John Loy

 

  • John Loy was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He began his art education at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Colorado College. He continued his studies at Washington University, School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1954. He was awarded a fellowship at the Yale-Norfolk Summer Art School in Norfolk, Connecticut in 1954. In 1958 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

    Following graduation he returned to St. Louis, where he was appointed Program Director at the Peoples Art Center, and taught drawing at the Washington University School of Architecture.

    In 1960 he joined the faculty at the School of Art, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, as a painting and drawing instructor, where he taught until his retirement in 1991. He was also the Gallery Director at the School of Art from 1978 to 1985.

    John Loy has worked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, collage, assemblage, printmaking, and stained glass. He has exhibited widely and frequently in solo and selected group exhibitions. He has also won numerous awards. He and his wife, Mary Gaylord, were awarded a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1991. His work is represented in many public and private collections, and he has been listed in Who's Who American Art since 1966. In 2005, he had a retrospective exhibition, "3 Decades, 1950 to 1980," at the Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY and a sequel, "3 More Decades, 1981 to 2011," at the Kirkland Art Center.

  • One and Two Person Exhibitions

    2016 "Multiples," John and Mary Gaylord Loy, Utica Public Library 2014 "Past and Present," Earlville Galleries Earlville, NY 2013 “Point of Departure," solo exhibition, The Other Side Gallery, Utica, NY 2011 Drawings from the Maya, Stanley Center for the Arts, Utica, NY 2011 Retrospective, 3 More Decades, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY 2005 Retrospective, 3 Decades, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, 2002 Gallery 15, Rochester, NY. 1998 Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO. 1997 Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York 1994 Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Little Falls, NY 1993 Central NY Community Arts Council Gallery, Utica, NY 1992 Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY 1968 and 1985 Munson Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY 1983 Holland Patent Village Gallery, Holland Patent, NY 1975 Rome Community Art Center, Rome, NY 1973 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1971 and 1960 Utica College, Utica, NY

    Recent Group

    2014 "Luminous Journeys Thru the Abstract," Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY 2010 "Made in NY," exhibition, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY 2008 Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, Albany, NY 2007 HARDedgeSOFT Exhibition, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY 2007 Cooperstown National Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY 2001 Cooperstown National Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY 2000 Mohawk - Hudson Regional Exhibition, University Art Museum,

    Albany, NY 2000 "Layered Landscapes," Four Artists, CNYCAC Gallery, Utica, NY 1998 "One Family, Four Artists" Exhibition, Rome Art Center, Rome, NY 1998 "Munson Williams Proctor Institute Artists", Utica College, Utica, NY 1997 Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, SUNY Museum, Albany, NY 1996 Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, Albany Institute of History &

    Art, Albany, NY 1995 Group Exhibition, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME 1995 Cooperstown National Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY 1995 Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, Schenectady Museum,

    Schenectady NY 1995 Group Exhibition, "Assemblage," Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY

    Other Group Exhibitions

    St. Louis City Art Museum; St. Louis, MO; St. Louis Artist's Guild; St. Louis, MO People's Art Center; St. Louis, MO; Colorado Spring Fine Arts Center; Colorado Springs, CO; Washington University; St. Louis, MO; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Bloomfield Hills, Ml; Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY; Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY;Cooperstown Annual Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY; Everson Museum Biennial Exhibition, Syracuse, NY; Syracuse University; Syracuse, NY; Albany Institute of History & Art; Albany, NY; Arena Annual Exhibition, Binghamton, NY; Central New York Art Open, Syracuse, NY; Ithaca College; Ithaca, NY; SUNY College of Technology, Utica, NY; New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY; Mohawk Valley Community College: Utica, NY; Schenectady Museum; Schenectady, NY: Central NY Community Arts Council Gallery, Utica, NY

    Collections

    Munson Williams Proctor Institute; Utica College; The Savings Bank of Utica; The Hayes National Bank, Clinton, NY; The Lincoln Rochester Bank, Rochester, NY; The Basloe Memorial Library, Herkimer, NY; The Cooperstown Art Association; IBM Corporation, Syracuse, NY; SUNY College of Technology, Utica, NY; Hamilton College, Clinton, NY: John Burrough's School, St. Louis, MO; as well as many private collections.

    Awards

    2001 Dick Blick Award, Cooperstown National Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY 1991 Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France, Residency 1988 & 1986 SUNY College of Technology, Utica, NY

    Best in Show, First Prize Drawing 1988 1986 & 1985 Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY

    First Prize Drawing 1971 - 1983 Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY

    Grand Prize 1983; Purchase Prize 1982;

    First Prize Painting, 1977,1976,1974,1971 1981 Central New York Art Open, Syracuse, NY

    Third Prize 1977 Arena Annual Exhibition, Binghamton, NY

    First Prize 1959 Painting Award, St. Louis City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

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A collection of pen & Ink, as well as charcoal drawings done throughout John Loy’s career

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Often beginning with a rough collage, John Loy uses his incredible attention to detail to paint these large scale oil paintings.

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From found objects, to painted wood. John Loy has been creating wooden assemblages throughout his career.

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