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Michael Hosaluk, Untitled Sculptural Bowl

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Michael Hosaluk, Untitled Sculptural Bowl
Michael Hosaluk, Untitled Sculptural Bowl, painted wood, 6 1/2”h x 5 1/4”did

Michael Hosaluk
(Canada, born 1954)
Michael Hosaluk lives and has his studio in Saskatchewan, Canada. His work covers a wide range of objects and materials including functional vessels, furniture and sculptural pieces and is humorous and elegant, possesses character and gesture and is full of reference to architecture, nature and culture. His work can be found in the permanent collections of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, Zhao Xiu, Governor of Jilin Province, Republic of China, and museums including the Los Angeles County Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, and the Royal Ontario Museum.
Hosaluk has lectured and demonstrated extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Norway and Israel. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; currently serves on the Advisory panel of the Saskatchewan Arts Board; and was active on the Steering Committee of the Furniture Society of North America and is currently on their Advisory Board.
"My work tells stories from my life, places I've been. people I've met, architecture, our environment. These stories are interwoven into the objects I create. Craft goes beyond the pleasure of our senses and deals not only with aesthetics, but social and ideological lives."

This artist is featured in the book, The Cutting Edge:
Contemporary Wood Art and The Lipton Collection