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Born in Long Beach, California.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Damascus, PA.
Education
1958-60
San Francisco Art Institute, California.
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2007
Forrest Myers, Friedman Benda, New York, NY.
2006
Right Brain / Left Brain – Selections from 1960 to 2006, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY.
1997
Forrest Myers: Recent Sculpture, Art & Industrie, New York, NY. Exh. Cat.
1996
Forrest Myers, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
1991
Forrest Myers, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
1990
Forrest Myers, Art & Industrie, New York, NY. Exh. Cat.
1988
Forrest Myers: Solo Exhibition, Art & Industrie, New York, October – November. Exh. Cat.
1987
Forrest Myers: Solo Exhibition, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
1983
Furniture of the Twentieth Century, New York, NY.
1982
Forrest Myers, Art & Industrie, New York.
1980
Ehrlich Gallery, New York, NY.
1979
Search Light Sculpture, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, TX.
1976
Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY. Design and installation works.
1975
Unocycle, one wheel motorcycle made for the film Gizmo, Parrot Production.
Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, MA.
Artpark, Lewinston, NY.
1974
Forrest Myers, Sculpture Now, Inc., New York, NY.
1973
The Wall, Art in Public Places, Permanent Installation on Broadway and Houston, New York, NY.
1971
Forrest Myers, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY.
1967
Search Light Sculptures, Thompkins Square Park, New York, NY.
Forrest Myers – Tony Magar, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Designs the Long View Country Club, New York, NY.
1966
Forrest Myers, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Tamara Melcher Paintings and Forrest Myers Sculpture, Park Place, NewYork, NY.
1965
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY.
Robert Graham Gallery, New York, NY.
Group Shows
2006
The War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2005
Modernism: A Century of Style and Design, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY.
2004
Max's Kansas City, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark.
Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Teknologi for Livet – Om Experiments in Art and Technology, Norrkopings Konstmuseum, Kristinaplatsen, Sweden.
21st Annual Exhibition & Auction for Women's Cancer, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Pax Americana, The Lake Huntington Center for the Arts, NY.
2003
Merry Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2002
Ultra Delux, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Function & Fantasy: The Design Show, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY.
2001
Designers at Work – A Visual Journal, Pratt University, New York, NY.
Aluminum by Design, The Monteral Museum of Fine Arts, Canada.
1999
Dysfunctional Sculpture, Center for Creative Studies Galleries, Detroit, MI.
Sticker Shock, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Primarily Structural – Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Works on Paper, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
1998
Dick Bellamy Memorial Exhibition, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
Regatta '98, Sideshow Gallery Inc., Inaugural Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY.
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
Sculptors Draw, Rosenberg & Kaufman, New York, NY.
1997
Form Function or Metaphor, Paint Creek Center for Arts, Rochester, MI.
1996
Between Form and Image: Art of the 1970's and 1980's, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.
1995
Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Return from Vacation, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.
USA – Valle d'Aosta: Models for Large Scale Sculpture Regione Autonoma, Valle d'Aosta, Itlay.
Annual Sculpture Show, Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA.
Susquehanna Studio's 20th Annual Exhibition, The Art Exchange, Uniondale, PA.
1994
Grounds for Sculpture, Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ.
Annual Sculpture Show, Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA.
Art at Work, Los Angeles Design Center, CA.
Susquehanna Studio's 19th Annual Exhibition, The Art Exchange, Uniondale, PA.
Stoned Moon, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY.
1993
Grounds for Sculpture, Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ.
Design Perspective, Chateau du Fresne, Decorative Art Museum, Montreal, Canada.
Turbulence Gallery, NY.
Models for Large Scale Sculpture, Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA.
1992
Chair as Art, Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, CA.
Then and Now, Philippe Staib Gallery, NY.
Bench Marks, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
On and Off Your Rocker, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY.
Vered Gallery, Easthampton, NY.
1991
On Scale, Bennet-Siegel Gallery, NY.
International Furniture Design for the '90s, Full Scale Gallery, New York, NY.
91 Objects by 91 Designers, Gallery 91, New York, NY.
Masks, Benefit for Victim Services, Dyansen Gallery, New York, NY.
The Chair: From Artifact to Object, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC.
1990
The Technological Muse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
1980-1990, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
Aquarian Artists, University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center, Kingston, RI.
Functional Art NY, Brutus Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
Functional Art NY, IMZ Building, Fukuoka, Japan.
Real – Placebo, Bennet-Siegel Gallery, New York, NY.
