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Resume: Shows, Awards, Commissions, Media Coverage and Speaking Engagements.

Foundry Show

St. Louis Artists' Guild Show



Solo show at the Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, MO


H & R Block commission - Kansas City, MO
Solo Exhibition
July 27 - September 7, 2007
Foundry Arts Centre St. Charles, MO
Solo show featuring new paintings and sculptures
Leopold Gallery Grand Opening Exhibition
March 23, 2007 Kansas City, MO
Fine art exhibition featuring selected works
15th Annual National Art Exhibition
Sept 8 - Nov 10 Art Institute & Gallery Salisbury, MD
Juror Gerald Ross, Maryland Institute College of Art Honorable Mention - "Columns and Cubes"
Emerging Local Artists on the National Scene
June 18 - August 12, 2006
St. Louis Artists' Guild
Curated Group Show St. Louis, MO
One Fine Art Exhibition
February 24 - March 31, 2006
One Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
International Juried Exhibition
Award Finalist - "Key Hole"
"Show Me" Show
March 3 - April 14, 2006
Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
Juror Billyo O'Donnell
Top Honor: 'Going Solo' Award - "Block/Jefferson Arms"
Constructing a City by William Lobdell
January 17 - April 1, 2006 Downtown Now
Solo show featuring selected works St. Louis, MO
Urbanism by William Lobdell
January 4 - February 15, 2006
Missouri Ethical Society Gallery, Clayton, MO
Solo show featuring selected works
The Exhibition XXI
November 19, 2005 - January 6, 2006
Art St. Louis St. Louis, MO
Juror Christian Rattemeyer, curator
Artist Space, New York, NY
Selected "Columns and Cubes"
St. Louis Artists Competition
October 2- 3, 2005
Taste of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Cutting Edge Award - "Evolve"
Paintings of a City, William Lobdell
August 16 - September 9, 2005
Grafica Fine Arts Gallery, Webster Groves, MO
Solo show featuring cityscapes and landscapes of St. Louis
Open Space: The Art of the Landscape
July 18 - Aug 25, 2005 Art St. Louis St. Louis, MO
Juror Michael Eastman
Two works selected - "Intersection" and "Infrastructure"
Award of Excellence - "Infrastructure"
Works of Tucker B�bst & William Lobdell
April 5 - June 4, 2005 Mark Palmer Gallery
Paducah, KY
Honors Awards 2005
March 21 - April 29, 2005
Art St. Louis St. Louis, MO
Featuring 10 of 17 Award of Excellence recipients in 2004; juried by Tim Liddy
5 pieces selected; "Driften Away", "Caverns", "Big Muddy", "4th & Pine", "10th & Locust"
New Works from William Lobdell
Feb 6 - March 6, 2005 Monarch Gallery Maplewood, MO
Solo show featuring select new works
Journeys of the Mind
January 16, 2005 St. Louis Artists' Guild Clayton, MO
National exhibition, juried by William Hawk
"Weaver's Odyssey"
Art St. Louis XX, The Exhibition
November 13, 2004 Art St. Louis St. Louis, MO
Regional show, juried by Chakaia Booker
Award of Excellence - "Jacob, Ethan, me and the Chicken of South Harrison"
MOAK 4-State Regional Exhibition
November 20, 2004 - January, 2, 2005
Springfield Art Museum
Juried by Michele McGuire, Curator of Visual Arts, Walton Arts Center, Arkansas Springfield, MO
Best in Show - "Keyhole"
Validating the Object 2
July 19, 2004 Art St. Louis St. Louis, MO
Regional show, juried by Kent Addision, David East
Two works exhibited- "Key to the Goat Lodge" and "Keyhole"
June Show
June 11, 2004 Art Dimensions St. Louis, MO
Bullivant Gallery Award - "Tollentino Strikes Again"
Color Image Award - "Flying Bird"
Davinci Award - "Keyhole"
Primordial Earth 2
May 22, 2004 Art St. Louis St. Louis, MO
Regional show, juried by Preston Jackson & Mark Weber
"Old Quarry"
Third Anniversary Exhibit March, 2004
Art Dimensions St. Louis, MO
Three works exhibited
Curator's Choice Award - "9th Street"
Explorations in Oil and Acrylic
January, 2004 St. Louis Artists' Guild Clayton, MO
National show; Juried by Ed Gettinger
"Washington Ave." and "4th & Chestnut"
8th Annual Regional Fine Art Exhibition
September, 2002
St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO
"Soulard Market" and "The Shave"
Best in Show - "Soulard Market"
7th Annual Regional Fine Art Exhibition
September, 2001
St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO
Two works exhibited "Eat Rite"
COMMISSIONS
"Broadway" May 2007
Double triptych in the lobby of the auditorium Southern Baptist Hospital, Heart research center, Paducah, KY
"Confluence" September 2006
Corporate collector H&R Block; featured in the main lobby of the H&R Block Corporate Office, Kansas City, MO
"An American Place" January 2005
Collector Larry Forgione; displayed at An American Place Restaurant, Renaissance Grand Hotel, St. Louis, MO
"Koi Fish" June 2002
Collector Tony Alond; displayed at Almond's Restaurant, Maryland Ave, Clayton, MO
MEDIA COVERAGE
May 2007 - "Art on the Block"
Featured artist in a documentary of art and its impact on a region. Aired on Kansas City's PBS station.
September 2007 Kansas City Star
Featured article and photo.
August 2006 Maryland Newspaper (need name)
Article and photo "National Treasures"
March 2006 - Alive Magazine
Notaa Gallery exhibit listed as number one of "Seven things you must do this month" article
August 2005 - Webster-Kirkwood Times
Featured article and photos
August 2005 - St. Louis Suburban Journal
Life section featured photos
March 2005 - Art D Magazine
Cover artist
December 2004 - Playback Magazine
Featured photo
October 2004 - Art D Magazine
Featured artist
SPEAKING/TEACHNING ENGAGEMENTS
2007 Oak Leaf Artists' Guild
Keynote speaker
Described as "best speaker we've ever had"
2006 St. Louis Artists' Guild Workshop
Instructor
"Art of William Lobdell"
EDUCATION
1985 - 1988 Kansas City Art Institute Kansas City, MO
1996 - 1997 Webster University St. Louis, MO
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Art Dimensions, 2005 Board Member St. Louis, MO
Art St. Louis St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Artists' Guild St. Louis, MO
Kansas City

