January 2008
MAX
KRIMMEL, 15 Sherwood Road,
Nederland CO 80466, (303) 258-7723
RECENT
SHOWS
2009
- From Tradition to Innovation: Enriching Lives Through Art,
Artwork from The Permanent Collection of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Atlanta airport (T concourse) through Dec. 2009
- 41st Clay, Fiber, Wood, Metal,
Glass - Octagon
Art Center - Ames IA, Jan. 30 - April 5
- Handcrafted - Rocky
Mount Arts Center - Rocky Mount NC, Jan. - May
2008
- Materials Hard & Soft -
Denton Arts Center - Denton TX
2006
2005
- Materials Hard & Soft -
Denton Arts Center - Denton TX
- Handcrafted - Rocky Mount
Arts Center - Rocky Mount, NC
- Selections
from the Permanent Collection -
Wood Turning Center - Philadelphia PA
2004
- Celebration of American Craft -
New Haven CT
- 6th Annual
Handcrafted Exhibition - Rocky Mount Arts Center - Rocky Mount NC
- Contemporary
Craft Biennial -
ArtSpace - Raleigh NC
- Fine Craft
2003
- Denver International Airport
- Beneath the Bark - Museum
of Art, Brigham Young University - Provo UT
2003
- Celebration of American Craft
- New Haven CT
- Craft Forms -
Wayne Art Center - Wayne PA
- Tribute to Rude Osolnik
- Kentucky Museum of Art and Design - Louisville KY
- Materials Hard & Soft
- Denton Arts Center - Denton TX
- Clay, Fiber, Wood, Metal,
Glass - Octagon Art
Center, Ames IA
2002
- Craft USA Today - Silvermine
Arts Center - New Caanan CT
- 34th Annual Celebration of
American Craft - Creative Arts Workshop - New Haven CT
- Contemporary Wood Turning
- Wave Gallery - New Haven CT
- Branching Out: Contemporary
Woodturning in 2002 -
Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington VA, March 16 - May 4, 2002 (703) 228-7710
- Re-Turnings
- Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA Feb. 1 - ?, 2002 (215) 923-8000
- Wood Turning in North America
Since 1930 - Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum -
March 15-July 21, 2002
- Wood Turning in North America
Since 1930 - Yale University Art Gallery - Sept. 10-Dec 1, 2002
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GALLERY
REPRESENTATION
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SELECTED
SHOWS
2001
- Wood Turning in North America
Since 1930 - Minneapolis Institute of Art - Oct. 21-Dec. 30, 2001
- Clay, Fiber, Wood, Metal, Glass
- Octagon Art Center, Ames IA
2000
- Materials
Hard and Soft - Denton TX
- 22nd Annual Vakhi Exhibition -
Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ
- Vessel
#412 on display at Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
1999
- Vessel
#453 on display in the Renwick Gallery, National
Museum of American Art, Washington DC
- Curators Focus: Turning in Context -
Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan KS
- American Woodturners Profile -
R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago IL
- USA Craft Today - Silvermine Guild
Arts Center, New Canaan CT
- Clay, Fiber, Wood, Metal, Glass
- Octagon Art Center, Ames IA
- Oregon Made for Interiors - Maude
Kerns Art Center, Eugene OR
- Materials
Hard and Soft (Jurors Award) - Denton TX
- East Meets West - Handforth Gallery,
Tacoma WA - Narugo, Japan
- Turn,
Turning, Turned - Exhibits USA, various locations
1998
- Curators Focus: Turning in Context -
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque NM
- Craft Forms 98 (Jurors Award)
- Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
- Curators Focus: Turning in Context -
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi TX
- The Lincoln Center Galleries -
Fort Collins CO
- Craft National 32 - Zoller Gallery,
University Park PA
- Pathways
'98 - Cleveland State Univ. Art Gallery, Cleveland OH
- Ties to the Land - Fort Collins
Museum, Fort Collins CO
- Turn,
Turning, Turned - Old Jail Art Center, Albany TX
1997
- Object of Colorado - Denver International
Airport, Denver CO
- 16th Annual National - Hoyt Institute
