Sharon Que

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Sharon Que (Querciagrossa) (born May 18, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American Visual Artist.

It has been said that much of Que’s imagery can be perceived as multilayers, with some forms suggesting a mix of spiritual, secular, and mathematical or even industrial significance.

Some of her sculptures are also owned by important American institutions and are in public spaces, including the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Active also as a talented and fine violin restorer in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In March 2007 she has been a curator of the exhibit "Instrumental", at the Ann Arbor Gallery Project, featuring diversely talented artists who are creatively engaged in industrial design, engineering, music, acoustics, math, violin and bow making.

Sculpture: Constructed, March 24 to May 16, 2008, at Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor featured her most recent works together with the most recent ones of Tom Phardel.

[edit] Solo Exhibitions

2005

• Automatic Desires, Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA

2003

• Retrofit, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland Univerity, Rochester, MI
• Immersed, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL

2001

• Loop, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

1999

• Concentric Chronology, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Seamless Motion, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL

1996

• Every distance is not near, Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
• Sharon Que: Sculpture, General Motors Institute Gallery, General Motors Institute, Flint, MI

1993

• Sculpture, Gallery 414, Ann Arbor, MI

1992

• New Sculpture, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1989

• Sharon Que, Sculpture and Mixed Media Assembleges, Fine Arts Gallery, Mott Community College, Flint, MI

[edit] References

• "The Strad", April 2008, p.75: Sharon Que's top-floor workshop encourages her creativity - and reveals her addiction to clamps, interview-presentation as a violin restorer by Catherine Payne. ISSN 0039-2049
• "The Strad", July 2007, p.38-42: Sisters are doing it for themselves, p.42. ISSN 0039-2049
• Rochester, Michigan: Sharon Que, in: "Sculpture" 23, Part 6 (2004): 73, Washington, DC: International Sculpture Center, c1987- OCLC 109807289 ISSN 0889-728X
• Retrofit, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, College of Arts and Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, September 6 - October 5, 2003, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs 2003. OCLC 53047897 ISBN 0925859214 ISBN 9780925859211
• The VSA-Oberlin Setup Workshop, in: "Journal of The Violin Society of America", Voulme XIX, No. 2 (2004), Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Convention, p.214-215; 218. ISSN 0148-6845

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