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Visual Arts - Sculpture Secondary Discipline: Craft - Clay Greenville, SC Biography EDUCATION SELECTED SHOWS Spring 09 - “Spoon It, Fork It, Cut It Up” Baltimore Clay Works , Curator Gail Brown Oct - Nov 08 -“Confrontational Clay” Westchester Arts Exchange, Curator Judith Schwartz March-April08 - “Voices” Society Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh Jan-April 08 - “A Human Impulse: Figuration From the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection” ASU> Jan- Feb 08 - “Seven Deadly Sins” Santa Fe Clay Jan -March - “Red State Blues” College of Charleston May- August 07 - "Domestic Deities: The Figurine in Art" Garth Clark Gallery, NYC May - Aug 07 "Man & Beast" DEAN PROJECT, Garth Clark Gallery Long Island May-June 07 "Gatorland" solo exhibition, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC Nov-Dec 06 "Tell Me a Story", Santa Fe Clay Jan- April 06 "Why? 25 Case Studies" recent acquisitions, Museum of Art and Design, NYC July- Nov. 06 "Life Insight, The Human Experience" Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft April-Dec. 06 "Recent Acquisitions" Mint Museum Craft and Desgin Jan.- April 06 "The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft, Fuller Craft Museum Jan- April 06 "I Love the ‘Burbs," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Fall 2005 Korea is Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2005, International Invitational Exhibition- 120 Definitions of Temptation, International Invitational Hall, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju City, Republic of Korea July- Aug. "Portraiture," Ferrin Gallery Sept- Oct "Polemical Clay", Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI July- August 05 "A Tale to Tell," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Feb -June 05 "Nouvelle Nuptials, New Vision in Wedding Traditions", San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design Jan -March 05 South X east: Contemporary Southeastern Art, Florida Atlantic University Jan- Feb 05 Stories and Visions of Nature in Clay, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta Jan.- Feb. 05 35th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Faunatical: Ceramic Artist and the Forms of Nature, Crossman Gallery, Whitewater , WI Feb 05 XXX, Santa Fe Clay April 05 "Riverrun", Greenville County Museum of Art March 05 "Terra Sutra II", NCECA, Baltimore May - Oct. 2004 Grimms Fairy Tales Exhibition, The Society of Arts And Crafts, Boston, MA, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA Oct. - Nov. "Election 2004: The State of the Union," Santa Fe Clay Nov. 04-Feb. 05 " SC Triennial," SC State Museum Sept. - Nov. "Op, Ed, Art," Ferrin Gallery, and SOFA Chicago 2003-2004 "Corporal Identity, Body Language:9th Triennial for Form and Content" Museum of Art and Design, NYC and Klingspor Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Nov.-Dec. 03 "Not Teapots" Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, UNLV Oct. 03 SOFA, Chicago, Ferrin Gallery May 03 " Hundreds of Cups" National Invitational, Santa Fe Clay Feb.-March 03 "Short Stories: Narrative Ceramic Art", Center for Ceramics, Berkeley, CA Oct 02 SOFA, Chicago, Ferrin Gallery Oct. 02 "Contemporary Figurative Sculpture," Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NMJune-Sept. 02 "A Modern Bestiary: Artists View the Animal Kingdom" Wustum Museum of FineArts, Racine, WisconsinMay-June 02 "Major Figures" Ferrin Gallery, and SOFA NYC March 02 "Terra Sutra" Incubator Gallery Kansas City, MO Feb-March 02 "Biological Mutiny", Sonoma State University, California Jan.-Feb. 02: "See How We Are", print exhibition, Greenville County Museum Nov. 02 "Tastefully Tawdry", Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA April-Aug. 01: "Triennial 2001", South Carolina State Museum April-May 01: Solo exhibition, Pickens County Museum Nov.: SOFA, Chicago, Ferrin Gallery Oct.-Dec.: "Crafting Identity: Craft and Contemporary Art", Tryon Center for Visual Art,Charlotte, NC., Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte March-April 01: "Generations in Clay", Center of the Earth Gallery. Coinciding with NCECA March 01: "Erotica in Ceramic Art II", Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida Jan.-Feb. 01: "Three Point Perspective", Fine Arts Center, Greenville. Nov. 00-May 02: "The Difference in Dirt: SC Pottery and Ceramic Arts", Museum of York County, SC and SC State Museum Oct.-Nov.00: "PolitiClay", Odyssey Gallery, Asheville Nov.-Dec.99: "Horizons", Center of the Earth Gallery July-Aug.99: Summer Invitational, Center of the Earth Gallery June-July 99: "On & Off the Wall", Pickens County Museum May-June 99: "Erotica in Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual and Suggestive", Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA, SOFA, New York City. Feb.