1989
Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
1987
Sculpture: Before and After, Mission Gallery, New York, NY.
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
1986
The Chair, traveling exhibition, San Francisco Airport Museum, CA.
Halley's Comet Show, Light Gallery, New York, NY.
Ritual Objects, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
Unlimited Possibilities of Structures, Gallery 91, New York, NY.
Modern Chair, North Carolina State University, NC.
Functional Objects, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
The Chair, San Francisco Airport Museum, CA.
1985
New Works '86, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
Bars, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
New Art, Diverse Works, Houston, TX.
New Furniture, Novo Gallery, New York, NY.
The Chair, traveling exhibition, San Angelo Museum, TX.
Material Pleasures – Furniture for a Post-Modern Age, The Queens Museum, NY.
Made in the USA, Gallery 91, New York, NY.
Time Will Tell, The Squib Gallery, Princeton, NJ.
The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
1984
Functional Objects, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
Art Furniture, American New Wave, Gallery 91, New York, NY.
Grace Design, Houston, TX.
Forms that Function, The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY.
Jon Leon Gallery, NY.
1983
10th Anniversary Functional Art Show, Foster / White Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Terminal New York, Brooklyn, NY.
Hokin-Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1981
Radical Objects, Art & Industrie, New York, NY.
1980
Ehrlich Gallery, NY.
1979
Sculpture in the Constructivist Tradition, Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY.
Search Light Performance, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, TX.
1978
Indoor, Outdoor, PS 1, Long Island City, NY.
1977
Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY.
1976
Sculpture '76, Bicentennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Greenwich, CT.
1975
Search Light Performance, Artpark, Lewinston, NY.
1973
Biennial of Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1972
Outdoor Sculptors Indoors, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY.
Biennial of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1971
Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY.
Windham College, Putney, VT.
International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium.
Highlights of the Season, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
1970
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY.
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1969
The Moon Museum – First Art on the Moon, Apollo 12 Mission Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.), Pepsi Cola Pavilion, Osaka, Japan.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY.
1968
Cool Art 1967, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
American Embassy, Mexico City, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Model Exhibition, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY.
Search Light Pieces, Union Square, New York, NY.
Park Place Group Show, MIT, Boston, MA.
1967
Annual Exhibition 1966 Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Sculpture of the '60s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA.
Art for the City, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Park Place Group Show, Denver, CO.
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.
Aerial Light Sculpture in Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY.
Current Visual Dimensions, Park Place, The Gallery of Art Research, New York, NY.
Sculpture in Environment, New York.
1966
Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Exh. Cat.
Park Place, Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL.
Forrest Myers – Tony Magar, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Park Place opens its new show Sunday, February 27 from five to seven: di Suvero, Fleming, Forakis, Grosvenor, Magar, Melcher, Myers, Novros, Ruda, Valledor, 542 West Broadway, Park Place, New York, NY.
Drawing Exhibition, New York University, NY.
1965
4 D, John Daniels Gallery, February-March, New York, NY.
Sculpture from all Directions, World House Galleries, New York, NY.
Plastics, John Daniels Gallery, New York, NY.
Robert Graham Gallery, New York, NY.
1964
Welfare Island Art Festival, NY.
1962-67
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY.
1959
San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
Selected Press and Literature
2007
Claudine Humblet, "Forrest Myers," The New American Abstraction 1950-1970, 3rd Volume, Milan: Skira Press, pp. 1814-39.
Jean Louis Gaillemin, Design Contre Design: Deux Siècles de Créations, Paris: Le Grand Palais,
p. 181.
Michelle Kuo, "The Art of Production," Artforum, October, p. 310.
Judith Gura, "Pedal to Metal," Art + Auction Special Issue: Paris by Design, April, p.140.
Anthony Ramirez, "Art Returning to SoHo, with Room for Commerce," The New York Times,
April 25.
Kate Taylor, "At Long Last 'The Wall' May be Restored in SoHo," The New York Sun, April 19.
Liza Kirwin, "Art and Space: Park Place and the Beginning of the Paula Cooper Gallery," Archives of American Art Journal, Smithsonian Institution, January 2.
Chris Bragg, "High, Bright, 'The Wall' will return to SoHo Wall," The Villager, vol. 76, no. 47,
April 18-24.
2006
Edward Leffingwell, "Light Industry," Art in America, December 2006, pp. 128-133.
Juliette Guilbert, "Artful Design at Miami's Design 05," Modernism, Spring, p. 120.
