THREE SCULPTORS

T H R E E S C U L P T O R S WARASHINA, CURRIER, AND LYON May 7 - June 4, 2022

Images courtesy of the Artists Catalogue desing by Sophia Marsh

T H R E E S C U L P T O R S PATTI WARASHINA, ANNE CURRIER, AND ASHLEY LYON

May 7 - June 4, 2022

Lucy Lacoste Gallery 25 Main Street, Concord MA lucylacoste.com | info@lucylacoste.com 978.369.0278

Lucy Lacoste Gallery is excited to present Three Sculptors: Warashina, Currier and Lyon, May 7- June 4, 2022 in Concord, MA. The exhibition brings together three women each representing distinct eras of contemporary ceramic sculpture who coincidentally have ties to the University of Washington. Each creates sculpture, primarily ceramic through the lens of their personal experiences. Though separated by several decades of age, these three artists share a commitment to sculpture unequaled by their peers.

Patti Warashina (b.1940), considered a defining sculptor in West Coast Funk Art, is known for her ironic and surreal polychromed glazed ceramic sculptures, often autobiographical, which reflect commentary for issues ranging from feminist critiques of the art world to the internment of the Japanese during World War II. For most of her 60-year career, the human figure has absorbed and fascinated her visual curiosity.

Warashina was instrumental in bringing the Seattle ceramic scene to prominence, heading the department at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she received her masters and undergraduate degrees. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including most recently, the Visionary Award from the Smithsonian, the Meloy Stevenson Award of Distinction at the Archie Bray Foundation, and the 2021 Gold Medal at the American Craft Council. Her work can be found in over 25 public institutions including the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; the Museum of Art and Design, New York; the Smithsonian, Renwick Collection, Washington D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum, LA; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

Anne Currier (b.1950), is known for formalist abstract sculpture, constructed from the point of view of clay slabs, cylinders and cones. For this exhibition, she has created a new conceptual series of works, in which each sculpture is comprised of a photographic image and a ceramic object serving as ‘characters on a platformed stage’. The ceramic objects, made in her studio in 2022 are in combination with an image of hands from sculpture found in the Jardin du Luxembourg, taken in Paris in 2006.

Anne Currier received her MFA from the University of Seattle, studying under Patti Warashina. She was Professor of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York from 1985 – 2016, serving as Chair several times.

Ms. Currier has shown with Lucy Lacoste Gallery since 2007, as well as the Harvey Meadows Gallery, Helen Drutt, and Galerie B15 in Germany. Her work can be found in the public collections of Los Angeles Museum of Art, LA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; as well as the Renwick and the World Ceramic Foundation, Icheon City, Korea, among others.

Ashley Lyon (b. 1983), strives for a nearness to realism in her sculptures which become a vehicle for projection. She meticulously creates all her works by hand from memory and reference materials without the use of casts. These works are sometimes modeled after family heirlooms, as in the quilted calico of Wellspring or as in Blue Blanket, the original object began as an insignificant airline blanket, yet through continued use evolved into a beloved, pilled and tattered fabric. The theme of motherhood is often explored with all its contradictions from breathtaking and beautiful to confusing and grueling and ways it often doesn’t measure up to expectations. “By revealing the simultaneity of contradictory emotions and thoughts I have personally unexpectedly experienced in my motherhood journey, these works are both reflectively cathartic and offer an opportunity for connection among mothers or caretakers with similar experiences.”

Lyon received her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA at the University of Washington. She received the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Turner Teaching Award from Alfred University where she was a visiting artist during Ms. Currier’s tenure period as head of the ceramics department.

As Lucy Lacoste says: “Patti Warashina is legendary as one of the foremost sculptors of West Coast Funk ceramics; Anne Currier defines the complete modernist sculptor and Ashley Lyon is a champion of realism which she uses metaphorically. Each has shown a true commitment to sculpture unequalled by their peers. We are thrilled to bring them together in this historic exhibition and to get their perspectives on contemporary ceramic sculpture.”

