John Kapel
Woodside, California

Monument
wood
30 x 16 x 7 cm
2005

____Selected exhibitions

  • Sense Gallery, Atherton, California, 2003, 2004, 2005
  • City Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2001
  • Museum West Gallery, Stanford, California, 1999, 2002
  • J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, 1997, 1999
  • Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California, 1994
  • Gallery Thirty, San Mateo, California, 1992
  • Mayhew Gallery, Delaware, Ohio, 1989
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, 1978
  • Monterey Museum of Art, California, 1978
  • Long Beach Museum of Art, California, 1970

John Kapel was born in 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. He has a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, a MFA from Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and received a Carnegie Fellowship to Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

The sculpture draws on images reminiscent of the past, while the colors and surface treatment elicit images of archaic art forms.