Artist Anne Drew Potter

Anne Drew Potter– Artist Statement

Despite a dim awareness of our own subjectivity, the individual reality that belongs to each of us is experienced as concrete and self-evident. I am interested in the moment when the self-evidence of our own experiences is challenged by confrontation with the other, the infinity of realities that exist outside of our own.

I make performative objects that address the ways in which social meaning is projected onto the forms of the body. I incorporate a background in anatomy and an understanding of the physical gender stereotypes that inform our mental constructions of the human body to create unsettling and ambiguous personalities. These forms are intended to question our binary understanding of gender and the interaction of the gendered body with other identity characteristics such as age, ability, and race. I manipulate physiological signifiers of gender, race, age, and other identity characteristics to encourage viewers to confront their feelings about normalcy, difference, and what defines human. By creating a tension between the intellectual reality of the static object and the emotional drama of exaggerated expressions I hope to recall the type of self-consciousness and artifice that are present both in formal theatre/cinema and in our everyday constructions of our selves.

The social critique of the objects I make is directed away from righteousness but toward uncomfortable truth; how do we acknowledge and accept the humanity of human evil. I am ultimately interested in the complex and contradictory nature of the human experience.

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Education

MFA in Ceramics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

MFA cum laude in Figurative Sculpture, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

BA in Art, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Phi Beta Kappa

Exhibitions

Solo

2009 Red Army, Archie Bray North Gallery, Helena, MT
2009 Who Are those Masked Men?, Pacini Lubel, Seattle, WA
2009 The Judgement of Br’er Rabbit, University Center Gallery, Missoula, MT
2008 Fecundity:Strength in Numbers, Matsutani Fellow Exhibition, Warehouse Gallery, Helena, MT
2008 The Judgment of Br’er Rabbit, Myrna Loy Center, Helena, MT
2006 Siblings, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2006 Family Relics, John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN

Group

2009 The Familiar Unknown, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
2009 Figuration to Fragmentation, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, KY
2009 Farewell Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
2009 Summer Resident Exhibition, Archie Bray Warehouse Gallery, Helena, MT
2009 SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY
2009 Residents at the Bray 2008, NCECA 2009, Phoenix, AZ
2009 NCECA National Biennial, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2009 Next Iconoclasts, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, OR
2009 Queer Craft, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Archie Bray Foundation Past and Present Residents, Galaxie Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008 SOFA Chicago (with Ann Nathan Gallery), Chicago, IL.
2008 Confrontational Clay, Westchester Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY.
2008 Figure Evocative, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY
2008 Bray Residents Exhibition, Kolva Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA
2008 Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2008 Summer Resident Exhibition, Archie Bray Warehouse Gallery, Helena, MT
2008 Untold Stories, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY
2008 White Trash, at Clay Bodies, Archie Bray Foundation North Gallery, Helena, MT
2008 Residents at the Bray 2007, NCECA 2008, 3rd Sreet Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
2008 A New Breed, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
2008 Palm Beach 3 (with Ann Nathan Gallery), West Palm Beach, FL
2007 SOFA Chicago (with Ann Nathan Gallery), Chicago, IL
2007 Bray Residents Exhibition, Kolva Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA
2007 Combined Talents, FSU Museum of Art, Tallahassee. FL
2007 Nena and chique, at Open & Closed, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
2007 SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY
2007 Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts, Lincoln, CA
2007 Elizabeth and the Big Head Boys, Thesis Exhibition, SoFA Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2007 NCECA 2007 Clay National Biennial, Kentucky Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
2007 Emerging Excellence, Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville, KY
2007 Sham to Shame: Women’s Perspectives on War and Politics, WMG, Chicago, IL
2006 Annual Erotic Art Show, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
2006 38th Annual National Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, TX
2006 Alumni Invitational Salon Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2006 Materials Hard and Soft, Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX
2006 Hoosier MFA Juried Exhibition, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2006 True Love 4 Ever Valentine Installation, Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN
2006 I Have a Dream, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Positive/Negative 21, Slocumb Galleries, ETSU, Johnson City, TN
2006 Ex-Ceramics, Landmark Arts Gallery at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2005 Craft Forms 2005, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2005 Bold Expressions, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA
2005 Family Matters, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2005 Americas 2000 All Medias, Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND
2005 Femme Aesthetics, Synchronicity Gallery, Evansville, IN
2005 Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2005 Interpretations of the Figure 2005, Crystal de Haan Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2004 Diploma Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Selected Fellowships, Grants and Awards

Emerging Artist Award, NCECA (2009)
Montana Arts Council Grant (2009)
Matsutani Fellow and Resident, Archie Bray Foundation (2007-2009)
Autio Grant for Creative Initiatives (2008)
Pegram Harrison Memorial Award (2006)
Indiana University Grants in aid of Research and Creative Activity (2004, 2005)
Solo Show Award, Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati (2005)
Friends of Art Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University (2004-2005)
Royal Academy of Art London Travel Fellowship (2004)

