ARTIST STATEMENT
“Monuments” are usually in public view, and many of them are large in scale, to emphasize something important or great to that public and to the area that it’s placed in.
The intimate size of this piece is meant to make the viewer physically close to the work to observe the “tiny details” in its story. My collection of experiences represented here in drawing, painting and imbedded clay are recollections that I hold close in my memory. They rest in their smallness as still and serene reminders of different times in my life.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anne-Bridget Gary is a studio artist, lecturer, workshop instructor and event judge.
Gary has traveled to work with potters in Asia, India and Africa, China, Korea, and Japan. Her ceramic sculpture and pottery are in collections nationally and internationally.
Fellowships include a Core Residency at the Glassell School of Art, Houston. Foundation grants include residencies in Italy, France, and The Sanskriti Kendra Foundation, India.
Gary’s Artist-in-residencies include Vallauris, France and Hambidge Center for the Arts, Georgia. She presented her work at the International Conference for the Arts in Society at NY University, Gary traveled to Xian, China for several weeks for research at excavation sites and also presented her work at The International Ceramic Editors Conference while in China.
Gary received her MFA degree from The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and the BFA from S.I.U. at Carbondale, IL.
Granted Emeritus Professor of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
© Anne-Bridget Gary