Wes Harvey
Wesley Harvey is known for slab-built, slip-cast and coiled electric kiln fired earthenware assemblages and vessel forms. Harvey coil-builds larger vessels. Surface techniques include colored slips, underglaze, decals, lusters, and glazes.
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Wesley Harvey is known for slab-built, slip-cast and coiled electric kiln fired earthenware assemblages and vessel forms. Harvey coil-builds larger vessels. Surface techniques include colored slips, underglaze, decals, lusters, and glazes.
Early work (2008-2011) used slip-cast kitsch small figurines, chickadees, standing figures, etc. grouped, sometimes monochromatic groupings. Later work employed transfers, hand painting, and lusters. Transition to appropriation, drawing, collage, the use of decal motifs of flowers, posed male figures and painted detail systematically arranged on hand-built ceramic objects, plates, teapots, etc. (2011-2018).
Harvey?s work is derived from queer theory focused on gay male sexuality, and the changes in social acceptance. The Baroque and Rococo periods in decorative art history are seen in Harvey?s use of luster ?gilding? in pottery and framed works.
" - Apprenticeships & Residencies
- Primary Work Experience
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2007-2008
Assistant Director, Landmark Arts Galleries, Texas Tech University, School of Art, Lubbock, Texas
2008-2014Adjunct Faculty, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, Texas
2008-2014Adjunct Faculty, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
2008-2014Co-Director, Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2014-2016Curator, Gallery Director, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana
2016-2017Instructor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
2017Lecturer, Ceramics, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Other
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Arizona State University, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona
Fondazione Museo Internazionale della Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Art and Artifact Collection, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
M.H. de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana
Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts, Shanghai, China
- Bibliography
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Harvey, Wesley. Rough Trade Exhibition Catalog. Curator’s Statement. Meadville, PA: Allegheny College, 2018.
Reintjes, Brandon, “Hope & Possibility in Montana Clay,” Ceramics Monthly, January 14, 2016, http://ceramicartsdaily.org/ceramics-monthly/article/hope-and-possibility-in-montana-clay/
- CV or Resume
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Kuratnick, Jeffrey
- Website(s)
Citation: Kuratnick, Jeffrey Wes Harvey, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/wes-harvey
