republic June 2001
Southwest Art June 2001
Art Talk January 2001
The Arizona Republic July 2000
Arizona Daily Star August 1999
Tucson Citizen August 1999
The Santa Fean January 1997
The Arizona Post September 1995
Pasatiempo August 1995
The New Mexican December 1992
Kumanichi Shinbun November 1991
The Arizona Republic February 1990
Roswell Daily Record May 1989
Art - Talk November 1988
The Arizona Daily Star November 1988
The Phoenix Gazette November 1986
The Arizona Republic November 1986
The Phoenix Gazette May 1981
The Arizona Daily Star December 1980
Tucson Citizen Focus March 1979
Artist’s Statement:
My search in the visual arts is for the hidden Human spirit. That small part
that makes us each unique, yet finds us a common home. I have been a paid
professional as well as an active volunteer in state run mental institutions, private and
county run nursing homes and been a drug rehabilitation counselor. Overriding this vein
is the love of movement and dance and the shear joy of a good laugh. These feelings
find expression three - dimensionally in clay, plaster, wax and metal. In my pieces I first
search for that bit of movement, then I search for the humor to help carry me through
the piece, and in completion I search for serenity. My fortune lies in the knowledge that
my audience has been like my work, ongoing.
“Curt Brill is a gifted artist who possesses the talent and ability to work in any medium.
His pieces exude a wonderful sense of humor and style.”
Alice Herman Executive Director Tohono Chul Park
“When I look at Curt.s work so many feelings and sensations occur: at first delight, so
pleasing and joy like in his forms, but uplifting and comtemplative as well as hopeful.
Their subtleness is just delightful! Humanity looking beyond a purity. A purity of a
childlike sense of wonder of what lies beyond for each of us and together, a gentle
message.” John L. Schorsch M.D. American Academy of Child Psychiatry
“Brill’s sculptures engage in an enthusiastic conversation between emotional and physical
vitality. He accomplishes this classic sculptural pursuit through remarkable transferences of
stasis and dynamics. He controls the energy of each step of the technical evolution of positive
and negative forms -- from the wax models, through the molds and to the final product. He is
clearly sensitive to the nuances of a human body. But his sculptures admit as much if not more
about the direct and expressive manipulations of modeling in wax: the push of his hand, the
remnant impression of fingers, the shapes of his tools, the changes in pressure of his arm.
Stretched, twisted, exaggerated and relaxed, his sculptures freeze the suppleness of the wax and
fix his anatomical forms in positions that range from the ungainly to the graceful”
Peter Briggs
Curator University of Arizona Museum of Art
“Curt Brill is a sculptor of real talent and energy, with an original vision.”
Franklin W. Robinson Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
