CAPRICE PIERUCCI
EDUCATION 1987-89 Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York 1983-85 Apprentice with Louise Pierucci-Holeman, Austin, Texas 1980-83 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1978-80 Liberal Arts Study, William Smith College, Geneva, New York
SINGULAR HONORS 2010 People’s Choice Award, purchase award, The Peoples Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas 2010 Nomination for “2010 Artist of the Year 3D”, Austin Visual Arts Association 2004 Winner, International Art Waves: Art and Design Competition, Coevordan, Netherlands Honorable Mention, Craft Houston 2004: Texas, Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas Excellence in Teaching Award, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas 2000 On/Of Paper, National Exhibition, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado, Best of Show 1995 Fyberspace, National Exhibition, Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Arizona, Jurors Award 1994 Unbound: An Exhibition of Three Dimensional Fiber National Competition, Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, Maryland, Second Place Matrix International, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California, 2nd Place Three Dimensional 1992 Landscapes, Houston International Festival, Diverse Works, Houston Grant Award Unconventional Visions, Austin Visual Art Association, Best of Show 1988-89 Graduate Scholarship, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York 1983 Senior Prize for Excellence, Madeleine Deer Award, Carnegie Mellon University
ART EXPERIENCE 2003 Assistant Professor, Sculpture, Southwest Texas State University 2001 Fall, Assistant Professor, 3-D Design, Southwest Texas State University 1999-prsnt Art Instructor 3-D Design, Southwest Texas State University 1998-prsnt Art Instructor Design, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas 1996-97 Art Instructor Drawing I & II, Life Drawing, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas 1996 Art Instructor, 3-D Design, Southwest Texas University, San Marcos, Texas ART EXPERIENCE (Continued) 1994 Art Instructor Fibers, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 1993-94 Art Instructor, Parkside Community School 1990-91 Art Instructor, Lifetime Learning Institute, Austin, Texas Art Instructor, Continuing Education, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas 1990 Brazilian Bark Cloth Workshop, Family Day, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas 1989-91 Art Instructor, Informal Program, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1989 Art Instructor, Extend-a-Care, Oak Springs School, Austin, Texas Weaving Workshop, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas 1986-88 Instructor, Papermaking I, Projects with Paper, Hill Country Weavers, Austin, Texas 1986 Independent study of papermaking, Paper Museum, Tokyo, Japan Independent art study: Bejing, Shanghai, Guillin, China
EXHIBITIONS 2014 Wood: Rhythm and Grain, Paia Contemporary Gallery ltd., Maui, Hawaii 2013 Rhythm and Grain, Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas 2013 Sofa Chicago, diehl gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2013 Caprice Pierucci: New works, Diehl gallery, Jackson Wyoming 2011 Royal Grain, Gremillion &Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas 2010 Three Person Exhibition: David Everett, David Hefner, and Caprice Pierucci: Recent Work, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas The People’s Gallery Exhibition 2010, Juried Group Show, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas, People’s Choice Award Craft Texas 2010, Juried Exhibition, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas 2009 Wood and Steel, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas The Great Texas Sculpture Round Up, The Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas The Great Texas Sculpture Round Up, Beeville Museum, Beeville, Texas 2008 Recent Work, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas Art Week, Gremillion &Co., Houston, Texas 2007 Cycles of Rhythm, Gremillion &Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas Red Dot Fund Raiser, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas Texas Rising, a survey of Texas Contemporary Sculpture, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas 2006 Layers, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas Eternal Rhythm, Solo Show, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas Wave of light, Four-person exhibition, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas 2004 Wood: Rhythm and Grain, a Two-person exhibition with Mcfarland, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas Winner, International Art Waves: Art and Design Competition, Coevordan, Netherlands Honorable Mention, Craft Houston 2004: Texas, Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas. This exhibition traveled to El Paso Art Museum, and Witchita Falls Museum 2004 Texas uprising, a survey of Texas Contemporary