The Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1945 onward
Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1945 onward
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Chris Gustin
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
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
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
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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