ERIK SCOLLON : WORK : ABOUT

 

 

 

I try to queer up our ideas about what art can do by remaking and repurposing functional objects. At the same time, I'm trying to retell new histories in old languages. I want to make objects that exist in between the sculptural and the functional in an effort to insert art back into everyday life.

Click here for an introduction to some of my critical writing

name: Erik Scollon
location: Oakland, CA
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education:
  MA in Visual Criticism (2008) California College of the Arts
  MFA in ceramics(2007) California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC)
  BFA in visual art (1994) Albion College, Albion, Michigan

Recent Group Shows
2008
Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
The Bathroom Show , Tricycle Gallery, San Francisco, California
Gays Gaze, PLAySPACE Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, California

2007
Walls of Glory, Eagle Tavern, San Francisco, CA
“C” Change: Craft in Our Future, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, California
LTC +1, M1 Gallery, San Francisco, California
Galleon Trade: Ship Launch, Oakland, California
MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
Bringing Sexy Back, ICEBOX Gallery and TRAX Gallery, Oakland, CA
Us and Them, FAB Gallery, Virgina Commonwealth University
“_Is What?” Isabel Percy West Gallery, California College of the Arts

2005
kilnopening.edu, American Museum of Ceramics, Pomona, California
Group Show, Icaro Gallery, Long Beach, California

Work also available at LOOK Boutique/ Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Lectures, Talks and Workshops
Demonstrator: The Art of Moldmaking, Heath Ceramics, Sausalito, California, July 2008
Lecturer: Craft in the Expanded Field, National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts, March 2008
Moderator: The Future of Craft, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, January 2008
Moderator: New Frontiers in Contemporary Ceramics, CCA, October 2007

Curatorial Experience
Exhibition Organizer, “C” Change: Craft in our Future, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Fall 2007

Selected Reviews
Stacy Martin, “The Art of the Eagle Men’s Room,” SFBG pixelvision, San Francisco, CA
Johnny Ray Huston, “Flaming Creators,” San Francisco Bay Guardian
Cheryl Meeker, “CCA MFA Exhibition,” stretcher.org