Jeff Irwin
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portfolio | artists listing
b. 1954, Long Beach, California
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TX
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
World Ceramic Center, Ichon, South Korea
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Flora & Fauna, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2009 65th Scripps College Ceramic Annual, Claremont, CA, invitational
Hot Tea, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Dust to Decadence, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Clay and Print, Artist Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Feats of Clay XXI, Lincoln, CA, Tile Heritage Prize
California Clay Competition, Davis, CA
Nature or Nurture, Solo Exhibition, Bread and CEI, San Diego, CA
Ceramics Invitational, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA
Sip, Slurp, Gulp, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Clay and the Transferred Image, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
Agape, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Feats of Clay XX, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA
Hot Clay, Idyllwild Center for the Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2006 Al Fresco, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
The Yxing Effect, Holter Museum of Art. Helena, MT
New Work of Allied Craftsmen, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Teapot, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Beatrice Wood Ceramic Annual, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA
2005 NCECA Invitational Exhibition, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Clay and Print 1, Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, IN
Cups, Cups, Cups, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
The White Show, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Drawing Invitational, Pacific Beach Library Gallery, Pacific Beach, CA
California Clay Competition, Artery Gallery, Davis, CA, Laguna Clay Award
2004 Celebrating Nature, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The Art of Tea, Rockville Arts Place, Gaithersburg, MD
New Work, Allied Craftsmen of San Diego, Grove Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Artists Works, Point Loma Library, Point Loma, CA
2003 The Nature of Things, Solo Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The Inspired Vessel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Generations: Impending Lineage, Art and Industry Gallery, San Diego, CA
Painted Clay, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
San Diego Clay Artists and their Mentors, Santa Fe Room, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
San Diego State Ceramic Alumni Exhibition, Town and Country Convention Center,
San Diego, CA
The Cultivated Landscape, Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI
Teapot Invitational, Gallery 999, San Diego, CA
Teapots, Mission Valley Library, San Diego, CA
2002 Ceramics Invitational 2002, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of
Art, San Diego, CA
Gallery Artists, Scott White Contemporary Art Gallery, Telluride, CO
Terra Sutra, The Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Art of Clay: Contemporary Ceramic West Coast Artists, Santa Rosa Junior College,
Santa Rosa, CA
2001 World Ceramic Bienniale, World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea
Plates and Platters, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Yxing Effect, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Digital Ceramics, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Once Upon a Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, CA
2000 Artist Statement, Solo Exhibitiom, Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA
Monarch Tile Ceramic Compeition, San Angelo, TX
Artists and Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Ceramics Invitational 2000, Texas A&M University Gallery, Commerce, TX
Juried Competition at the Artery, Artery Gallery, Davis, CA
Cup Exhibition, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Plate Show, Collins Gallery, Touring, United Kingdom
Allied Craftsmen 2000, Studio Art Building, San Diego, CA
1999 California Craft Contemporary, Laguna Beach Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Ceramics Monthly International Competition, Columbus, OH
Inspired by Nature, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
The End is Near, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Erotica in Ceramic Art, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
The Plate Show, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Paintings & Ceramics, Hyde Gallery, El Cajon, CA
1998 Current Clay VII, Gallery Eight, La Jolla, CA
Invitational Cup Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, CA
Contemporary Teapots: A National Survey, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
Current Clay and Fiber, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Contemporary Art, Quilts & Clay Forms, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College,
San Marcos, CA
1997 White Light, Solo Exhibition, Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA
Ten Years: A Retrospective, Solo Exhibition, Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA
Monarch Ceramic Tile Competition, Kinnedy-Douglas Center, Florence, AL
Current Clay VI, Gallery Eight, La Jolla, CA
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Miami, FL
Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perspectives, Cable Building, San Diego, CA
Presence, University of California, San Diego, CA
Artists and Eating Invitational, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
1996 Decoys and Trophies, Solo Exhibition, Simay Gallery, San Diego, CA
Water Theme Invitational, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Berkshire Clay National, Maple Hill Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
Rendezvous Clay, Nebraska Museum of Art, Kearney, NE
Six Galleries- Six Artists, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
Invitational Cup Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
Invitational Teapot Show, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Teapots at SOFA Miami, Miami, FL
Cup at Metaphor 2, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
All of my work deals with the manipulation of nature by human forces and the struggle to find balance between our needs and that of the natural environment.
Inspired by animal trophies and taxidermy books I have created a series of all white tree like animals which are meant to represent our manipulation of nature and our need to idealize that manipulation. For me the work alludes to power, ego, preciousness and loss.
Teapots utilizing take out containers represent further utilization of nature to feed ourselves at natures expense.
