Michelle Erickson

Michelle Erickson (born 1960) is an American ceramic artist who works with contemporary and reproduction pottery.[1] She received her BFA from the College of William and Mary in 1982 and recently finished two residencies; one at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, VA, and the other at Starworks in Star and Seagrove, NC. Michelle currently has a solo exhibition project titled You &I Are …Earth located at Wilton House Museum in Richmond, VA.[2] Additionally, she is affiliated with the National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts, American Craft Council, and American Ceramics Circle.[1]

Artist's Statement

"My career-long fascination with ceramic history during the period of Western exploration expansion, and dominion began with exposure to archeological ceramics in the "colonial triangle" of Virginia. Fragments of British, European, Asian, and Native American pottery unearthed in the early colonial excavations embody a remarkable global convergence of cultures in clay. My practice in the rediscovery of lost ceramic techniques and the contexts of this history define my approach as a contemporary artist. I use the depth of history through the art of making to draw parallels through time such as the 18th century Staffordshire pottery industry and global design giant Nike, Wedgewood's abolitionist ceramics and 21st child slavery, the colonial discovery and obsession with fossils as prescient to our perilous addiction to fossil fuels. I make objects of the past from an imagined future in the present."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Brooklyn Museum: Michelle Erickson". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  2. 1 2 "Michelle Erickson Ceramics". Michelle Erickson Ceramics. Retrieved 2017-03-04.

Further reading

  • Turner, Anderson (2010). Studio Ceramics: Advanced Techniques. Westerville, Ohio: American Ceramic Society. ISBN 1574985361.
  • Tradition & Modernity: The Ceramic Art of Michelle Erickson. Richmond, Virginia: Visual Arts Center of Rochmond. 2010.
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