Publications

Ceramics Monthly, p. 28, Summer 2009.
NCECA Journal, v.30, pp. 17, 132, 2009.
NCECA 2009 Clay National Biennial, Arizona State University Museum of Art, 2009.
500 Ceramic Sculptures, pp. 249, 271, Lark Books, 2009.
Hand-Building Ceramics, p. 60, Gaddeng Xue Xiao, Yishushe Ji Lei, Zhuan Ye, Guihua Jiaocai, 2008.
Ceramic Excellence, Archie Bray Foundation, 2008.
Queen City News, Aug 13, 2008. “Telling of Bodies and Their Different Forms” by Jessica Peterson.
Culture + Travel, September/October, 2008.
Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 70, December 2007.
Clay Times, volume 13, no 1, January/February 2007.
NCECA 2007 Clay National Biennial, Kentucky Museum of Art.
Siblings/The Sculpted Line, Manifest Gallery, volume 12.
Cincinnatti Enquirer, A & E Cover Story, Sunday, June 18, 2006.
2006 Visual Arts Society of Texas 38th Annual Exhibition.
Ex-Ceramics, Texas Tech University Lubbock, 2006.
Craft Forms 2005, Wayne Art Center.
Evansville Courier & Press, Spectrum, Friday, August 5, 2005.
Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, volume 2.

Collections

The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Judith Schwartz, New York, NY
Jim Kolva and Pat Sullivan, Spokane, WA
Mindy Solomon, Dunedin, FL
Tim Sebunya, New York, NY
Wally Bivins, Seattle, WA
Gail M. Brown, Philadelphia, PA
Paul and Kym Farr, Center Valley, PA
John and Rachel Heinstein, Jerusalem, Israel
Jerry Slipman, Seattle, WA

Teaching and Workshops

Emerging Artist Lecture, NCECA national conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2009.
Visiting Artist, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID, 2009.
Visiting Artist, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 2008.
Visiting Artist, Vincennes College, Vincennes, IN, 2006.
Academic Instructor, instructor of record for 3d Design, Intro Ceramics, and Figure Sculpture.
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 2005-2007