_______, "Design Miami Basel," Florida Design, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 324.
2005
Ken Johnson, "A Show Where Art, Design, and Collectibles Blur," The New York Times,
November 11, p. E33.
_______, "Mark Ruffalo Recommends," in BestLife, September 2005, p. 76.
Jahn Yau, "In Conversation – Mark di Suervo," The Brooklyn Rail, July- August, p. 10.
Stephen Treffinger, "On Beyond Eames: Dark Wood, Leather and Pink Velvet," The New York Times, June 2, p. F3.
Dan Kadison, "Sculptor: My 'Wall' Must Stay," New York Post, March 17, p. 28.
Dan Kadison, "'Wall' Brawl Heats Up," New York Post, March 15, p. 42.
Ronda Kaysen, "SoHo 'Wall' Dispute Returns to the Courts," Downtown Express, Feb. 25 – Mar. 3, p. 16.
Ronda Kaysen, "'Wall' Brawl in SoHo Pits Advertising Against Art ," The Villager, Feb. 23 – Mar. 1, vol. 74, no. 42, p. 1, 4.
D. Clark MacPherson, "Conflict of Disinterest," SoHo Journal, Summer, vol. 7, no, 2, pp. 10-13.
Stephen Treffinger, "Currents," The New York Times, Design Section, June 2.
Carol Vogel, The New York Times, "Something that Does Love a Wall," The New York Times, January 28.
_______, "Against Gravitopism: Art and the Joys of Levitation," Zero Gravity: A Cultural User's Guide, London, pp. 18-25.
2004
Andrea Zittel, "Shabby Clique," Artforum, Summer, p. 211.
Stephanie Cash, "Perils of Public Art: Art vs. Religion and Commerce," Art in America, November, p. 45.
_______, "Artwork on Landmark Building Stays," Cityland, Center for New York City Law, p. 13.
Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, "We Owned the Zeitgeist for a Couple of Minute," Politiken, Kultur, October 15, p.3.
Colin Fries, "Will it Go Round in Circles: A Colorful Mosaic of Art Thrown into Space," Quest – The Magazine of National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, The Moon Museum,
November 3, pp. 12-21.
2003
Claudine Humblet, La Nouvelle Abstraction Americaine 1950-1970, Milan: Skira Press,
pp. 1815-1839.
Sean Sweeny, "Mysterious Laser Beam Was Art, Not Attack," The New York Times, The City,
March 25.
Amy Newman, Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974, New York: Soho Press, p.444.
Charles Gandee, "Heavy Metal," The New York Times, Home Design, Spring, Part 2, p. 46.
_______, "Sculpture News," The Newsletter of the Storm King Art Center, Spring, vol. 13, no. 1.
2002
Susra Boettger, Earthworks – Art and Landscape of the Sixties, University of California Press.
_______, The Govenor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, New York: Rizzoli, pp. 134-35.
Daisy Hernandez, "Wall Sculpture vs. Walls of Ads," The New York Times, Metro Section, October 3, p. B1.
_______, "Side Show Gallery: Forrest Myers & Michael Talley," The New Yorker Magazine, November 2002, p. 24.
Tomassio Longhi, "Ultra Delux – Forrest Myers & Michael Talley at Side Show Gallery,"
The Brooklyn Rail, Autumn, p. 22.
2001
Warren Hoge, "Wood and Wire Recast in Gold," The New York Times, House & Home, November 29, p. F1, F4.
Michael Boodro, "Making the Cut," Garden Design Magazine, October/November, p. 68-77.
David Wallace, "Second to None," Colorado Homes, September, pp.74-81.
2000
Daniel Grant, "Saving Public Sculpture," American Artist, August 2000, pp. 18-22.
David W. Dunlap, "'Wall Dispute in SoHo Lands in Court," The New York Times, The Metro Section, March 15, pp. 1B, 4B.
Denny Lee, "Manhattan: Soho's 'Wall' Saved," The New York Times, The Metro Section, October 18, p. 6.
Jennifer Jensen, "Landmarks to Rule on Soho Art-versus-Ad battle," The Villager, September 20, p. 28.
Denny Lee, "Landmarking of a Wall Sculpture Hits Bricks-and-Mortar Opposition," The New York Times, The City, Section 14, May 21.
1999
Annia Ciezadlo, "A Compromise Plan That's No Work of Art," The New York Observer, July 12,
p. 26.
Colin Moynihan, "Using Dummies to Speak Against Advertising," The New York Times, March 28.
Michael von Uchtrup, "Conjuring New Muses," Art Papers, January/February, p. 3.
