Lauren Gallaspy
803 E Westminster Ave
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
[email protected]
706.424.1016
born
May 15, 1982, Livingston, Tennessee
education
2007 MFA Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2005 BFA University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2000-2001 Emory University, Atlanta GA
teaching experience
2012 Assistant Professor in Ceramics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
2011 Instructor in Ceramics, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona,
Italy
2008-2009 Instructor in Ceramics, University of Georgia
2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant in Foundations, Alfred University
2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant in Ceramics, Alfred University
2006 Graduate Instructor in Drawing, Alfred University
publications
2012 Ceramics Art and Perception, "Lauren Gallaspy's Workmanship of Risk," by
Christina West
2012 The Best of 500 Ceramics, Lark Books
2012 Ceramics Monthly, Exposure Section
2011 Flagpole Magazine, Review of Hotel Indigo Gallery exhibition, "Drawn in Athens"
(with text and photo)
2011 Flagpole Magazine, Review of Trace Gallery exhibition, "Surprise the Sky" (with
text and photo)
2011 Burnaway Online Journal, Review of Trace Gallery exhibition, "Surprise the Sky"
(with text and photo)
2010 Lost At E Minor Online Publication, Featured Artist (image and statement)
2010 Flagpole Magazine, Review of "Six Decades in Clay" at Lamar Dodd School of Art
2009 Flagpole Magazine, Review of Group Show at Trace Gallery
2010 Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Emerging Artist (with text and photo)
2009 Flagpole Magazine, Review of Three-Person Exhibition (with text and photo)
2006 Poetic Expressions of Mortality, Figurative Ceramics from the Porter-Price
Collection, Mobile Museum of Art
2005 500 Cups, Lark Books
2005 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Review of Group Show (with text and photo) by Jerry
Cullum, award-winning art critic
one, two, and three-person shows
2014 New Work, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta GA (upcoming)
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 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2005 AGA Introductions: Lauren Gallaspy, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
selected group and invitational exhibitions
2013 Emerging Artists, NCECA, Houston, TX (upcoming)
2013 Maximum Craft, The SIgnature Gallery, Atlanta, GA (upcoming)
2013 Science as Muse, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
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 Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,
Atlanta, GA
2011 Yunomi Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2010 Group 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 MFA 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, BFA Exit Show, 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
curatorial/jurying experience
2012 Ceramic Arts Organization Annual Exhibition, juror, SLC, UT
2009-2012 Trace Gallery, co-director, Athens, GA
2011 UGA Ceramic Exhibition, curator, Cortona, Italy
awards/grants/fellowships
2013 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant
2013 Emerging Artist, NCECA
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
workshops & public lectures
2013 California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (upcoming)
2013 Illinois State University, Normal, IL (upcoming)
2013 NCECA Emerging Artist presentation, Houston, TX (upcoming)
2012 Visual Language Course, University of Utah, SLC, UT
2012 LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
2011 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2011 University of GA Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
2011 Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2011 Virginia Commonweatlth University, Richmond, VA
2010 University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2010 Tracy Street Collective, Athens, GA
residencies
2010 Guest Resident, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2005 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
public and private collections collections
Schien-Joseph International Museum of Art
Porter-Price Collection of Figurative Ceramics
Sandy Besser Private Collection
Edie Brickel & Paul Simon
Michael Stipe