Gary Lee Noffke (born August 27, 1943) is an American artist and
metalsmith
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cutlery
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, jewelry, and forged steelware. Noffke is noted for his technical versatility, his pioneering research into hot
forging
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, the introduction of new alloys, and his ability to both build on and challenge traditional techniques. He has been called the metalsmith's metalsmith, a pacesetter, and a maverick.Mitchell, LeeAnn, ''Studio Visit with Garry Noffke'', Metalsmith Magazine Winter 2004 He is also an educator who has mentored an entire generation of metalsmiths. He has received numerous awards and honors. He has exhibited internationally, and his work is represented in collections around the world.Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke /ref>Wiki Smith: Gary Noffke /ref>
Noffke along with Barbara Mann designed the original artwork for the
Delta Prize for Global Understanding The Delta Prize for Global Understanding, presented annually by Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia
, mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing t ...
.
Noffke taught for many years at the University of Georgia. Today he is retired from formal teaching and lives and works at his studio in Farmington, Georgia.
Early life
Gary Lee Noffke was born in
Decatur, Illinois
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and grew up in the small town of
Sullivan, Illinois
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. His father worked in a shoe factory. His German grandfather had a small farm and was still using a mule to plow his fields. His family being poor, Noffke made his own toys out of whatever materials were at hand, scavenged from the farm, the factory, and construction sites. With just a hand saw and a pocket knife, he created birdhouses, slingshots, hinged boxes, and bows and arrows.Falino, p. 14. To this day he makes his own tools.Maschal, Richard, ''Forge follows function'', Carolina Living March 27, 2011 At the age of 12, encouraged by his mother and a neighbor who was a landscape painter, he began drawing and painting in oils. His mother was later able to help pay for his education by working at, and then becoming the owner of, a shelter care home business.
Education
Noffke enrolled at
Eastern Illinois University
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, getting his BS in 1965 and his MS in Education 1966. In 1967 he went to the University of Iowa intending to study painting, but soon found himself attracted to metalsmithing. He had already been exposed to metal in a course he took from Garret de Ruiter while at Eastern Illinois University. For a while at Iowa he studied metalwork under Raoul Delmar but soon abandoned that school and moved on to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he studied with Brent Kington who was leading a revival of blacksmithing which lasted well into the 1970s. At Carbondale he met other up and coming metal artists such as
Mary Lee Hu
Mary Lee Hu (born 1943 in Lakewood, Ohio) is an American artist, goldsmith, and college level educator known for using textile techniques to create intricate woven wire jewelry.
Career
Hu first became fascinated with metalwork during high scho ...
. He learned to forge steel and was particularly impressed by a simple knife made by his mentor, Kington. Noffke got his Master of Fine Arts at SIU in 1969.
Career
While he still was studying painting, Noffke had been influenced by the
abstract expressionism
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of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Just as these painters had attacked the canvas with swirls, drips, splashes, and smears, Noffke would attack the surface of his metal objects with obsessive and intricate detail consisting of stars, letterforms, arrows, crosses, dollar signs, eyes, and other obscure symbols. These richly detailed surfaces, stamped, engraved, and carved into the metal illustrate a paradox evident in all of the artist's work. On one hand, each object presents a surface of inscrutable markings. On the other hand, each object is in the end just an ordinary bowl, spoon, knife, or some other purely utilitarian object.
Noffke first taught at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and then at California State College at Los Angeles. In 1971, he took a position at the University of Georgia at Athens where he was to remain for the next thirty years.
Noffke was awarded a faculty research grant in the early 1970s from the University of Georgia to explore the cold forging of fine silver from sheet. Expert opinion said that the hot forging of fine silver was impossible; but Noffke discovered an alloy that made it easy. He discovered that by eliminating some of the copper content in sterling silver he was able to cast his own
billets
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of 969 silver. Still later he developed a method to forge gold from cast billets.
