March 19 - April 28, 2024
H-E-B Gallery
Reception Saturday, April 13, 5-7pm
Anthony Sonnenberg’s exhibition will explore the art of decoration. He expresses the process of decoration and adorning by designing elaborately enriched 3-D pieces.
A multi-media artist, Sonnenberg, works with all types of adornment. Whether it’s making jewelry, or adding jewels and tchotchkes to beautify a sculptural piece, or using both techniques in the creation of elaborate crowns. Historically adornment is used to enhance beauty, to indicate status, or signify cultural traditions. Crowns express all of these truths. Sonnenberg even places himself in these crowns and adornments as part of his performance art.
Born in 1986 in Graham,TX, Anthony Sonnenberg earned a BA with an emphasis in Italian and Art History in 2009 and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2012. His work which ranges from porcelain to performance has been shown across the United States and Internationally. Mr. Sonnenberg lives and works in Fayetteville AR.
Notable recent exhibitions include; State of the Art II, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2020); I’m Going to Dance the Way I Feel - Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami FL (2021) Ceramics Now - Galerie Italienne - Paris, France (2021) Cannons Buried in Flowers, Gavlak Gallery. Los Angeles Ca (2023).
Notable Residences include; Windgate Museum Of Art Inaugural Artist-In- Residence (2021); CSULB-CCC Summer Resident Artist, California State University, Long Beach, CA (2018); Yaddo Artist Residency - Saratoga Springs, NY (2017); Resident at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (2016) Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA (2012).