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Biography

Bridget Fox is known for complicated forms which reference seed pod?s forms and interiors. Fox utilizes hand building techniques including pinch, coil, and slab to build her mostly small scale sculptural objects. When needed, she also uses the potter?s wheel, slab roller, molds or the extruder for making the initial form.

Fox alters and adds onto each piece to develop the complicated forms and then refines the surface. Fox carves, pokes, stamps, adds clay appendages, and impresses natural material and found objects into the clay. Color is very important in Fox?s work. She applies layers of glaze which she then scrapes through revealing areas of various stages of glazing, colors and textures. Most of her work is oxidation fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln.

While at the University of Georgia she studied with Andy Nasisse and Ted Saupe.

Initially, Fox made pit fired functional objects but moved on the creating more complex and exotic vessels.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

2004

Residency International Ceramic Museum, Inchon, South Korea

2005

Residency Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Castle, Maine

2006

Residency Arts and Industry, Kohler Company and John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

2010

Residency Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

2015

Residency LH Project, Joseph, Oregon

Primary Work Experience

Studio sculptor working with clay, metal and glass, North Carolina

Other

Public Collections

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

AmSouth, Birmingham, Alabama

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina

Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts

Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Museum at Icheon World Ceramics Center, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC

Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina

Takoma Glass Museum, Tacoma, Washington

The Howard Hughes Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland

White House Collection, Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas

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Flint Institute of Arts. Function, Form & Fantasy: Ceramics from the Dr. Robert & Deanna Harris Burger Collection. Flint, MI: Flint Institute of Arts, 2016

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Lark Books. The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Penland School of Crafts. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2004.

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