	Anne Drew Potter– Artist Statement Despite a dim awareness of our own subjectivity, the individual reality that belongs to each of us is experienced as concrete and self-evident. I am interested in the moment when the self-evidence of our own experiences is challenged by confrontation with the other, the infinity of realities that exist outside of our own. I make performative objects that address the ways in which social meaning is projected onto the forms of the body. I incorporate a background in anatomy and an understanding of the physical gender stereotypes that inform our mental constructions of the human body to create unsettling and ambiguous personalities. These forms are intended to question our binary understanding of gender and the interaction of the gendered body with other identity characteristics such as age, ability, and race. I manipulate physiological signifiers of gender, race, age, and other identity characteristics to encourage viewers to confront their feelings about normalcy, difference, and what defines human. By creating a tension between the intellectual reality of the static object and the emotional drama of exaggerated expressions I hope to recall the type of self-consciousness and artifice that are present both in formal theatre/cinema and in our everyday constructions of our selves. The social critique of the objects I make is directed away from righteousness but toward uncomfortable truth; how do we acknowledge and accept the humanity of human evil. I am ultimately interested in the complex and contradictory nature of the human experience. Resume Education MFA in Ceramics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN MFA cum laude in Figurative Sculpture, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY BA in Art, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Phi Beta Kappa Exhibitions Solo 2009 Red Army, Archie Bray North Gallery, Helena, MT 2009 Who Are those Masked Men?, Pacini Lubel, Seattle, WA 2009 The Judgement of Br’er Rabbit, University Center Gallery, Missoula, MT 2008 Fecundity:Strength in Numbers, Matsutani Fellow Exhibition, Warehouse Gallery, Helena, MT 2008 The Judgment of Br’er Rabbit, Myrna Loy Center, Helena, MT 2006 Siblings, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2006 Family Relics, John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN Group 2009 The Familiar Unknown, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX 2009 Figuration to Fragmentation, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, KY 2009 Farewell Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT 2009 Summer Resident Exhibition, Archie Bray Warehouse Gallery, Helena, MT 2009 SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY 2009 Residents at the Bray 2008, NCECA 2009, Phoenix, AZ 2009 NCECA National Biennial, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ 2009 Next Iconoclasts, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, OR 2009 Queer Craft, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Archie Bray Foundation Past and Present Residents, Galaxie Chicago, Chicago, IL 2008 SOFA Chicago (with Ann Nathan Gallery), Chicago, IL. 2008 Confrontational Clay, Westchester Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY. 2008 Figure Evocative, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY 2008 Bray Residents Exhibition, Kolva Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA 2008 Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2008 Summer Resident Exhibition, Archie Bray Warehouse Gallery, Helena, MT 2008 Untold Stories, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY 2008 White Trash, at Clay Bodies, Archie Bray Foundation North Gallery, Helena, MT 2008 Residents at the Bray 2007, NCECA 2008, 3rd Sreet Gallery, Pittsburg, PA 2008 A New Breed, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI 2008 Palm Beach 3 (with Ann Nathan Gallery), West Palm Beach, FL 2007 SOFA Chicago (with Ann Nathan Gallery), Chicago, IL 2007 Bray Residents Exhibition, Kolva Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA 2007 Combined Talents, FSU Museum of Art, Tallahassee. FL 2007 Nena and chique, at Open & Closed, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL 2007 SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY 2007 Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts, Lincoln, CA 2007 Elizabeth and the Big Head Boys, Thesis Exhibition, SoFA Gallery, Bloomington, IN 2007 NCECA 2007 Clay National Biennial, Kentucky Museum of Art, Louisville, KY 2007 Emerging Excellence, Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville, KY 2007 Sham to Shame: Women’s Perspectives on War and Politics, WMG, Chicago, IL 2006 Annual Erotic Art Show, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN 2006 38th Annual National Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, TX 2006 Alumni Invitational Salon Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 Materials Hard and Soft, Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX 2006 Hoosier MFA Juried Exhibition, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2006 True Love 4 Ever Valentine Installation, Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN 2006 I Have a Dream, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 Positive/Negative 21, Slocumb Galleries, ETSU, Johnson City, TN 2006 Ex-Ceramics, Landmark Arts Gallery at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2005 Craft Forms 2005, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2005 Bold Expressions, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA 2005 Family Matters, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 2005 Americas 2000 All Medias, Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND 2005 Femme Aesthetics, Synchronicity Gallery, Evansville, IN 2005 Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2005 Interpretations of the Figure 2005, Crystal de Haan Art Center, Indianapolis, IN 2004 Diploma Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY Selected Fellowships, Grants and Awards Emerging Artist Award, NCECA (2009) Montana Arts Council Grant (2009) Matsutani Fellow and Resident, Archie Bray Foundation (2007-2009) Autio Grant for Creative Initiatives (2008) Pegram Harrison Memorial Award (2006) Indiana University Grants in aid of Research and Creative Activity (2004, 2005) Solo Show Award, Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati (2005) Friends of Art Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University (2004-2005) Royal Academy of Art London Travel Fellowship (2004) Publications Ceramics Monthly, p. 28, Summer 2009. NCECA Journal, v.30, pp. 17, 132, 2009. NCECA 2009 Clay National Biennial, Arizona State University Museum of Art, 2009. 500 Ceramic Sculptures, pp. 249, 271, Lark Books, 2009. Hand-Building Ceramics, p. 60, Gaddeng Xue Xiao, Yishushe Ji Lei, Zhuan Ye, Guihua Jiaocai, 2008. Ceramic Excellence, Archie Bray Foundation, 2008. Queen City News, Aug 13, 2008. “Telling of Bodies and Their Different Forms” by Jessica Peterson. Culture + Travel, September/October, 2008. Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 70, December 2007. Clay Times, volume 13, no 1, January/February 2007. NCECA 2007 Clay National Biennial, Kentucky Museum of Art. Siblings/The Sculpted Line, Manifest Gallery, volume 12. Cincinnatti Enquirer, A & E Cover Story, Sunday, June 18, 2006. 2006 Visual Arts Society of Texas 38th Annual Exhibition. Ex-Ceramics, Texas Tech University Lubbock, 2006. Craft Forms 2005, Wayne Art Center. Evansville Courier & Press, Spectrum, Friday, August 5, 2005. Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, volume 2. Collections The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN Judith Schwartz, New York, NY Jim Kolva and Pat Sullivan, Spokane, WA Mindy Solomon, Dunedin, FL Tim Sebunya, New York, NY Wally Bivins, Seattle, WA Gail M. Brown, Philadelphia, PA Paul and Kym Farr, Center Valley, PA John and Rachel Heinstein, Jerusalem, Israel Jerry Slipman, Seattle, WA Teaching and Workshops Emerging Artist Lecture, NCECA national conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2009. Visiting Artist, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID, 2009. Visiting Artist, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 2008. Visiting Artist, Vincennes College, Vincennes, IN, 2006. Academic Instructor, instructor of record for 3d Design, Intro Ceramics, and Figure Sculpture. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 2005-2007





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