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Dale Enochs is a Fort Wayne native, a graduate of Bishop Luers High School, who took his B.F.A. at Indiana University Fort Wayne in 1977 and his M.F.A. at Indiana University Bloomington in 1981. Trained in ceramics, he turned to monumental sculpture in Indiana limestone — a material he first gathered as free stone along the rail line behind his early studio, and whose carving he later deepened under the influence of the Japanese garden aesthetics of Dr. Kenneth Yasuda. Since 1989 he has worked from a farm studio south of Bloomington.
His Fort Wayne works are prominent: Bend and Double Exposure, both purchased by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2017; Figure Ground III in the University of Saint Francis sculpture garden (2016); and There Are Rivers, a permanent installation at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (2021). He was named among the top 200 Indiana artists selected for the Indiana State Museum's 2016 bicentennial exhibition.
Sources: Fort Wayne Museum of Art blog, December 3, 2018; Long-Sharp Gallery curriculum vitae and essay by Mark Ruschman; artist's résumé.