Nancy Selvin
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- Biography
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Nancy Selvin is best known for still-lives composed of thrown and altered earthenware vessel forms.The vessels are often arranged on shelves or attached to wall plaques.Bottle forms predominate.She also makes a wide range of stand alone pieces.Surfaces are finished with slips and text transferred to the surface is often an element of the pieces."""
- Apprenticeships & Residencies
- Primary Work Experience
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1970-1972
State University of New York, Albany, New York
Other
- Public Collections
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American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CaliforniaArizona State University Research Collection, Tempe, ArizonaArkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, ArkansasDaum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MissouriHokkohu Shimbun, Tokyo, JapanKohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WisconsinLos Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CaliforniaMills College, Oakland, CaliforniaMint Museum, Charlotte, North CarolinaNora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UtahOakland Museum of California, Oakland, CaliforniaRacine Art Museum, Racine, WisconsinRuth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CaliforniaSmithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DCUniversity of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
- Bibliography
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Anable, Anne. “The Art of Drinking.” New York Times, June 26, 1977.
Attie, Shimon. “Nancy Selvin.” Artweek, March 21, 1991.
Baizerman, Susan. “Still Life in Clay.” Oakland Museum Magazine 26 no. 2, Spring 2002.
Bloonfield, Arthur. “Introductions Serve Their Artistic Purpose." San Francisco Examiner, Thursday, June 8, 1976.
Brown, Glenn R. “Locus of a Disseminated Style.” Kansas City Review, May 2004.
Clowes, Jody. “Focus: Nancy Selvin.”American Craft August/ September, 1992.
Donhauser, Paul. History of American Ceramics. Dubugue, IA: Kendall/HurtPublishing Co., 1978.
Ferrin, Leslie.Teapots Transformed. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing, 2000.
Getty, Nilda F.Contemporary Crafts of the Americas. Chicago, IL:Henry RegneryCo., 1975.
Glass, Judith. “Second Annual Cup Show.” Artweek, January 11,1975.
Hammel, Lisa. “Craftsmen Offer Toast... ” The New York Times, June 25, 1977.
Kouvaris, Lindsey. "Clay in the Bay," (Exhibition essay), Santa Clara, CA: de Saisset Museum, 2013.
Lauria, Jo. "Second Generation: Bay Area Artists." Ceramic Art and Perception, March 2005.
Lauria, Jo, et al. Color and Fire:Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
Levin, Elaine. “China Painting.” Artweek, December 10,1977.
___________. “Ceramic Still-Life: The Common Object.”Ceramic Art and Perception,no 32,1998.
.___________.The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the Present. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
Linger, David. “Nancy Selvin: An Interview.” Ceramic Art and Perception, no 83, March-May 2011.
Lynn, Martha Drexler. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to1979. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
Moore, Sylvia, ed. Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists. New York,NY: Midmarch Press, 1989.
Muchnic, Suzanne."Betty Asher: Her Cups Overfloweth.” Los AngelesTimes, January 5, 198I.
Nigrosh, Leon. Low Fire: Other Ways to Work in Clay. Worcester, MA:Davis Publications,1980.
Peterson, Susan.The Craft and Art of Clay. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall,1992,1997,1999.
______________. Make it in Clay. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999.
______________. Contemporary Ceramics. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2000.
______________. Smashing Glazes. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing, 2001.
Pomento, Dawn. “Nancy Selvin at Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery.”Artweek, December 1999.
Roth, David. “NancySelvin.” American Craft 62, no 5, October/November 2002.
White, Cheryl. “Nancy Selvin at Works Gallery.” Artweek 27 no 6, June 1996.
Williams, Gerry. “Interview, Nancy Selvin.” Studio Potter 13 no 1, December 1986.
Zakin, Richard.Ceramics, Mastering the Craft. Radnor, PA: Chilton & Co., 1990.
_____________. Hand-Formed Ceramics: Creating Form and Surface. Radnor, PA:Chilton & Co., 1995.
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: Nancy Selvin, "The Marks Project."
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