The Sweet Life
February 3rd, 2012 - March 24th, 2012
Featuring: Chandra DeBuse, Jana Evans, Jenny Gawronski, & Courtney Murphy
Opening Reception - First Friday, February 3rd, 2012, 6-9pm
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Red Star Studios invites four artists with a sweet sensibility to exhibit candy colored wares and dessert servers.
Bios:
Chandra DeBuse lives in Gatlinburg, TN where she is a resident artist at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. After receiving a degree in psychology, she discovered her love of functional pottery while taking a community wheel throwing class. She was a special student at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln before receiving her MFA from the University of Florida in 2010. Following her graduate degree, DeBuse completed a nine-month residency at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL where she taught children and adult classes. DeBuse’s pottery incorporates bouncing lines, candy colors, low relief and hand-drawn imagery.
Jana Evans received her BFA from Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas, with a concentration in ceramics. She furthered her studies at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and also worked as a studio assistant to ceramic artist Jerilyn Virden. She then moved to Lincoln Nebraska as a post‐baccalaureate student in ceramics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. In 2010, Jana received her Master of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Currently, Evans is a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.
Jenny Gawronski received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics and Bachelor of Science in Art Education degrees in 2001 from Pennsylvania State University. She then continued to study ceramics as a post-baccalaureate student at University of Colorado at Boulder and in Gothenburg, Sweden at Hogskolan for Design och Konsthantverk, School of Design and Craft. In 2008 she received her Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from Louisiana State University. Jenny is currently an Assistant Professor at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado.
Courtney Murphy first began working with clay while living in Brooklyn, NY. After several years of working for potters around the city, she moved to Portland to study ceramics at the Oregon College of Art & Craft. After graduating, Murphy spent three and a half months at a ceramic residency in Denmark. In 2006, clay led her back across the country to Asheville, N.C. to begin a two year Ceramic Residency at Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts. Currently, Courtney Murphy is an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana where she has been creating modern hand-built and wheel-thrown tableware and decorative wall hangings.
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