John Ruppert
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JOHN RUPPERT, who is the chairman of the Department of Art at The University of Maryland, College Park, has been on the faculty since 1987.
Ruppert was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1951. His mother was a painter and his father was a mechanical engineer. From 1962-64 his family lived in the Middle East. During that time he became intrigued with archeology, visiting many ancient cities and participating in ŇdigsÓ from Egypt to Turkey. The time he spent visiting the remains of past civilizations -- seeing how they were built by the materials of their environment, and experiencing the process of their being reclaimed by that environment -- has greatly influenced his art.
Ruppert received his BachelorŐs of Art in Art and Art Education from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1974, and his Master of Fine Arts from the School for American Craftsman, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, in 1977.
Ruppert has had numerous one-person exhibitions including: Art et Industrie (in the Garden), New York City; The Chicago Cultural Center; The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach; The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore; Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C. His work has also been featured in many group exhibitions both in the United States and abroad, including: the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin; Stone Quarry Hill, Cazenovia, New York; the Grounds for Sculpture, Trenton, New Jersey; Center of Culture Castle, Poznon, Poland. In 1998 he received the JurorŐs Award at BaltimoreŐs ArtScape, and he also has received Individual ArtistŐs Grants from the Maryland State Ats Council in 1991, 1995 and 1997. Reviews of his work have been published in Art in America, Sculpture and the New Art Examiner.
In the autumn of 1998 Ruppert installed a commissioned piece at the New International Terminal at the Baltimore/ Washington Airport and in the spring of 1999 grouping of cast ŇPumpkinsÓ was produced and added to the collection of Grounds for Sculpture, Trenton, NJ. Other commissions have been awarded by The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and the Xerox Corporation in Rochester, New York.
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