John Scofield Designs, LLC

Paintings on Paper Acrylic, pencil on handmade Arches paper, 15 x 11 ¼ inches.

John E. Scofield has been designing and constructing art objects and special projects for over thirty years in the United States and Europe. His Folding Music Stand is in the permanent Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work has been published and reviewed in Arts, Design Times, Elle Décor, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, The Litchfield County Times, Metropolis, New York Times, Popeye, Progressive Architecture, Traditional Home, Vogue and other publications.

Scofield has been awarded numerous grants and honors, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Apprenticeship Grant, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Project Grant and the Progressive Architecture International Conceptual Furniture Design Competition.

He has had one-artist exhibitions at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Frank Marino Gallery in New York, and at the Paul Mellon Arts Center and University of New Haven in Connecticut. Group exhibitions of his work have been held at the Max Protech Gallery, New York; the Crafts Council of Ireland, Dublin; Lever House, New York; U-Mass, Amherst; NEOCON, Chicago, IL; the University of Hartford, CT and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum among others.

Scofield coauthored and contributed photographs for the Skira/Rizzoli book on Robert Motherwell’s abstract expressionist painting Reconciliation Elegy at the National Gallery. Since 1995 he has conducted workshop seminars for the course entitled “Topics in Ancient Furniture” at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York City.

Selected Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT.

Education and Training

1975-78 Studio assistant to Robert Motherwell.

1972-73 Apprentice to Wendell Castle under a Lewis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.

1970-72 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, School for American Craftsmen.

Equestrian Bench

Carved and painted mahogany.

H. 28 1/2”, W. 69”, D. 20”

Her Moods

Acrylic paint, pastel and pencil on paper.

H. 38", W. 50"

Cartoon for glass top table.

Lysistrata Writing Table

Carved and painted maple, iron, bird’s-eye maple top with clear lacquer finish.

H. 27 1/4”, W. 31 3/4”, D.23 3/4”

Folding Music Stand

“…when it folds it doesn’t become a tube, it becomes a plane. But then who cares, since it is so elegant?”

Emilio Ambasz, architect and designer, Progressive Architecture

“I think this is just a superb piece. It’s very lean and elegant and lyrical.”

Coy Howard, architect, P/A

“It is a terribly beautiful thing, terribly slender, very graceful. It has such a balletic quality to it with that curved leg.

Kenneth Frampton, architectural historian, P/A

“…his pieces create and traverse their own landscapes, all the while negotiating their own wider field of references.”

Akiko Busch, author and design critic, Metropolis

“John Scofield approaches furniture as sculpture. He revivifies dead metaphors, turning once again legs of chairs and tables into their zoomorphic counterparts, as in his Equestrian Bench.”

Robert Hobbs, art historian

Links: www.maxlanggallery.com See: Past Exhibitions, Material Culture: Contemporary American Design, curated by Edgar Harden.

www.kentvillagebarns.com See: Press, Articles, John Scofield Work.

http://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/html/artistresults.asp?artist=1906&testing=true Pollock-Krasner Foundation

John Scofield Designs, LLC

PO Box 761

Sharon, CT 06069, USA

860-671-0153

johnescofield@att.net

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