2008 CCACA Artists

2008 CCACA Artists

		Wesley Anderegg “Diminutive in scale, Wesley Anderegg’s portraits, fashioned from the shoulders up, are activated by facial expressions and hand gestures embellished with accouterments, revealing their occupational trade: waiters, magicians, acrobats, pirates and more. Rather then being fashioned in a classical or heroic manner, the works are...androgynous, quirky, agitated, angst-ridden, and down-right funny. The work also suggests influences from Modigliani’s elongated faces and the monumental heads of Easter Island. Forgoing romance, they pay homage to our anxious society, fraught with political conflict and social upheaval.”—Peter Held Anderegg received his BS in Geography from Arizona State University, Tempe, and has been a Resident Artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, and at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.

		Jack Earl Jack is a gifted ceramicist and a highly respected ceramics instructor. While his subject matter may often seem simple, his sculptures are in no way naive or cliched. Rather his craftsmanship combined with his finely honed sense of humor has allowed him to communicate easily and directly with his audience. He has been a ceramics instructctor at the Toledo Museum of Art School of Design as well as an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.

		Rosette Gault Rosette Gault is a mix of sculptor, painter, composer, inventor, scientist, animator, poet and author. She has been a guest speaker at leading design schools and universities in 8 countries other countries. Gault has shared her unorthodox methods, recipes, and discoveries about paper clay ceramics with artists around the world. She has over 35 years experience in the field of studio expressive ceramics and pottery. Her first teachers were Betty Woodman and Larry Clark in 1971 at the Boulder Firehouse, (Colorado) and later Hank Murrow, and others in 1972 at Anderson Ranch, Colorado in the years prior graduate school. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics from the University of Puget Sound in 1978 and her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado, She served on the faculty at the Oregon College of Crafts and the University of Washington Experimental College

		Carmen Lang Carmen Lang was born in Mexico City, and received a BA from La Esmeralda, where she specialized in painting, drawing and ceramic sculpture. After graduating she stayed to teach drawing and ceramics. Lang has completed several artistic residencies in Canada, at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and at the University of Manitoba. She has been living in the Lost Sierras of California for the last 4 years, concentrating on sculpture and traveling back to Mexico with new shows.

		Shigeru Miyamoto Shigeru Miyamoto received his M.A. from San Jose State University in Ceramics/Sculpture. He lived and traveled extensively throughout the Mid-East, Asia and Southeast Asia. He taught in California, Australia and Indonesia before moving to Kauai where he built a ceramic studio, worked on commissions and produced high-fire production work, raku and pit fire sculptures. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the Ceramic Department, University of Hawai‘i at Ma?noa. Shigeru has given workshops on wheel throwing, pit firing and ceramic sculpture for schools and community art centers around the Islands, on the mainland, and internationally. He participated as an invited artist in international ceramic symposiums in Lithuania and Latvia. He is active in the Hawai‘i Craftsmen organization and in organizing the annual Raku Ho’olaule’a. Shigeru completed three State Foundation on Culture and the Arts commissions, two of which are in conjunction with the Department of Education, Artist in the Schools program. His art expresses the social, political, and cultural climates of the Pacific Rim.

		Kevin Nierman Kevin is an internationally know ceramic artist, ceramic teacher, and the founder of the Kids 'N' Clay Pottery Studio in Berkeley, California. He is best known and recognized for his cracked, reassembled raku vessels. His work has been shown in art galleries throughout the country and featured in many national publications.

		Richard Notkin Richard Notkin is an American ceramist who studied under noted ceramicists such as Ken Ferguson and Robert Arneson. He is well known for his socio-critical tile mural ‘The Gift’ and his sculptural re-interpretations of the Yixing teapot, e.g. his ‘Curbside Teapot’ of 1986. Notkin is on the board of the Archie Bray Foundation. He has won several awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships in 1981 and 1988, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1991 and a Jerry Metcalf Foundation Artist Fellowship in 1999.

		Lisa Reinertson Lisa Reinertson had been creating monumental sculptures cast in bronze at Artworks Foundry since her first major commission: "Martin Luther King, Jr." in Kalamazoo, MI in 1989. Reinertson earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of California at Davis where she studied with Robert Arneson, and Manuel Neri. While she was directly and personally influenced by both of them, she has also been strongly influenced by the figurative traditions in painting and sculpture. Her work combines a realism rooted in the humanist figurative tradition in art with a contemporary expression of social and psychological content. Currently, Reinertson resides in Davis, California, and is working on a "Mother and Child Sculpture Garden" for the City of Palm Desert. This project will include bronze central figures, desert animal sculptures cast in terrazzo, a pebble mosaic, and site-specific landscape design.

		Cybele Rowe Cybele Rowe’s imposing vessel-like forms grow out of her life story and her take on the modern woman’s journey and role in society. The “Human Shells as Temples” series was born out of personal tragedy, after Rowe lost a friend to cancer, to celebrate and affirm the body as temple for life. When she was pregnant, the shapes became expressions of fertility. After she had given birth to her children, she came forth with her series “Husks.” The six foot tall hollow works explore the archetypal question of a woman’s purpose after creating life, after the seeds have been sown. Rowe, who was born and raised in Australia, covers her spirited coil-built sculptures with bold, exuberant markings. “Her art has a raw truthfulness, a timeless quality that transcends cultures,” writes Roberta Carasso in the Laguna News Post. Rowe’s sculptures have been shown at noted venues, such as the Smithsonian Institute and the Kennedy Center.

		Judith Schwartz Judith Schwartz is a critic, curator, and an author of national and international articles on contemporary craft issues. She has received numerous awards for her work. Her interests include American artists working in traditional crafts in nontraditional ways, social commentary through sculpture, multiculturalism in the crafts, and design education in the crafts. She is currently an associate professor at NYU.