GREGOR TURK  

             Gregor Turk, received his B.A. from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and his M.F.A. from Boston University.  Between degrees he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa.  Utilizing a variety of media, his work typically incorporates mapping imagery.  His 49th Parallel Project focused on the 1,270 mile section of the U.S./Canadian border which he traveled by foot and bike in 1992.  The project was part of the 1996 Cultural Olympiad and included a documentary broadcast on public television and a large body of artwork (produced over a three-year period) that was exhibited internationally.

             His recent focus has been on public artwork.   In 2002 he installed a series of three outdoor sculptures for a Fulton County fire station.  In 2004 he completed a large permanent public art installation located in the International Concourse at Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport.  His studio is located in Atlanta.

Educational Background

Boston University: MFA, Boston, Mass., 1989

Rhodes College: BA, Memphis, Tenn., 1982

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Limits: Blandtown Studio, Atlanta, Ga., 2006

Manifold Manifesto: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Del., 2005

Grid: State University of West Georgia Gallery, Carrollton, Ga., 2001

Decade: Bank of America, Atlanta, Ga., 2000

Con/Text II: Atlanta Financial Center, Atlanta, Ga., 2000

South of North: The Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, Texas, 1999

Con/Text: Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1998

Twenty Years Later: The Lovett School Galleria, Atlanta, Ga.

Interstate 50:  City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, Ga., 1998

The Legend Series: McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1997

The 49th Parallel Project: Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1997 

Up North: Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis, Minn., 1996 

The 49th Parallel Project: Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1996

New Works: New York Mills Cultural Center, New York Mills, Minn., 1995

49th Parallel Project: Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, 1995

49th Parallel Project: Barrier as Corridor:  Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Ga., 1995

49th Parallel Project: Latitude and Limitations: McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1995

Projection Series: The McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1992

Points of Reference: Tula Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1991

Selected Group Exhibitions

Gas, Food & Lodging, Rialto Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 2005

Little Things Mean a Lot: Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 2004-05

Detour: Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2003

North America Exhibition: Coca-Cola World Headquarters, Atlanta, Ga., 2003

When I Was a Child: Youth Art Connection Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 2003

Looks Good on Paper 2: Spruill Center Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 2003

Outdoor Chair Exhibition: Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., 2003

Collage: American Continental University, Atlanta, Ga., 2002

Untitled: Coca-Cola World Headquarters, Atlanta, Ga., 2002

In Here: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Ga., 2002

Georgia/Alabama Biennial: Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Ga., 2001

Core: Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. 2001

The Word in Art: Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 2001

Looks Good on Paper: Spruill Center Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 2001

Index: City Gallery East, Atlanta, Ga., 1999

Body Matrix (Two Person Exhibition): Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., 2000

Regional Exhibition: Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ga. 1999

What You Will Miss: Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., 1999

Fire: City Gallery East, Atlanta, Ga., 1999

Daily Entry: Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, 1999

Convergence: City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, Ga., 1999

Drive Through Show: Marshall Arts, Memphis, Tenn., 1998

Troubling Customs: Gallery of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, 1998

Trees: Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, Ga., 1997

Invitational Exhibition: Campbell Public Library, Gillette, Wyoming, 1997

Water: Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, Ga., 1996

Boundaries and Explorations: St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, Minn., 1995

Mapping the Self:  Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., 1994/95

Landscape of Limitation: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Del., 1993

Three Person Show: The Sarratt Gallery, Nashville, Tenn., 1992

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition:  The McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1992

Georgia Clay '92: The Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1992

Five Person Show:  New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1991

Special Visions: Willow Street Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1991

Two Person Show: The McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1991

Artists in Georgia:  Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Ga., 1990

LaGrange National XV: Lamar Dodd  Art Center, LaGrange, Ga., 1990

Ceramics Now/l990: Downey Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Ca., 1990

Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition: Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., 1989

Creative Continuum '89: Studio 2080, Atlanta, Ga., 1989

Georgia Clay: Contemporary Studio Works: Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Ga., 1989

Program in Artistry Exhibition: Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Mass., 1989

Public Commissions

Permanent Installations:

Latitudes and Legends: International Concourse (Gates E 33 - 36), Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Ga. 2004 

Three permanent installations along the perimeter walls of a 20,000 square foot space which includes an 86’ long ceramic tile installation of the 30th  through 35th parallels (Georgia's north and south borders) encircling the northern hemisphere, 17 ceramic tablets depicting international cities along the same strip of the globe, and 64 ceramic sculptures derived from enlarged symbols found on various map legends. 

