Artist: Nancy Green
Nancy Green, GEORGIA
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ARTIST BIO
Nancy Green works with stoneware clay and primarily focuses on making utilitarian ware for the table, kitchen, and for flower arrangements. Her work is primarily treadle wheel thrown and then modified with hand built components consisting of textured slabs. Surface treatments consist of natural ash or soda, or applied slips and glazes. Pieces are fired in either a soda or wood kiln.
Artist Statement
Although I grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, as a child I spent every possible moment in the country exploring the woods and playing in creeks. The earthy tones and minimalism of my functional pots reflect the nature that surrounded me as a child. I gravitate towards a pot that is casual, quiet, and appears to have grown right out of the spot it sits. My aesthetic falls into a minimalist category, less is more for me. I am drawn to and hope to create pots that have an organic and natural quality to them. These are the pots that pull me in. Their irregularities give these pots a personality not unlike our own physical presence. I juxtapose minimalism, simple clean lines, designs that are unadorned but have a strong presence with aspects that are loose, organic, and casual.
Selected Exhibition History
2025 - April, Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Group Show with Christine Kosiba and George Peterson
2024 & 2025 - St Croix Pottery Tour, MN
2023 - Sept., Northern Clay Center, “American Pottery Festival” Invitational Group
Show, Minneapolis, MN
2022 - October, Schaller Gallery, “Maker Focus”, Baroda, MI
2022 - Sept., Northern Clay Center, “American Pottery Festival” Invitational Group Show, Minneapolis, MN
2022 - August, Schaller Gallery, “Plate Show” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2022 - May, Schaller Gallery, “All From Athens” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2022 - May, Schaller Gallery “Athens Round Up II Collaboration” Show, Baroda, MI
2022 - May, In Tandem Gallery, “Athens Show” Invitational Group Show, Bakersville, NC
2022 - April, Schaller Gallery, “Cut Carve Flute” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2021 - October, Judith Duff Studio and Gallery Invitational Show, Cedar Mountain, NC
2021 - Sept., Schaller Gallery, “Vapor” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2021 - June, Eutectic Gallery, “Women Of Wood Fire” Invitational Group Show,
Portland, OR
2021 - May, Blue Spiral Gallery, “Judith Duff Tribute” Invitational Group Show,
Asheville, NC
2021 - May, Schaller Gallery, “Brown Earthy Natural” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2021 - April, Schaller Gallery, “Ron Meyers and Friends” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2021 - March, Schaller Gallery, “Quietude” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2020 - Nov., Schaller Gallery, “Ron Meyers & Friends” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2020 - June, Eutectic Gallery, “Women of Wood Fire” Invitational Group Show,
Portland, OR
2019 - May, Signature Shop and Gallery, “Berry Bowl” Invitational Group Show, Atlanta, GA
2019 - Feb, Signature Shop and Gallery, “Handbuilt” Invitational Group Show, Atlanta, GA
2018 - August, Schaller Gallery, “Quietude” Invitational Group Show, Baroda, MI
2018 - March, Signature Shop and Gallery at Piedmont College Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, “For The Table” Invitational Group Show, Demorest, GA
2018 March, NCECA “Ron Meyers Group Show Invitational”, Urban Tree LLC, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 - Dec., Signature Shop and Gallery, “The Platter” Invitational Group Show, Atlanta, GA
2016 - Oct., Signature Shop and Gallery, “Design & Crafted” Invitational Group Show, Atlanta, GA
2015 Jan., NCECA Biennial Exhibition, David Winton Bell Gallery, Juried Art Exhibition, Brown University, Providence, RI
Publications
2019 Contributor to Melissa Weiss “Hand Built - A Potter’s Guide, Quarto Publishing
Group
2018 - May, Ceramics Monthly Studio Visit, Nancy Green, Watkinsville, GA
Award
2015 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Merit Award, State College, PA
2014 Alabama and Neighbors Exhibition and Sale Best Body of Work, Chris Staley
Juror, June Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn AL