Bacia EdelmanBacia Edelman
Slab built, cast bottle,coiled pear and bowl/multifired underglazes,
earthenware
16.5"x 21"x 6"
1993
In these pieces my particular concern was the play between two
dimensions and three dimensions.
In "Still Life", the background mimics, in 2-D, the free-standing wine
bottle and the pear in the bowl. Or do the modeled forms mimic the
drawings?
The piece called "Bird Form" has images of pots within pots in 2-D which
are on the curved surface of the actual vessel. I aimed for a visual pun. (It
amuses me anyway.)
Working in this way not only requires multiple firings and use of graphic
tape but also requires two or three coats of the one-strokes and underglazes. I
am thinking of loosening up and letting the color work become more
gestural.
Originally I majored in painting although I had clay play opportunities as
a small child. Then one ceramics course in art school determined the rest of
my life.
BACIA EDELMAN
Address: 1824 Vilas Avenue, Madison, WI 53711
Phone: (608) 2S7-3292
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
Akademie Fhr Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 1952-53
M.F.A., New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, 1950
B.F.A., Rhode Island school of Design,1 ')47
Black Mountain College (summer) 1946
GRANTS
Project Grants, Wisconsin Arts Board, 1987,1983, 1979,1978
GALLERIES
Lightside Gallery,Santa Fe, New Mexico
Avante Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
COLLECTIONS
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona
Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Numerous corporate and private collections
PURCHASE AWARDS
Chicago Vicinity Clay 3, Chicago, Illinois, 1983
University of Wisconsin, Women's Studies Building, Madison,
Wisconsin 1976
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1994 Four-person show, Santa Fe Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1993 Three-person show, Lightside Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1987 Two-person show, Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters,
Madison, Wisconsin
1985 Solo show, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin
1985 The Hand and the Spirit Crafts Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1994 New Artists Tea Party, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
1994 Paoli Clay Family Show, Verona, WI
1994-93 National Teapot Invitational, Craft Alliance, St. Louis
1993 World Clay Stomp, N. Arizona University Art Gallery,Flagstaff, AZ
1990 "Our Ladies of Art," Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1990 "The Eccentric Teapot," Schneider-Bluhm-Loeb, Chicago, IL
1989 "The Tea Party," Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
1989 "Clay AZ Art," International Exhibit, Northern ArizonaUniversity
Art Gallery, Flagstaff, Arizona
1988 "Explorations in Clay," Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek,
Wisconsin
1985 "Nine From Wisconsin," Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin,
Green Bay, Wisconsin
JURIED EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1993 29th Ceramic National, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1993,'92 and '91 Fifth, Fourth and Third Annual Teapot Shows, A.
Houberbocken Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1991 The Wichita National, Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas
l 991 and 1990 Sixth and Fifth Annual National Ceramic Competitions,
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
1988 "The Dripless Spout/Innovative Teapots," Arrowmont School of
Arts and Crafts Gallery, Gatlinburg, Tenn.
1986 "Chicago Vicinity Clay V", Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois