Bio and Video

Video:
https://vimeo.com/160328673 filmed and edited by Geoff Bassett of the Chatham Orpheum Theater.

The Sculpture of Gary Urgonski Produced By Geoff Bassett

Shows and Awards:

  • Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Members' Juried Show "Sketchy," January 5 to March 17, 2024, "And Yet, the Light Shines Through."
  • Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA, Members' Open/partially juried show "Anything But Marsh"  January 8 to February 3, 2024, "Starry, Starry Night" and "Crown Chakra/Seeing the Purple."
  • Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members' Open, December 1, 2023 to January 9, 2024, "Jack of Speed."
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA,  Juried Exhibition "Red," October 21 to November 26, 2023, Photograph "Stop! Without Green there is No Red."
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, March 4 to April 23, 2023, "Firebird."
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Members' Open, "Sketchy," August 1 to September 15, 2022, "Sawtooth."
  • Cultural Center, Yarmouth, MA, Online Open, "GREEN/LIGHT," Photograph "Go."
  • Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Members' Open, March 11 to May 8, 2022, "God's Ambassador."
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, "Piece by Piece" 2022 biennial collaboration with 100+ other artists on large-scale installation of "Spashdown Apollo 13," by Alma Woodsey.
  • Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Members' Juried Show, "Transparent, Translucent, Opaque," January 12 to April 10, 2022. "Firebird."
  • Cultural Center, Yarmouth, MA, Annual Members' Show, January 6 to February 1, 2021.  "Firebird" and "Breaking Free."
  • Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Members’ Juried Show, “Changing Tide,” “Blue Siren/Bull’s Eye,” December 10, 2020, to February 28, 2021.
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Open Juried Show “Blues,” March 21 to April 25, 2020. Two pieces accepted: “When Music Is Your Special Friend,” (sculpture) and “We Too Were Once Loved,” (photograph).
  • Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Members’ Juried Show, “MEMBER-able Creations” December 5, 2019, to January 12, 2020. “Ransom Note.”
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, "Piece by Piece," 2019 biennial collaboration with 100+ other artists on a large-scale installation "A Friend In Need," by C.M. Coolidge.
  • Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Members’ Juried Show “Victory of the Spirit” in the show “Light in a Dark Season,” November 22, 2018, to January 27, 2019. Given one of three “juror’s selection” awards.
  • Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA, Solo Show “Clock Drift,” April 12 to 23, 2017.
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, "Piece by Piece," 2017 biennial collaboration with 100+ other artists on a large-scale installation "Sunday Afternoon On the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat.
  • Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Kickoff celebration of "ArtSpringCapeCod 2017", “Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue” April 27 to May 8, 2017.
  • Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA, Members’ Open, “Directions” and “Vichy Animals” January 13 to January 30, 2017.
  • Chatham Orpheum Theatre, Chatham, MA, Artist of the Month, March 2016.
  • South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts. National Juried Show February 14 to March 23, 2014 – “Odyssey From the Heartland” and “Electroshock – Me and My Dad 1958.”
  •  South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried Show, "Award of Merit" for “Electroshock – Me and My Dad 1958” February 14, 2014.
  • Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA. juried show November 2 to December 29, 2013 – “Hey Artist.”
  • “Best Contemporary Piece” award, Cape Cod Art Association “Out of the Blue” May 2013.
  • Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA, juried show, May to June, 2013, “Out of the Blue.”
  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, member’s show, March 15 to April 28, 2013 – “Out of the Blue.”
  •  Provincetown Art Association and Museum member’s show November 2012 to January 2013 “Queen Mother.”
  •  Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, June 16, Individual Show held over until September, 2012, “Out of the Blue” – eight sculptures
  •  Provincetown Art Association and Museum May 2012 12 x 12 show “Hey Artist.”
  •  Provincetown Art Association and Museum –“Directions.”March 2012, Members’ Open Show
  •  Cape Cod Art Association, February 2012 Juried Show “Odyssey From the Heartland.”
  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, November, 2011, Members' Open Show, – “Me and My Dad, 1958.”
  •  Cotuit Center for the Arts, October 2011, Juried Show “Exploring the Dark Side” – two sculptures: “Dark of Heartness” and “All of it I knew, Some of it I saw, Part of It I was.”
  •  Saltworks Gallery, Orleans, Ma., individual show, July, 2011 titled “Heartland.”
  •  Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA, Juried Show, March 2011, Best in Show for “Victory of the Spirit.”
  •  Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Juried Show, March 2007, “Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue.”
  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Juried Show, January 2007 “Victory of the Spirit.”

Galleries, Museums, Associations:

  • Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
  • Larkin Gallery, Harwich Port, MA
  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
  • The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
  • Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
  • South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
  • Artful Hand, Brewster, MA
  • Left Bank Gallery, Orleans, MA
  • Salt Works Gallery, Orleans, MA

Experience:

  • 2017 – 2019, Chair of the Guild of the Cape Cod Museum of Art
  • 1987-2011, Director, Special Education, Cape Cod Vocational Technical High School, Harwich, Ma.
  • 1980 -1987, Program Director, South Shore Alternative High School, Hingham, Ma.
  • 1975-1980, Special Education Teacher, Quincy, Ma.
  • 1972-1974, Head Counselor, Eric Lindemann Mental Health Center, Boston, Ma.
  • 1971-1972, Live-in Counselor, Alpha Halfway House, Attleboro, Ma.
  • 1971- 1973, Conscientious Objector Viet Nam War. Served two years.