Current / Coming

New York's International Gift Fair
Trade Only! -North Pavillion, Booth #9263, Info: www.nyigf.com

"Concealment; Works in Jewelry and Metal Arts"
Work that reveals details not visible upon first inspection. 
Juror: Boris Bally, metal artist
February 11-March 18, 2005

John Garrett and Boris Bally,
Art Association in Jackson Hole, WY
May 6- August 26, 2005 and traveling

Jewelry with a Purpose: Jewelry that Transcends Wearable Art, juried by Elizabeth Shypert, Honorable Mention Award for ‘Brave,’ March 1- May 3, 2004, www.postpicasso.com

Boris Bally, Fuller Museum of Crafts, Brockton, MA, May 14- August 8, 2004
Workshop, Demo, Lecture, July 25, 2004, www.fullermuseum.org

Anti-War Medals: Artists Respond to the War, Electrum Gallery, London, England, travels from initial showing at Velvet DaVinci Gallery/ SanFrancisco.  curated by Mike Holmes and Elizabeth Shypertt, opens: May 7- 31, 2004 velvetdavinci.com

Aluminum: 3 Person show, Virginia Breier Gallery, SanFrancisco, CA, October 2004

The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, opened at Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC, Curated by Ellen Denker and Dana Moore.  Travels July 3, 2004- January 30, 2005,  Catalog available soon.   www.mintmuseum.org

Texas HELP Out of the Nest: Artists' Birdhouses, Exhibits USA, curated by Robert Logan,
included Birdhouse: "Home for Holy Birds,”  tours: September 1, 2003- August 30, 2007

De-Sign: Boris Bally's Exploration of the Available, Boris Bally's solo show, kendall college of art, sarah joseph, Grand Rapids, December 15, 2003- Feb 20, 2004; info: Sarah_Joseph@ferris.edu

Jewels & Gems, Works from the Permanent Collection,  Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Sept 26, 2003 - Feb 8, 2004

The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, opens at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC, July 3, 2004- Jan 30, 2005, Curated by Ellen Denker and Dana Moore, travels until January 30, 2005, catalogue planned,

Texas HELP Out of the Nest:: Artists' Birdhouses, Exhibits USA, curated by Robert Logan, included: Home for Holy Birds,¡¨ tour dates: September 1, 2003- August 30, 2007, catalog planned

Enhancements: Hand-crafted Functional Objects, Curated by Robert Logan, Robert Cugno; Essayist: Judith McNally Wallace
Travels to:

  • Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX, Jan 28 -March 16, 2001
  • Del Rio Council for the Arts, Del Rio, TX, April 6- May 19, 2001
  • J Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station, TX, June 9- Aug 11, 2001
  • Perspective Gallery, Blacksburg, VA, Sept 1- Oct 20, 2001. Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, Jan 16- March 16, 2002
  • Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, April 06- May 19, 2002
  • Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO, June 09- August 11, 2002
  • University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY, Sept 01- October 20, 2002
  • Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK, June 09, 2003-August 11, 2003
  • McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX, Sept 01- Nov 15, 2003, Catalog available, travels until Jan 2004

Info: www.maaa.org/exhi_usa/press/enhancepr.htm

 


Exhibitions Curated by Boris Bally

A View of Five, Exhibition of Utah Arts Council Fellowship Finalists in the Visual Arts, Salt Lake Arts Center, installation by Ric Collier, Director, July 21- October 8, 2000

2nd Annual Recycle Show, Center City Artisans , Providence, RI, co-curated with Anker West, August 19-Nov 19, 1999

Curatorial: Beacons for the Future, Nancy Sachs Gallery, co-curated w Bobby Hansson, St Louis, MO, May 7- June 5

 


Solo Exhibitions

De-Sign: Boris Bally's Exploration of the Available, Boris Bally's solo show, kendall college of art, sarah joseph, Grand Rapids, December 15, 2003- Feb 20, 2004

Urban Enamels: Soul-Stirring Works by Boris Bally, Patina Gallery, SantaFe, New Mexico, December 14, 2001 - January 13, 2002. www.patina-gallery.com

Introducing Boris Bally, Contemporary Metal Artist, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ . June 1-30, 1999

American Metalanguage I, main foyer, Barbican Centre London, England April 10-June 7 1998

Signage: A Solo Show, Gallery I/O New Orleans, LA Oct 1- 31 1996

Constructed Metal Objects, Joanne Rapp Gallery Scottdale, Arizona April 1- 3 1996

Structure/ Geometry, Nancy Sachs Gallery St. Louis, Missouri Mar 8- April 13 1996

Bally/ Darway, The Works Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Oct 1- Nov 15 1995

 


International Exhibitions

Attitude and Action, exhibition of figurative jewelry, curated by Gail M. Brown

  • The Atrium Gallery, University of Central England, School of Jewellery, July 10- August 4, 2000
  • Designyard Jewellery Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Sept 7- Oct 21, 2001