-April 99: "Potent Figures", Winthrop University Galleries, exhibition part of the SC Arts Commission’s "Views from the Edge of the Century Sept-Oct. 98: "Union/Reunion," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Nexus), Atlanta, 25th Anniversary. Exhibited 14 piece series DADDY’S BABIES Sept-Oct 98: Solo Exhibition, Semi-Public, Asheville April-Aug. 98: "Triennial 98", South Carolina State Museum Sept-Oct 97: "Upstate-to-Date: Upstate Artist from the Permanent Collection" Greenville County Museum of Art June-Aug. 97: "Spotlight’97/Southeast Crafts", American Craft Council Southeast Region, Hickory Museum of Art, NC Jan 97: "Clay Invitational’97", Greenville Fine Arts Center Sept-Oct 96: "Tri-State Sculptors", Greenville Technical College March-April 95: "New Directions", Queen’s Charlotte, Invitational Feb.-March 95: "Face Value" - Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC Two Person Show Dec. 94: "Sculpture in Public Places", Greenville, SC Oct. 94: "1994 Tri-State Sculptor’s Exhibition", UNC-Charlotte Sept-Oct 94: "The Red Clay Survey", Huntsville Museum of Art: Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art June 94: "Piccolo Spoleto", Juried Show, Charleston, SC April-Sept. 94: "Sculpture South ‘94" SC State Museum, Columbia, SC. Feb.-March 94: "Contemporary Forms in Ceramics, A Regional Survey", The University ofAlabama, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art Sept.-Nov. 93: "Tri-State Sculptors at Washington Square", Washington Square, Washington,DC Juried Exhibition June-Oct. 93: "Critical Mass: Responding to Contemporary Sculpture", Greenhill Center for the Arts North Carolina, Group Show June 91: Greenville County Museum of Art - Solo Show Jan 91: "Common Ground, Diverse Expressions in Clay", Sawtooth Center for VisualArts, National Juried Exhibition
March 08: Featued presenter figurative workshop, Society of Contemporary Craft Pittsburgh March 06: Artist in Residence Tameesee High School, SC Jan 06 Guest artist workshop, Georgia State University April 03: Artist Lecture Series, Mint Museum of Art Sept. 99,00: "Third Annual Celebrity Birdhouse Show & Sale", Pickens County Museum Sept. 97,98: "Lotsa Clay VII: on the Fringe", The Clay Studio, Phila. PA May 91-04: Metrolina AIDS Project, Art Auction Dec. 94-96: "Art Angels Against AIDS", Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC May 95: "April 2nd 1995, Asheville", benefit for Artist that lost studios in fire. Oct. 94: "Making Really Big Ceramic Stuff", Technical Workshop for Tri-State Sculptor’s Conference Sept. 94: "Sculpture South 94: Seminar", SC State Museum June 94: Designated alternate for the "National Showcase Exhibition", Alternative Museum, NY NY Feb. 94: Guest DJ for "World Caf songs" Sept. 93: Winthrop College, Three day workshop on ceramic sculpture Sept. 87: "New Directions in Southeastern Sculpture", Slide viewing session for 1987 Southeastern College Art Conference SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Masters: Earthenware, Lark Books, 2009 500 Ceramic Sculptures, Lark Books, 2009 Judith S. Schwartz, Ph.D., Confrontational Clay 2008 Judith S. Schwartz, Ph. D., The Ceramicist as a Social Critic, pgs 66-69 Clay in Art International, publisher- Kostas Tarkasis A Human Impulse, Arizona State University Art Museum, pgs 42 - 43 Gary Ferraro, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective Wadesworth Publishing Company April 05 Suzanne J. E. Tourtillot, The Figure in Clay, Lark Books Matthias Ostermann, The Ceramic Narriative, University of Pennsylvania Press 2005 500 Figures in Clay:Artist Celebrate the Human Form , Lark Books Paul Mathieu, Sex Pots Eroticism in Ceramics Pg. 92 Hollis Walker American Craft Contemporary Figurative Sculpture pg. 98-99 (review) Judith S. Schwartz, Ph. D., The Next Generation ofKerameeiki Techni, International Ceramic Art Review Ceramic Artist in America Pg.31-36, Aug. 02 The Studio Potter Politics and Clay pg. 89, June 2001 The National Enquirer How Tacky Can You Get? Pg. 36 Nov. 13,01 National Examiner JonBenet Lives On – In Ceramic! Pg. 12 Dec. 25, 2001 Mark Burleson, The Ceramic Glaze Handbook, Lark Books, pgs. 92,93,98 Ellyn Bache, Biles enjoys rattling senses with his ceramic creations, Greenville News, Aug. 9,00 Leon Nigrosh, Erotica in Ceramic Art : Sexual, Sensual & Suggestive, Ceramics Art and Perception #38 (review) Gallery, American Craft, June, July 99 Kevin T. Hogan, Ten-Cent Art (and Other Oddities), Mountain Xpress Oct. 7-13,98 Up Front, Ceramics Monthly, June 94, May 97, Dec. 06 Jeffrey Day, Emotions Take Form in Clay, The State, July 95 David Windhorst, Artist Deserving Wider Recognition, Ceramist Rusty Biles, Edge Magazine, Oct. 93 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Museum of Art and Design, NY,NY Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Caldwell Arts Council, Caldwell County, NC Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Winthrop University, Rockhill, SC Artist Statement My narrative ceramic sculpture is satirical in nature. To support this perspective I rely on a high level of craft. I've always appreciated and respected craft and it's ability to transcend culture and social class thus appealing to a broad audience. Another aspect of my work that appeals to a broad audience is my visual narrative. This narrative is influenced by my fascination with the written word, TV, and film. Like the aforementioned I use our culture's obsession with celebrity to engage the audience and tell my story. |