In the years 1977 to 1979 Noffke, working with the University of Georgia and several other artists, put together three annual "National Ring Shows" featuring the younger generation of metalsmiths. The shows did not rely on museums but were escorted around the country by the participants themselves. The idea was so successful, that The
Lamar Dodd School of Art
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History
In 1927, the University of Georgia’s board of trustees voted to establish ...
and the Georgia Museum of Art repeated the format again in 2011.
For thirty years Noffke taught at the University of Georgia and then retired from active teaching.
He built his own studio—and all the tools in that studio—in the hills near Farmington, Georgia. Some of those tools along with his refrigerator from the studio were featured in his solo exhibition at Charlotte's Mint Museum in the fall of 2011. Richly and elaborately decorated, it is a perfect example of the artist's usual blending of surrealistic decoration and practical utility.
Award and honors
* 2005: Selected as one of the Fifty Outstanding Alumni of Fifty Years of Graduate Education by
Eastern Illinois University
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From April to September 2011 the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina presented a major retrospective of the artist's work titled, ''Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke''. This was the first museum-organized project about Noffke in 20 years and featured over 120 pieces of his work, including silver and gold hollowware, flatware, jewelry, and objects forged in steel.
A comprehensive list of exhibitions which have featured Noffke's work is shown below.
Solo
* 2011 ''Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke'',
Mint Museum of Craft + Design
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, North Carolina
* 1979 National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1971 Humboldt State University,
Arcata
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* 2009 ''Soul’s Journey: Inside the Creative Process'', The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design,
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, North Carolina
* 2008—2010 ''Tradition/Innovation, American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art'', The Southern Arts Federation ( NEA sponsored show traveled nationally)
* 2008—2009 ''Ring Shows: Then & Now and Putting the Band Back Together'', Georgia Museum of Art ( University of Georgia sponsored show traveled nationally)
* 2008 ''Is That Supposed to Be Funny? Wit, Sarcasm, and Humor in Craft'', Penland Gallery,
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, North Carolina
* 2007 ''Southeastern Invitational Craft Exhibition'', The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, North Carolina
* 2006—2007 ''Material and Space'',
Missouri State University
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Art and Design Gallery,
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, Missouri (exhibition traveled nationally)
* 2005 ''Contemporary Cast Iron'', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis
* 2004 ''The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience'',
Mint Museum of Craft + Design
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, Charlotte, North Carolina
* 2003—2006 ''The Art of Gold'' organized by the Society of North American Goldsmiths and Exhibits USA (a national touring exhibitions program)
* 2002 ''Contemporary Metalwork and Jewelry from Six Countries'', Gallery Mukkumto, Seoul, Korea
* 2001 ''Objects for Use: Handmade by Design'', The American Craft Museum,
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* 2001 ''Fellow's Exhibition, Work from the 2001 Awardees'', The American Craft Council College of Fellows, S.O.F.A., Chicago, Illinois
* 2000 ''Rare to Well Done: Culinary Craft'', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1999—2000 ''Pieces that Serve'', Yaw Gallery, S.O.F.A., New York, New York
* 1999 ''Seoul International Metal Artists Invitational Exhibition'',
Seoul Arts Center
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Racine
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Wisconsin
* 1998 ''V + V (Five Plus Five)'', Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
* 1998 ''The Functional Vase Project'', Yaw Gallery, S.O.F.A., Birmingham, Missouri
* 1998 ''Raised Metal Sculpture Exhibition'', William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
* 1998 ''Raised from Tradition: Hollowware Past and Present'', The Seafirst Gallery at
Columbia Seafirst Center
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, Seattle, Washington
* 1998 ''Refined'' North American Metalsmithing Exhibition, Stephen F. Austin Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas
* 1997—1998 ''Watching and Waiting: Timepieces by Jewelers'', Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* 1997—1998 ''L'Chaim, International Invitational Exhibition of Multi-Media Kiddush Cups'',
Contemporary Jewish Museum
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, San Francisco, California
* 1997—1998 ''American Masters of Hollowware in the Late 20th Century'', Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia/National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1997 ''The Teapot Redefined'', S.O.F.A., Chicago, Illinois/Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* 1997 ''Spotlight 97'', American Craft Council Southeast Region Juried Crafts Exhibition, Hickory Museum of Art,
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, North Carolina
* 1997 ''Food Glorious Food'', Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine Wisconsin
* 1997 ''Centennial Metals Exhibition'', Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
* 1996 ''Pig Iron Art Cookers'', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1996 ''Ornament, National Invitational Jewelry Exhibition'', Penland Gallery, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
* 1995—1997 ''The Commemorative Cup'', Rosanne Raab Associates, New York, New York (exhibition traveled nationally)
* 1995—1997 ''Double Vision'', Gallery IO, New Orleans, Louisiana, sponsored by Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine Wisconsin (exhibition traveled nationally)
* 1993 ''Implements'', Kohler Design Center, Kohler, Wisconsin
* 1992—1994 ''Borne with a Silver Spoon'', Rosanne Raab Associates, New York, New York (exhibition traveled nationally)
* 1991 ''Other Voices'', Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, New York
* 1990—1991 ''Vessels from Use to Symbol'', The American Craft Museum, New York, New York
* 1989—1990 ''Silver: New Forms and Expressions'', Fortunoff, New York, New York (exhibition traveled nationally)
* 1989 ''Dashboard Art'', John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* 1989 ''City on a Hill, Twenty Years of Art at Cortona'', Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia/
Venice
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, Italy
* 1988—1990 ''Metals Invitational'', Visual Arts Resources, University of Oregon,
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* 1988 ''Masters in American Metalsmithing'', Organized by National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1987 ''Southern Silver'', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1987—1990 ''Metals Invitational'', University of Oregon, Portsmouth, Oregon
* 1987—1990 ''Contemporary Iron'', Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
* 1986 ''Workshop Leaders Exhibition'', The American Craft Council, Southeast Region Conference, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida
* 1986 ''A Decade of American Blacksmithing'', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1985 ''Presenters Exhibition'', The 6th Yuma Symposium, Arizona Western College, Yuma, Arizona
* 1984 ''The Great West Jewelry/Metal Symposium and Exhibition'',
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, Washington
* 1984 ''Implements'', Ten Arrow Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* 1984 ''Contemporary Iron'', Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
* 1984 ''A Mano National Metal Invitational'', New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
* 1984 ''Tiki Exhibition'', Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
* 1983 ''Metal and Enamel Invitational'', Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, California
* 1983 ''Remains to be Seen'', John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* 1983 ''Crafts, An Expanding Definition'', John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* 1982—1983 ''20 Years of Metal'', Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (exhibition traveled nationally)
* 1981 ''The Cutting Edge'', Louisville Art Commission, Frankfort, Kentucky
* 1981—2000 ''Mostra, Palazzo Vagnotti'',
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, Italy (1981, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2000)
* 1980—1982 ''Southeastern Metalsmith Traveling Exhibition'', Organized by the Mint Museum
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, Charlotte, North Carolina
* 1980 ''Metal Design Invitational'',
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, Louisiana
* 1979 ''House Jewelry'', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
* 1978 ''Symbolism in Jewelry'', Gallery of Contemporary Metalsmithing, Rochester, New York
* 1978 ''1st National Spoon and Ashtray Exhibition'', Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado
* 1978 ''2nd National Ring Show'', University of Georgia, Visual Arts Gallery, Athens, Georgia
* 1977 ''Holiday Tree'',
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, New York, New York/Mondale Residence, Washington, D.C.
* 1977 ''Drinking Companions'', John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* 1977 ''Currents 77'', 5th Biennial Mid-South National Crafts Invitational, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
* 1977 ''Contemporary Metal Crafts'', Louis I. Clifford Gallery Arts and Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* 1977 ''Contemporary Knives and Edged Tools'', Chambers Gallery,
Pennsylvania State University
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, University Park, Pennsylvania
* 1977 ''Poetry Bowls with Fritz Dreisbach'', University of Georgia, Visual Arts Gallery, Athens, Georgia
* 1976 ''Metal Invitational'', Montana State University – Bozeman, Montana
* 1976 ''Metal Invitational'', Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
* 1976 ''3rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Jewelry'', Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
* 1976—1977 ''Solid Wrought Iron'', Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale, Illinois (exhibition traveled nationally)
* 1975 ''Precious Metals: The American Tradition in Gold and Silver'', Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
* 1975 ''Miniature and Delicate Object Exhibition'', Galeria del Sol, Santa Barbara, California
* 1975 ''Metal Invitational, 1975 AD'', College Art Gallery, New Paltz, New York
* 1975 ''Ironworks, National Invitational'', Craft Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
* 1975 ''Headdress: An Historical and Contemporary Survey'', John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* 1975 ''Fourth Invitational Contemporary Crafts Exhibition'', Hawthorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
* 1975—1977 ''The Goldsmiths/75'', Minnesota Museum of Art,
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* 1975—1976 ''100 Artists Commemorate 200 Years'', Fairtree Fine Crafts Institute, New York, New York/Xerox Gallery, Rochester, New York
* 1975 ''Forms in Metal: 275 years of Metalsmithing in America, 1700-1940'',
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Museum of Art/Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York
* 1974 ''Georgia State National Metal Invitational'', Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
* 1974 ''The Uncommon Smith'', John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* 1974 ''The First World Crafts Exhibition'', International Committee of Selection, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* 1974 ''Inter D III'', International Crafts Exposition, Fine Arts Gallery, Pan American University, Edinburg, Texas
* 1974 ''Southeastern Crafts Invitational Exhibition'', Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
* 1974 ''American Metalsmiths Exhibition'', De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
* 1974 ''North American Goldsmith'', Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C./Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota
* 1973 ''Profiles in Jewelry'', National Jewelry Competition, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
* 1973 ''Objects for Preparing Food'', Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York/Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
* 1973 ''Smithing '73'', National Blacksmithing Invitational, State University of New York at Brockport, Brockport, New York
* 1973 ''Objects U.S.A.'', National Crafts Invitational, Kent State University, Kent
* 1973 ''National Invitational Craft Exhibition'', University of Wisconsin, School of Fine Arts, Milwaukee
* 1973 ''National Crafts Invitational'', University of New Mexico Art Museum,
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* 1972 ''The Contemporary American Silversmith and Goldsmith'', Fairtree Fine Crafts Institute, New York, New York/ Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
* 1972 ''National Jewelry and Hollowware Exhibition'', Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
* 1972 ''Metal '72 Invitational'', State University of New York at Brockport, Brockport, New York
* 1972 ''2nd Biennial Lake Superior National Crafts Exhibition'', University of Minnesota Duluth Tweed Museum, Duluth, Minnesota
* 1971 ''Inter D-2, Crafts Open Exhibition'',
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* 1971 ''8th Annual Piedmont Crafts Exhibition'', Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
* 1970 ''Atlantic Seaboard States Craftsmen Exhibition'', Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
* 1970 ''Icasals National Jewelry Exhibition'', Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
* 1970 ''20th Florida Craftsman Exhibit'', Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, Florida
* 1970 ''7th Piedmont Crafts Exhibition'', Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
* 1968 ''Ball State National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show'',
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* Virginia Shields, William U. Eiland, Gary Noffke, Georgia Museum of Art, ''Ann Orr: silversmith, goldsmith, & enamelist'', Athens, Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 1994,
* Deborah Landon; Gary Noffke, ''American masters of hollowware in the late 20th century'', Athens, Ga. : Georgia Museum of Art, 1997, OCLC Number: 39535972
References
;Notes
;Sources
* Dunas, Michael, ''Killing Time: The Work of Gary Noffke,'' Metalsmith Magazine, Fall 1987
Simon, Marjorie ''The Art of Gold'', Metalsmith Magazine, Summer 2003
* Jeannine J. Falino, Allie Farlowe, Gary Noffke, ''Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke'', Charlotte, North Carolina, 2011
Mint Museum of Craft + Design
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