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and teapots are at the front edge of my recent inquiry.
The teapot, more demanding of specific engineering
particular to its function, and the jar, a generous
canvas, its criteria of containment more permissive.
How I imagine, and make, and reflect on each piece
shapes the atmosphere it generates and influences how
it becomes positioned in cultural space. I am interested
in pottery form for its familiarity and congeniality;
its ability to disappear into private/personal activities
and places. But, this is only one aspect of the work
which, through its intelligence of color, form and
stance can also excite/awaken attention and thereby
reflect back to the viewer their own imagination. Invisible
or visible, or oscillating back and forth between these
states, the pots foster both attention and inattention.
They are insistently existent, and continuously stir. |
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Linda
Sikora
Assistant
Professor of Ceramic Art |
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Education
- B.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and
Design, Halifax, NS, Canada
- M.F.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN
Selected Exhibitions
- Curated, “Old World, New World”, La Coste Gallery,
Concord, MA
- Invitational, “Mingei Lagacy”,
Mingei International Museum, San Deigo, CA (monograph)
- *One-person exhibition, “Linda Sikora”, Ferrin Gallery,
Lenox, MA
Invitational, “Ceramic Exhibition - Curator: Jeff Oestrich”,
Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
- *One-person exhibition, “Linda Sikora - Recent Work”,
Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Invitational, "Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the
New Millennium", World
Ceramics Exposition 2001 Korea, Yoju, Korea
- Invitational, “Small Works”, John Elder Gallery,
New York, NY
- Invitational, “Mashiko Group Show 2000 - 19 American
Potters Exhibition”, Moegi Gallery,
Japan
- Invitational, “Defining Moments of Contemporary Ceramics”,
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Invitational, “International Ceramics Exhibition”,
13th Ichon Festival, Ichon, Kyunggi
Province, Korea
- Invitational, “1999 China International Ceramic Invitational Exhibition” China
Yaoware
Ceramic Museum, Tongchuang, Xain, People’s Republic of China
- Invitational, “Artists Collect”, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, MN
Selected Public Collections
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- College of St. Catherine - St. Paul, MN
- University of Colorado - Boulder, CO
- Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts - Racine, WI
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Minneapolis, MN
- Northern Clay Center - Minneapolis, MN
Selected Lectures
and Workshops
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Residency/Workshop/Lecture, Tainan National College of The
Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
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Demonstrator, 2001: Clay Odyssey, Archie
Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
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Panelist, “Content of
Function”, NCECA Conference,
Denver, CO
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Visiting Artist / Lecture, Chunkang College of
Cultural Industry, Inchun-Si, Korea Workshop / Lecture,
92nd Street Y, New York, NY
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Visiting Artist, Alberta
College of Art, Calgary, AB, Canada
Selected Books, Articles, Catalogues, Reviews
- The Studio Potter, vol 32, no2(June 2004), “Linda
Sikora: Beneath the Surface”, Mark Shapiro, interviewer,
7 – 14
- Mingei Legacy: The Pottery of Hamada, Kawai, Leach
and Their Successors. Michel L. Conroy, author. Mingei International
Museum, San Deigo, CA
- Objects For Use – Handmade by Design. Paul Smith, General
Editor. Harry N.
Abrams,Inc., Publishers, in association with the American Craft
Museum, U.S.A., 2001 109 – 111
- TAKING MEASURE, AMERICAN
CERAMIC ART AT THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
exh. cat., Yoju, Korea
- Teapots Transformed- Exploration of an
Object. Leslie Ferrin, author. Guild Publishing,
U.S.A., 2000
- American Ceramics, vol 11, no 2 (Spring), “Ceramics and
Americanness”,
Peter Schjeldahl,
author
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