My wife accompanied me to Kansas City this weekend to finish some artwork at Paul Dorrell's Leopold Gallery; he had just sold a work to the City of Gladstone and wanted to have some of the other larger work in storage, made from shippable sized parts made permanent. We had a fantastic meal at the Dorrell's home and warm conversation with his wife two teenage boys.

Show @ Third Floor Gallery

I was in a two person show at the Third Floor Gallery, located downtown in St. Louis' hot art and club area - Washington Ave. I had a great show with an artist known simply as "Wayne". He's a good artist and a very interesting guy - ex-professional wrestler with never-ending stories. We had a good crowd and sold some art despite the cold rainy night.

Art on the Block

From May to September 2006, I worked on an epic commission for the new H&R Block headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. Making the 10' by 30' bridge piece, Confluence, [see more on this page] was an awesome experience and through that commission, I met Paul Dorrell - a gallery owner, art consultant, writer, and great supporter of the arts. Check out his gallery site Leopold Gallery and his blog Paul's Blog. I hear he was writing about me the other day. Paul worked with a professor from the University of Missouri, Kansas City and his cinema class to document the art effort. They covered H&R Block's intent to support regional and local artists and several of the artists (including me) working on commissions. Check out the documentary through this link ART ON THE BLOCK it runs about 20 minutes but you'll see yours truly and the family. The documentary was aired on Kansas City's local PBS station.

Contact me: lobdellart@sbcglobal.net