Three Sculptors: Warashina, Currier and Lyon will be highlighted by a Reception for the three artists on May 14 at Lucy Lacoste Gallery and an Artist Talk May 15th at Concord Academy which will include a discussion on ceramic sculpture over the last 40 years.

P A T T I W A R A S H I N A "While observing the interaction of every day life and its interwoven parts, the human form has given me a reference point to my own existence, as a marker of personal time, and the civilization in which I live, almost like a personal visual diary."

Whisper, 2011 Low-fire clay, underglaze, glaze, mixed media 16.50h x 30w x 13d in.

You Dirty Rat!, 2018 Low-fire clay, underglaze, glaze, mixed media 17h x 15w x 15d in.

Conversation with Twine, 2009 Low-fire clay, underglaze, glaze, mixed media 35h x 17w x 10d in.

Flashcat '21-E, 2021 Earthenware, underglaze, glaze 21h x 11.50w x 14d in.

Firebird '21- B, 2021 Earthenware, underglaze, glaze 9.50h x 13.50w x 4.25d in.

A N N E C U R R I E R "Each sculpture in this series employs a photographic image and a ceramic object, serving as characters positioned on a platform stage, to entertain notions of isolation, scale, and touch. Any ambiguity about the relationship of these characters in their isolated setting is intentional, prompting the observer to find associations and ultimately, create their own story."

The Cloak, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

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1. The Folds, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

2. The Reveal, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

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4 3. The Scepter, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

4. The Book, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

The Embrace, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

The Ring, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

The Necklace, 2022 Glazed ceramic. Photograph on paper. Painted wood.

15.25h x 18w x 14.75d in.

A S H L E Y L Y O N "I meticulously create all of my artwork by hand, highlighting both the inherent and virtuosic characteristics of ceramic material. By remaking parts of figures or objects, I intend a viewer’s experience to oscillate between the perception of a piece as a real thing, as well as a metaphoric distillation."

Blue Blanket, 2015 Pigmented Ceramic 2h x 60w x 60d in.

Detail

Wellspring, 2017 Painted Ceramic 6h x 18w x 9d in

Mother and Child, 2022 Terra sigillata 22h x 13.50w x 12.50d in.

Double Infinities, 2022 Terra Sigillata 5h x 14w x 7.50d in.

Two Pillows, 2011 Ceramic and Terra Sigillata 5h x 45w x 18d in.

P A T T I W A R A S H I N A EDUCATION University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1962 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Master of Fine Arts, 1964 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Patti Warashina: Conversations in Clay, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH 2018 Patti Warashina: Transitory Conversations, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ 2016 Patti Warashina: Thinking Clearly, Abmeyer+Wood Fine Arts, Seattle, WA 2014 Patti Warashina: Scrutiny, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2013 Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom, Bellevue Art Museum; Bellevue, WA (50 Year Retrospective) 2012 Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom, American Museum of Ceramic Art; Pomona, CA. (50 Year Retrospective) 2010 Patti Warashina Conversations, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 2009 2006 2006 2004

2009 Regis Masters Exhibition, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN Northwest Print Center, Portland, OR (2 person) Bridge 9 (3 person), Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA Patti Warashina: Real Politique, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2004 Patti Warashina. Loveed Fine Art & Gallery Pahk, New York City, NY 2004 Patti Warashina: Recent Works, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 2001 Patti Warashina: Mile Post Queens, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Three Sculptors with Anne Currier and Ashley Lyon, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 2021 Beyond the Blue, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY 2021 A Chronicle of Modern Crafts: Works from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Collection. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 2021 Who What When Where, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 2021 Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art (Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection), Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA 2021 Craft Front and Center, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY 2020 AMOCA Collects!, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA\ 2020 2020 Scripps College 76th Ceramic Annual, Claremont, CA 2018 From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. 2018 On the Edge, from permanent collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2017 Sabbath, Dorothy Saxe Invitational, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 2017 Women Working With Clay, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

2017 BC to BC: Contemporary Ceramics from Baja California to British Columbia, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 2016 NCECA Honors and Fellows Exhibition (50th Anniversary), Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO 2015 All in the Family, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI 2014-17 Inciteful Clay (Toured for 3 years to: Melbourne, FL; Little Rock, AK’; Orem, UT; Topeka, KS; Carson City, CA; Aberdeen, SD; Kansas City, MO; Stillwater, OK; Keene, NH). Curated by Judith Schwartz.

