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About Pulled Resources
Pulled Resources is a collaborative team consisting of Dan DeZarn and Thomas H. Sturgill. Thomas and Dan met in 2001 at the University of Tennessee where DeZarn attended graduate school and Sturgill was a sculpture major. They found that their work had certain conceptual similarities and that they were interested in many of the same ideas. The two worked well together, and in 2003, in addition to pursuing their own work, they started producing large scale collaborative pieces under the name Pulled Resources. Dan and Thomas realized that they could construct impressively large and labor-intensive projects in relatively short periods of time and with fairly modest budgets when they worked together.
Since 2003 the two have collaborated on a number of projects and proposals. Including past and upcoming exhibitions in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.
About Dan DeZarn
Dan DeZarn was born in Covington, KY in 1975. Dan attended college at Northern Kentucky University, receiving his BFA in 2000. After receiving his MFA in sculpture from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in 2003, Dan moved to New York. He splits his time between New York City, and his apartment and studio upstate, where he is a professor of fine art at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Dan has shown his work widely throughout the United States, including exhibitions in Seattle, Austin, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and New York City. In addition to his solo work, Dan is a founding member of Pulled Resources, a two man collaborative team developed to execute large-scale projects.
About Thomas H. Sturgill
Thomas Sturgill was born and raised in Pound, Virginia, a rural company town whose heyday had long passed. In 2002 he received his undergraduate degree in sculpture from the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville. He has exhibited domestically in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, Florida, New York, and internationally in Italy. He works both solo and collaboratively. Sturgill is a founding member of the artist collective, Pulled Resources. Thomas Sturgill is currently an Assistant Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He received his MFA in interdisciplinary art from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.