Chris Bathgate (Christopher M Bathgate) is a self-taught machinist sculptor and machine builder born in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2001, he has been building, modifying and using a variety of metalworking tools and machinery. Bathgate’s body of work consists of intricately machined metal sculptures that are often accompanied by detailed schematic blueprints. Bathgate has been featured in American Craft Magazine, Make Magazine, the Russian edition of Popular Mechanics, Sculptures Pacific, and Best of American Sculpture Volume II. He was awarded grants in 2007 and 2011 from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation. He has also earned recognition in his own hometown, having received the Mary Sawyers Baker Prize in 2014, a Baltimore “B” grant in 2011, and a Creative Baltimore grant in 2008. Bathgate’s works have been exhibited in a variety of museums and galleries across the United States, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the American Craftsmanship Museum, and the Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum. Bathgate’s sculptures are held in numerous private collections throughout the United States and abroad. Grants & Awards *2014 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize *2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant *2011 Baltimore B grant *2008 Creative Baltimore Grant *2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant *2007 Creative Baltimore Grant *2007 Trawick Prize of Bethesda (semi-finalist)
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