Model for the Crystal Willow, 1985, downtown Bethesda, MD.
Collections (selected)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
American Medical Association, AMA Plaza, Chicago, Illinois
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Collection, Little Rock, Arkansas
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), Madison, Wisconsin
MIT, The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) Special Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meeker Investments, Fort Worth, Texas
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Metro-Dade County Aviation Department, Miami, Florida
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Princeton University Art Museum, The William C. Seitz Memorial Collection, Princeton, New Jersey
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Stephen P. Clark Government Center, Miami, Florida
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, film/video database of The Program for Art on Film, Brooklyn, New York
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
American Medical Association, AMA Plaza, Chicago, Illinois
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Collection, Little Rock, Arkansas
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), Madison, Wisconsin
MIT, The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) Special Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meeker Investments, Fort Worth, Texas
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Metro-Dade County Aviation Department, Miami, Florida
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Princeton University Art Museum, The William C. Seitz Memorial Collection, Princeton, New Jersey
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Stephen P. Clark Government Center, Miami, Florida
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, film/video database of The Program for Art on Film, Brooklyn, New York
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Permanent Public Art
Crystal Willow, Bethesda, Maryland
Day Star, The Children’s Inn at the National Institute of Health, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
Sun Flowers (Kite Flight), Veterans Administration Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee
The Miami Line, Miami, Florida
The Red River Bridge, Shreveport, Louisiana
The White Tornado, Frank Carlson Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Topeka, Kansas
Transparent Paper Airplanes, Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida
Day Star, The Children’s Inn at the National Institute of Health, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
Sun Flowers (Kite Flight), Veterans Administration Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee
The Miami Line, Miami, Florida
The Red River Bridge, Shreveport, Louisiana
The White Tornado, Frank Carlson Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Topeka, Kansas
Transparent Paper Airplanes, Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida
Panels & Talks (known)
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Transformer's 2018 Collector's View Series hosted by Durwood Dixon, Washington, DC. Heather Krebs discussed the Rockne Krebs’ smoke drawing in Dixon’s collection.
The Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS. Up Close with Steve Goddard: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through, a curatorial tour of the Rockne Krebs exhibition. Lecturer, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS. Department of Art opens the "2005-2006 Visiting Artists Series with Rockne Krebs, the notable light artist and sculptor. " Panelist, Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, VARA, Panel Public Hearing, Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Washington, DC. Proposal Presentation, Miami International Airport, Art in Public Places, Transparent Paper Airplanes, Miami, FL. Lecturer, University of South Carolina, Dept. of Art, Columbia, SC. Panelist, “Art Censorship After The Mapplethorpe Controversy” Panelists: David Elsner, Jim Fitzpatrick and Rockne Krebs. Sports and Entertainment Law Forum, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA. Lecturer, RISD Glass Visiting Artists, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Lecturer, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD. Lecturer, Visual Artists Series, Rockne Krebs, Laser Sculptor, SUNY-Plattsburgh, NY. Lecturer, “The development of Laser Art" Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Lecturer, Memorial Art Gallery - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Neo-Green, an urban-scale laser installation commissioned for the museum’s reopening. Lecturer, UW-Madison Art Department Visiting Artist/Critic Program History, Madison, WI. Public Debate Panel between the Corcoran staff and artists: Bob Arnebeck, Sam Gilliam, Rockne Krebs, and Leslie Kuter, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Lecturer, Rockne Krebs Seminar, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Panelist, "Sky Art Conference ’83" Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rockne Krebs, Fellow, C.A.V.S., 1973-74. Panelist, Sculpture and Technology. CAA, 71st Annual Meeting of the College Art Association of America, Philadelphia, PA. Lecturer/Panelist, “Sky Art Conference ‘82” in Linz, Austria. Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Lecturer, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS. Lecturer, “Sky Art Conference ’81" Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. The Christian Science Monitor, October 1981, Go fly some art. International Sculpture Center, Sculpture 11 Highlights, The 11th International Sculpture Conference, Washington, DC. Panels and Talks Light Sculpture Panel with Rockne Krebs, Boyd Mefferd, Otto Piene and Hap Tivey. Transparency and Illusion Panel with Bruce Beasley, Rockne Krebs, Fred Eversley and Yuri Schwebler. Site Defined Sculpture Panel with Lloyd Hamrol, Nancy Holt, Rockne Krebs and Mary Miss. Panelist, "Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Sculpture" School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Lecturer, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. Lecturer and Artist in Residence, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA., “Rockne Krebs: Eleven Years of Collaborations with the Sun.” 10th International Sculpture Conference: S/10: Sculpture Today, 1978, York University, Toronto, Canada, conference catalogue. Laser Demonstration, Rockne Krebs, The technology of lasers for sculptural use demonstrated with small lasers and illustrated with slides of larger works. Lecturer, Art League’s lecture series, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Speaker, “Residuals for Visual Artists Conference” to establish legislation for royalties to visual artists. Congress of the United States, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Lecturer, "Art & Philosophy Department presents two illustrated lectures by Rockne Krebs" Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL. Lecturer, “Rockne Krebs will discuss his public art sculpture, Sun Dog. Sun Dog is the only work of art ever commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts. It was installed at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL. for the U.S. Bicentennial Exposition of Science and Technology.” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Lecturer and Instructor, “Art in Public Places.” The Smithsonian Institution Associates Resident Program, Washington, DC. Lecturer, Oberlin College, Department of Art, Oberlin, OH. Panelist, Monumental Sculpture Today: Art and Technology – The Future Was Yesterday. Ninth International Sculpture Conference, New Orleans, LA. Panel was televised by WYES-TV. (Transcript of Krebs’ talk available.) Lecturer, Canis Major and Atlantis by Rockne Krebs, The Omni International, Atlanta, GA. Lecturer, National Sculpture Center, Kansas University, KS. Lecturer, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA. Lecturer, Summer “SIX” 1974, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Lecturer, Art, Technology and Environmental Sculpture Symposium, Rockne Krebs: Art and Technology – The Artist in the Environment, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. Speaker and Advisory Committee, Light and the Visual Arts symposium, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC. Lecturer and Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. The Sixth National Sculpture Conference, 1970, conference catalogue, National Sculpture Center, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Edited by Elden C. Tefft, published 1971. Catalogue has published transcript of Krebs’ lecture at the conference. Lecturer, Visiting Artists and Scholars, Atlanta School of Art, Atlanta, GA. Lecturer, Visual Artist with the LACMA Art and Technology Program, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA. Presentation and Discussion, The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC. Sculpture Minus Object: Non-Physical Structures Created by the Laser Beam. Lecturer, Visual Artist Lecture Series, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, PA. |
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ART Act, Visual Artists deserve royalties too, addressed in 1977.
Artist Rights
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"Rockne had that ability, to hold people spellbound. I remember him at a sculptors’ conference in Huntsville, Alabama, he was just remarkable. Making those lasers come to life through
35mm slides and the power of his conviction."
William Dunlap,
May 14, 2013
Panel, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC, Walter Hopps, Paul R. Haldemann, and Rockne Krebs, 1968.
