John Van AlstineBorn upstate New York in 1952, John
Van Alstine grew up in the southern Adirondacks Mountains. After attending St. Lawrence University (1970-72), Kent State University (BFA
1974) and Cornell University
(MFA 1976) he joined the facultyat the University of Wyoming, Laramie and later the University of Maryland, College Park to
teach drawing and sculpture. In 1986 he left teaching and moved to the NYC area
to pursue studio work full time. In 1987 he purchased a 19th century industrial
complex on the banks of the Sacandaga River and returned to the Adirondacks in
upstate New York where he now lives and works in the restored historic
structure. Van Alstine's work has
been exhibited widely (including over 50 solo exhibitions) in this country as
well as in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has completed many major large
scale outdoor, site-specific commissions installing a large outdoor work for the 2008 Olympic Park, Beijing; a 35' tall piece for the new Indianapolis Airport; and a 28" high work FUNAMBULIST on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing in June 2010. ther
notable projects include a major outdoor piece for TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY - Beijing, China. He also completed a 30'h outdoor 911-SCULPTURE/MEMORIAL
sculpture using World Trade Tower steel remnants dedicated Sept. 11, 2012 in Saratoga
Springs, NY. In 2020 his work CATAPULTA, was selected from over 1200 worldwide applicants and was enlarged to 5 meters and
installed in the Wuhu, China, sculpture park in 2021. Van
Alstine is a recipient of many individual arts grants
and fellowships including from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner
Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, National
Endowment for the Arts and a number of state arts grants. His work is held in many
private and public and corporate collections in this country and Europe,
Asia and the Middle East.



Read More Read Less