Birmingham Fire Station: Fulton County Arts Council, Alpharetta, Ga., 2002

Three miniature barn-like structures with open steel frames with ceramic tile roofs that include photo-based imagery and text relating to the history of the rural site.

Temporary Installations:

Chairs: Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., 2003

A two-part ceramic chair (a steel armature lifts and supports the back of the chair), part of an temporary outdoor public art installation located throughout the grounds of the university campus

Community-Based Installations:

Urban Ped: Youth Art Connection, Atlanta, Ga., 2005

50 sculptures made by teens and collectively temporarily installed on the grounds of Warren Hollyfield Boys and Girls Club

Centennial of Flight Mural, Concourse B Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Ga. 2005

Fifth grade students from Drew Charter School (Atlanta, Ga.) created a tile mural of historical airplanes

Tower Observatory Map (TOM): Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA) and  Wilmington State Parks, Rockford State Park, Wilmington Delaware, 2003

Community-based project resulting in 34’ diameter sculpture on an observatory platform atop a stone tower. 

Homer Town Marker: Homer, Ga., 1991 – 1992

A collaborative project in which over 100 members of a rural community took part.  The project was funded through a New Forms Regional Initiative Grant (N.E.A. and the Rockefeller Foundation), approved by the town council, and installed in the town square.

Grants

Middle East Travel Seminar (travel to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, & Israel): Pattillo Foundation, 2000

Artist's Project: City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, 1998

Alternate Visions Grant: N.E.A./ The Rockefeller Foundation/ The Warhol Foundation, 1996

Georgia Council for the Arts: Individual Artist's Grant, 1994 & 1990

New Forms Regional Initiative Grant: N.E.A. & The Rockefeller Foundation, 1990

Awards

Studio Program: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Ga., 1998 - 2003

Documentary Prize Winner: Smoky Mountain/Nantahala Media Festival, Bryson City, N.C., 1998

Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta: Cultural Shuttle Bus Commission, 1996

Cultural Olympiad Regional Designation Award for the Arts: ACOG, Atlanta, Ga., 1995

Residencies

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts: Wilmington, Delaware, 2003

The Ucross Foundation: Residency Program, Clearmont, Wyoming, 1997

St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre: Residency Programme, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1997

Banff Centre for the Arts: New Works Residency, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1996

New York Mills Cultural Center: Residency, New York Mills, Minnesota, 1995

Banff Centre for the Arts: International Artists' Residency, Alberta, Canada, 1992 & 1993

Instructional Experience

College Instruction:        

Atlanta College of Art:  Adjunct Instructor, Atlanta, Ga., 2001

Georgia State University: Adjunct Instructor, Atlanta, Ga., 1999 & 2000

University of Manitoba: Artist-In-Residence & Instructor, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1997

Swain School of Design: Materials and Techniques Course, New Bedford, Mass., l987  

Museum Workshops:

Michael C. Carlos Museum: Instructor, Public Art Seen Program, Atlanta, Ga., 2005 & 06

High Museum of Art: Exhibition Workshop, Atlanta, Ga., 2003, 2005, & 2006

High Museum of Art: Instructor, After School Program, Atlanta, Ga., 2006

Youth Art Connection, Atlanta, Ga., Instructor, Urban Ped Program (40 teens) 2004 -05

Michael C. Carlos Museum: Instructor for Camp Carlos, Atlanta, Ga., 2001 - 2002

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center: Family History Artbook Project, Atlanta, Ga., 2001- 2003

High Museum of Art: Instructor for ArtWorks Program 2000 - 2001

High Museum of Art: Instructor for Young Careers Outreach Program, Atlanta, Ga., 1999

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Artist Workshop Program: 1993