Funky and Flashy, 3 person exhibition with Henriette H.J. Gaillard, Frederique Thomas, and Boris Bally, Carlin Gallery, Paris, France, April 20- May 27, 2000. Info: GalleryC@aol.com

Design with Memory, Design Research Core , Sanjo-Tsubame Area Research Core 1-17 Sugoro Sanjo City, Niigata, Japan, curated by Tom Johnson, opening 16th October 1999

Whole Earth Exhibit, RenewRecycleReuse, IDEE Shop, Tokyo, Japan Feb 18- Feb 28, 1999 curated by Design Resource Institute, Scott Kajiya and Hiroyuki Kushida

Eloge de la matiére, Inaugural Group Show, The Carlin Gallery, Paris June17- September 15, 1999

Revelations: New Jewellery by Members of SNAG

  • Shipley Gallery, England and traveling 1996- 1998
  • National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN Nov 23, '97- Feb 1, 1998
  • The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA March 27- May 30, 1998

Recycle, Reuse, Recreate, and accompanying catalog, tours Africa, curator: Dorothy Spencer 1994- 1996

11th Silbertriennale, International Competition, Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany 1995

Challenge V: International Lathe-Turned Objects, organized by the Wood Turning Center 1994- 1997

Schmuckszehne '93, Handwerkmesse, curated by Susan Grant Lewin, Mnchen , Germany 1993

10th Silbertriennale, International Competition, Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany 1992

Jewelries / Epiphanies, Umprum Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1991

 


Traveling Exhibitions

Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, Curated by Sarah Nichols
Opens:

  • October 2000 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
  • August 23- Nov 4, 2001 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal,Quebec, Canada
  • The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, through April 7, 2002
  • Cranbrook Art Museum June 1-August 25, 2002
  • The Design Museum in London Oct 18, 2002-January 19, 2003; Hotel Wielemans, Brussels February 17 - May 11, 2003
  • Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, June 9 - November 5, 2003. Book available.

Info: www.aluminumbydesign.org

The Ring, opened at and organized by Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA; SOFA-NYC 2001; Wustum MOA, September 9- November 4, 2001; SOFA-Chicago, Oct 5-7, 2002; tours untiltil 2002/ catalog available, info: 617/876-2109

Trashformations: Recycled Materials in American Art & Design, Lloyd Herman, Catalog 1997- 2000

  • Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA, Feb-March, 2000
  • Yellowstone Museum of Art, Billings, Montana, May- June, 2000
  • Boise Museum of Art, Boise, Idaho, 02/13-04/11, 1999
  • Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, 05/15-07/11, 1999
  • Anchorage Museum of History and Art, AK, 10/30-12/26, 1999

Curator's Focus: Turning in Context, curated by Mark Richard Leach, David Revere McFadden, Bruce Metcalf, Maria van Kesteren 1997-1999

  • University of Plattville, Plattville, WI Sept 20- Oct 29, 1999
  • Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, KS July 2- Sept 12, 1999
  • Ella Sharpe Museum, Jackson, MI April 3- June 6, 1999
  • Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI Sept 30- Oct 25, 1998
  • Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM May 17- Aug 30, 1998
  • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX Dec 15, 1997-March 15,1998
  • Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, PA Sept 25- Nov 30, 1997

Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art & Design, curated by Susan Subtle ,Catalog.

  • McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas Jan-May 1998
  • Vancouver Museum, British Columbia, Canada June- Nov 1998
  • Oakland Museum, CA 1997- 1999

Artists of A Different Caliber, Juried (catalog), Wustum Museum, Racine, WI Feb 22-April 19 1998

The Environmental Bead, curated by Marjorie Simon (catalog) 1997- 1998

  • Objects of Desire Gallery, Louisville, KY
  • Phenomenon Gallery, Richmond, VA
  • National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN

The Commemorative Cup, curator Rosanne Raab, National Ornamental Metals Museum 1995- 1996

Artisans In Silver: The Vase, Society American Silversmiths, Nat'l Ornamental Metal Museum 1995- 1996

Double Vision, curated by Tom Mann & Bob Ebendorf, opened Wustum Museum, Racine 1995- 1996

Sculptural Concerns: Contemporary American Metal Working , curated by Robert Schroeder 1993- 1997

Studio Production: More Than One, curated by John Perreault, American Craft Museum 1992- 1994

 


Selected Exhibitions

Red, Group Exhibition, Martina & Company, Providence, RI, November 20- Dec 30, 2003
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Anti-War Medals: Artists Respond to the War, Velvet DaVinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Nov 1-30, 2003, Info: www.velvetdavinci.com

Turned Multiples III, Craft Alliance/St Louis (April 25 - June 1) and Wood Turning Center/Philadelphia (March 7 - April 26) , Curated by Michael Hosaluk and Tom Loeser

Objects For Use: Handmade By Design, curator Paul J Smith,  with accompanying exhibition book published by Harry N. Abrams, American Craft Museum, New York, NY , September 13, 2001 - April 28, 2002 

CRAFTBOSTON, May 16-19, 2002 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston; info: CraftBoston.org
The Society of Arts and Crafts is pleased to announce CRAFTBOSTON, an inaugural exhibition and sale of contemporary crafts. CRAFTBOSTON will bring together the finest professional artists working in craft today, emerging artists from leading schools and universities, book sellers, non-profit craft organizations and educational lectures.

