Nancy Adams
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b. 1948, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Celestial Seasonings, Corporate Teapot Collection, Boulder, CO
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicago, IL and Denver, CO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2004-08 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Craftforms 2006, 12th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Teapots: Universal Adoration, invitational, Pewabic Pottery Main Galleries, Detroit, MI
Mad Hatter's Tea, Oregan Potter's Association, Portland OR
2005 Particles and Passion: The Art of Clay, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
For the Love of Flowers, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Louisville, KY
2004 Bottled Spirits, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Louisville, KY
Tea and Fantasy, Alianza Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Planting, Potting and Pruning: Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Ohio Arts and Crafts: Tradition and Legacy, Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, OH
Great Pots! Contemporary Ceramics, From Function to Fantasy, Permanent Collection,
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Solo Exhibition, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR
Clayfest, "Best of Show" Award, Eugene, OR
2002 Art in the Pearl, "Best of Show" Award, Portland, OR
1999-02 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Tantalizing Tea, Invitational, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
1999 Sausalito Art Festival, "Best in Ceramics" Award, Sausalito, CA
1997-98 Hitachi Data Systems Tea Show, invitational, Hitachi Corporate Offices, Santa Clara, CA
1997 L’Chaim: A Kiddush Cup Invitational, San Francisco Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
1996 A Madcap Tea Party, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Lake Michigan: From Placid Pool to Raging Flood, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine
Arts, Racine, WI
Celestial Seasonings: A Loose Interpretation, Celestial Seasonings, Boulder, CO
Solo Exhibition, Fine Eye Gallery, Sutter Creek, CA
1995 Let’s Play House: Artists and the Domestic Environment, Charles A. Wustum Museum of
Fine Arts, Racine, WI
1993 Chicago New Art Forms, Chicago Navy Pier, Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Tea Party, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2002 Kathy Triplett, 500 Teapots, Lark Books
1996 Andrew Jowers, "Spinning on Nature's Intuition", Santa Rosa Press Democrat, January 3
1994 "What's New in Art", Chicago Sun Times, August 21
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in San Francisco, California, Nancy Yturriaga Adams spent one year studying basic ceramic technique at City College of San Francisco. After receiving an Associate of Arts degree in 1969, she went on to study classical literature at San Francisco State University. For years she worked in clay in various studio spaces, including Ruby O'Burke's workshop in San Francisco. Now living on Sweetwater Ranch in southern Oregon, she combines her art with riding the hills on horseback, organic gardening and hosting Sweetwater Cottage Retreat, a destination for those who share similar interests.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My work is individually wheel-thrown white earthenware vessels with hand-carved and hand-modeled flora and fauna motifs. Low fire glazes are airbrushed on the ware in multiple coats and then fired to maturity in an electric kiln. I prefer the quiet atmosphere of the lone studio potter. For me it is the perfect lure for the elusive muse that both inspires and propels my work. I'm interested in interspecies relationship, the vessel and the art of tea as a bridgeway.
I've spent many happy years perfecting my skills and revel in the strength to express my homage to what is most sacred to me, the natural environment. I want to celebrate all the wonderful living things on the earth. The heart of my work has always been the lovely symmetry of the wheel-thrown vessel. I love the way it meets the sky, the way it looks at the edge, very much like the horizon stepping into infinity. It is here that the magic takes place, the wonderful point of transformation.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Celestial Seasonings, Corporate Teapot Collection, Boulder, CO
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicago, IL and Denver, CO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2004-08 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Craftforms 2006, 12th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Teapots: Universal Adoration, invitational, Pewabic Pottery Main Galleries, Detroit, MI
Mad Hatter's Tea, Oregan Potter's Association, Portland OR
2005 Particles and Passion: The Art of Clay, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
For the Love of Flowers, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Louisville, KY
2004 Bottled Spirits, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Louisville, KY
Tea and Fantasy, Alianza Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Planting, Potting and Pruning: Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Ohio Arts and Crafts: Tradition and Legacy, Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, OH
Great Pots! Contemporary Ceramics, From Function to Fantasy, Permanent Collection,
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Solo Exhibition, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR
Clayfest, "Best of Show" Award, Eugene, OR
2002 Art in the Pearl, "Best of Show" Award, Portland, OR
1999-02 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Tantalizing Tea, Invitational, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
1999 Sausalito Art Festival, "Best in Ceramics" Award, Sausalito, CA
1997-98 Hitachi Data Systems Tea Show, invitational, Hitachi Corporate Offices, Santa Clara, CA
1997 L’Chaim: A Kiddush Cup Invitational, San Francisco Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
1996 A Madcap Tea Party, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Lake Michigan: From Placid Pool to Raging Flood, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine
Arts, Racine, WI
Celestial Seasonings: A Loose Interpretation, Celestial Seasonings, Boulder, CO
Solo Exhibition, Fine Eye Gallery, Sutter Creek, CA
1995 Let’s Play House: Artists and the Domestic Environment, Charles A. Wustum Museum of
Fine Arts, Racine, WI
1993 Chicago New Art Forms, Chicago Navy Pier, Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Tea Party, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2002 Kathy Triplett, 500 Teapots, Lark Books
1996 Andrew Jowers, "Spinning on Nature's Intuition", Santa Rosa Press Democrat, January 3
1994 "What's New in Art", Chicago Sun Times, August 21
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in San Francisco, California, Nancy Yturriaga Adams spent one year studying basic ceramic technique at City College of San Francisco. After receiving an Associate of Arts degree in 1969, she went on to study classical literature at San Francisco State University. For years she worked in clay in various studio spaces, including Ruby O'Burke's workshop in San Francisco. Now living on Sweetwater Ranch in southern Oregon, she combines her art with riding the hills on horseback, organic gardening and hosting Sweetwater Cottage Retreat, a destination for those who share similar interests.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My work is individually wheel-thrown white earthenware vessels with hand-carved and hand-modeled flora and fauna motifs. Low fire glazes are airbrushed on the ware in multiple coats and then fired to maturity in an electric kiln. I prefer the quiet atmosphere of the lone studio potter. For me it is the perfect lure for the elusive muse that both inspires and propels my work. I'm interested in interspecies relationship, the vessel and the art of tea as a bridgeway.
I've spent many happy years perfecting my skills and revel in the strength to express my homage to what is most sacred to me, the natural environment. I want to celebrate all the wonderful living things on the earth. The heart of my work has always been the lovely symmetry of the wheel-thrown vessel. I love the way it meets the sky, the way it looks at the edge, very much like the horizon stepping into infinity. It is here that the magic takes place, the wonderful point of transformation.