Whyte Museum: Children's Workshop, Banff Alberta, Canada, March, 1996

Selected Lectures/Presentations

Auburn University: Auburn, Alabama, 2000

University of Manitoba/Ace Art: Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1997

Southern Alberta Art Gallery/University of Lethbridge: Lethbridge, Alberta, 1996

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies: Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1996

Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Minneapolis, Minn., 1995

New York Mills Regional Cultural Center: New York Mills, Minn., 1995

Nexus Contemporary Art Center: Panel Discussion, Atlanta, Ga., 1995

Georgia State University: Art Department, Atlanta, Ga., 1995

Lynchburg Fine Arts Center: Lynchburg, Va., 1993

Grant, Exhibition & Public Commission Juror

Airport Art Program: Atlanta, New International Terminal Building, Public Art Committee, 2004

17th National Juried Art Exhibition, South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mableton , Ga., 2004

Airport Art Program: Atlanta, New International Terminal Building, Core Artists Committee, 2003

City Court Building: Atlanta, Public Art committee, 2003

Emerging Artist Grant: Forward Arts Foundation, Atlanta, Ga. 1999 - 2003

Emerging Artist Grant: Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, Ga.  2002

Ex Lucius: Georgia State, Atlanta, Ga., 1999

Annual Exhibition: Arts Experiment Station, Tifton, Ga., 1999

Patron Purchase Competition & Exhibition:  Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Ga., 1998

Man, Earth & Sky : Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, Ga., 1998

BB&T - Florence Museum State-Wide Art Competition:  Florence, S.C., 1998

Catalogues, Essays & Surveys

Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography (Vol. 3): Lynne Warren (editor), p. 1599, 2005

Emory Chairs Project, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., 2003

Art & Community 5, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Del., 2003

The Decade, Fulton County Public Art Program, Atlanta, Ga., 2002

Survey of Photographic Works by Atlanta-Based Artists: Susan Todd-Raque, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., 1999

Interstate 50:  Carolan Schwartz, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, Ga., 1998

Landscapes, Borders and Boundaries:  Julia Fenton, Nexus , Atlanta, Ga., 1995

Mapping the Self:  Jerry Cullum, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., 1994

Georgia Clay 92:  Rick Berman, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 1992

Artists in Georgia:  Peter Doroshenko, Albany, Ga., 1990

Gloria Wilcher Memorial  Exhibition:  Marilyn Friedman Hoffman, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., 1989

Selected Reviews, Articles (Print & Web)

Creative Loafing:  Atlanta, Ga.,  “Creature Discomforts” p. 49, April 27 – May 3, 2006

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga., "Public Works” May 30, 2004, K1-2

Creative Loafing:  Atlanta, Ga.,"Me, Myself & I," p. 46,  May 2, 2001

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga., "Visions of Maps..."September 1, 2000, Q7

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: October 15, 1999, R8

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: September 3, 1999, Q8

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: "Lessons from Home," Q8, Jan. 8, 1999

Visual Arts in Atlanta: http://www.visualartsatlanta.com, January, 1999

Art Papers:  Atlanta, Ga.:  p.52, Vol. 22, #6, November/December 1998

Creative Loafing  Atlanta, Ga.: "Another Roadside Attraction," pp. 31 & 35,  June 20, 1998

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: "Empty Billboards Full of Meaning," Q6,  6-12-98

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: Q7, May 29, 1998 (photograph)

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: "The Real Vs. Fantasy," G14   May 23, 1997

Contact:  Calgary, Alberta: "Barrier as Corridor," pp. 45-47, Autumn 1996

Border Crossings:  Winnipeg, Manitoba: "Manifest Cartography," pp. 70-71, Summer, 1996

Star Tribune:  Minneapolis, Minn.:  "Mapping the Border," p. E13  July 19, 1996

Minnesota Monthly:  Minneapolis, Minn.: "Map Hazard," p. 115, July 1996

City Pages:  Minneapolis, Minn., "The A List," p.37, August 14, 1996

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: E8   April 8, 1996

Fast Forward:  Calgary, Alberta: "Paralleling Imagined Reality,"  p. 14, March 6, 1996

