Adrian Arleo is a full time studio artist living in Lolo, Montana. She received a B.A. in Art and Anthropology from Pitzer College in 1983, and an MFA in Ceramics from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grants, and a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Her figurative ceramic sculpture is shown internationally and throughout the country in galleries and museums, and is in many private and corporate collections. The exhibition will then travel to Philadelphia and be on exhibit at The Clay Studio in January 2002.
Admission is free.
Indeed tradition runs deeply through the field. This exhibition however, gathers together contemporary clay artists who create works that while informed by archaic works in no way seek to imitate them. Rather these artists have sought to discover in themselves the same basic creative impulses that motivated their forerunners. They willingly embrace techniques which employ a large degree of happenstance, and the resulting works embody a similar timelessness and intuitive genius as pieces from ancient times. In this 2-day course, Clark will transmit not only technical methods of creating a wide variety of forms with the pinch technique, but also will explore the therapeutic, almost spiritual, qualities inherent to pinching.