Sharon Que

Sharon Que with one of her public sculptures

Sharon Que (Querciagrossa) (born May 18, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American visual artist and luthier, based in Ann Arbor, specializing in violin restoration and repair.

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.

Being deeply involved with Music, 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 some of her works together with some of Tom Phardel, as done by Lemberg Gallery Summer Mix (Jul 12 - Aug 9, 2008), with her Survival Engine.

Solo exhibitions

2005

Automatic Desires, Museo ItaloAmericano, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA

2003

Retrofit, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 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

Group exhibitions

2010

Wanderlust, Lemberg Gallery (Mar 6 - Apr 24) with Diane Carr and Janet Hamrick (see )

2009

Detroit International Auto Show, Ford Motor Company, Lincoln.

2008

Summer Mix, Lemberg Gallery (Jul 12 - Aug 9) with Survival Engine
Spirit, featuring artists able to express the interior space of the soul, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, June 25 to August 3, 2008.
Sculpture: Constructed, Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor (March 24 - May 16)

2007

Instrumental, Ann Arbor Gallery Project (March)

2003

Art Chicago 2003, Navy Pier, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago IL

2002

Biennial 2002, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

2000

Art Chicago 2000, Navy Pier, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago IL
Parallel Tracks, Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, Albion College, Albion, MI (Tom Phardel)

1999

3d@dc, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Duty Free, Artcite, Windsor, Canada
Dysfunctional Sculpture, Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

1998

Great Lakes Regional Art Exhibition, Midland Center for Arts, Midland, MI (Juror's Merit Award)

1997

Ambient Luminosity, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

1996

Out of Solitude, Tribes of the Corridor, Michigan Gallery (Sept. 7 - Oct. 12) http://corridortribe.com/tribes/michigan_gallery_tribe/solitude_090796.htm
Sharon Que, Robert Bielat, Ken Thompson, Marygrove College Gallery, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
Patrimonio: The Legacy of Italian Art in Michigan, Community Arts Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

1993

Group Show, Gallery d'Arte UBU, Venice, Italy
Sculpture, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI (Robert Hansen)

1992

Spiritual Concerns in Contemporary Art, Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI

1991

Four Sculptors, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

1990

The Poetics of Space: The Box and New Assemblages, curated by Ben Mitchell, Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI (Traveling Exhibition).

1989

After Ten Years, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
Sculpture, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI (Tom Phardel)

1988

Artists Choose Artists, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI

1987

Sharon Que, Mary Ann Jordan, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
Assemblages, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI (Grace Ann Warn)

Violinmaking activity

2001: she opened her own workshop after a long apprenticeship as violin making assistant at Curtin and Alf and with Joe Curtin.
2006: she became a member of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers after specializing with violin restorer Hans Nebel, from the school of Simone Fernando Sacconi.
2009: contribution to The Pau-Brasil Conservation Project.

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 0-925859-21-4 ISBN 978-0-925859-21-1
The VSA-Oberlin Setup Workshop, in: "Journal of The Violin Society of America", Volume XIX, No. 2 (2004), Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Convention, p. 214-215; 218. ISSN 0148-6845

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