Jane Slaughter, "Woodward Lecture Series Presents Sculptor Forrest Myers," The Centerline, Fall, vol. 4, issue 1, p. 10.
1998
Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City, Thunder's Mouth Press, pp. 76-79.
_______, "Max's Kansas City," New York Magazine, November, p. 44.
_______, "Battle Over Wall Sculpture," SoHo Alliance, Summer/Fall, p.1.
_______, "Art & Technology," IEEE Spectrum, Pepsi Cola Pavillion Expo '70, July, pp. 28-29.
_______, "The Great Wall of Soho," Municipal Art Society Newsletter, March/April, p. 2.
_______, "Blaue Stunde," Architektur & Wohnen, December/January, pp. 65-66.
1998
Suzanne Slesin, "Artistry in Residence," House & Garden, August, p. 90.
Stephanie Cash, "Forrest Myers at Art & Industrie," Art in America, April, p. 121.
Terryl Sellers, "Sideshow is Launched..," Waterfront Week, vol. 8, April 23, p. 5.
Stephanie Cash, " Imperiled Art Work," Art in America, January, p. 27.
1997
Rick Kaufmann, Forrest Myers, Art & Industrie, exh. cat., New York, 1997.
Ann Farmer, "Soho's Disturbing Signs," The Village Voice, December 23, p. 26.
Gary Azon, "Soho's Great Wall Under Attack," NIGHT, no. 37, December.
Carol Vogel, "When a Wall is Not Just a Wall," The New York Times, Inside Art, December 5,
p. E30.
Greg Sargent, "In Soho, Art Fights Commerce in a Battle Over the Wall," The New York Observer, November 17.
Lincoln Anderson, "Houston Street Landmark Sculpture Threatened," The Villager, vol. 67, no. 22, October 22.
Karen S. Chambers, "Forrest Myers Recent Sculpture," Review, November 1.
_______, "Forrest Myers: Recent Sculpture at Art & Industrie," Gallery Guide International, October, pp. 12-13.
Janet Allon, "Up against the Wall: Life and Art Threaten a Sculptured Façade," The New York Times, City Section, April 13.
_______, "Landmarks Leads Effort to Save Artwork on a SoHo Building," Downtown Express, vol. 9, Issue 23, April 1.
Michal Rothfield, "World Famous Street Sculpture Under Attack," Manhattan Spirit, March 28.
1996
Jennifer Borum, "Forrest Myers - Art & Industrie," Artforum, Summer, p. 110.
Eleanor Heartney, "Forrest Myer at Art & Industries," Art in America, June, p. 98.
Grace Glueck, "Take a Seat in Soho," New York Observer, Feb. 12, p. 21.
Stuart Servetar, "ART," New York Press, vol. 9, no. 8, February .
Katrine Sand, "Metropolitan Life: When Bowie Met Iggy at Max's Velvet Underground, Independent on Sunday, January 14, pp. 4-5.
Jesse McKinley, "The City: Wall as Sculpture," The New York Times, January 7.
1995
John Beardsley & David Finn, A landscape for Modern Sculpture: Storm King Art Center, New York: Abeville Press, pp. 79, 101-102.
Tracie Rozhon, "Habitats," The New York Times, January 22, p. 8.
1994
Bruce Altshuler, The Avant-Garde in Exhibition – New Art in the 20th Century, New York: Abrahms, Inc., p. 233.
1993
_______, "Hugh's Truck," The New Yorker, November 13, pp. 46-7.
Vivien Raynor, "Changes at a Sculpture Park," The New York Times, August 22, p. 15.
Elaine Louie, "…the Line Between Form & Function," The New York Times, February 11, p. C5.
1992
Bernice Steinbaum, The Rocker – an American Tradition, New York: Rizzoli Press, pp. 121-123.
Holland Cotter, "Art in Review," The New York Times, August 21.
1991
_______, "Die Kunst Der Verkunstung," Raum und Wohnen, May-June, pp. 98-105.
Billy Kluver, "Interview with Forrest Myers," Sculpture Magazine, May- June, p. 33.
_______, "Storm King Art Center," Sculpture News, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, p. 87.
_______, "Katonah Museum of Art," The Technological Muse, November 1990 – February 1991, Plates 101 – 102, p. 87.
1990
Robert Janjigian, High Touch: The New Materialism in Design, New York: E.P. Dutton, pp. 3, 24, 27, 41, 84.