2007 Form and Imagination: Women Ceramic Sculptors, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA 2006-07Human Form in Clay: The Mind’s Eye international exhibition, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan.

2005 Diverse Domain: Contemporary North American Ceramic Art, Yingge Ceramic Museum (YingKo Museum), Taipei County, Taiwan 2004 Contemporary American Ceramics (1950-1990), travelling exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.

2003 The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Part II: Modern Ceramic Art from an International Perspective, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan and Ceramic Cultural Park, Mino, Japan.

2001 Shaping the Future with Earth, World Contemporary Ceramic Exposition 2002, Inchon, South Korea.

2001 USA Clay, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC. 2001 Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (Selected): Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (“Ketchup Kiss”) Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (“Bad Doggie”) National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Japan (“American Beauty Rose”) Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA (“Rome Series Portrait #8”) Icheon World Ceramic Center, Inchon, South Korea (“Mile Post Queen Series” Figs. A and C) American Museum of Art and Design, New York City, NY (“Pitter Podder”) Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (“Octopus Car”; “Airborne”) National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Collection, Washington, DC (“Convertible Car Kiln”) Fredrick Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. (“Rope Trick”) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (“Yellow Ford From the East”) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. (“Faucet Pot”; “Tiger Lily”; “Airstream Turkey”) Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramic Study Center, Tuscon, AZ (“Hot Head”; “What’s That Falling From the Sky?”) Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (“Venus on the Half Shell”) John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI (“Car Kiln”) Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI (“Crossing the Border”) Portland Art Museum, Gordon Gilkey Print Collection (“Marine Dream”; “Lotus Float”; “Lotus Bait”; and “Small Pond”) Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington (“Serious Business”)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2010 - 2019 Archie Bray Foundation; Helena, Mt. (Board Member) 1970 - 1995 University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Retired as Professor Emerita) AWARDS and HONORS 2021 The Meloy Stevenson Award of Distinction, Archie Bray Foundation 2021 2021 Gold Medalist, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN 2020 Smithsonian 2020 Visionary Award, Washington, DC 2018 2018 United States Artists Fellowship, United States Artists, Chicago, IL 2011 Watershed Legends Award, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME 2009 2009 Regis Masters Exhibition, Northern Clay Center; Minneapolis, MN 2008 Voulkos Fellow, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT 2006 Honorary Member, National Council on the Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

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Distinguished Alumna Award, University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle, WA. Lifetime Achievement Award/Woman of the Year (Twining Humber Award), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA. World Ceramic Exposition, Cultural Exchange Invitation, Incheon, South Korea.

1994 1994 1991 1983

American Craft “Council of Fellows.” Elected Member, New York City, NY Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. (Personal “lifetime” papers collected). Washington, DC Patti Warashina: Ceramic Sculpture 1962-1991, (29-Year Restrospective), Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA International Academy of Ceramics, UNESCO, Elected Member, Geneva, Switzerland

GRANTS 2013 1992

National Endowment for the Arts, Bellevue Art Museum Retrospective Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Scholar Award, University of Washington Graduate School Fund

1986

National Endowment for the Arts Award; also in 1975

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS “Dreamer” (2022). Commissioned by Vulcan Real Estate. To be installed in South Lake Union, Seattle. ”City Reflections" (2009) Tri-Met Public Art, Downtown Mall Public Art Program, Northwest Sculpture Collection. Invitational commission. Portland, OR, (Two-figured 90 inch sculpture in bronze.)

“Mercurial Miss” (1994). King County Arts Commission. Meydenbauer Convention Center, Bellevue, WA.(see Honors above) “White Cap” (1991), University of Washington, Meany Hall, Seattle, WA “Northwest Passage” (1988), University of Washington, University Medical Center Art Collection, Seattle, WA “A Procession” (1986), Seattle Arts Commission. Located at Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA. (See Honors above).

A N N E C U R R I E R EDUCATION University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Master of Fine Arts, 1974 School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1972 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018-19 Display: The Sculpture of Anne Currier. The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY 2016 Anne Currier: Anamorphosis. Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 2014 Anne Currier: Light and Shadow. Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO 2011 Anne Currier: Solo. Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 2008 Anne Currier. The Mercy Gallery at the Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School. Windsor CT 2007 Anne Currier: Keramische Skulptur. Theodor-Zink Museum / Wadgasserhof. Kaiserslautern Germany 2006 Galerie b15. Munich, Germany; Hurong Lou Gallery. Philadelphia, PA; 2000, 1997, 1995, 1988, 1985: Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1992 Pro Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO.; Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1990 Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY 1980 Exhibit A Gallery, Chicago, IL SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Three Sculptors with Patti Warashina and Ashley Lyon, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 2019 Materiality: Masterworks from the Miller Ceramic Art Collection. The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY. SeptemberDecember, 2019 2019 New Work by Anne Currier, Chris Gustin , Michael Wisner Harvey Meadows Aspen CO 2017 Art in Craft Media 2017. The Burchfield Penney Art Center. Buffalo, NY. October 2107-January, 2018 2016-17 Core Sample: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Oct. 2016 - Sept. 2017 2016 Ceramics Invitational: National Clay. Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 2016 Recent American Ceramics. The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Sedalia, MO 2015 Basic Black: International Contemporary Ceramics. Curated by Lucy Lacoste. Concord Art Association, Concord, MA 2014-15 Gifts from America. Conceived by Helen W.Drutt English, curated by Matthew Drutt. The State Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia 2013 Art Reflected: The Inspiration of One Hundred Years. The Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. 2012 Among Fellows: An Exhibition by the 2012 College of Fellow. Curated by Namita Gupta Wiggers. SOFA Chicago, Festival Hall, Navy Pier. Chicago, IL. 2012 Anne Currier: Sculpture. Lacoste Gallery Booth. SOFA Chicago, Festival Hall, Navy Pier. Chicago, IL. 2010 The Alfred Experience. Snyderman-Works Galleries. Philadelphia, PA.

2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

Three Points to Abstraction: Borgenight, Currier, Heinemann. Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 11th Annual SOFA Park Avenue Armory. NYC, NY. Featured artist - Lacoste Gallery. Concord, MA Form and Abstraction: A Minimalist Approach. Lacoste Gallery. Concord, MA; International Academy of Ceramics USA Members. Broderick Gallery. Portland, OR New Acquisitions World Ceramic Exposition Foundation. Icheon World Ceramic Center, Korea

MONOGRAPHS -Anne Currier: Sculpture. Essays by Nancy Weekly, Helen Drutt English and Mary Drach McInnes. Published by Arnoldsche Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany. Text in English and German. 2006 -Display: The Sculpture of Anne Currier. Essays by Nancy Weekly and Kelcy Chase Folsom. Designed by Otherwisz Creative, Buffalo, NY Funded by the 2017 First Place Award Virginia A. Groot Foundation.

SELECTED AWARDS 2017 Art in Craft Media 2017. The Burchfield Penney Art Center. Buffalo, NY Recipient of the Langley Kenzie Prize – solo exhibition in the Sylvia Rosen Gallery at the Burchfield Penney in 2018 Virginia A. Groot Foundation - 1st Place Award Recipient - $50,000 2012 American Crafts Council College of Fellows Award.

1991 Virginia A. Groot Foundation, Evanston, IL, Recognition Grant.

1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1994 - 2016 Professor of Ceramic Art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. 2012 1994 1985 1975

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Chair, Division of Ceramic Art, NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Chair, Division of Ceramic Art, NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Associate Professor, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (cont.)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, So. Korea Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, Quebec, Canada Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, NY The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HA Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY Fuller Craft Museum. Brockton, MA Racine Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin World Ceramic Exposition Foundation. Icheon World Ceramic Center. Icheon City, Korea.

