Lauren Gallaspy CV

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born

Livingston, Tennessee

education

2007 Master of Fine Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2000-2001 Emory University, Atlanta GA

teaching

faculty positions:

2012-2015 Assistant Professor in Ceramics, University of Utah, SLC, Utah

2011 Instructor in Ceramics, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy

2008-2009 Instructor in Ceramics, University of Georgia

one, two, and three-person shows

2017 Tenuous Constructions, Lauren Gallaspy, Amanda Salov, Ryan LaBar, Chase Grover, Pacific Northwest College of Art 511 Gallery, Portland, OR

2016 New Work, Lauren Gallaspy, Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2016 Strength in Fragility, Lauren Gallaspy, Doug Jeck, Amanda Salov, Eutectic Gallery, Portland OR

2015 Sara Parent-Ramos, Lauren Gallaspy, and Laura Hollis, Cohen Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

2015 Giselle Hicks, Lauren Gallaspy, and Kala Stein, Turman Larison Gallery, Helena, MT

2013 New Work, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC

2012 Lauren Gallaspy: New Work, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2011 Surprise the Sky, Trace Gallery, Athens, GA

2011 Painting on Clay, NCECA exhibition, Tampa, FL

2010 Featured Artist, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2008 Lauren Gallaspy and Andy Nasisse, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2007 Lauren Gallaspy, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY

2005 AGA Introductions: Lauren Gallaspy, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA

selected group and invitational exhibitions

2017 Method Accumulation, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

2017 Archie Bray, Recent Work, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

2017 Groundbreaking: Innovations in Clay, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT

2016 Contemporary Clay, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

2016 Man and Made, UMKC Gallery, NCECA, Kansas City, MO

2016 Archie Bray Past and Current Residents, Belger Crane Yard, NCECA, Kansas City, MO

2016 Middle Ground, KCAI gallery, NCECA, Kansas City, MO

2016 State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now (on tour), Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN

2016 Scripps National 2016, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA

2016 Maximum Craft, Signature Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2016 CeramATTACK, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2016 8 Fluid Ounces; curated by Ayumi Horie, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA

2015 Taboo: Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Ceramics, Signature Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2015 Resident Artist Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

2015 Archie Bray Benefit Auction, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

2015 Drawn-IN, Watershed Fundraising Exhibition, Cavin Morris Gallery, NY, NY

2015 Constructed, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR

2014 50 from 6: Contemporary Ceramic Art from Six Rocky Mountain States, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT

2014 State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR

2014 Archie Bray at the Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA

2014 Recent Acquisitions to the Archie Bray Permanent Collection, Warehouse Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

2014 Art of the Cup, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

2014 Resident Artist Exhibition, Warehouse Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

2014 Faculty Show, UMFA, Salt Lake City, UT

2014 Immersive Spaces, NCECA, Milwaukee, WI

2013 In Between the Lines, Loge Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2013 Restless II: A Mix, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2013 Biomimicry : Innovations Inspired by Nature, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

2013 Mysteries, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2013 Emerging Artists, NCECA, Houston, TX

2013 Science as Muse, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2013 Yunomi Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2012 Don't Box Me In, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2012 Drawn in Athens, Hudgens Arts Center, Macon, GA

2012 Urns, NCECA, Seattle, WA

2012 Fragile, NCECA, Seattle, WA

2012 Drawn in Athens, Hotel Indigo Gallery, Athens, GA

2012 Drawing on Clay, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

2012 Complex-i-tease, Roswell Arts Center West, Roswell, GA

2011 Contemporary Ceramics, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

2011 Yunomi Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2010 Georgia Ceramics, Trace Gallery, Athens, GA

2010 Six Decades in Clay: An Expanding Tradition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2010 Positioning the Figure, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2010 Studio Ceramics, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2010 Introductions Show, Trace Gallery, Athens, GA

2010 Yunomi Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2009 Studio Ceramic Invitational, Trace Studios, Athens, GA

2009 Beyond Surface, University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2009 Southeast Ceramics, University of South Carolina's McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC

2009 30 x 5, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA

2009 Perils in the Sublime: A Poetic Consideration of Ecology, Landscape and Reconstruction, NCECA, Phoenix, AZ

2009 Ceramic Invitational, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2008 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Pittsburgh, PA

2007 New Alfred, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA

2007 Alfred Grads, Leon Gedould Gallery, New York, NY

2006 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Portland, OR

2006 Poetic Expressions of Mortality, Figurative Ceramics from the Porter-Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

2006 Tell Me a Story, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM

2005 Stories and Visions of Nature in Clay, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2005 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Baltimore, MD

2005 Octant, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2005 Hot/Ice, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC

2004 8 Fluid Ounces: A Cup Show, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

2004 CUP, The New Gallery, University of Miami, FL

awards/grants/fellowships

2016 Nominee USA Fellow

2015 Dee Grant: Skin/Deep: The Language of Pattern and Culture in Clay" (Workshop Series)

2015 URC Faculty Fellow Award: Semester of Release Time, Fall 2015

2014 Windgate Summer Scholarship Recipient, Archie Bray Foundation

2014 Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, honorable mention

2013 Emerging Artist, NCECA

2012 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant

2010 Emerging Artist, Ceramics Monthly Magazine

2004 Mary Rosenblatt Art Scholarship

2004 Regina Brown Undergraduate Fellowship Recipient

2003 Patrick Thomas Keim Memorial Award for work in Ceramics

residencies

2015-2017 Long-Term Resident, Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT

2014 Short-Term Resident, Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT

2010 Guest Resident, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA

2005 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA,

curatorial/jurying experience

2014-2016 “Sight Unseen: Rigorous Improvisation in Contemporary Ceramics,” ArtAxis sponsored NCECA concurrent exhibition for 2016, Kansas City, KS

2012 Ceramic Arts Organization Annual Exhibition, juror, SLC, UT

2009-2012 Trace Gallery, co-director, Athens, GA

Co-Curator:

In the Company of Wolves: Works on the Wall by Tattoo Artists

Carol John and Carl Martin: Recent Work

Studio Pottery Invitational

Michaelene Walsh and Debbie Kupinsky

Chris Hocking: Without Poems

Sam Seawright: Summer Ghosts

Open House: A Collection of Work in All Media

Surprise the Sky

public and private collections collections

Archie Bray Foundation Permanent Collection

Kolva/Sullivan Collection

Schien-Joseph International Museum of Art

Porter-Price Collection of Figurative Ceramics

Sandy Besser Private Collection

Edie Brickel & Paul Simon Private Collection

Michael Stipe Private Collection

professional affiliations

2015-current

ArtAxis Board Member

ArtAxis Juror

2014 ArtAxis Member (juried membership)

2010-present

NCECA member