breongilleran Breon Gilleran, born in Colorado Springs in 1949, received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1981. She completed an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Maryland in 2002, when she was awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Centers Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture. As a graduate student she worked with a variety of materials and tools, including the large, rarely used Johnson Brothers trench forge. Using the forge she discovered she could easily bend steel rod into imposing organic forms, hammering the hot surfaces and shaping forms intuitively to stand on the floor or hang from the wall. Breon continued her discovery of blacksmithing as a way of making sculpture, studying with Meagan Crowley at Peters Valley in 2003 and 2004. Breon says Meagans approach was a revelation in that she translated her training as a metalsmith into the creation of steel forms in the blacksmith shop utilizing traditional forming techniques including the power hammer. In 2005 Breon had solo shows of her work, at Messiah College in Grantham Pennsylvania and the Library Gallery at Montpelier Center for the Arts in Laurel Maryland. In 2006 she was selected as a semi-finalist for the Trawick Prize: the Bethesda Contemporary Arts Awards. A review of her work was published in Sculpture Magazine, in June, 2006. Her upcoming 2007 exhibition schedule includes intervene/activate, a new exhibition in the Union Gallery juried by Donald Russell on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park and Critics Picks, Irving Sandler and Eleanor Heartney, curators, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD. She will be serving an artists residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in June 2007. Breons studio is located at Area 405 in the Station North Arts District, downtown Baltimore where she has a small forge and is always looking to learn new techniques. She also belongs to the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland and serves on the board of the Washington Sculptors Group. She teaches part time in the art department at Goucher College. For further information visit her web site, breongilleran.net. Breon Gilleran
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