Anne-Bridget Gary
medium: ceramics
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 Dad at the Beach 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder I 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder II 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder III 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder III Detail 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder IV 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder IV Detail 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder V 2011 Ceramics |
 Flameholder V Detail 2011 Ceramics |
 Small Flameholder 2011 Ceramics |
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Contact information
UW-Stevens Point Dept of Art & Design
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone Number: 715-346-4064
Email Address: agary@uwsp.edu
Fax number: 715-346-2718
Artist statement
White Figures: I wandered along Lake Michigan, looking downward, beach all around me, seeing driftwood of all sorts; gathered them, bringing home to me to look and look.
To celebrate them and protect them--like humans protected. Into raw clay as of earth I stuffed them, simple, put latex, a skin over them, to protect and speak to vulnerability--a metaphor for life encased in tender skin. These I broke the surface slightly; wrapped some in twines; veined some with this rubber coating. Now they stand solid, yet free underneath suspended, made of authentic experience of human form, recreated as figures protected, yet intricately, of nature celebrated.
Biography
Anne-Bridget Gary is professor of art and design at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she was hired in 1989. She received her M.F.A. degree in 1984.
She has received research grants and completed residencies in Nicaragua, Italy, Korea, Japan, China and Minnesota. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally.
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