BEN TRÉ Howard
Né en / Born in 1949 – USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
American Craft Museum, New York
Arco Corporate Art Collection, Los Angeles
AT&T Corporate Collection, Chicago
BankBoston Art Collection, Boston
Brandeis University, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Brown University, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, New York
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
City of Philadelphia
Cleveland Museum of Art
Corning Museum of Glass, New York
Corporate Art Collection, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta
Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts
Federal Reserve Board, Washington
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Goldman Sachs, New York
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia
Indianapolis Museum of Art
J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan
Koganezaki Park Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
PepsiCo of California
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phillip Morris Management Corporation, New York
Phillips Collection, Washington
Phoenix Art Museum
Portland Museum of Art
Prudential Insurance Company of America, New York
Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, New York
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence
Rockefeller Management Corporation, New York
Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Saint Louis Art Museum
San Francisco Arts Commission
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Seattle Art Museum
Southwestern Bell Corporation, Houston
Tokio Marine Management, New York
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
Wheeler School, Providence, Rhode Island
Awards
Aileen Osborn Webb Award, 2006
National Council of Art Administrators, Artist Award of Distinction, 2005
Royal Town Planning Institute, North West Branch & White Young Green Planning Achievement Awards, Best Urban Design Project Award, 2002.
British Council for Shopping Centres, Town Centre Environment Award, 2002.
Providence Preservation Society Award for Urban Design, 1998
UrbanGlass, Innovative Use of Glass in Sculpture Award, 1997
First Annual Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, 1997
Boston Society of Architects, Art & Architecture Collaboration Award, 1993
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1990
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 1990
Rakow Commission, The Corning Museum of Glass, 1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 1984
Change, Inc. Grant, 1982
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1980
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 1979
Les oeuvres de BEN TRÉ Howard
Bearing Figure est la synthèse de la recherche de Ben Tré sur le corps humain et le vase. La série est riche en associations spirituelles et mystiques. L’artiste a enveloppé la forme intérieure du vase dans un revêtement protecteur de métal ou de pierre. Les cavités internes qui, auparavant, indiquaient une coupure entre esprit et intellect ne semblent plus séparées. Dans Bearing Figure de Ben Tré, le vase et le corps sont imperceptiblement reliés ; les aspects masculins et féminins sont en équilibre parfait ; l’intérieur et l’extérieur ne font plus qu’un.
Debra L. Hopkins
Conservateur, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, US