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Born
September 10, 1955, Glendive, Montana Medium
Ceramics Technique
Victoria's pots are constructed from thrown and handbuilt parts. Using colored clay slips she paints her pieces while the clay is leather hard. Her approach to surface decoration ranges from flat planes of color to delicate brush line. Interests
My work is both thrown and constructed, intuitive and patterned, self conscious and flamboyant -- references to my seamstress mother's use of patterns and tucks to make highly functional creations infused with her own passion; to my father's work as both a machinist and a maker of folk art; to my own paradoxical desire for both order and freedom; and to my pots as both containers; dispensers of everyday materials and as metaphors for the body as both receiver and giver. While I do not intend others to share in all of these meanings, I hope that the personal level of the work will free users to perceive their own self in these objects. Favorite Place
Badlands of Eastern Montana Collections
Knox College, Galesburg, Il; University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; First Bank Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN; Basilica of St. Mary's, Objects of Devotions Collection of Contemporary Religious Art, Minneapolis, MN; Macalester College Permanent Collection, St. Paul, MN; Minnesota Historical Society Permanent Collection, St. Paul, MN. Other information
M.F.A. Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Archie Bray Foundation, Artist-In-Residence |
