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E. Spencer Schubert
Address: 115 w. 18th St. # 210 Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Phone: 913.638.6634
Email: spencer@esschubert.com
Born: 1977 / Kansas City, Missouri
Education: The University of Kansas, BFA, Sculpture, 2000
Biography
E. Spencer Schubert is sculptor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri and works in a studio in the Crossroads Arts District. Schubert has studied and sculpted the figure across the entirety of his art career. His work uses the figure to explore the strengths, weaknesses, tragedies, successes, and idiosyncrasies of people. Schubert received his BFA in sculpture from the University of Kansas in 2000. Since graduating from The University of Kansas, Schubert has exhibited his work throughout the Midwest. He has also founded E.S. Schubert, Commercial Sculpture Studios, which sculpts, fabricates, and installs all types of custom 3-D objects and molds for artists, agencies, industry, and corporations.
Selected Commissions and Public Art Installations
2012
Buck O’Neil, Hall of Famous Missourians, State Capital Building, Jefferson City, Missouri
Dred Scott, Hall of Famous Missourians, State Capital Building, Jefferson City, Missouri
Rush Limbaugh, Hall of Famous Missourians, State Capital Building, Jefferson City, Missouri
2011
Yankton RiverWalk, Public Art Installation, Yankton, South Dakota
Downtown Sculpture Exhibit, Public Art Installation, June 2011, Olathe, Kansas
2010
Art in R Park, Public Art Installation, Fall 2001-Spring 2011, Roeland Park, Kansas
2009
Mies Morning, 2345 Grand Building Lobby Installation, Kansas City, Missouri
Exhibitions
2012
2 Man Show w/ Derrick Breidenthal, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2011
Group Show, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
3 person show, Station A, Kansas City, Missouri
2010
64 Arts National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center For The Arts, Monmouth, Illinois
Re-Collections, Cocoon Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2009
Fall Group Show, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Urban Suburban, Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas
Dream Bodies, Transformative Figures, Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas
(solo) Goppert Gallery, The University of St. Mary’s, Leavenworth, Kansas
2008
Small Works, Cocoon Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
(solo) avoidance. Plenum Space, Kansas City, Missouri
Urban Suburban, Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas
48/3 revisited, The Walnut Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
48/3. Arts Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2007
(solo) Ethos and Idiocracy, The Busts 2007, Arts Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
The Blue Show, Arts Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2006
Kansas City One, Arts Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Turn Up the Heat, Arts Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2005
Small Works Show, Arts Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1999
Fine Art Scholarship Show, Art and Design Gallery, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
Schubert/Krichau, Recent Works, Kansas Union Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
1998
Fine Art Scholarship Show, Art and Design Gallery, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
2nd Annual Installation Show, Art and Design Gallery, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
1997
Foundations Scholarship Exhibition, Art and Design Gallery, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
Awards
2008
Inspiration Grant, ArtsKC Fund, Metropolitan Arts Council of Kansas City
2000
Fine Arts Scholarship Award, The University of Kansas
1999
Hollander Family Foundation Award, The University of Kansas
1997
Basic Studies Scholarship, The University of Kansas
1996
Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship, The University of Kansas
Press
Brisendine, Steve, “Naked Truth: E. Spencer Schubert, 2010, http://ereview.org/2010/10/31/e-spencer-schubert/
Light, Corey, “Clarity From The Chaos”, Review Magazine, May 2010, http://ereview.org/2010/05/06/clarity-from-the-chaos/
Kirsch, Elizabeth, “Go Figure: Artists Explore the Body in Epsten Exhibit” The Kansas City Star, August 9, 2009. p.E1
Thorson, Alice, “What Artists Do for Fun,” The Kansas City Star, July 13, 2008. p.F1
Gripka, Cathy, “Sculptor has a Role in Re-creating Old Statuary,” The Kansas City Star, May 29, 2008. p.F3
Beal, Holly, “Hermetic Collaboration,” Review Magazine, October 2008. p.38-41
Lectures, Presentations, Workshops
2010
Guest Lecturer, Sculpture, Spring Semester, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2009
Instructor, Beginning Sculpture Workshop, Spring Semester, University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth, KS
Lecture Panel, “True Confessions of an Arts Incubator National Business Incubator Association Conference, Kansas City, MO
2008
Juror, Student Exhibition, University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth, KS
