About the artist:

Alan Siegel was born in New York in 1938. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University and did graduate work at Stanford and Columbia Universities before becoming a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. Siegel resides in New York. Since the 1960s, Siegel has worked in sculpture in the form of chairs in wood with paint, aluminum, bronze and steel. EDUCATION 1960 Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, B.A. 1960-62 Fulbright Grant, Paris Graduate Study, Stanford and Columbia Universities ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 1997 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1994 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1993 "Exquisitely Executed Chairs," Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe 1992 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1989 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1987 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans 1986 Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1985 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York Sarah Squieri Gallery, Cincinnati 1984 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago Willingheart Gallery, Austin, Texas 1983 Laumeier Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 1981 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, New York Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1980 Robert Miller Gallery, New York 1976 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1974 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1973 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1972 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1967 Steven Radich, New York GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1998 "25 Years," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1997 "Furniture: Form, Function or Metaphor," Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan "Sit on This: The Chair as Art," J. Patrick Lannan Gallery, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida 1996 "American Chairs," Pelham Art Center, New York "Summer Pleasures, Summer Treasures," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1994 "A Bouquet for Juan," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York "Series and Editions," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1993 "Figuring on Furniture," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York 1992 "An Ode to Gardens and Flowers," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York 1991 "Black and White," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York "John Okulick/Alan Siegel," Ann Jaffe Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida "The Chair: From Artifact to Object," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1990-91 "Winter Gold," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1990 "Drawings by Sculptors," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1989-90 "Collector's Exhibition," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock "At the Water's Edge," Tampa Museum of Art, Florida. Traveling to: Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida; Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock 1989 "Images of American Pop Culture Today III," LaForet Museum, Tokyo "Summer Pleasures: Water," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York "25th Anniversary Gala Exhibition," Ann Jaffe Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida 1988-89 "Collectors' Choice Exhibition," Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida 1988 "Serious Fun" Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1987 "Chairs," The Witkin Gallery, New York "Don't Knock Wood," Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida "The Furniture Show: Contemporary Lamps, Tables, Chairs," Herron School of Art Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis 1986 "Chairs," San Francisco Airports Commission, San Francisco "Collectors' Gallery XX," Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. "New Work/New York," Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida "Objects Observed," Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey "Poetry of the Physical," American Craft Museum, inaugural and traveling show, New York "Summer Group Show," Nancy Hoffman Gallery "Works on Paper," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1985 "Summer Pleasures," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York "Winter Solstice," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1984 "Collector's Gallery XVIII," Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas "Contemporary Wood Sculpture," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California "Ornamentalism," The St. Paul Companies, Inc, St. Paul, Minnesota "Rockefeller Retrospective," Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1983 "Humor at Play in Art," Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, New York "Invitational Wood and Fiber," Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia "Major New Works," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York "Summer Group Show," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1982 "Works on Paper," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1981 "Major New Works: Tenth Anniversary Show," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1980 "Art for Use," Winter Olympics, Lake Placid. Traveling to: American Crafts Museum, New York 1979 "Functional Art," Webb and Parsons, New Canaan, Connecticut 1978 "American Chairs: Form, Function and Fantasy," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin "Group Show," Members' Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York "Whimsy," The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio 1977 The Art Gallery, State University at Potsdam, New York "Paint on Wood: Decorated American Furniture Since the 17th Century," Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. "Woodstock, An American Art Colony, 1902-1977," The Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 1976 "Collector's Choice," Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma "Collectors' Gallery X," McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas "Biennial Exhibition," Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania "Hue and Far Cry of Color," Fort Wayne Museum, Indiana "Painting, Drawing, Sculpture," The Gallery of July and August, Woodstock, New York 1974-76 "Art in Embassies Program," two year loan to SALT Talks, Geneva, Switzerland "28 Painters of the New York Avant Garde," Montreal, Canada 1973 "SoHo in Potsdam," State University of New York, Potsdam "Whitney Annual," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1971-72 "Four Works in the Travelling Exhibition sponsored by A.F.A." 1970 "Group Show," French & Co., New York "Lyrical Abstraction," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut "Whitney Annual," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Chase Manhattan Bank, New York Coca-Cola, Atlanta, Georgia Cornell University, Ithaca, New York The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum and California Palace of the Legion of Honor,San Francisco, California Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee Madison Art Center, Wisconsin Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Newark Museum, New Jersey The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts