Gerald K. Stone

BIO

Gerald K. Stone is a visual artist who resides in Palm Beach County, Florida. A native of Montreal, he earned his B.A. and Master of Library Science degrees, respectively, from Concordia and McGill universities. Gerald retired in 2009 after a lengthy career at Canada’s national archives and library (including positions in the National Photography Collection and Documentary Art and Photography Division). His assemblage works pay homage to the renowned artist Louise Nevelson. Gerald incorporates wooden toy blocks, boxes, and trays; fragments of discarded furniture and scrap lumber; as well as other found objects into coherent works of art. The work provides an opportunity to reincarnate detritus as objects of contemplation and to create an iota of order and balance in a world of chaos and disarray.

EXHIBITIONS (juried group exhibitions unless otherwise noted

2025 Art in Public Spaces. Cultural Center, Royal Palm Beach, FL

2024 Absolutely Abstract. Artists of Palm Beach County, Hatch 1121 Gallery, Lake Worth Beach, FL

2024 38th Annual All Florida Exhibition, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers FL 2024 Waste to Wonder, Resource Depot, West Palm Beach, FL

2023 Open House, Kol Tikvah Hadassah, Lake Worth, FL (Charitable organization fundraiser)

2023 AESBGLM, Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth Beach, FL (Solo exhibition, May/June 2023)

2019 Think Inside the Box, ARTspace, Chatham, Ontario (Solo exhibition)
2018 Eye4Art Show, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario (Award of Excellence)
2018 Breaking Barriers Art Show, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario (unjuried exhibition)
2017 Hello Yellow, Naples Art Association, Naples, FL
2016 Putting It Together: The Art of Assembling, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri
2016 Add Some/Take Some: An Abstractions Show, Armory Arts Annex, Lake Worth, FL

PUBLICATIONS

• Kelley Marcellus, photos by Jerry Rabinowitz. “Creating Places: Lost and Found,” in Art & Culture, Spring/Summer 2023, front cover and pp. 30-31.
• Gerald K. Stone. Think Inside the Box: Assemblages. 2nd ed. Lake Worth, FL, 2023. 23 p. A revised edition of the artist’s catalog first issued in 2019.

REVIEWS
“Gerald K. Stone’s work is both an homage to Nevelson and a meticulous inquiry of his life experience through the media of assemblage. Each of Stone’s works tell a story and often have deep personal meaning. Visually, they are magical puzzles of shapes connected by his unerring eye for precision and a touch of whimsy.”
Jessica Ransom, Director of Artist Services, Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Lake Worth Beach, Florida, 2023.

“There is something immensely personal about the work of Gerald Stone, a quality only heightened by the coolness of its presentation and the care which goes into the composition of each work. As the titles themselves suggest, there is a sense of trauma, implicit or overt, laying just beneath their surfaces, a fragility thoughtfully approached and organized so as to amplify what is poetic and beautiful.”
Phil Vanderwall, Curator, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, 2016.

GALLERY

1. Centenary, 1/12/21. 2021. 68 x 58 in.

2. Weathered Arc. 2020. 30.5 x 35.5 in.

3. Fade From Black. 2019. 22 x 24 in.

4. Composition with B and Yellow. 2016. 29 x 32.5 in.

5. Heirloom. 2015. 8 x 8.5 in. in frame 16 x 16 in.

6. Curlicue. 2023. 14.5 x 11 in.

7. Composition No. 19. 2014. 16.25 x 12 in.

8. Honey. 2023. 19x 20 in.

9. Warning: Hot. 2023. 12 x 18 in.

10. White Frustum. 2022. 13 x 12 x 16 in.