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William Thomas Joyce
BornOctober 28, 1956
Tulsa, Oklahoma
EducationLife Experience[1]
Known forSculpture
SpouseAnne-Marie Bouttiaux [2]
AwardsMacArthur Fellow[3]
US Artists Fellowship[4]
Websitewww.tomjoycestudio.com

Tom Joyce (born 1956) is a sculptor and MacArthur Fellow[3] known for his work in forged steel and cast iron. Using skills and technology acquired through early training as a blacksmith, Joyce addresses the environmental, political, and social implications of using iron in his work.[5] Exhibited internationally since the 1980s, his work is included in 30-plus public collections in the U.S. and abroad.[6] Joyce works from studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and since 2012, in Brussels, Belgium, producing sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and videos that reference themes of iron in the human body, iron in industry, and iron in nature.[7]

Early life and career[edit]

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1956, the oldest of four siblings, Joyce attributes accompanying his father on summer archeological excavations conducted for the University of Oklahoma in the 1960s as a significant influence toward choosing a life of working with his hands.[5] Joyce stated in a 2008 lecture at the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago: "As a pre-teen adolescent, unearthing disparate shards of once complete objects, made from diverse materials, and attempting to visualize the whole form from fragments, has instructed my practice as an artist to the present day."[8] When his family moved to El Rito in Northern New Mexico in 1970, at age 14 Joyce began an informal apprenticeship with neighbor Peter Wells, a letterpress printer and blacksmith. Joyce learned to handset type on foot-operated 19th century printing presses and was taught the rudiments of hand forging while assisting Wells on the restoration of historic printing equipment for the Museum of New Mexico's Print Shop and Bindery.[9] At 16, after three summers of working with Wells, Joyce was offered the blacksmith shop when Wells relocated his printing business, the former Sunflower Press. Joyce quit high school to devote himself full-time to learning the trade and developed a classically oriented curriculum of studying historic ironwork in the storage collections of New Mexico's many museums. He supported himself through a wide range of commissions from farmers, ranchers, builders, architects, designers, and other artists.[5]

In 1977 Joyce moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, establishing a larger studio to design and produce contemporary objects for homes, architecture, and public art. He initiated an apprenticeship program in 1979 that offered training to students from the U.S. and abroad. A McCune Foundation grant received in 1996 expanded the program to include "at risk" middle and high school students, giving New Mexico youth an opportunity to learn metalworking techniques in free, after-school classes.[5]

Since Joyce's first lecture on his work at the University of Wisconsin, De Pere in 1982, he has presented at numerous institutions, universities and college campuses throughout the United States and abroad.[6] As an invited U.S. delegate, panelist, and keynote speaker, he has participated in conferences and symposia in Canada, Czech Republic, Belgium, England, Finland, Ireland, Italy, South Africa and Sweden. In 1989, while lecturing at the First International Festival of Iron in Cardiff, Wales, Joyce, along with German artist Achim Kuhn, were given the Highest Honorary Fellowship into the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths with the Addy Taylor Cup. It was the first time the award had been given to a non-British blacksmith since the charter was formed in 1571.[10]

Throughout the 1990s, Joyce gradually reduced the number of commissions to focus more exclusively on series of work for galleries, including folded bowls based on formal geometric proportions, wall pieces made from remnant material accumulated from his previous commission works, and sculpture incorporating plaster, books, newspaper, wood and iron. In 1996, eighty works of art were exhibited in a mid-career retrospective, Tom Joyce: Twenty Years, organized by the National Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, the first major survey of the artist's work.[11]

In 2001, Joyce began exploratory working relationships with several forging and casting facilities to realize sculpture and drawings on a larger scale. In an ongoing series of work titled Sotto Voce,[12] alluding to the hidden origins of the material he utilizes, Joyce conceptually references the part industrial blacksmiths perform within the current era since the 19th century industrial revolution.[13]

Working hands-on in various industrial settings, multi-ton remnants from parts being manufactured for multinational corporations, government agencies, and military forces around the world are forged into sculptures that appear at first as soft as clay. Cutting, folding and eroding the material transforms what were once semi-recognizable shapes, into sculptures that refer to the parent material's current use, wherever it may be employed in the world.[14]

Works[edit]

  • Bloom III (2005) Forged high carbon steel 28" x 30" x 30"
    Bloom III (2005)
    Forged high carbon steel
    28" x 30" x 30"
  • Bloom III, detail (2005) Forged high carbon steel 28" x 30" x 30"
    Bloom III, detail (2005)
    Forged high carbon steel
    28" x 30" x 30"
  • Stack IV (2014) Forged high carbon steel 108" x 46" x 46" (45,000 lbs)
    Stack IV (2014)
    Forged high carbon steel
    108" x 46" x 46" (45,000 lbs)
  • Stack IV, detail (2014) Forged high carbon steel 108" x 46" x 46" (45,000 lbs)
    Stack IV, detail (2014)
    Forged high carbon steel
    108" x 46" x 46" (45,000 lbs)
  • Two to One (2007/2014) Museum of Arts and Design[16] Forged stainless steel 30" x 360" x 84"
    Two to One (2007/2014)
    Museum of Arts and Design[16]
    Forged stainless steel
    30" x 360" x 84"
  • Aftershock (2014)[17] Exhibition view James Kelly Contemporary
    Aftershock (2014)[17]
    Exhibition view
    James Kelly Contemporary
  • Aureole I & II (2015) Forged high carbon steel 75" x 75" x 8" (6,492 lbs) & 74" x 74" x 7" (5,660 lbs)
    Aureole I & II (2015)
    Forged high carbon steel
    75" x 75" x 8" (6,492 lbs) &
    74" x 74" x 7" (5,660 lbs)

Exhibitions[edit]

Exhibiting internationally since 1981, Joyce's work has been shown at the National Museum Cardiff; Stadt Galerie, Lünen, Germany; Graf-Zeppelin Haus, Friedrichshafen, Germany; Exposición Central, Guadalajara, Mexico; Lounais-Suomen Käsi-ja Taideteollisuusoppilaitos, Mynämäki, Finland; Steiglitz Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia; and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.[6]

In the US, Joyce has exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Alfred University Art Museum, Alfred, New York; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Minneapolis Institute of Art; National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.; Detroit Institute of Arts; Houston Museum of Contemporary Craft; Museum of Fine Arts; New Mexico Museum of Art and Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Albuquerque Museum; Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; National Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee; and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York.[6]

Collections[edit]

Permanent public collections of Joyce's work are held at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum[18][19] New York, New York; Museum of Arts and Design;[16] Smithsonian Institution,[20] Washington, DC; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; New Mexico Museum of Art; Luce Foundation Center for American Art,[21] Smithsonian American Art Museum; Mint Museum;[15] National Metal Museum; Museum of Fine Arts; Fuller Craft Museum,[22] Brockton, Massachusetts; and Yale University Art Gallery,[23] New Haven, Connecticut.[6]

Awards[edit]

Honors[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Berkovitch, Ellen (Summer 1999). "Tom Joyce: A Natural Reciprocity Always in Movement". Metalsmith. 19 (3): 24.
  2. ^ "Anne-Marie Bouttiaux". LAMC: Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains. LAMC - Institut de Sociologie. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "MacArthur Fellows: Meet the class of 2003". MacArthur Foundation. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Fellows". United States Artists. United States Artists. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d Wilson-Powell, Malin. "Tom Joyce: Broadband Virtuouso. This conceptual blacksmith shapes incandescent metal within the contours of his thought" (PDF). Tom Joyce Studio. Metalsmith.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Tom Joyce CV" (PDF). Tom Joyce Studio. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  7. ^ Carver, Jonathan. "Tom Joyce: Aftershock at James Kelly Contemporary" (PDF). Tom Joyce Studio. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  8. ^ Joyce, Tom. "A Life of Iron". Segal Design Institute. Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Introduction: Print Shop". Palace of the Governors. Palace Press.
  10. ^ "The Company".
  11. ^ "Master Metalsmiths". Metal Museum. National Ornamental Metal Museum. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  12. ^ Reed, Arden (April 2006). "Tom Joyce at Evo". Art in America: 168.
  13. ^ Cook-Romero, Elizabeth (October 13, 2006). "Tom Joyce: Forging Ahead, Looking to the Past". Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican): 44–46.
  14. ^ Whitney, Kathleen. "Tom Joyce: The Iron Iceberg" (PDF). Tom Joyce Studio. Sculpture magazine. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  15. ^ a b "Ten Commissions, Five Years, One Celebration: New Tom Joyce sculpture will commemorate both history and future". Mint Museum. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  16. ^ a b Coirier, Lisa. "Sculpture dedication: Two to One by Tom Joyce in NYC". TL magazine. TL magazine/Pro Materia. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  17. ^ Carver, Jon. "Tom Joyce: "Aftershock" at James Kelly Contemporary". art ltd. magazine. art ltd. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  18. ^ Friedman, Jordan. "A Look at the Museum's Memorial Hall".
  19. ^ Berkovitch, Ellen. "Writing on the Wall: Tom Joyce Fabricates for the National September 11 Memorial Museum". Adobe Airstream. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  20. ^ "Tom Joyce". Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  21. ^ "Luce Foundation Center for American Art: Folded Bowl, Tom Joyce".
  22. ^ "Iron Twenty Ten: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Blacksmithing" (PDF). Fuller Craft Museum. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  23. ^ "Modern and Contemporary Art: Printer's Chase, Tom Joyce". Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  24. ^ a b "John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry".
  25. ^ "Fellows: Tom Joyce, USA Windgate Fellow". United States Artists. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  26. ^ "Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts 2009". nmarts.org.
  27. ^ "Aileen Osborn Webb Awards". American Craft Council. American Craft Council. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  28. ^ "Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America". ABANA. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  29. ^ "Acclaimed Artist, Designer, and Blacksmith Tom Joyce to Deliver Commencement Address at SFUAD". Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  30. ^ "Justice Richard Goldstone Receives MacArthur Award for International Justice". macfound.org.
  31. ^ "Richard Goldstone Accepts MacArthur Award for International Justice". macfound.org.
  32. ^ "Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Receives MacArthur Award for International Justice". macfound.org.
  33. ^ "Tom Joyce". Craft in America. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  34. ^ Archives of American Art. "Oral history interview with Tom Joyce, 2004 November 18-19". si.edu.

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