The use of white is meant to evoke the sense of simplicity, clarity, spirituality, and transcendence between life and
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TX
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
World Ceramic Center, Ichon, South Korea
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Flora & Fauna, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2009 65th Scripps College Ceramic Annual, Claremont, CA, invitational
Hot Tea, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Dust to Decadence, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Clay and Print, Artist Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Feats of Clay XXI, Lincoln, CA, Tile Heritage Prize
California Clay Competition, Davis, CA
Nature or Nurture, Solo Exhibition, Bread and CEI, San Diego, CA
Ceramics Invitational, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA
Sip, Slurp, Gulp, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Clay and the Transferred Image, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
Agape, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Feats of Clay XX, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA
Hot Clay, Idyllwild Center for the Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2006 Al Fresco, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
The Yxing Effect, Holter Museum of Art. Helena, MT
New Work of Allied Craftsmen, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Teapot, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Beatrice Wood Ceramic Annual, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA
2005 NCECA Invitational Exhibition, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Clay and Print 1, Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, IN
Cups, Cups, Cups, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
The White Show, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Drawing Invitational, Pacific Beach Library Gallery, Pacific Beach, CA
California Clay Competition, Artery Gallery, Davis, CA, Laguna Clay Award
2004 Celebrating Nature, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The Art of Tea, Rockville Arts Place, Gaithersburg, MD
New Work, Allied Craftsmen of San Diego, Grove Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Artists Works, Point Loma Library, Point Loma, CA
2003 The Nature of Things, Solo Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The Inspired Vessel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Generations: Impending Lineage, Art and Industry Gallery, San Diego, CA
Painted Clay, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
San Diego Clay Artists and their Mentors, Santa Fe Room, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
San Diego State Ceramic Alumni Exhibition, Town and Country Convention Center,
San Diego, CA
The Cultivated Landscape, Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI
Teapot Invitational, Gallery 999, San Diego, CA
Teapots, Mission Valley Library, San Diego, CA
2002 Ceramics Invitational 2002, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of
Art, San Diego, CA
Gallery Artists, Scott White Contemporary Art Gallery, Telluride, CO
Terra Sutra, The Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Art of Clay: Contemporary Ceramic West Coast Artists, Santa Rosa Junior College,
Santa Rosa, CA
2001 World Ceramic Bienniale, World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea
Plates and Platters, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Yxing Effect, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Digital Ceramics, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Once Upon a Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, CA
2000 Artist Statement, Solo Exhibitiom, Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA
Monarch Tile Ceramic Compeition, San Angelo, TX
Artists and Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Ceramics Invitational 2000, Texas A&M University Gallery, Commerce, TX
Juried Competition at the Artery, Artery Gallery, Davis, CA
Cup Exhibition, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Plate Show, Collins Gallery, Touring, United Kingdom
Allied Craftsmen 2000, Studio Art Building, San Diego, CA
1999 California Craft Contemporary, Laguna Beach Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Ceramics Monthly International Competition, Columbus, OH
Inspired by Nature, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
The End is Near, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Erotica in Ceramic Art, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
The Plate Show, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Paintings & Ceramics, Hyde Gallery, El Cajon, CA
1998 Current Clay VII, Gallery Eight, La Jolla, CA
Invitational Cup Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, CA
Contemporary Teapots: A National Survey, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
Current Clay and Fiber, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Contemporary Art, Quilts & Clay Forms, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College,
San Marcos, CA
1997 White Light, Solo Exhibition, Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA
Ten Years: A Retrospective, Solo Exhibition, Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA
Monarch Ceramic Tile Competition, Kinnedy-Douglas Center, Florence, AL
Current Clay VI, Gallery Eight, La Jolla, CA
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Miami, FL
Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perspectives, Cable Building, San Diego, CA
Presence, University of California, San Diego, CA
Artists and Eating Invitational, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
1996 Decoys and Trophies, Solo Exhibition, Simay Gallery, San Diego, CA
Water Theme Invitational, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Berkshire Clay National, Maple Hill Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
Rendezvous Clay, Nebraska Museum of Art, Kearney, NE
Six Galleries- Six Artists, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
Invitational Cup Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
Invitational Teapot Show, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Teapots at SOFA Miami, Miami, FL
Cup at Metaphor 2, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
All of my work deals with the manipulation of nature by human forces and the struggle to find balance between our needs and that of the natural environment.
Inspired by animal trophies and taxidermy books I have created a series of all white tree like animals which are meant to represent our manipulation of nature and our need to idealize that manipulation. For me the work alludes to power, ego, preciousness and loss.
Teapots utilizing take out containers represent further utilization of nature to feed ourselves at natures expense.
The use of white is meant to evoke the sense of simplicity, clarity, spirituality, and transcendence between life and