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Biography

Mark Pharis is known for wheel-thrown stoneware high-fired functional pottery created in his early career and from the early 1990s onward for slab-built low fired earthenware utilitarian objects.

Pharis uses paper templates to develop components of slab-built works. The surface technique is minimal. In early work Pharis used earth-toned glazes and later work often features contrasting brightly colored geometric shapes.

Pharis? formative years as a student at the University of Minnesota with Warren Mackenzie inform his studio practice.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

1978

1981

Apprentice, Shimoaka Pottery, Mashiko, Japan

1989—

Head of Ceramics Program, Faculty, California State University, Long Beach, California

Primary Work Experience

Other

Public Collections

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Arizona State University Art Museum Tempe, Arizona

Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri

Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado

FoshanMuseum of Contemporary Art, Foshan, China

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawai’i

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Museum of Contemporary International Ceramic Art, Incheon, South Korea

Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

Takumi Folk Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Bibliography

Cavener, Jim. “Exhibition Review,” San Gabriel Valley Weekly, (January 26, 1996).

Clark, Garth. The Artful Teapot. London, England: Thames & Hudson, 2001).

Colby, Joy Hakanson. “Exhibition Review,” The Detroit News, (March 8, 1991).

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

Deragon, Rick. “Tony Marsh,” American Ceramics 11, no. 4 (1995).

Hohenboken, Steve. “Tony Marsh,” The New Art Examiner (Summer 1996).

Lagorio, Irene. “Review,” Monterey Peninsula Herald (August 14, 1983).

Lauria, Jo. “Dialogues in Clay: A Conversation between Tony Marsh & Kurt Weiser,” Ceramics Art and Perception (December 2002).

_____ Jo. Color and Fire – Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950–2000. New York, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rizzoli International, 2000.

Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work. San Francisco, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Chronicle Books, 1990.

Mansfield, Janet. “Exhibition Review,” Ceramics: Art and Perception (1998).

Marsh, Tony. “Juror’s Statement,” Ceramics Monthly (November 1991).

Melrod, George. "Tony Marsh Profile,” Art Ltd.: West Coast Art + Design (March 2007).

Merino, Tony Dubis. “Tony Marsh’s Puzzling Narratives,” Contact, (Spring 1998).

Peterson, Susan. Contemporary Ceramics. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000.

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