Sculpture, Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 2003 Bold Expressions, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, California The Arts International Exhibition, El Paso Art Association, El Paso, Texas 2002 Bellevue Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue, Washington, Honorarium Rodeo Iron Pour, Invitational residency and iron pour, Maryhill Museum, Washington 2001 Three Person Exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas One Person Exhibition, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa Small Expressions 2001, National Competition, Hand-weavers Guild of America, St. Louis, Missouri EXHIBITIONS(Continued) 2000 Surface: Structure and Substance, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana On/Of Paper, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado, Best of Show Collage Artists of America, National Competition, Phelan, California Houston Art Alliance, National Competition, Houston, Texas, Honorable Mention 1999 Hard & Soft Materials, National Competition, Denton Art Council, Denton, Texas Three Person Exhibition, National competition for exhibition, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California 1998 Craft Forms, Juried Competition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania 1997 Pulp Friction, National Exhibition, Galeria, Mesa, Arizona Metamorphosis: A Juried Exhibit, Constance Lindholm Fine Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Women in Abstraction, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Hard & Soft Materials, National Competition, Denton Art Council, Denton, Tex 1996 Art Paper/Art Books, Invitational Exhibition, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio Bellevue Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue, Washington, Honorarium 1995 Two Person Exhibition, Shidoni Contemporary Gallery Tesuque, New Mexico Fyberspace, National Exhibition, Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Arizona, Jurors Award 1994 Unbound: An Exhibition of Three Dimensional Fiber, National Competition, Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, Maryland, Second Place Matrix International, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California, 2nd Place Three Dimensional Old Media, New Ways, Group Exhibition, Shidoni, Tesuque, New Mexico Terra Incognita, Invitational Outdoor Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas 1993 Abstraction, Three Person Exhibition, University of Texas Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 1992 Landscapes, Houston International Festival, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas 1991 Progressions in Paper, Competition, Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio 1990 New Sculpture, One Man Show, David Amdur Gallery, Austin, Texas 1989 Nine in Fiber, Invitational Exhibition, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas Six Sculptors, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York Line Show, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York International Textile Exhibition, International Invitational Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan Nine in Fiber, Invitational Exhibition, Textile Center, Chicago, Illinois 1987 By Hand, Invitational, Dallas Fine Arts Museum, Dallas, Texas 1987 Fiber Works IV, Two Person Exhibition, Paradise Gallery, Austin, Texas 1986 Paper, Sticks, and String, Two Person Exhibition, Hill Country Weavers Gallery, Austin, Texas 1986 Fiber Works III, Two Person Exhibition, Paradise Gallery, Austin, Texas 1985 Ceremonial Fibers, Hill Country Weavers Gallery, Austin, Texas, Best of Show, Nonfiber Fiber/Glass Exhibition, First City Center, Austin, Texas Fiber Work II, Two person Exhibition, West Lake Bank, Austin, Texas Group Exhibition, Hill Country Weavers Gallery, Austin, Texas 1984 Traps, Fences & Defenses, One person Exhibition,Paradise Gallery, Austin, Texas Fiber Works, Two person Exhibition, Paradise Gallery, Austin, Texas 1983 Carnegie-Mellon Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fiber Art, Two Person Exhibition, Paradise Gallery, Austin, Texas 1982 Fiber '82, Velar Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Forbes Street Annual, Forbes Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1981 Invitational Banner Installation, Fine Arts, Building, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Bethway Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Rockefeller Collection, Charleston, West Virginia Ohio Bell, Dayton, Ohio Westinghouse Elevator, Trenton, New Jersey Di Bartolo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Brougham Builders, Austin, Texas Aspen Hills , Austin, Texas Southern Living Magazine, Austin, Texas Greater Texas Bank, Austin, Texas Alcoa, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Boca Rio Country Club, Boca Raton, Florida Clegg Austin, The Bommarito Group, Austin, Texas Nathan Builders, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Morgan Stanley, Austin, Texas Clark Thomas and winters, Austin , Texas Horizon Bank, Houston, Texas