January 27 - March 22, 2026
Jeanie and Bill Wyatt Gallery
Reception Saturday, February 14th 5-7PM
Jack Gron - Sculptor
Houston-based sculptor Jack Gron is known for dynamic works that fuse figuration and abstraction in steel, aluminum, bronze, and cast iron, often punctuated with vivid color and industrial detail. A longtime educator and professor of sculpture with an M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, Gron has exhibited widely and created large-scale public artworks across the United States. beaverstreetgallery.com
Jack Gron was born in the steel- producing town of Steubenville Ohio in 1951. He received his BFA degree in sculpture from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus Ohio in 1973. Jack attended Washington University in St. Louis where he earned his MFA degree in sculpture in 1976. From 1976-1980 Jack operated a sculpture studio in Chicago where he fabricated and installed several large -scale public works , exhibited in Chicago galleries and served as adjunct instructor at community colleges in the area. In 1980 Jack moved to Cincinnati Ohio and taught sculpture and ceramics at the University of Cincinnati, exhibiting his work in city wide galleries. He accepted a position as professor of fine arts at the University of Kentucky in Lexington where he taught sculpture for 20 years and served as Chairman of the Art Department for 7 years. In 2002 he accepted a position as Director of the School of Art at Northern Arizona University for three years and exhibited public works in that region. In 2005 Jack was offered the posi- tion of Chairman of the Department of Art at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi where he served that institution until his retirement in 2017.
Jack now lives in Houston where he maintains a career as a full-time sculptor.
All through his academic career, Jack has maintained a high profile as a working artist in developing a national and international reputation. His many public works in the US and abroad all had developed through collaborative exchanges with local communities and institutions.
In recent projects, including outdoor commissions and exhibitions such as Work; From the Pandemic and Beyond, Gron has explored the interplay of natural forces, human-made structures, and emotional landscapes through fabricated metal, wood, and colored acrylic forms. Glasstire His public sculptures—like the weather-conscious Hard Rain and the ethereal Visitation—invite viewers to reflect on vulnerability, resilience, and our evolving relationship to the environment. Texas Highways
Gron’s inventive and meticulously crafted sculptures in his exhibition Attempting Balance offers an immersive look at an artist who sees sculpture as both structure and story.