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My personal vision as an artist has focused
on a format that is admittedly ancient: I am passionate about
pottery form as a site for personal expression. I have no
excuse for this arcane practice. I have little interest in
the functional debate, although I recently allowed a florist
to fill a vase with an outrageous arrangement. I choose to
make vases and bowls because those forms allow the most open
interpretation of shape without losing the iconic identity
of the object. The scale of the vases, from two to six feet,
gives me room to explore color, shape and pattern. The bowls
provide a more intimate space where I have been exploring
narrative ideas, recently involving mythology.
My devotion to surface patterning has also proven to be an
addiction that satisfies my love of stylized image and my
firmly positive response to the word DECORATIVE. In the motifs
of my overlaid figure/ground surfaces, I suspect I am often
exploring my subconscious. The sources for the motifs range
from my garden to doodles to texts of historical ornament,
such as Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament.
Ceramics is the ideal media to combine surface color and three-dimensional
form. There is the affirmation of historic precedence of the
painted pot, and the possibilities of current clay and glaze
technology to support my vision.
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Andrea
Gill
Associate
Professor
of Ceramic Art and
Chair, Department
of Ceramic Art
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Andrea Gill with student
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Education
- B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1971
- Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1972-73
- M.F.A., New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University,
1976
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 1997 (with John Gill)
- Manchester Crafts Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996
- Northern Clay Center, St. Paul, MN, 1996
- Okun Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1993
- Swidler Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, 1992
- The Hand and the Spirit/Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ,
1982, 1984, 1988, 1991
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Looking in the Mirror: Aspects of Figurative Ceramics, Riley
Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH, April 1999
- Crafts Invitational, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Kopp
Gallery, Indiana, PA, March 1999
- At Home With Crafts, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Insitiute,
Washington, DC, April 1998
- Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, December 1997
- SOFA/Miami Exposition: Work presented by Joanne Rapp Gallery,
March, 1997
- Exploring A Movement: Feminist Visions In Clay, Downey
Museum, Downey, CA, 1995
- In Praise of Craft, American Museum of American Art,
Washington, DC, l995
- The White House Collects, National Museum of American
Art, Washington, DC, l995 and travelling
- Keeper of the Flame: Students of Ken Ferguson, Kemper
Museum, Kansas City, MO, l995
- KPMG Peat Marwick Collection of Contemporary Crafts,
Renwick Gallery, 1994
- Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, The Toledo
Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, and travelling, 1993-95
- Clay Today, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
CA, 1990
- 1990 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections,
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1988
- Clay Revisions: Plate Cup, Vase, Seattle Art Museum,
WA, 1987 – traveling
- What's New? American Ceramics Since 1980, J.B. Speed
Art Museum, Louisville, KY, 1987
- Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical, American Craft
Museum, New York, NY, 1986 – travelling
- American Potters Today, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, England, 1986
- Ceramic Echoes, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO,
1983
- Who's Afraid of American Pottery?, Dienst Beeldende
Kunst, Druithuis, The Netherlands, 1983
Selected Collections
- Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
- The White House Collection, Washington, DC
- Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
- Dienst Beeldende Kunst, The Netherlands
- Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Awards/Honors
- New York Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship,
1989, 1993, 1997
- National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Grant,
1978, 1985
- Ohio Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant, 1981/82, 1982/83,
1984/85
- Young Americans Show, American Craft Council, Award Winner
1978
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