of Fine Art (sculpture award), New Castle PA
- Arrowmont 50th Anniversary Traveling
Exhibition - various locations
- Craft National - Zoller Gallery,
University Park PA
- Curators Focus: Turning in Context
- Berman Art Museum, Ursinus College, Collegeville PA
- Clay, Fiber, Wood, Metal, Glass
- Octagon Art Center, Ames IA
- Turn,
Turning, Turned - Children's Discovery Center, Murfreesboro TN - Winchester
Community Center, Las Vegas NV
1996
- Cabbages and Blue Velvet, three
person show - Alliance for the Varied Arts, Logan UT
- Materials Hard and Soft (Jurors
Award) - Denton TX
- Turn,
Turning, Turned - Norman R. Eppink Art Center, Emporia KS - South Dakota
School of Mines and Tech, Rapid City SD
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1995
- Banaker Gallery - San Francisco
CA
- Soup to Nuts - Wharton Esherick
Museum, Paoli PA
- Hoyt National - Hoyt Institute
of Fine Art, New Castle PA
- In the Arts and Crafts Style -
Vermont Craft Center Frog Hollow, Middlebury VT
- ANA 24 - Holter Museum, Helena
MT
- Craft America '95 - Silvermine
Arts Center, New Canaan CT
- The Art of Craft - Longmont Museum,
Longmont CO
1994
- 4th Annual Wood Objects Show -
Carlyn Gallery/Sable V, Dallas/Wimberly TX
- Quad-State Art Exhibition - Univ.
N Dakota, Witmer Art Gallery, Grand Forks ND
- Turning Plus... - Arizona State
University Art Museum, Tempe AZ
1993
- Form and Object: Contemporary
Interpretations of Craft Traditions - Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada CO
- Turned Wood Arts '93 - New Horizons
Gallery, Greenwich, CT
- National Invitational Turned Objects
- Carlyn Gallery, Dallas TX
- Works from the Lathe - Hagley
Museum, Wilmington DE
1992
- National Invitational Turned Objects
- Carlyn Gallery, Dallas TX
1991
- Weaving....Wood Gallery - Eight
La Jolla, CA
- Turned Wood - Ten Arrow Gallery,
Cambridge MA
- National Invitational Turned Objects
- Carlyn Gallery, Dallas TX
1990
- International Turned Objects Show
- Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AR - Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Canada
- The Colorado Experience - The
Works Gallery, Philadelphia PA
- Vision and Concept - Arrowmont
School,l Gatlinburg TN
- Benchmark: Turned Vessels 1990
- Starry-Sheets Gallery, Irvine CA - Gallery Fair, Mendocino CA
1989
- Craft Design CAC Annual - Denver
Center Performing Arts, Denver CO
- Turner's Challenge III - Craft
Alliance Gallery, St. Louis MO
- Vessels and Forms in Wood - Grand
Avenue Gallery, St. Paul MN
1988
- International Turned Objects Show
- Port of History Museum, Philadelphia PA - Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus
Christi TX - Folk Art Center, Asheville NC - Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
- Craft Design CAC Annual - BCVA,
Boulder CO
- 5-10-15 - Craft Alliance Gallery,
St. Louis MO
1987
- Vessels and Forms - Houston TX
- Colorado Artists & Craftsman Annual
- Foothills Art Center, Golden CO
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1986
- American Contemporary Works in
Wood - The Dairy Barn, Southeast. Ohio Arts Center, Athens OH
- Colorado Artists and Craftsman
Annual - BCVA, Boulder CO
1985
- Boulder Center for the Visual
Arts Annual - Boulder CO
1984
- Colorado Artists and Craftsman
Annual - BCVA, Boulder CO
- Colorado Craft Biennial - Fine
Art Center, Colorado Springs CO
- Boulder Center for the Visual
Arts Annual - Boulder, CO
1983
- Guitars of Max Krimmel -Foothills
Art Center, Golden CO
- Colorado '83 - Fine Arts Center,
Colorado Springs CO
- Anderson Ranch Faculty Exhibit
- DCPA/Cohen Gallery, Denver CO
1982
- Guild of American Luthiers Biennial
- Estes Park CO
1981
- Gilpin County Arts Association
Annual - Central City CO
1980
- Guild of American Luthiers Biennial
- Palace of Fine Art, San Francisco CA
1979
- The Harmonious Craft - Renwick
