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John W. Powell
101 Franklin Street
Allston, MA 02134
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voice 617.787.1441
fax 617.787.4842
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| EDUCATION: |
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1989 |
MSVS Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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1986 |
MFA Massachusetts College of Art |
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1969 |
BA College of Idaho |
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| PROFESSIONAL WORK: |
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1999 to present |
Lecturer in Design, History of Design and
Aesthetics at
Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts |
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1993-1998 |
Lecturer, Structural Light Boston Architectural
Center |
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1990-1991 |
Lecturer, Environmental Holography, MIT |
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1990 |
Art and Technology Seminar, American University
in Cairo, Egypt |
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1990 |
Lecturer Harvard Summer Program |
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1984-1986 |
Program in Continuing Education Massachusetts
College of Art |
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1984 |
Penland School of Crafts |
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1983 |
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts |
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1981 |
Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington State of
Wash., gifted and talented program seminars in built form |
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1972-1980 |
Artists in the Schools Idaho State Commission
on the Arts |
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| EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS: |
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2003 |
Words on Fire:
etched glass projections of words of disassociation--words that shatter
society and culture
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston |
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2002 |
Curate and install SITE:Endicott
four site specific works installed at Endicott College, Beverly Ma by
John Powell, Beth Galston, Halstead Harris
and Bill Wainwright.--
Meryl's Sticks
20 foot by 10 by 10 bronze, stone and light installation for GTI properties,
Boston
Logan 3
rendering for installation at Logan International Airport proposed elevator
towers--one meter diameter dichroic glass lenses mounted on dampened
swivels--redirect ambient light and color throughout atrium space
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2001 |
Illumination of the Charles River Bridges,
Four bridges spanning the Charles River between Cambridge and Boston,
sponsored by the Charles River Conservancy
Illumination of the Evelyn Moakley Bridge City of Boston,
Trust Office, Brown Fund Grant, permanent installation
Elemental Projections, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston,
Ma
Light Prop, Copenhagen
Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen,
DK
Shadow Draft Fuller Museum
of Art, Brockton, Ma. Site
installation
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2000-1999 |
The Charlottenborg Wedge Installation
at the Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, DK
The Book of Light, projections on the facade of Boston
Public Library for the millennium celebration and First Night, Boston
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1998 |
Cast Shadows Creiger-Dane Gallery,
Boston, Ma.
Twi-Light permanent installation on the parking structure
for the Denver preforming arts complex.
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1996 |
Jerusalem Windows, installation at the
at the Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Newton,
Ma |
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1995 |
Harbor Lights floating light installation
on Boston harbor with Reclamation Artists, a site intervention arts group
Illumination of Boston City Hall a project that will
last for the next four years
Dudley Town Common, Collaborative permanent installation
for Boston Parks Department, Lynn Wolfe and John Copely landscape architects
and the Dudley Square Neighborhood Initiative.
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1994 |
Gate Lights, permanent installation
at the Boston Center for the Arts--Brown Fund, City of Boston Trust Office
and Lef Foundation grants
Glass Shadows, holographic and light installation,
permanent, creating a light shaft to the interior of a private residence
in Boston
Squeezed Light installation with Reclamation Artists
at the ICA in Boston. Squeezed Light was installed on the roof of the
ICA--with projections onto an adjacent building.
Fire Line, 600 foot long line of fire, installation
on old pier in Boston harbor with cooperation of Boston Fire Department
Pont-du-”T” installation for the MBTA
Boston, on the Lechemere Viaduct over the old Charles River dam
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1993 |
Shadow Draft, installation as part
of Convergence VII, Roger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island
Ticket Lines part of an installation at the Andrew
Sq. MBTA station--holographic windows installed in an antique ticket
booth--lead artist, Ross Miller
Glass Shadows, installation at Sasaki Associates,
Watertown, Ma--steel glass and holograms--redirecting interior lights
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1992 |
D-Light, interactive holographic installation
at MU gallery, Fort Point, Boston
Deck Lights, installation
on partially built ramps for Boston’s
Central Artery Project (the Big Dig)
The Raw and the Cooked,
Installation at the Thomas Segal Gallery,
Boston
Shadow Draft, installation
at Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood,
steel mesh, reflected light
Mirror Crater, installation
at Bradley Palmer State Park, Ma
Shadow Draft, first
installation of this shadow and light
work, Connemara
Conservancy, Plano, Texas
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1991 |
Fire Fountain, installation with fire,
steel and Mercury Vapor lamps at the Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, Ma--60
feet in diameter |
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1990 |
Deck Lights, installation illuminating
the old Central Artery Tunnel--part of Reclamation Artists intervention
at the beginning of the Mass Turnpike
Partial Lines, an installation
at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies,
MIT, glass, holograms, light, smoke and
mirrors
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1989 |
Kegle Kvaren Lys, The Light Churn (Butter
made from light) Installation At the Herning Museum, Herning, Denmark--Holograms,
fire, steel, light and electronics.
Tree Lights, installation
at the Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Ma. Twenty
solar powered lights arranged in a grid within
a grove of trees--the height of the poles
matching the leaf canopy |
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1988 |
Otto Piene und das CAVS--twenty year history of the Center
for Advanced Visual Studies at the Karlsruhe Kunstverein--installation
with glass, concrete, holograms and sodium vapor light
Graffiti Wall, installation
for Boston’s First Night--light, music,
dance-- |
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1987 |
Sky Lights, installation at the Bromfield
Gallery, Boston. Glass concrete holograms and lights
Clear Lights, an installation
for First Night, Boston--20 saxophone players,
field of mercury vapor lights and extreme
cold temperatures |
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1986 |
Flash Lights, installation with helium
balloons, trip wire and flash lamps for the International Sky Art Conference
at MIT/CAVS
11 7/8 of an inch=nanosecond,
performance at Mobius, Boston--
Grid Lights, installation at the Boston Transportation
building--MBTA
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1985 |
Wave Front, Installation in Thompson Gallery,
Mass College of Art--mercury vapor lamp opposite a sodium vapor light.
Incandescent Light, installation
at the MIT/CAVS--later re-installed at Hamburg
Museum of Art |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY: |
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Inventing the Charles River Karl Haglund
MIT press--date of publication--October 2002
Sited for illumination projects on the Charles River |
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LYS (light) (magazine for professional lighting
work--published in Denmark) April 2000 pp45-47 with illustration |
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Lyskunst I Danmark, (Art in Light in Denmark)
Helge Krarup, 2000 forlaget politisk revy ISBN 87 7378 197 5 pg 126 |
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Landscape Architecture Sept. 1996
pp 48-53 |
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Boston Globe Dec. 14, 1995 pp77-78 |
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Art New England Feb/Mar. 1994 page
23 |
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Practical Holography VIII S. Benton,
SPIE, San Jose, CA 1994 cit21-76-19 |
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Leonardo Vol. 26, No. 5 1993 J. Brigham
pp379-385 |
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Art New England Oct/Nov 1993 p29 |
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Boston Globe July 23, 1992pp69,72
July, 1992 pp33-35 |
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MRS Journal Jan. 1992 vol xviii,no.1,pp18-22 |
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KEGLE KVAREN LYS (THE LIGHT MILL)
Herning Kunst Museum, Herning, Denmark, 1989 |
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KUNSTREPORT informationsblatt vor
der Deutscher Kunstlerbund e.v. Berlin 3\4 1989 pp7-9 |
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MEHR LICHT MORE LIGHT Achim Lipp Hamburger
Kunsthalle 1985 pp165, 191, 243 |