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Chris Gustin

Biography to Display: 

1952Born Chicago, Illinois

EDUCATION

1975BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri

1977MFA New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1970-1972 Family’s commercial ceramic factory. One semester at University of California, Irvine, where he took a course with John Mason

1978-1980 Instructor, Crafts Department, New York, New York

1980-1985 Assistant Professor, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts1985-1988 Associate Professor of Design, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, Massachusetts

1988-1998 Associate Professor of Design, Ceramics, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

1996—Gustin Ceramics Tile Production LLC, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts

BIOGRAPHY

Chris Gustin began his studio work making functional domestic ware. He is most well-known for his thrown or coil-built and altered pots that reference the functional vessel. The functional forms become the jumping off place for his abstract forms. Scale is important to Gustin’s work ranging from tea bowls to large architectural vessel sculptures.

Beginning in 1995 his work was fired in a wood-fueled Anagama kiln.

He began his career working in his family’s commercial ceramic factory, an experience that was instrumental in his decision to become a studio potter. 

In 1986 Gustin was a co-founder of Watershed Center for the Arts, North Edgecombe, Maine.

Public Collections

Public Collections to Display: 

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana

Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, Arizona

Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, Missouri

DePauw Museum of Art, Greencastle, Indiana

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts

Icheon World Ceramic Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Newman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Museo do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal

Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; Logan, Utah

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

San Angelo Museum of the Arts, San Angelo, Texas

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona

Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan

Shiwan Treasure Pottery Museum, Peoples Republic of China

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Weber State College, Ogden, Utah

Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Bibliography

Bibliography to Display: 

Brown, Glen R., “Chris Gustin–Inverting Perception,” Ceramics Art and Perception 44 (2001).

Clark, Garth. American Ceramics, 1876 to the Present. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1988.

__________. The Book of Cups. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1990.

__________ and Oliver Watson. American Potters Today. London, England: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986.

Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics. London, England: Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Doran, Pat, "Ceramicist Chris Gustin,” Art New England (April/May 1994).

Dormer, Peter. The New Ceramics: Trends and Traditions. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1987.

Ferrin, Leslie. Teapots Transformed. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing, 2000.

Gustin, Christopher. “The Embodiment of Form,” Studio Potter Magazine (Winter/Spring 2009).

_________________ and Angela Fina.  The Best of Pottery 2. Rockport, MA: Rockport Publishers, 1998.

Laurie, Jo. Color/Fire: Defining Moments of Contemporary Ceramics, 1950-2000. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Rizzoli International, 2000.

Mathieu, Paul. Sex Pots: Eroticism in Ceramics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Perry, Barbara. American Ceramics: The Collection of Everson Museum of Art. Syracuse. NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1989.

____________.  American Ceramics Now. Everson Museum of Art. Syracuse, NY: Salina Press, 1987.

Peterson, Susan.  Contemporary Ceramics. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2000.

Rice, L. Robin, Review of exhibition, American Ceramics Magazine 2 (1996).

Ruescher, Scott, “Anagama Firings at Chris Gustin’s,” Ceramic Monthly Magazine (October 2003).

Smith, Paul. Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. London, England; Weidenfeld & Nicolson Press, 1986.

 

Website(s):

http://www.gustinceramics.com/

Artist's Studio: Gustin Ceramics LLC

 

 

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Typical Marks
1986
1986
1990-2000
2014
2014
Untitled Large Black Vessel
Date: 1986
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Hieronymus
Hieronymus
Tall Vessel
Date: ca 1986
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze, Woodfire
E. John Bullard Collection
E. John Bullard Collection
Footed Jar
Date: 1990-2000
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Hieronymus
Hieronymus
Monumental Vase
Date: 2014
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze, Woodfire
"Lineage the Art of Mentorship," Clay Art Center, September 2014, Port Chester, New York
Photo: Loren Maron
"Lineage the Art of Mentorship," Clay Art Center, September 2014, Port Chester, New York
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Vase
Date: ca 2014
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze, Woodfire
40th Annual Pottery Show & Sale, The Art School at Old Church Pottery Invitational, 2014, Demerest, New Jersey
Photo: TMP
40th Annual Pottery Show & Sale, The Art School at Old Church Pottery Invitational, 2014, Demerest, New Jersey
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Bowl
Date: ca 2014
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze, Woodfire
40th Annual Pottery Show & Sale, The Art School at Old Church Pottery Invitational, 2014, Demerest, New Jersey
Photo: TMP
40th Annual Pottery Show & Sale, The Art School at Old Church Pottery Invitational, 2014, Demerest, New Jersey
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Yunomi
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze, Woodfire
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rosenfieldcollection.com
Serving Bowl
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze, Woodfire
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rosenfieldcollection.com
Cup
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze, Woodfire
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rosenfieldcollection.com
Platter
Date: 1979
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Thrown
Dimensions: 24.6 inches in diameter
Surface Technique: Glaze
American Museum of Ceramic Art, gift of The American Ceramic Society, 2004.2.175
American Museum of Ceramic Art, gift of The American Ceramic Society, 2004.2.175

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