Innovative Tools for Personal Use, competition organized by Anne Larsen Hollerbach for SNAG, Juried by Charlie Crowley, Kiff Slemmons, and Edward S. Cooke, Jr., opens at the Center for Visual Arts, The Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO, June 6- June 29, 2002 and traveling, catalog available, info 303/294-5207

Steel City: Contemporary Metal in America, exhibition curated by Jina Pierce and Michael Boyd, Sangre De Cristo Arts & Crafts Center, Pueblo, CO, May 25 - Aug 24, 2002, info: www.sdc-arts.org

Objects For Use: Handmade By Design, curated by Paul J. Smith, with accompanying book by the same name, published by Harry N. Abrams, on view at the American Craft Museum, New York through Jan 6, 2002 and traveling www.americancraftmuseum.org/acm/exhibitions/object.html

National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY, Curated byDonald Albrecht, Ellen Lupton and Steven Holt, March- July 2000

Consumed: Fine Craft Inspired by Popular & Media Culture, Craft Alliance, St Louis, MO, Curated by Angela Reinoehl, September 15 - October 29, 2000

Installations in Recycled Materials, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, Feb 20- April 30, 2000

Sheen of Silver, Weight of Air, Curated by Lloyd Herman, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR, June 22- September 23, 2000

Unique Seats, Art complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, curated by Craig Bloodgood, September 24- January 9, 2001.

Ripple Effect exhibition, Rock Hill Arts Center, NC, June 19- July 30, 2000

Farbige Dinger, Heinz Brummel and Boris Bally, Mainstreet Studio and Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, August 13-Sept 13, 2000

The Well-Crafted Home, Penland School of Crafts Gallery, July 25- Sept 3, 2000

2000 Objects for the New Millennium, Gallery 91, New York, Part 4: Universal Design, July 25th - September 2nd, 2000

Color, Martina and Company, Providence, RI, March 30- April 30, 2000

Lost and Found, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, March 4- April 8, 2000

Drawing the Lines, Selections from Sketchbooks, Curated by Gail M. Brown, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, March 7 -April 28, 2000

The Teaspoon Stirring, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, January 22- February 26, 2000

SOFA Chicago, International Exposition of Sculpure Objects and Functional Art, Navy Pier, Represented by Thom,as Mann Gallery, November 5-7, 1999

Artist Hannukiahs, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Robert F. Schroeder of Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Nov 27- Dec 30, 1999

Diversity in Metal, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, Nov 13- Dec 24, 1998

The End is Near: Artists look at the 20th Century, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, May 30-Aug 29, 1999

Icons of the 20th Century, Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, MO. May 7-June 7, 1999

Measure by Measure: Jewelers Explore the Four Dimensions, Curated by Robert Dancik, Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT. July 18-Sept 5, 1999

10th Anniversary Exhibition, Objects of Desire Gallery, Louisville, KY Sept 17-Nov 20, 1999

On the Edge: Postmodern and Beyond, Aaron Faber Gallery, New York 1998

Please Be Seated, Joanne Rapp Gallery, The Hand and The Spirit, Scottsdale 1998

Futuristic Flatware, curated by R. Raab, Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA 1998

Raised From Tradition, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA, curators Jack & Marylin Da Silva 1998

1998 Raised Metal Sculpture, curated by Mary Lee Hu, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 1998

Sculptural Objects Functional Accessories (SOFA), Chicago, represented by Gallery i/o 1996 and 1997

Treasured Trash: Art From Recycled Materials, Earthsake, curator: S. Subtle, Berkeley & San Francisco 1996

One-of-a-Kind x One, The Wetsman Collection, curated by Susan Grant Lewin, Detroit 1995

Intimate Traditions: Three Contemporary Metalsmiths, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 1995

Contemporary Metalsmithing: American Masters, Donald Brecker Gallery, Miami Beach 1995

The Object Redux: Re-Used, Re-Newed, and Re-Invented, Wustum Museum of Art, Racine 1994

Design Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York 1994

Translations: From Mind to Hand, The Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 1994

National Metals Invitational : Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, curator Christina DePaul 1994

Art That Works: The Decorative Arts of the Eighties, (traveling) curated by Lloyd E. Herman 1990- 1993