Michelle Erickson
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b. 1960, Hampton, Virginia
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
The Chipstone Foundation
The Long Beach Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Arts & Design
Peabody Essex
New-York Historical Society
Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Potteries Museums Stoke on Trent
The Sonny and Gloria Kamm Collection
Yale University Museum
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006-09 The Yixing Effect, Traveling Exhibit, The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2008 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006-08 New York Ceramics Fair, National Academy of Design
2007 Contemporary Castings, Lora Robbins Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
2006 Amazing Clay III, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
Smithsonian Craft Show, National Building Museum
Coffee, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Tooth and Claw: An Ark of Animals Reimagined, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
2005 Timepeace, Milwaukee Art Museum, Object of the Month, WI
Tour de Clay, Mount Clare Museum House, NCECA, Baltimore, MD
The Blue Plate Special, Platters & Plates, Chester Springs Studio, PA
Temptation, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju City, Korea
Slipware Traditions, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Art of the American Frontier, Owensboro Museum of Art, Indiana
A Great Mania: The Influence of Delft Pottery, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID
Menagerie, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Infusion, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
A Tale To Tell, John Micheal Kohler Art Center, WI
Particles & Passion, Academy Art Center, MD
2004 Old World/New World, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2001-04 New York Ceramics Fair, National Academy of Design
2002-04 Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2003 Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
After Palissy, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2002 Blue + White = Radical, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
SELETED PUBLICATIONS
2007 Making a Bonnin and Morris Pickle Stand. Ceramics in America
2007 Art in Review, New York Times
2006 The Yixing Effect, Marvin Sweet
2004 500 Figures in Clay, Lark Books
2003 “Swirls and Whirls: English and American Agateware Technology”Ceramics in America
2003, The Chipstone Foundation
2001 “Dots, Dashes and Squiggles: Early English Slipware Technology”, Ceramics in America
2001, The ChipstoneFoundation
1999 “The Green Spring Planter” Early American Life Magazine (April)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michelle Erickson is a graduate of The College of William and Mary with a B.F.A. in Fine and Performing Arts. In addition to her considerable contemporary ceramic work, Ms. Erickson has over twenty years experience in working with 17th- and 18th-century reproduction pottery. Her exquisite recreations and contemporary pieces have won critical acclaim internationally and been featured in many national and international publications. As owner of Michelle Erickson Pottery, Inc., she reproduces ceramics from archeological and aquired collections for organizations such as Colonial Williamsburg, the National Park Service, Parks Canada, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Historic Deerfield. She has lectured and demonstrated her work widely for scholarly groups and institutions that include Williamsburg’s Antiques Forum, Winterthur Collectors Circle, Sotheby’s learning weekends, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the St Louis Museum of Art, the University of Wisconsin and the British Museum and the Potteries Museums at Stoke on Trent. She is a partner in the business PERIOD DESIGNS in Yorktown, Virginia, an innovative firm specializing the in the reproduction of 17th- and 18th-century decorative arts, museum quality antique prints and ceramics and contemporary ceramic art. Examples of her contemporary work are in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, The Museum of Art and Design, The Peabody Essex, The Long Beach Museum of Art, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Chipstone Foundation, The New York Historical Society, the Potteries Museums,UK and Yale University Museum. She has consulted on and designed ceramics for several major motion pictures such as The Patriot, The Time Machine, The New World and is currently producing work for the upcoming HBO series John Adams.
Michelle Erickson was commissioned by Jamestown 2007 to create an original artwork in clay as the official gift presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll during her historic visit to Jamestown May 4th 2007 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the first continuous English settlement America.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
The Chipstone Foundation
The Long Beach Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Arts & Design
Peabody Essex
New-York Historical Society
Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Potteries Museums Stoke on Trent
The Sonny and Gloria Kamm Collection
Yale University Museum
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006-09 The Yixing Effect, Traveling Exhibit, The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2008 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006-08 New York Ceramics Fair, National Academy of Design
2007 Contemporary Castings, Lora Robbins Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
2006 Amazing Clay III, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
Smithsonian Craft Show, National Building Museum
Coffee, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC
Tooth and Claw: An Ark of Animals Reimagined, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
2005 Timepeace, Milwaukee Art Museum, Object of the Month, WI
Tour de Clay, Mount Clare Museum House, NCECA, Baltimore, MD
The Blue Plate Special, Platters & Plates, Chester Springs Studio, PA
Temptation, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju City, Korea
Slipware Traditions, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Art of the American Frontier, Owensboro Museum of Art, Indiana
A Great Mania: The Influence of Delft Pottery, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID
Menagerie, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Infusion, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
A Tale To Tell, John Micheal Kohler Art Center, WI
Particles & Passion, Academy Art Center, MD
2004 Old World/New World, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2001-04 New York Ceramics Fair, National Academy of Design
2002-04 Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2003 Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
After Palissy, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2002 Blue + White = Radical, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
SELETED PUBLICATIONS
2007 Making a Bonnin and Morris Pickle Stand. Ceramics in America
2007 Art in Review, New York Times
2006 The Yixing Effect, Marvin Sweet
2004 500 Figures in Clay, Lark Books
2003 “Swirls and Whirls: English and American Agateware Technology”Ceramics in America
2003, The Chipstone Foundation
2001 “Dots, Dashes and Squiggles: Early English Slipware Technology”, Ceramics in America
2001, The ChipstoneFoundation
1999 “The Green Spring Planter” Early American Life Magazine (April)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michelle Erickson is a graduate of The College of William and Mary with a B.F.A. in Fine and Performing Arts. In addition to her considerable contemporary ceramic work, Ms. Erickson has over twenty years experience in working with 17th- and 18th-century reproduction pottery. Her exquisite recreations and contemporary pieces have won critical acclaim internationally and been featured in many national and international publications. As owner of Michelle Erickson Pottery, Inc., she reproduces ceramics from archeological and aquired collections for organizations such as Colonial Williamsburg, the National Park Service, Parks Canada, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Historic Deerfield. She has lectured and demonstrated her work widely for scholarly groups and institutions that include Williamsburg’s Antiques Forum, Winterthur Collectors Circle, Sotheby’s learning weekends, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the St Louis Museum of Art, the University of Wisconsin and the British Museum and the Potteries Museums at Stoke on Trent. She is a partner in the business PERIOD DESIGNS in Yorktown, Virginia, an innovative firm specializing the in the reproduction of 17th- and 18th-century decorative arts, museum quality antique prints and ceramics and contemporary ceramic art. Examples of her contemporary work are in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, The Museum of Art and Design, The Peabody Essex, The Long Beach Museum of Art, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Chipstone Foundation, The New York Historical Society, the Potteries Museums,UK and Yale University Museum. She has consulted on and designed ceramics for several major motion pictures such as The Patriot, The Time Machine, The New World and is currently producing work for the upcoming HBO series John Adams.
Michelle Erickson was commissioned by Jamestown 2007 to create an original artwork in clay as the official gift presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll during her historic visit to Jamestown May 4th 2007 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the first continuous English settlement America.