_______, Forrest Myers, Art & Industrie, exh. cat., New York, 1990.
_______, Forbes, July, p. 100.
_______, Ambiente, August, p. 10.
_______, "Covering All the Angles," in Architectural Lighting, December, p. 25.
_______, Hi Fashion (Japan), no. 198, October, p. 126.
_______, "Max's Kansas City," Night, November 19, p. 4.
_______, A Neglected History: 20th Century American Craft, January, American Craft Museum,
p. 54.
Product Design 4, Sokolov, PBC International.
_______, Brutus (Japan), February.
_______, FP (Japan), January.
1989
Milos M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, A Pictorial Guide to Styles & Terms, Colonial to Contemporary, American Association for State & Local History.
_______, "Furniture Designed by Artists," Bomb Magazine, Fall.
_______, HG, October.
_______, "New Wave Furniture," New York Style & Design Magazine, October.
_______, "Now Art That You Can Sit On," The New York Times, Business Section, July 30.
"Profiles of New Yorkers," Elle (Japan), Special Issue, no. 8, p. 173.
Frank McKenzie, New Used & Improved: Art for the '80's, Abbeville,NY.
_______, "Unusual Comforts," Metropolis, May.
_______, "Pezzi Liberi Com Free Jazz," Casa Vogue, January.
1988
Gayle and Michelle Cohen, The Art Commission and the Municipal Art Society, Guide of Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture, New York: Prentice Hall Press.
Allan Jones, Introduction, Forrest Myers, exh. cat., Art & Industrie, New York, 1988.
_______, "Art and the Designed Object," Leading Edge, June 1988.
_______, The New Yorker, December 12.
_______, Splash, December.
_______, Interior Design, October.
_______, Art Forum, October.
_______, L'Atelier, April.
_______, "Hot Seats: An Affair with the Chair," Self Magazine, July.
_______, "Art & the Designed Object," Leading Edge Magazine, June.
_______, "Art Furniture," Elle Magazine, May.
1987
Ronald Sukenick, Down & In, Life in the Underground, New York: Beech Tree Books.
Elizabeth Easton ed., The Empire State Collection: Art for the Public, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, p. 121.
Amy Alexander, "Another Crack in the Wall," Village Voice, October 27.
_______, The New York Times, Home Section, November 19.
Jim Carrol, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973, New York: Penguin Books.
1986
_______, Fusion Planning.
_______, International Design.
_______, Metropolis, October.
_______, "The Art & Industry of Metal Furniture," Metalsmith Magazine, Spring.
_______, "Design USA," FP Magazine, Japan, March.
_______, "Art et Industrie," Ambiente, March.
_______, New York Times, Home Section, January 2.
1985
_______, Studio International, vol. 198, no. 1009.
_______, NY Trendline, March.
_______, "Fascinating Furniture Functional & Fantastic" Craft International, October / December.
_______, "All American Design," Newsweek Magazine, November 4.
_______, "Art Furniture," American Craft, October – November.
_______, Arts Magazine, Summer.
_______, Interior Design.
_______, "New York: Kunst-Mobelhaus Der Neuenwelt," Architektur and Wohnen, March 1985.
1984
Denise Domargue, Artists Design Furniture, New York: Abrams Press.
Sidney Lawrence, Music in Stones: Great Sculpture Gardens of the World, New York: Scala Books.
Ronnie Cooke, "Rejoinery," Details Magazine, June.
_______, "Form Follows Fantasy," Metropolis Magazine, January – February.
Suzanne Slesin, "Different Drummers in Custom Furniture," New York Times, February.
_______, "8 Designers Made in USA," Per Lui, September.
Suzanne Slesin, "Different Drummers in Custom Furniture," The New York Times, February 23.
_______, Who's Who in America.
1982
Brutus, Second Anniversary Issue.
Barbara Plumb, "Living: Ideas and Trends," Vogue, December.
_______, "Interior Objects at Art et Industrie," Japan Interior Design, September.
_______, "New York News," Schoner Wohnen, September.
_______, Domus, August 1982
Billy Condie, "Hot Properties," Metropolitan Home, May.
_______, Village Voice, 1982.
1981
Bruce Kurtz, "Last Call at Max's," Artforum, April.
1980
H. Peter Stern and David Collens, Sculpture at Storm King, Abbeville Press.
Tony Towle, "Forrest Myers at Elrich," Art in America, September.
_______, Who's Who in American Art.
1975
Barbara Rose, American Art Since 1900, New York: Praeger Publishers.
Wayne Anderson, American Sculpture in Process: 1930/1970, New York: Graphic Society, 1975.
