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| Competitions and Awards: ArtStock 2010, Loomis, CA, Juror's Award Expressions Art Show, First Place Sculpture, 2010 Alameda County Fair, Fine Art Category, Silver award, 2009 Expressions Art Show, Second place, 2009 Riverbank Fall Carriage and Art Show, Best of Show, 2008 Central California Art Association, Third Place, sculpture, 2008 Lathrop Mayor’s Art Show,First place, sculpture, 2000, 2007 Livermore Art Association,”New material award” 2004 Expressions Art Show, First place, sculpture 2002, 2004 Delicato Spring Art Show, First place, sculpture 2001 Stockton Art League, First place, sculpture 2000 Galleries and Shows: Expressions Selections, Grand Theater Gallery, Tracy, CA, 2010 California Contours, San Louis Obispo, 2006 Gallery, America Association of Woodturners Annual Meeting, 1995, 2004 The Gallery, Calaveras Arts Council, San Andreas, 2000 Public Art: Locomotives, Two 4 ft by 16 ft steel trains, City of Tracy Multimodal Station, 2010 Military Order of the Purple Heart Monument, Port Hueneme CA, 2011 Publications American Woodturner, Article: Balanced Bowls, Cover photograph, vol. 25, No 2, April 2010 American Woodturner, Members’ Gallery, vol. 19, No. 1, 2004 American Woodturner, Symposium report, vol. 18, No.3, 2003 Art and Entertainment “Two artists work with their hands to produce award winning art, July 2004. Art Training Courses in: Life Drawing, 2008 Modesto Junior College, 2009 Las Positas College, Livermore, CA Sculpture, 2008 Modesto Junior College; 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, San Joaquin Delta College Drawing 2005 Delta College, Stockton Ice Carving, 2005 Delta College, Stockton Wood Sculpture Workshop with Lyle Jamison, Walnut Creek, 1999 Biography Mark Knize is a sculptor in wood, metal, concrete, and stone. The geometry of simple curves and round objects has been a decades-long interest producing geometric, even practical, vessels. He now is adding more representational images to his body of work including people and animals, a consequence of serious sudy of figure drawing. Besides winning awards in local art shows, his work is also in private collections in California, Europe, and Japan. Artist statement: "I enjoy trying to achieve the perfect form, creating objects that engage the viewer. I see my work functioning as a key visual point within a space, inviting a look and a touch." |
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