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Galerie Sébastien Bertrand | |||
| 2012 | WATERTOWER: Outdoor sculpture installation, Brooklyn, NY |
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HOTEL:
Permanent outdoor sculpture installation, The Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY |
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OBELISCO:
Permanent sculpture installation, Centro Metropolitano de Diseño, Buenos Aires,
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MAXIKIOSCO:
Sculpture installation, ArteBA 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Starfields, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria |
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| Signs of the Times, Y Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2010 | KOLONIHAVEHUS:
Outdoor sculpture installation, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen,
Denmark; Nordkraft, Aalborg, Denmark [2011]; Prague National Theater,
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Republic; Kongekajen, Helsingør, Denmark [2012]; MuseumsQuartier Plaza, Vienna, Austria; Helsingborg, Sweden [2013] |
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Tom Fruin - Herve Graumann, Galerie Bertrand Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 2009 | Hunter and Gatherer: TOMAK + Tom Fruin, Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin, Germany |
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52 Pick Up, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria |
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| 2008 | American Landscapes, Real Art Ways Museum, Connecticut, USA Structured Settlement, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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| 2007 | Hastle Whitey, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva |
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| 2006 | One Man's Treasure, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA |
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| 2005 | Cultural Narcotics, Thom Andriola / New Gallery, Houston, TX The Straight Dope, Galerie Heike Curtze, Austria |
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| 2003 | Starfucker, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2002 | Cultural Narcotics: The Straight Dope, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2001 | Cultural Narcotics, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2012 |
Aus Passion, Contemporary Art from Hanck
Collection, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany |
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Brucennial
2012, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY |
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Brussels, Galerie Heike Curtze, Brussels, Belgium |
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BOFFO
Show House, The Madison Jackson, New York, NY |
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Fluorescent Ball, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY |
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Austellungen, Galerie Heike Curtze,
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Sand, a performance featuring sculpture by Tom Fruin, The Chocolate Factory, New York, NY |
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Fashion is for Ugly People, Illuminated Metropolis Gallery, New York, NY |
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| Outer Space Benefit Auction, Exit Art, New York, NY |
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Homeness, Y Gallery/Festival of Ideas, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY |
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X-MAS 10, Galleri Christopher Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Volta6, Y Gallery, Basel, Switzerland |
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| Viennafair, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna,
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Brucennial2010: Miseducation, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY |
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| Bologna Art First, Y Gallery, Bologna, Italy |
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Y Gallery, Miami, USA |
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Fly Bys, Galleri Christopher Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 2009 | Young Curators, New Ideas II, PPOW Gallery, New York,
NY |
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| SOMMER(R)EIGEN, Galerie Heike Curtze, Salzburg,
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summer group show, Galerie Bertrand Gruner , Geneva,
Switzerland |
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| Volta5, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Basel, Switzerland |
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Hunter and Gatherer: TOMAK + Tom Fruin, Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin, Germany |
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Man's Ruin, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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| 2008 | Brucennial 08, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY |
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Volta4, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Basel, Switzerland |
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| 2007 | Summer Group Show, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 2006 | Over + Over: Passsion for Process, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY |
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Almost Art, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2005 | Entourage, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY |
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Group Show, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Standpunkte, Galerie Heike Curtze, Salzburg, Austria |
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New Turf, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT |
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Over + Over: A Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL; Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
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Pillish, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO |
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| 2004 | Transcending Addiction: High on Life, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY |
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Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY |
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Form and Content: Corporal Identity/ Body Language, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY |
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Triennial, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel |
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Armory Show 2003, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY |
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selected bibliography Goukassian, Elena. Commissions. Sculpture Magazine, October, 2012 Unterhaltung. Farb-Explosion. Weekend Magazin (Austria), September 20, 2012 Dean, Catherine. Citizen Designer. Azure Magazine (Canada), September 2012 Kent Siluetine Yeni Renk. XXI Architecture and Design Magazine (Turkey), September 2012 Hot List. Elle Decoration (England), September, 2012 Schmidt, Mackenzie.Water Colors. Architectural Digest, August 15, 2012 What's Cool in Steel: Cool Art: Watertower as Beacon. Modern Steel Construction, August, 2012 Tom Fruin: WATERTOWER. Verve: The Magazine of EVA Air (China), August 2012 Gerak, Anastasiya. Recycled Plexiglass Water Tower. Gazzetta (Ukraine), August 2012 _____. Madezine (China), Issue 22, 2012 Duggan, Grace. Tom Fruin adds kaleidoscopic watertower to Brooklyn skyline. The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet, July 6, 2012 Peiling Hu, Rita. International Briefing. The Big Issue (Taiwan), July 2012 Simoes, Bruno. Vigor & Desenho. Casa VOGUE (Brazil), July 2012 Gaddy, James. July Art in NYC. NYC The Official Guide nycgo.com, June 20, 2012 Whorter, Holly. Inhabitat Explores Williamsburg’s Sexy New Wythe Hotel and Rooftop Lounge. Inhabitat, June 19, 2012 CBS News. (2012). Artist turns water tower into work of art. New York: CBS Corporation BBC News. (2012). Sculpture of a water tower latest addition to Brooklyn. London: British Broadcasting Corporation Reuters (2012). Water tower colors New York skyline. London: Thompson Reuters Clark, Liat. Brooklyn's multicoloured light show water tower. Wired Magazine, June 15, 2012 Zimmer, Lori. Tom Fruin’s Multi-Colored Plexiglass Watertower Glitters on a DUMBO Rooftop. Inhabitat, June 13, 2012 Croghan, Lore. Light Show: Sculptor's new style water tanks. New York Daily News, June 12, 2012 Jow, Tiffany. Tom Fruin builds a watertower in Brooklyn out of found plexiglas. Surface Magazine, June 11, 2012 A Technicolor Rooftop Soiree. Urbandaddy. June 11, 2012 Heightened Perspective. NYCUrchin, June 11, 2012 Alice.Story Behind the Sparkling Brooklyn Watertower. My Modern Met, June 9, 2012 Dailey, Jessica. Stained-Glass Watertower is Ablaze Atop a Dumbo Warehouse. Curbed, June 8, 2012 News 12 Brooklyn. (2012) Water tower brightens city skyline. June 8, 2012 Velury, Ramya. Brooklyn Adds A Tom Fruin Stained Glass Watertower To Its Skyline. Guest of a Guest, June 7, 2012 Kaleidoscopic watertower in Brooklyn by Tom Fruin. Juxtapoz, June 6, 2012 Young, Kevin. Kaleidoscopic water towers: Fruin illuminates the NYC skyline with a colorful structure. Trendhunter, June 6, 2012 Hosmer, Katie. Stained Glass Watertower Sparkles Along Brooklyn's Skyline. My Modern Met, June 6, 2012 Tom Fruin: Watertower. Junkculture, June 5 2012 Leigha. Kaleidoscopic watertower by Tom Fruin. Designboom, June 5, 2012 Medina, Samuel. Reclaiming the Water Tower as Public Art. Architizer, June 5, 2012 Calder, Rich. New Dumbo 'Water tower' makes skyline more colorful. New York Post, June 5, 2012 Sutton, Benjamin. New York’s Most Colorful Water Tower Lands on Brooklyn Rooftop. Artinfo, June 5, 2012 Steinhauer, Jillian. Dumbo's new recyled watertower. Hyperallergic, June 4, 2012 Oswaks, Molly. Stained-Plexiglas Watertower Illuminates the Brooklyn Skyline in Dazzling Color. Gizmodo, June 4, 2012 Dailey, Jessica. Colorful Kaleidoscopic Water Tower to Light Up Dumbo Skyline. Curbed, June 4, 2012 O’Neill, Natalie. Tom Fruin's water tower sculpture: See the newest addition to the DUMBO skyline. The Brooklyn Paper, June 4, 2012 Emily. Watertower Installation Up in Dumbo. Brownstoner, June 4, 2012 Shin, Yoon. Artists Reimagine Watertowers As Urban Light Catchers. The Architecht's Newspaper, June 4, 2012 2012 BOFFO Show House At The Madison Jackson. The Huffington Post, May 31, 2012 Ceaser, Jennifer. Art's fun in the sun! New York Post, May 22, 2012 Preiser, Amy. Brooklyn: Elle Decor Staff Picks. Elle Decor, April 30, 2012 2012 BOFFO Show House At The Madison Jackson. The Huffington Post, May 31, 2012 Ceaser, Jennifer. Art's fun in the sun! New York Post, May 22, 2012 Kate |