Gerry Wallace

b. 1934, Irvine, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010       Flora & Fauna, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006-09   Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007       100 Teapots, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
                International Orton Cone Box Show, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS
                Oregon Potters Association, NCECA concurrent, Portland, OR
2005       Functional Ceramics, Wooster, OH
2004       Solo Show, Orinda Library Gallery, Orinda, CA
2003       Visions in Clay, First Prize, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1996-03   Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001       The Yixing Effect, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2000       International Orton Cone Box Show, Baker University, Baldwin, KS
1998       Creche Show, San Francisco Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
1997-98   Teapots: A Loose Interpretation, Celestial Seasonings, Boulder, CO
1997       Solo Exhibition, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996       International Orton Cone Box Show, Purchase Award, Baker University, Baldwin, KS
1995       Bacchus' Vessels, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
                Featured Artist, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
                Featured Artist, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA
                International New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1994       Crafts National 28, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
                Featured Artist, Studio One, Oakland Art Center, Oakland, CA
                International Orton Cone Box Show, Purchase Award, Baker University, Baldwin, KS
                International Creche Competition, Award, Bellingham, WA
1992       Mostly Teapots, Featured Artist, Clayworks, Davis, CA
                California Clay, Davis, CA
                National Cup Show, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My formal training was as a painter; I studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where I received a BA and MA in painting. I also earned a teaching credential and taught one year on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. I have three grown children and seven grandchildren (my proudest creations!).

I have been working almost entirely in clay for fifteen years. I have been very interested in the teapot and its parts. My teapots are usually made of porcelain, glaze fired in oxidation to ∆ 10 and then china painted and refired at ∆ 018. I am very interested in the play between the surface, shape and painted images on a piece. For the past five years I have enjoyed making larger sculptural pieces as well as functional stoneware work, and I have been salt firing for the past two years.