About UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

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Artist: Brent Sommerhauser

Brent Sommerhauser received his MFA from The Ohio State University, and has since exhibited in group and solo exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Notably, his sculpture was included in the 2004 Windsor Biennial and was selected for New Glass Review 26, featuring innovative works in glass worldwide. He is a participant in the Telegraph Art Collective which functions as a running conversation, typically conducted at long range, originating in Detroit, MI.

Brent has taught art at The College for Creative Studies, Hastings College, the Kansas City Art Institute, Pilchuck Glass School, The Ohio State University, St. Mary’s College of California, and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Brent received the 2012 Nevada Arts Council’s Artist Fellowship Award and was a recent recipient of a Cirque du Soleil Community Support Grant for the Visual & Performing Arts.
Brent lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada and enjoys taking things apart and putting things together – not necessarily in that order.
http://brentsommerhauser.com/about/

Untitled by Brent Sommerhauser, Image 2.

Brent Sommerhauser
Untitled, 2013

Copper and lead point drawing mounted on 100% Rag Crescent Hot Press Watercolor

17 x 12.5 x 0.75 in

Brent Sommerhauser
Arch, 2010

Graphite on Rives BFK paper

21 x 20.5 in

Wind Drawing by Brent Sommerhauser, Image 1.

Brent Sommerhauser
Wind Drawing, 2010

Graphite on paper

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

Las Vegas, Nevada

Artist: Brent Sommerhauser