Stainless Steel Sculpture by
Gretchen Lothrop
     
About the
Artist
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"My process is additive, using
predominately, but not exclusively, stainless steel. My imagery is often based on music or
its corollary - dance, and the paradox of time. I think of my work as haiku - the
crystallization of an instant of insight which might otherwise be swept away."
-Gretchen Lothrop
Sculptor, Gretchen Lothrop, shown
with SHAKTI,
now in the Rosen Collection
SHAKTI
C. 1998
stainless steel
125" x 59" x 40" |
Award-winning artist, Gretchen
Lothrop, is a painter and photographer, as well as sculptor. However, as she states:
"In the early '90's I began to realize that I really am a sculptor. Although painting
and photography still hold an allure and at times even meld with my sculpture, metal is my
true love."
Gretchen has participated in over
50 group exhibitions and has had 21 solo exhibitions. She has won numerous awards and has
commissions in public, corporate and private collections.
AWARDS:
2007 - Honorable Mention - 7th
Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Lakeland FL
2006 - Judge's Award - Best
in Show, 2nd Annual Southeastern Regional Sculpture Commission, Aiken
County Historical Museum, Aiken, SC
2001 - Sculpture
in the Garden Exhibit,
North Carolina Botanical Gardens, Best in Show
2000 - Piccolo Spoleto Fine Art
Exhibit, Charleston, SC, First Place Winner
1999 - Lenoir Sculpture Festival Merit Award
1998 - Greer Laboratory, Inc. Foundation Purchase Award
1997 - Broyhill Family Foundation Purchase Award
1996 - Artworks Third Annual Juried Exhibition Purchase Award
1995 - Rock Hill Festival of the Arts, Purchase Award
Upstate Visual Arts Delta
Woodside Merit and Cash Award
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS &
COLLECTIONS
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The MARY Project - An eight and a half
foot stainless steel sculpture commissioned by the Newman Catholic
Student Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006
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UNTITLED DANCING PIECE - an eight and a
half foot stainless steel sculpture commissioned by the Sandhills
Community College, Pinehurst, NC, for the new Dempsey Student Center
Building, 2006.
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MOON
DANCER - A nine foot stainless steel sculpture for the Centennial
Plaza, Appalachian State University, Boone,
NC. Installation: May 2002
TRINITY ALTER
- A stainless steel and wood alter for the consecration for the Newman
Catholic Student Center Parish. Chapel Hill, NC. October
2000. This project also included construction of a pair of Holy Water
Sconces (2000), a mirror image pair of bronze and wood kneelers (2001)
and fourteen stainless steel Stations of the Cross. (2000)
LIGHT
OF LIFE - an eight foot wall sculpture for the Newman Center, Chapel Hill, NC, January
2000
FLIGHT
OF FANCY - a ten foot sculpture for Meyer Hall the Science building at Sandhills
Community College, Pinehurst, NC, December 1999
DERVISH - a fountain for the
Caldwell County Public Library, Lenoir, NC, September 1998
CREEK BED AT DAWN - a
mural for the Aiken County Historical Museum at Banksia, Aiken, SC, September 1997
JUBILAEUS
- a stainless steel sculpture commemorating the visit of the Olympic Torch to Columbia,
SC, Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties and Bank of America, June 1996
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Reed Hospital, Richmond,
IN
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Viewpoint, Atlanta, GA
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Novare Group, Atlanta, GA
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Eli Lilly, IN
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Keenan
Development, FL
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Trelys, LLC,
Columbia, SC
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Bank of America, Columbia, SC
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Quantum Radiology, Atlanta, GA
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Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Lenoir,
NC
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First Union National Bank, Rock
Hill, SC
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H&R Associates, Raleigh, NC
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Barrett Kays, Raleigh, NC
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BTI Services, Jacksonville, FL
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Practice Resources, Augusta, GA
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