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Name
Sharon Que
Role
Visual Artist
SHARON QUE, DIANE CARR, JANET HAMRICK at the Lemberg Gallery
Sharon Que (Querciagrossa) (born May 18, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American visual artist and luthier, based in Ann Arbor, specializing in violin restoration and repair.
It has been said that much of Que’s imagery can be perceived as multilayers, with some forms suggesting a mix of spiritual, secular, and mathematical or even industrial significance.
Some of her sculptures are also owned by important American institutions and are in public spaces, including the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Being deeply involved with Music, in March 2007 she has been a curator of the exhibit "Instrumental", at the Ann Arbor Gallery Project, featuring diversely talented artists who are creatively engaged in industrial design, engineering, music, acoustics, math, violin and bow making.
Sculpture: Constructed, March 24 to May 16, 2008, at Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor featured some of her works together with some of Tom Phardel, as done by Lemberg Gallery Summer Mix (Jul 12 - Aug 9, 2008), with her Survival Engine.
Solo exhibitions
2005
Automatic Desires, Museo ItaloAmericano, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2003
Retrofit, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Immersed, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
Loop, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
1999
Concentric Chronology, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Seamless Motion, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996
Every distance is not near, Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Sharon Que: Sculpture, General Motors Institute Gallery, General Motors Institute, Flint, MI
1993
Sculpture, Gallery 414, Ann Arbor, MI
1992
New Sculpture, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989
Sharon Que, Sculpture and Mixed Media Assembleges, Fine Arts Gallery, Mott Community College, Flint, MI
Group exhibitions
2010
Wanderlust, Lemberg Gallery (Mar 6 - Apr 24) with Diane Carr and Janet Hamrick (see [1])
2009
Detroit International Auto Show, Ford Motor Company, Lincoln.
2008
Summer Mix, Lemberg Gallery (Jul 12 - Aug 9) with Survival Engine
Spirit, featuring artists able to express the interior space of the soul, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, June 25 to August 3, 2008.
Sculpture: Constructed, Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor (March 24 - May 16)
2007
Instrumental, Ann Arbor Gallery Project (March)
2003
Art Chicago 2003, Navy Pier, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago IL
2002
Biennial 2002, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2000
Art Chicago 2000, Navy Pier, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago IL
Parallel Tracks, Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, Albion College, Albion, MI (Tom Phardel)
1999
3d@dc, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Duty Free, Artcite, Windsor, Canada
Dysfunctional Sculpture, Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1998
Great Lakes Regional Art Exhibition, Midland Center for Arts, Midland, MI (Juror's Merit Award)
1997
Ambient Luminosity, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
Sharon Que, Robert Bielat, Ken Thompson, Marygrove College Gallery, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
Patrimonio: The Legacy of Italian Art in Michigan, Community Arts Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1993
Group Show, Gallery d'Arte UBU, Venice, Italy
Sculpture, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI (Robert Hansen)
1992
Spiritual Concerns in Contemporary Art, Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
1991
Four Sculptors, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1990
The Poetics of Space: The Box and New Assemblages, curated by Ben Mitchell, Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI (Traveling Exhibition).
1989
After Ten Years, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
Sculpture, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI (Tom Phardel)
1988
Artists Choose Artists, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1987
Sharon Que, Mary Ann Jordan, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
Assemblages, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI (Grace Ann Warn)
Violinmaking activity
2001: she opened her own workshop after a long apprenticeship as violin making assistant at Curtin and Alf and with Joe Curtin.
2006: she became a member of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers after specializing with violin restorer Hans Nebel, from the school of Simone Fernando Sacconi.
2009: contribution to The Pau-Brasil Conservation Project.