Roger Bisbing
Woodstock, New York

Conference
wood, painted brass, bronze
6.7 x 29.5 x 17.2 cm
2005



____Selected exhibitions

  • Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 2003
  • Kingston Sculpture Biennial, New York, 2003
  • Factory Direct.2, The Arts Center for the Capital Region, Troy, New York, 2002
  • Mesa, installation, Plattsburgh Sculpture Park, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, 2000
  • Under Construction, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute, New York, 1999
  • Select Paintings and Sculpture, Pleiades Gallery, New York, 1995
  • Working with Tradition, New York State Museum, Albany, 1994
  • Sculpture ’91, Grand Prize, Washington Square, Washington, D.C., 1991

Born in 1954 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Roger Bisbing has a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, 1981, and a MFA from Syracuse University, New York, 1987. He received a New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend, 2002, and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, 1994.

Abandoned objects and vacant spaces serve as the relics and sites for past events. My models of seating arrangements imply some general narrative of recent history and record and preserve the function and hierarchy of groups of people.