Andrea Gill
BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Gill has been a ceramic artist since 1971 when she began working as an apprentice to a potter in Cape Cod, MA, after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting. Her education continued at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she met her husband, John Gill and joined him in Alfred, NY to enter the graduate ceramic art program. (MFA, 1976). In 1978-79, they shared a residency at the Archie Bray Foundation. For the next five years, she exhibited her work nationally and internationally. In 1984, she and John moved to Alfred, NY to share a teaching position. She has continued to exhibit her work in galleries and museum exhibitions, including solo shows in New York, Philadelphia and most recently in Aspen, CO. Gill’s work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute and other public and private collections. She has received numerous grants and awards, including NEA Individual Artist Grants, Ohio Artist Grants, and NYFA Grants. She was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and the Voulkos Fellowship Award and was elected as a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2012. In 2019 she received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Renwick Alliance. She is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. She retired from teaching in 2016 and has continued making and exhibiting her work.
artist statement
My work investigates a visually complex experience that can act as a focus for contemplation and meditation: the object as mediator between seeing and feeling. The goal is to connect the emotional, visceral and retinal with a moment of peace, perhaps even joy.
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