Jack Gron

Jack Gron exhibitions, studies, awards...

Born in Steubenville, Ohio

MFA 1976, Washington, University, St. Louis, Mo

BFA 1973, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio

Professional Experience:

2024 WORK, from the Pandemic and Beyond, solo exhibition, Contemporaryt Art Gallery, Houston Christian University.

2023 Texas Sculpture Group All Members Exhibition, Irving Art Center, Irving Texas.

39th Open Exhibition Visual Arts Alliance, Sabine St. Studios, juried.

Baytown Sculpture Trail, one year outdoor exhibition. Baytown, Texas, juried

Texas National Art Exhibition, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Tx. Juried

2022 18th Annual Sculpture Garden Exhibit, Kemp Center for the Arts.

Wichita Falls, Texas. juried. May 2022 - 2023.

Texas Sculpture , Sugarland Art Museum, Sugarland, Texas, 

Texas Sculpture Group, curated.

2021 Little Things Matter- University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum, 

Hattiesburg, Ms. Juried national small sculpture exhibition.

The State of Sculpture: an all member exhibition of the Texas Sculpture Group. San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas.

Celebration, a curated exhibition of Texas sculpture. The Museum of Biblical Art,

Dallas Texas.

On the Bayou, Redbud gallery, Houston, Texas. Juried Texas Sculpture group exhibition.

55th Annual Small drawing and Sculpture Exhibition, juried national , DelMar College, Corpus Christi, Texas.

2020 True North Houston Heights Blvd. Sculpture project. Installed Hard Rain for a nine month outdoor exhibition.

Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition-University of Texas Tyler. Two year group invitational 

exhibition installed on the campus grounds.

Situational Invitational-National Digital Sculpture Exhibition , Western Cast Iron Art Alliance in conjunction with the University of South Dakota Art Museum.

Matter Matters, Oso Bay Biennial XXl, juried regional exhibition. Weil Art Gallery, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

3d invitational  exhibition, Colin College, Dallas Texas

2019 True North Sculpture Project-selected as one of 8 artists to construct an outdoor 

sculpture for the 2020 exhibition to be installed along Heights Blvd. in Houston, Tx. 

Artist in Residence-Sculpture Trails Museum, Solsberry, Indiana. July 21-28, Cast iron elements that will be installed in a permanent installation on museum grounds.

Texas  Sculpture Group All Members Show-Curated by James Surls and Exhibited at his  former studio in Splendora Texas. June 1-July 31.

The James Surls Invitational Exhibition, the Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas Texas

August 7-September 4.

Recipient,  Houston Arts Alliance -Support for Artists and Creative 

Individuals Grant- “Building Community Through Sculpture Workshops”. 

A hands on cast aluminum workshop presented free of charge to the community.

Cast Aluminum Workshop-fulfillment of the HAA grant. July 13, the Shed  in Artists’ Alley at Sawyer Yards, Houston, Tx..

2018- Visitation 3- one year loan, outdoor sculpture installation. Welded and cast aluminum, painted steel, 78”h. Sawyer Yards, Houston, Tx.

“From the Belly of the Beast”- curated invitational group exhibition-Stephen Smith Fine Art, Fairfield, Alabama.

“Still Life With Sausage-Sculpture and Sketchbook Drawings”- Lone Star Community College North Harris Fine Art Gallery.

2017- “Community Column”- a collaborative cast and fabricated aluminum sculpture

installed at La Retama Park in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.

“Still Life With Sausage” -solo exhibition of aluminum castings at K Space Contemporary Art Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas.

2016 Visiting Artist- Festival of High Temperatures-The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław (Poland). Presented a series of workshops and lectures on casting iron in an international studio arts program.

2015 Visiting Artist, Domaine Forget, St. Irenee, Quebec Canada. Presented a series of lectures and workshops in constructing and operating a portable foundry to cast aluminum. Fabricated and installed outdoor kinetic sculpture ,“Chase” for the Harmonic Gardens on the grounds of Domaine Forget.

2014 Viewpoints-sponsored by  Studio Montclair , Montclair NJ. Juried international exhibition featuring 100 artists. Ajira Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey. 

2013 "Corpus Christi Shield" 20'h. welded bronze and aluminum commission installed at Police Station Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. Awarded through a public art competition sponsored by the city's Arts and Culture Commission.

2012 "Cast Iron Sculpture," Texas Atomic Iron Commission, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM. (March 2012 - April 2012)

2011 National Conference on Cast Iron Art, Sloss Historic Furnaces, Birmingham, Ala

Advisor for TAMUCC student crew for Student Cupola Contest at the National Cast Iron Art Conference at Historic Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama. 

2010 Visiting Artist  -Northern Illinois University School of Art-Dekalb, Illinois- conducted lectures, critiques, mold making workshops and cast iron demonstration. 

Organized and coordinated cast iron demonstration on the beach in front of the Texas A&M University –Corpus Christi campus. Visiting artists from across the nation participated in this event.

2009 Casting Iron demonstration-Texas Atomic Iron Commission (group collaborative)

National Cast Iron Art Conference, Sloss Historic Furnaces Birmingham, Alabama

Artist in Residence-Museum of Outdoor Steel Sculpture, Coalbrookdale, UK.

  Two- week residency in mold making and iron casting workshops.

2008 Panel presentation- Crossing Boundaries- Juror- student exhibition, Workshop Leader; TASA annual conference; Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas

2007 Artist in Resident-two week workshop and lecture series culminating in a cast iron 

event. Hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland.

2006 Panelist-5^th International Conference on Cast Iron Art, Ironbridge England

5^th Keen Foundry Symposium- Cast iron workshop participant

Houston, Tx.

Artist in Residence- Ironbridge Museum of Outdoor Steel Sculpture, Coalbrookdale, England. three week residency constructing cast iron and steel sculpture.

Elected to Board of Trustees, Art Museum of South Texas

Corpus Christi, Texas

2005-

2014 Chair, Department of Art, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

2013 "In Depth- Texas Biennial exhibition," Texas Sculpture Group, Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas, USA. (September 2013 - November 2013)

2011 Solid Substance- Juried exhibition, G. Gallery, Houston,  Texas

Arrested Form- group exhibition, Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, 

  Beaumont Texas

Texas Uprising 2- juried Work by members of Texas Sculpture Group-Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, Texas

2010 National Small Sculpture Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Tucson, Az.

A survey of small sculpture from across the USA.

Imagillaboration- national touring exhibition. Collaborative works of 100 sculptors from across the USA. Islander Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Views from my Toy Box- 2 person exhibition-small sculpture exhibition, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, Texas

National Iron- juried national exhibition, a survey of cast iron from across the USA. Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, Montana

2009 Cast Iron Sculpture Exhibition-International invitational exhibition, Bull Pen Gallery,