Gabe Strader-Brown is a sculptural artist who lives and works in Rutland, VT.  Strader-Brown works with a variety of methods and materials and often sets a focus on objects, forms, and materials used in our common everyday environments.  This ranges anywhere from utilitarian objects and fixtures to vernacular building techniques and re-interpreted construction materials.  He is an artist intrigued with visual culture and the intentionally designed pieces of urban settings.  Whether it is a post box or a tree grate, Strader-Brown explores their formal qualities and re-appropriates them for an artistic purpose with the hope that audiences will further appreciate their urban and material surroundings.

Gabe Strader-Brown, originally from Burlington, Vermont, graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin in 2007 where he studied studio art and later earned his MFA at University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI in 2015.  Strader-Brown has worked for various art organizations including The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, the Walker Art Center, RARE Gallery in New York City, and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, WI.  He has exhibited and participated in exhibitions and events at venues such as The Soap Factory, SooVAC in Minneapolis, the Wright Art Museum in Beloit, Wisconsin MANA Contemporary in Chicago, Illinois and Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ.  He has attended artist residencies such as Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snow Mass Village, CO, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. In 2015 he was awarded International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Currently Strader-Brown works with the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland, VT as the education studio manager  He continues to create sculpture through formal appropriation and material mimicry and constantly looks to the ubiquitous items in our lives that we recognize on a regular basis.

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Education

2012 - 2015                 University of Wisconsin Madison

                                               Master of Fine Arts Degree: Sculpture

2003 - 2007               Beloit College

                                               Bachelor of Arts Degree: Studio Art, Anthropolgy

2006                            School of International Training

                                               Program: Australia - Identity and Public Policy in a Multicultural Society

Artist Residencies

2021 77 Art Center, Rutland, VT

2019 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

2017                            Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2015                            Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2007                           Beloit College Marie Watt Workshop, Beloit, WI

Solo Exhibitions

2017                           Everyday Matters, Elgin Community College Center for the Arts, Elgin, IL

2015                           Used Reverence, UW Madison 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

                                    Everyday Form, Form Every Day, Class of 1925 Gallery, Madison, WI

2014                           Replicants, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

Group Exhibitions

2023 The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland, VT

Member Show, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington, VT

2021 Fire at the Opera House, 77 Art Center, Rutland, VT

2019 Geometrification, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center,

Cincinatti, OH

2018 Transformed: Digital to Corporal, International Conference on

Contemporary Cast Iron Art/Kresge Gallery, Scranton, PA

2017                           Makeshift, Madison Parks Foundation, Madison, WI

Simulations, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

                                    FORGE, Goodman Community Center, Madison, WI

                                    Untitled 13, SooVAC, Minneapolis, MN

2016                           MUNICIPAL, The Bubbler/Madison City Municipal Building, Madison,

WI

                                    Wake the Town and Tell the People, MANA Contemporary Chicago, 

                                               Chicago, IL

                                    Beyond Function, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

                                    Wake the Town and Tell the People, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

                                    (im)material, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI

2015                           Group Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

Outstanding Student Achievement Awards in Contemporary Sculpture

Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

                                    WID Stealth Art Program, UW Madison WID Discovery Center,

                                               Madison, WI

                                    Madison Public Library Exhibition, The Bubbler, Madison, WI

2014                           The Land of Remains, UW Madison Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI

                                    A/Systemic: Intersections, Dislocations, and Subversions, 

                                              MANA Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL

                                    & Another, UW Madison Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI

2013                           Sculpture in a Room, UW Madison 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

                                    LUX R-8815,  Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI

                                    Beloit & Vicinity, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI

                                    Sprung, Bright Red Studios, Madison, WI

2012                           Twofer, UW Madison 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

                                   Built, UW Madison 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

2009                          Festival of the Lion-Lamb, Manxome Foe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

                                   Art Shanty Projects 2009, The Soap Factory, MN Artists, Plymouth, MN

2008                         Minimal/Manimal, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

                                   Duluth Art Institute Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

2007                          The Human Furnace Project, Gallery ABBA, Beloit, WI

                                   On Nodding Terms, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI

2006                          Student Art Exhibition, Gallery ABBA, Beloit, WI

                                    Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI

2005                          Student Art Exhibition, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI

Curatorial Projects

2023 Communing with Nature, The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center,

West Rutland, VT

2017                          Simulations, Group Sculpture Exhibition, Arts + Literature Laboratory,

                                             Madison, WI

                                   Mislocations, Exhibited work by Josh Johnson, Arts + Literature Laboratory,

                                             Madison, WI

                                    A Tide Kept at Bay, Exhibited work by Dominique Haller, 

                                             Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

2016                           Future Perfect, Exhibited work by Marissa Mackey, 

                                             Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

                                    It Can Happen Here, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

                                    Push/Pull, Exhibited work by Austin Moule & Andres Torres, 

                                             Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

2008                           Minimal/Manimal, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

Awards and Organizations

2015                             International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in

                                     Contemporary Sculpture Award

                                     UW Madison Professional Development Grant

2014                             UW Madison Professional Development Grant

2008                            Beloit College Nystrom Grant

2006                            Beloit College Annual Juried Art Exhibition, First Place Prize

Lectures

2017                             Elgin Community College Center for the Arts, Elgin, IL

                                     Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2016                             Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI

2015                             Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Snowmass Village, CO