Gallery Washington D. C. - American Craft Museum, New York NY - Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan -WS
1978
- Guild of American Luthiers Annual
- Winfield KS
- Guitars of Max Krimmel - Bridge Gallery, Boulder CO
1976
- Boulder Arts Center Annual - Boulder
CO
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COLLECTIONS
- Smithsonian American Art, Washington DC
- Vance Kirkland Museum, Denver CO - work on display September 2019 indefinite
- James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
- Frick Collection, New York NY, socle
for the Clodion/Lapaute clock, Fragonard
Room
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu
HI
- Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL
- Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
AR
- Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
- Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA
- Kentucky Museum of Art + Design,
Louisville KY
- Boeing Aircraft, Seattle WA
- Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia
PA
- Hoyt Institute of Art, New Castle
PA
- Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh
PA
- Gary Knox Bennett, Alemada CA
- Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg TN
- The Renwick Gallery, National
Museum of American Art, Washington DC. work on display
June '99-June'00
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Wornick Collection, Burlingame
CA
- DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette MI
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PUBLIC
COMMISSIONS
- The Frick Collection, New York, NY - socle for the Clodion/Lapaute clock
in the Fragonard Room
- 1989 Benedum Center for the Performing
Arts, Pittsburgh PA - two alabaster vases for the inner lobby
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EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
- 1981-1984 University of Colorado
at Boulder - Fine Art, (Dean's Scholarship 82, 83, 84) (Talent and Creativity
Scholarship 82, 83)
- 1969 Colorado State University
- Industrial Arts
- 1966 -1968 University of Denver
- Design
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PRINT
MEDIA
- 2004 "Beneath the Bark"
Utah Woodturning symposium
2004 "500 Wood Bowls" Lark Books
- 2001 "Woodturning in North
America Since 1930" Wood Turning Center, Yale University Art Gallery
- 1997 "Enter the World of Lathe
Turned Objects" York Graphic Services
- 1997 "Curators' Focus: Turning
in Context" Wood Turning Center
- 1992 "Lathes and Turning Techniques"
Taunton Press
- 1990 "Design Book Five" Taunton
Press (Fine Woodworking)
- 1989 "Turning Alabaster, a Change
of Pace for your Wood Lathe" Fine Woodworking #74, Taunton Press
- 1988 "Lathe Turned Objects" Wood
Turning Center
- 1987 "Turned-Bowl Design" Taunton
Press (Richard Raffan) "Design Book IV" Taunton Press (Fine Woodworking)
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CRAFT
RELATED EMPLOYMENT
- 2007 Utah Wood Turning Symposium, Provo UT, demonstrations,
alabaster turning
- 2005 American Association of
Woodturners, Kansas City KS, demonstrations, alabaster turning
- 2001 American Association of
Woodturners, Pasedena CA demonstrations, alabaster turning
- 2000 Utah Wood Turning Symposium, Provo UT, demonstrations,
alabaster turning
- 1994 American Association of Woodturners,
Fort Collins CO demonstrations, alabaster turning
- 1991 American Association of Woodturners,
Denton TX demonstrations, wood and alabaster turning
- 1989 Southern California Woodworking
Conference Claremont ,CA demonstrations, wood and alabaster turning
- 1988 Southern California Woodworking
Conference Claremont ,CA demonstrations, wood and alabaster turning
- 1987 Arrowmont School Gatlinburg,
TN assistantship
- Woodworking West Provo UT symposium
presenter, alabaster turning
- Southern California Woodworking
Conference Claremont ,CA demonstrations, wood and alabaster turning
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