John McQueen

McQueen's baskets are created from the materials he finds near his rural New York State farm, including twigs, bark, flowers, weeds, and vines—anything that comes from the earth. Although his baskets are in the shape of vessels, they do not function as containers. Increasingly they relate to trees." --Kenneth R. Trapp and Howard Risatti Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)

Selected exhibitions:

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (permanent collection); Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York (permanent collection); Albuquerque Art Museum, New Mexico (permanent collection); Arizona State University Museum, Tempe (permanent collection); Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (Fiber R/Evolution, catalog, permanent collection); Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Arts, Museum, Little Rock (permanent collection); Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (Weaving the World: Art of Linear Construction, catalog); The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii (permanent collection); Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York (permanent collection); Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan (permanent collection); Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut (Baskets from Five Continents); Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania (The Tactile Vessel, catalog, permanent collection); Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (permanent collection); Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway (permanent collection); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft from the Wornick Collection); Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota (permanent collection); Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina (permanent collection); New York State University Museum, Buffalo; Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin; Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (permanent collection); Seattle Art Museum, Washington; State of Hawaii Art Council Purchase, Honolulu; University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu (Baskets: Redefining Volume and Meaning, catalog); Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea (International Contemporary Fiber Art, Now, catalog); Edsel & Ethel Ford House Gallery, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan (Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers). Fellow: American Craft Council; Recipient: Master of the Medium award, James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian Institution; Established Artist Award, Arts Center of the Capitol Region, New York.