April Kingsley,¬________, Art in America, March – April.
Barbara Schwartz, _______, Craft Horizons, February.
Carter Ratcliff,__________, Art Spectrum, February.
_______, "Artpark," The New Yorker, September, p. 27.
_______, Kunstforum, December 1974 – January 1975.
1974
David Bourdon, "Art," The Village Voice, December 16, p. 112.
1973
Paul Davis, Art & the Future, New York: Preager Publishers.
__________ Architectural Digest, November.
1972
Billy Kluver, Julie Martin The Pavilion, New York.
_______, Art News, December.
_______, Avalanche Magazine, Fall.
_______, New Yorker Magazine, Fall.
_______, Arts Magazine, December 1970-January 1971.
1970
Grace Glueck, "New York Galleries Note, September-October 1970," Artnews, December.
_______, The New Yorker Magazine, October.
_______, Avalanche Magazine, Fall.
1969
_______, Rolling Stone Magazine, September.
_______, "The Pepsi Pavillion," Art in America, May-June.
1968
Gregory Battock, Minimal Art a Critical Anthology, New York: EP Dutton, 1968.
Christopher Andreae , "Park Place Group in show at MIT," Boston Globe.
1967
Edwin Ruda, "Park Place 1963-67 – Some Informal Notes in Retrospect ," Arts Magazine, November.
_______, "Sculpture: It Comes from all Directions," Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, California Living, April 23, p. 30.
_______, Time Magazine, October.
1966
William Wilson, "Talent in Anonymous Style," Los Angeles Times, In The Galleries, October, p. 18.
_______, Art International, vol. 10, December, p. 51.
Donald Factor, "Anthony Magar, Forrest Myers at Dwan," Artforum, vol.5, no.4, December.
Corinne Robins, "Object Structure or Sculpture: Where Are We," Arts Magazine, September-October.
Robert Smithson, "Entropy and the New Monuments," Artforum, June. Reprinted in The Writings of Robert Smithson. Essays with Illustrations, edited by Nancy Holt).
W.B., "Forrest Myers, Tamara Melcher," Arts Magazine, June.
Corinne Robins, "Four Directions at Park Place," Arts Magazine, June.
David Bourdon, "Our Period Style," Art and Artists, June.
Hilton Kramer, "Primary Structures – The New Anonymity," The New York Times, 1 May.
Kynaston McShine, Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, April-June .
Nan Piene, "New York Gallery Notes," Art in America, March-April.
Lucy Lippard, "Recent Sculpture as Escape," Art International, February.
David Bourdon, "E=mc2 a go-go," Artnews, January.
_______, Mizue, no. 738.
_______, Art International, vol X / 7, September, p. 57, 70.
_______, Art Voices, Summer.
______, "Engineer's Esthetics," Time Magazine, Sculpture, June 3, p. 64.
1964
Lucy Lippard, "New York Invitational Show – Park Place," Artforum, May.
Museum and Public Collections
Virginia Museum of Arts, Richmond, VA
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Museum Tower Roof Garden, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Bergen Community College, NJ
Chateau du Fresne, Decorative Arts Museum, Montreal, Canada
Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Lipschultz Foundation, Chicago, IL
Grants
2000
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1998
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
1980
National Endowment for the Arts, NEA
1977
Creative Artists Program Service, CAPS
1973
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Teaching Positions
1994
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, Art Furniture and Design.
1987
Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, Visiting Critic.
1984
Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, Visiting Critic.
1978
Kent State University, OH, Undergraduate Sculpture.
1974
The School of Visual Arts, New York, "Advanced Sculpture."
1968
San Francisco Art Institute, Beginning Sculpture.
Lectures
2002
"Designers in Their Environment," Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
1999
Woodward Lecture Series, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI.
1998
"Parallel Lines: The Distinctions Between Art and Furniture," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1990
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY.
1986
"Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Movement," Furniture of the 20th Century, New York, NY.
1982
"Envirometal," New York Atelier of Design, NY.
1980
Artist Series, Albany Institute of History & Art, NY.
1979
Seminars, Montclair State College, NJ.
1978
"Advanced Sculpture," Kent State University, OH.
1973
"Spirituality and Modern Sculpture," Baltimore School of Art, MD.
1971
"Experiments in Art and Technology," I.B.M. Corporation, Armonk, NY.
1968
"The Techniques & Fabrication of Contemporary Sculpture," The San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
1965
"The Definition of Modern Sculpture," The Artist Club, New York, NY.