Crag and Canyon:  Banff, Alberta:  "The 49th Parallel," Feb. 14, 1996

Art Papers; Contemporary Art in the Southeast:  Atlanta, Ga.:    Vol.  19, #6, p.44, 1995

Great Falls Tribune:   Great Falls, Mont.:  p. 1D, July 7, 1995

Art Papers; Contemporary Art in the Southeast:  Atlanta, Ga.:  Vol. 19, #4, pp.46 -47, 1995

30306: Atlanta, Ga.: "Drawing the Line," p. 18, June, 1995 

Creative Loafing:  Atlanta, Ga.: pp. 37-38, June 3, 1995

Preview: Atlanta, Ga.: p.11, May, 1995

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.:  P1& 22   May 26, 1995

Rhodes: Memphis, Tenn.: pp. 22-26, Spring, 1995

Creative Loafing:  Savannah, Ga.: Volume 1, #38, cover & p. 5, 1994

The Georgia Guardian: Savannah, Ga.: p. 1B, Dec. 16-22, 1994

Ceramics- Art and Perception: Sydney, Australia: Issue 18, pp. 83-83, 1994

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: E3   Jan. 10, 1992

Art Papers; Contemporary Art in the Southeast:  Atlanta, Ga.:   Vol. 15, #5, p. 41,  1991

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.:  E8   July 15, 1991

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: D2   March 22, 1991

Art Papers; Contemporary Art in the Southeast:  Atlanta, Ga.:    Vol. 13, #6, p. 48, 1990

Atlanta Journal and Constitution:  Atlanta, Ga.: F4   Nov. 14, 1990

Art New England:  Boston, Mass.: July/August 1989

Broadcasts (Radio and Television)

KTCA: Newsnight Minnesota:  Television Interview (Twin Cities Public TV), Aug. 15, 1996

CBC:  Radio interview (Alberta), Feb. 24, 1996

KCUA :   Radio interview (Alberta), Feb. 2, 1996

CNN: Newsroom: Television interview and feature (national), July 20, 1995

CNN: Saturday Morning: Television interview and feature (national), July 29, 1995

WEVO: Morning Edition: Audio Review (Public Radio for New Hampshire), May 5, 1989

Video Projects:

Broadcasts of The 49th Parallel: Barrier as Corridor:                       

Georgia Public Television, Georgia, May 1995 (Premiere); Prairie Public Television, North Dakota, 1996; Northern Minnesota Public Television, Minn., 1996; Duluth Public Television, Minn., 1996; KCTS Television, Seattle, Wa., 1996; KSPS Television, Spokane, Wa., 1996; Western N.Y. Public Broadcasting Assoc., Buffalo, N.Y., 1996

Screenings of The 49th Parallel: Barrier as Corridor:               

Free Times' 3rd Annual Colossal Film Crawl, Columbia, S.C. 1999; Smoky Mountain/Nantahala Media Festival, Bryson City, N.C., 1998; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, 1996; Nexus  Contemporary Art Center,  Atlanta, Ga., 1995 (Premiere)

Professional Associations

Public Art Advisory Committee, City of Atlanta (mayoral appointment), 2004 - present

Metropolitan Public Art Coalition (MPAC): Founding Member 2000 - present, Chair, 2000-2002

Public Art Network: 2001 – 2003, 2005

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center: Board Member, 1999 - 2005

Art Papers: Board Member, 2000 - present

Home Park Community Improvement Association: Master Plan Committee, 2001- 2002

Other Professional Experience

Curator: Georgia Tech/Fulton County Arts Council at Ferst Center, Atlanta, Ga. 2000 – 2001

Public Art Coordinator: Fulton County Arts Council,  Atlanta, Ga., 1998 to 2000.

Property Management: Farmington Corporation & Coro Realty, 1996 to 1999, Atlanta, Ga.

Assistant Farm Manager:  Hudson River Farms.  Homer, Ga., 1989 – 1996

Peace Corps Volunteer:  Lofa County Agricultural Extension Project, Voinjama, Liberia, West Africa, 1983-85