Wade Kramm
Wade Kramm’s recent works explore Minimalism, architecture and perception to reshape the viewer's engagement with the gallery space. Using construction materials such as drywall, floor boards, molding, light switches, and doors, he fabricates alternative spaces, called Fragments, within the gallery. Standing in front of each piece the phenomenological experience fluctuates between seeing the materials simply as materials and a perceptual/physical engagement with the new spaces made within the surrounding architecture.
ABOUT
C.V.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
GRANTS
Artist Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Grant.
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc.
Rhode Island School of Design Artist Grant.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
Joan Mitchell Foundation.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upcoming Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, NY
2023 Wade Kramm: Fragments, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2022 Wade Kramm: Art Show, Union Hall, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Wade Kramm: Dotted Space, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
Inside the Creative Mind: Wade Kramm & Paul Myoda, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Pueblo
Garzón, Uruguay
2015 Wade Kramm: Fragments of Reality, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024 Volume, Black Brick Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Arch, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Full Circle, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2020 Alone Together, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Vertigo, 422 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 Fourth Street Show, Living Gallery Outpost, New York, NY
Invitational 7, Odetta Gallery, New York, NY
The Illusion and Reality, Ning Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Bushwick Open Studios, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Inlight Richmond, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Blue in the Face, Protocol Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Invitational 7, Shim Gallery and Art Helix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Central Booking Artist Space, New York, NY
2016 After the Pedestal, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2015 Contemporary American Abstraction, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Pueblo Garzón,
Uruguay
Art Project Fair, Art Verona, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Verona, Italy
GUEST LECTURES
Pratt at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute
Carnegie Museum of Art – Pittsburgh
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Columbus State University
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Rhode Island School of Design
Marlboro College
Rhode Island College
Edinboro University
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Shaw, Kurt. “Associated Artists Show More Vision in New Exhibit.” Trib Live. June 1, 2013.
McBain, Roger. “Sculpt EVV ready for Arts District opening festivities.” June 7, 2012.
Shaw, Kurt. “'Void/Absent/Empty' Centers around Theme of Not Centering around a Theme.” Pittsburgh Tribune Review. March 21, 2012.
Olson, Christina. “Notable Shows.” Art Papers, July/August, 2010.
Rice, Robin. “Use Your Illusion.” Philadelphia City Paper. August, 18 2009.
Fallon, Roberta. “The Eyes Have it in Vitreous at Klein Art Gallery.” The Art Blog. August 12, 2009.
Kuntz, Melissa. “Abstract Concerns.” Pittsburgh City Paper, February 18, 2009.
Link, Melissa. “Athica Exhibit Ponders the Ethereal.” Flagpole Magazine. May 2008.
Skelton, April Moore. “Athica exhibit tries to explain the unexplainable.” Athens Banner- Herald, April 11, 2008
Goddard, Peter. “Photographers still haunting their pictures.” Toronto Star, September 2,
2006.
Jagger, David. “Roeninsch’s Awesome Octet.” Now Magazine, August 31 – September 6,
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