Joseph Havel (born 1954) is a postmodernist American sculptor who was born in

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. Havel earned a BFA in Studio Arts from the

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and an MFA from

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. He received a

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Artist Fellowship in 1987 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist's Fellowship in 1995. He lives and works in

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and is Director of the Glassell School of Art. His work is in public collections in the U.S. and abroad including: * The Museum of Fine Arts Houston * The Menil Collection, Houston * The Whitney Museum, New York * The Dallas Museum of Art * The Federal Reserve, Dallas * The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth * The Academy of Art, Honolulu * Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis * The Centre Pompidou, Paris * The French Ministry of Culture, Paris * Portland Museum, Fundacion Rouge, Paris * Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Representation

Joseph Havel is represented in Houston b
Hiram Butler Gallery
On February 3, 2-18 the Gallery will Display some of Havel's latest work. Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, Texas http://www.talleydunn.com, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco http://www.anthonymeierfinearts.com

Works

* '' Exhaling Pearls'' (1993), Houston, Texas

References

* Colpitt, Frances, ''Serial Imagery: Helen Altman, The Art Guys, Joseph Havel, James Malone, Michael Miller, John Pomara, Lorraine Tady, John Wilcox'', Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas TX, 1997. * Dorosenko, Peter, ''Joseph Havel, A Decade of Sculpture'', London, Scala Publishers, 2006.

External links

Images of Joseph Havel´s work in Literal

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