Artist: Christopher Gryder
Christopher Gryder, VIRGINIA
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ARTIST BIO
Chris’s path has consistently gravitated towards and found redemption in “making,” whether in architecture school at Tulane where his attraction for physical form was explored in the sanctioned realm of cardboard models, or at Arcosanti, in the sun drenched playground for architects in the Arizona desert; a place where the medium of silt, clay and concrete are the primary means of expression. Playing in the dirt, he seemed to find his medium of choice. His activities ranged from the scale of ceramic houses, as demonstrated by Nader Khalili at CalEarth in southern California, to the hand held clay creations afforded and indulged upon at Paolo Soleri’s ceramic studio on the edge of the Sonoran. He later found a nurturing environment for these tendencies while earning his MFA at RISD and achieved breakthroughs working with clay and earthen mixtures, leading to his current body of work.
1998 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics.
1988 Tulane School of Architecture, New Orleans, Louisiana. Bachelor of Architecture, five year accredited program.
1987 Architecture Program in Greece Sponsored by University of North Carolina & Tulane University.
1986 Architecture: Southern France & Spain Sponsored by Syracuse University.
1986 Urban Design/Seville: The City and the Expo Internacional del ‘92 Sponsored by Universidad de Seville & Junta de la Andalucia.
1982 Architecture - Cornell University Summer Program in Architecture.