Chris Gustin

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Biography

Chris Gustinbegan 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.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

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, Massachusetts

1985

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

Other

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

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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.

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