COMMISSIONS 2010 Choral Room, Miller Theater, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 1997-98 Miller Performing Arts Building, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 1993-94 Arrow International, Inc. Corporate headquarters. Reading, PA

Feature walls with A Currier tile designs, manufactured by Boston Valley Terra Cotta®: 2018 1 Great Jones Alley, 688 Broadway, New York, NY 2010 Conference Room, Boston Valley Terra Cotta, Orchard Park, New York 2010 Choral Room, Miller Theater, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

A S H L E Y L Y O N EDUCATION Virginia Commonwealth University, Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Extended Media, 2011 University of Washington, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics (Summa Cum Laude) 2006 SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2021 Tender Temper, Elijah Whet Showroom, Newburgh, NY 2017 Modern Domestics, (Two Person exhibition with Jane Bustin) Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, New York 2016 IN STATE, Hunter Project Space, Hunter College, New York, New York 2016 Weighing the Sunset, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio 2015 Slow Ghost, T + H Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2014 selfsame, Turner Teaching Fellowship Exhibition, Schien-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art and Cohen Center Gallery, Alfred, New York 2013 Fleshing, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York 2011 Rendered, European Ceramic WorkCentre, s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands 2011 Contralto, Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia 2006 Wait, CMA Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2022 THREE SCULPTORS: Patti Warashina, Anne Currier, & Ashley Lyon, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 2021 Embraces, Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2021 Keep in Touch, Terrain Biennial, Various location/sites in Newburgh NY, (Curated by Hannah Walsh and Naomi Miller) 2021 Future Fair, New York, NY (Curated by Rachel Mijares Fick and Rebeca Laliberte) 2021 (s)Mother 2.0, Bethany Arts Community Art Center, Ossining, NY (Curated by Anna Adler) 2020 White Rock Center for the Arts Invitational II, Holmes, NY 2020 [s]Mother, Bethany Arts Community Art Center, Ossining, NY (Curated by Anna Adler) 2018 2016 2016 2016 2016

VEILED, District Clay Gallery, Washington DC NJCU Faculty Exhibition, Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ Verblist, E.TAY Gallery, New York, New York Contemporary Ceramics, Fort Collins Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado Dirt Poets Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Upstate Art Weekend, Various locations, Hudson Valley, NY (Curated by Helen Toomer) 2020 NADA Governor’s Island, Artfare Booth, (cancelled due to COVID), New York, NY 2019 Beyond the Brickyard (Curated by Chris Staley), The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT 2019 The Center for Contemporary Art: 2019 International Juried Ceramics Exhibition (Curated by Garth Johnson), Bedminster, NJ 2018 2017

The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramic Art, Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, Ohio

2013 2007

Art in Craft Media, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, New York NCECA National Biennial Exhibition, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Louisville, Kentucky

RESIDENCIES Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, (Scott Fellow) Summer 2013 Omaha, Nebraska European Ceramic WorkCentre Summer 2011, s’Hertogensbosch, Netherlands Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Fall/ Winter 2007-2008 Archie Bray Foundation, Summer 2007 SELECT AWARDS and HONORS Excellence in Teaching Award, Alfred University, 2015 Turner Teaching Fellowship at Alfred University, 2012 - 2015 Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, 2011 and 2014 Scott Fellow, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 2013 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, AY 2009-2011 College Art Association, Professional Development Thesis Grant Honorable Mention, 2011 VCU Graduate Thesis Grant, 2011 Virginia Commonwealth University Travel Grant Summer 2010 and Spring 2011 Resident Scholarship Anderson Ranch Arts Center 2007, Hearst Fund Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 2006 Lockitch Graduating with Excellence Award University of Washington Class of 2006-2007 Juror’s Choice Award Small Works 2006, Juror: Scott Lawrimore of Lawrimore Projects, Seattle, Washington PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor of Art (Ceramics Area Coordinator) New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2015 - current Graduate Coordinator, Visual Art Department New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2016 - current Ceramic Turner Teaching Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, SUNY, Alfred, New York, 2012 - 2015 Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Belfry, Hornell, New York, www.belfryarts.com, 2012 - 2020