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Rick Dillingham?s slab built or coiled pots were formed and burnished, then carefully scored before firing. After firing, the pots were broken into predesigned shards which were, then, painted, gilded, glazed and reassembled. Sometimes voids were left to echo conserved ancient pots. Dillingham also experimented with colored glues to accentuate the outline of the shards in the reconstructed pot.

Rick Dillingham spent time as a volunteer, restoring Native American clay vessels for the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. This tedious piecing together of clay shards inspired his hand-built ceramic vessels.

In addition to his work with clay, Dillingham was known for his knowledge of Southwestern Native American pottery traditions. He curated a number of exhibitions on Native American pottery including one in 1974 of the clay work of seven Pueblo families. He has authored two important books on the subject.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

Primary Work Experience

1976

1994

Independent studio potter, scholar and curator

Other

Public Collections

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Fine Arts Museum of the South, Langan Park, Mobile, Alabama

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina

Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California

The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rockford College Art Collection, Rockford, Illinois

Scripps College of Art, Scripps College, Claremont, California

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa

University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Bibliography

Clark, Garth. American Ceramics, 1876 to the Present. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1987.

Clark, Garth, and Cindy Strauss. Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics The Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Clark, Garth. Ceramic Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics. Kansas City, MO.: Contemporary Art Society, 1983.

Curtis, Phil. "Artist Finds Mysteries in Pottery." Albuquerque Journal, February 23, 1986.

Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2001.

Dillingham, Rick. Acoma & Laguna Pottery. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1992.

_______________. Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Durham, Linda. Rick Dillingham, 1952-1994: Estate Sale and Auction . Santa Fe, New Mexico: VNS Health Services, 1996.

Kangas, Matthew. "Rick Dillingham and the Reparative Drive." American Ceramics 8, no. 4 (1990).

Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work, A Catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Art Museum. Los Angeles, CA: Chronicle Books, 1990.

Mayer, Barbara. Contemporary American Craft Art: A Collector's Guide. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1988.

McCready, Karen. Contemporary American Ceramics Twenty Artists. Newport Harbor, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1985.

Perry, Barbara. American Ceramics: The Collection of Everson Museum of Art. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1989.

Rick Dillingham 1952-1994: A Retrospective Exhibition. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1994.

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