Adrian Arleo

1960 Born, Tarrytown, New York

EDUCATION

1983 BA Art and Anthropology, Honors in Art, Pitzer College, Claremont, California

1983-1984 Graduate Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1986 MFA Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

1986-1987 Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Oregon

1987-1988 Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, Oregon

2012 Jorden Schnitzer Print Making Residency, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, Oregon

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

—Studio artist

 

Adrian Arleo is a ceramic sculptor whose work focuses on human and animal forms. Her sculptures can represent a human figure, an animal form or both. Each piece begins with a sketch that is transformed into three dimensions using one inch diameter extruded coils. Arleo uses glazes to finish her surfaces, sometimes she employs the encaustic technique, and metallic leaf may also appear on her figures.

The coils are rolled to compress the clay and decrease their diameters. The looseness of the hand building process allows her to build the figural forms she employs. Often the poses she gives her human figures reference Greek and Roman sculptures. Her surfaces are typically highly textured. Inspiration comes from the natural world around her. Perhaps it’s honeycomb, the strata of a mountain side, the bark of a tree or fur or feathers. 

Public Collections

Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

Icheon World Ceramic Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Kings County Public Art Collection, Kings County, Washington

Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia

Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

Seattle University, Seattle, Washington

Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

Bibliography

Arleo, Adrian. “An O.S.A.C. Residency”, Ceramics Monthly (November 1987).

Arleo, Adrian. “Adrian Arleo’s Figure Teapots”, Kerameiki Techni (2003).

Arleo, Adrian. “Building Large Figurative Sculpture”, NCECA Journal 15 (1994-95).

Arleo Adrian. “Emerging Talent,” NCECA Journal 11 (1990-91).

Arleo, Adrian. “Form and Experience”, The Studio Potter (December/January 1987-88).

Arleo, Adrian. “Working Sculptor Feature”, Ceramics Monthly (January 2010).

Lark Crafts. The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay. Ashville, NC: Lark Books, 2012.

Tourtillott, Suzanne J. Figure in Clay: Contemporary Sculpting Techniques by Master Artists. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing, 2005.

 

Website: www.adrianarleo.com

 

 

 

	This research was supported by a Craft Research Fund Grant from the Center For Craft
	American Museum of Ceramic Art