Lives and works in New York, US
Willard Boepple was born in Bennington, Vermont in 1945, and grew up in Berkeley, California. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1963), the University of California at Berkeley (1963-64), RISD (1967) and CUNY City College (1968). After teaching at Bennington College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he returned to New York, where he has lived for over thirty years. He has exhibited widely here and abroad, at galleries including Acquavella, André Emmerich, Tricia Collins and Broadbent Gallery, London. His work belongs to such noted institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Storm King Art Center and The Fitz William Museum in Cambridge, UK. Boepple served as chairman of the Triangle Artists’ Workshop for twenty years, an artist residency program that he helped replicate in Africa and the Caribbean.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Maddox Arts, London “Willard Boepple: Sculpture” UK
2014
Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, “Willard Boepple: Monoprints” US
Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, “Willard Boepple: Sculpture” in conjunction with the launch of the Lund Humphries monograph, “The Sense of Things:Willard Boepple Sculpture”, US
2012
Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York “New Sculpture”, US
Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, “Tower, Temple, Shelf, Room & Loom”
Johnson State College, Johnson Vermont, US
2011
Wynn Newhouse Prize Exhibition Palitz Gallery, Lubin House, New York, US
2010
The Century Association “Willard Boepple: Monoprints and Sculpture”
Group Exhibitions
2017
Spring Show, Maddox Arts, London, UK
2015
“National Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition” New York, US
“The Bennington Legacy: Sculpture by Willard Boepple, Isaac Witkin, James Wolfe”
2014
Zurcher Gallery, New York “Come Like Shadows” Curated by David Cohen, US
FreedmanArt, New York “Carved, Cast, Crushed, Constructed,” , US
National Academy Museum, New York “National Academy Annual” Summer, US
Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills New Jersey “Art in Nature”, US
2013
Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York “Heavy Metal”, US
Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York “[Mostly] White” , US
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London “Summer Exhibition ”, London, UK
2012
Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York “Summer Edition” , US