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Carol & Richard Selfridge
Carol Selfridge: Born 1948
Richard Selfridge: Born 1943
Selected Juried, Solo and Invitational Exhibitions:
2006 International Exhibition Salzbrand, Gallerie Handerk Koblenz, Germany
Atlanta Teapot Festival, The Seen Gallery, Decatur, GA
Saddleback Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
Invitaional, Archie Bray Foundation
“All About Alberta” Invitaional, Canadian Consulate gallery, Washington, DC
“Joy of the Noble Teacup: International Chawan Exhibition”, Abbey of Hemiksen, Belgium
2005 The Works 20th Anniversary Exhibition, World Trade Centre, Edmonton, AB
2003 "California Plates", juried, Tierra Solida: A Clay Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
"Clay Cup IX", juried, 2003, Richard Shaw, juror, University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
"Mugs and Jugs - Vessels of Libation", juried, 2003, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, Alberta
"Teapots: Art and Craft", invitational, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario.
"The Mad Hatter's Tea Party", invitational, in conjunction with "The Artful Teapot: 20th-CenturyExpressions from the Kamm Collection, The George R.Gardiner Museum
of Ceramic Art Gift Shop, Toronto, Ontario
"International Macsabal Woodfire Festival Exhibition", invitational, Joryung folk art village, Chungbuk,Goesan, Korea
"International Wood Fire Festival Exhibition", invitational, Elm Bunka Center, Goshogawara Elm Shopping Center, Goshogawara, Japan
"Illusionistic Formal Vessels: Figurative Majolica and Woodfired Stoneware", invitational
The Works: Art and Design Festival, The Fairmont Hotel MacDonald, Edmonton, Alberta
"AMACO / Brent Invitational 2003 at NCECA" invitational, NCECA, San Diego, California
"Flashes of Greatness: Wood-fired Pottery from Around the Province" invitational, Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton
2002 "Aomori International Woodfire Festival Exhibition", invitational, Goshogawara
City Museum, Japan "International Exhibition Salzbrand 2002" juried, Gallerie Handwerk Koblenz, Germany
"The 14th San Angelo Ceramic Competition", juried, Jimmy Clark, juror, San Angelo
Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
"The 2002 International Orton Cone Box Show" juried, Willfredo Torres, Cuba, Mitsuro Shoji, Japan, Patti Warashina, United States, jurors, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, and Lawrence Art Center, NCECA, Kansas City, Missouri
"Utilitarian Ceramic National", juried, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Lousiana
"The Vase", juried, Peck Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
"Cup: The Intimate Object", juried, Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Our Creative Spirit", juried, Alberta Craft Council, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Alberta
"Featured Artists", invitational , in conjunction with "Gods, Saints and Heros: Ceramic
Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance", George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Gift Shop, Toronto,Ontario.
"Exhibition of Works Made at Aomori International Woodfire Festival", 2002, invitational,
Tsugaru Kanayama-yaki exhibition hall, Goshogawara, Japan
"AMACO / Brent Invitational 2002 at NCECA", invitational, NCECA, Kansas City, Missouri
"Art / Craft: The Great Debate" invitational, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, Alberta
"2002 Bowls", invitational annual, George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art,
Toronto, Ontario.
2001 "Painted Pots: The Art of Majolica", invitational, Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury
Center, Vermont
"2001: Clay Odyssey, Celebrating 50 Years of the Archie Bray Foundation", student
scholarship silent auction, invitational, Archie Bray Foundation, 2001 Helena, Montana
"Go Figure", invitational, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, Alberta
"Culture in the Making", juried, Alberta Craft Council, Devonian Gardens, Calgary, Alberta
"A Matter of Clay", invitational, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London, Ontario
"Innerscapes", invitational, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
"1st World Ceramic Biennial 2001 Korea", Ichon, Korea
"12th Annual Teapot Show On the Road Again", Chicago, Illinois
"Cover Stories: 20th Anniversary Exhibition", travailing invitational, Alberta Craft Council,
2000 "The Millennium Platter Exhibition", CeramicArtGallery, Sydney, Australia
"Focus on Function: The University of Minnesota National Ceramic Biennial, Minneapolis
Minnesota
"Painted Pots: The Art of Majolica", Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury Center, Vermont
"Fireworks 2000" The Outreach Gallery, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario
"Ceramics International Juried Biennial Exhibition" Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, Ohio
"The 2000 International Orton Cone Box Show" Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas
"Mystery of Mastery" Alberta Craft Council, 2000, Edmonton
1999 "Majolica and Wood Fire Summer Show", Master's Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
"Tea For the Taking" Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton.
1998 The 1998 International Orton Cone Box Show, juried Baker University Holt Russell Gallery, Baldwin, Kansas
“FIRE + EARTH: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics,” Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
“Vessels: Hand and Spirit,” invitational, Muttart Public Art Gallery Calgary, AB
“Collecting Alberta Art, The Legacy, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Celebrating 25 Years” invitational, traveling, The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary
1997 “Monarch National Ceramic Competition, juried, Kennedy- Douglas Center for the Arts, Alabama
“2nd Annual Silverhawk Fine Crafts Internet Exhibition”, juried award winner, Taos, NM
1997 “Fifth Annual Teapot Invitational”, Craft Alliance Gallery St. Louis, Missouri
“Of Bouqetieres and Jardinieres”, invitational, George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, ON
“Teapots 8”, invitational, Gallery Alexander, La Jolla, CA
“The Pleasures of Still Life”, invitational, Front Gallery Edmonton, AB
1996 Eleventh Annual National Ceramic Competition, juried San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
“Exploring Earthly Delights: Mundane and Beyond”, solo exhibition, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB
“Staff Show”, 1996 Fireworks Conference, University of Alberta Extension Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1995 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award 1995 , juried, Auckland New Zealand
“Featured Artists - Selfridges”, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Waterloo, Ontario
“New Stories - Some About Paradise”, solo exhibition, Lynda Greenberg Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1994 International Biennial de Ceramique, juried, Vallauris, France
Canadian Decorative and Contemporary Craft Exhibit, juried Charles Levitan Gallery, New York
Alberta Made Home, invitational, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, AB
“Artistic Contemporary Craft”, invitational, Owl 57 Gallery New York
1993 Eighth Annual Ceramic Competition, juried, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
“Maioloica”, invitational, The Farrell Collection Gallery Washington, DC
“Ideal Home”, invitational, Earl’s Court, London, England
1992 Seventh Annual National Ceramic Competition, juried San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
“Bowls, Functional and Nonfunctional”, invitational, Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montreal
1991 “Vases”, invitational, Gallery Lynda Greenberg, Ottawa
“Vessels from Three Provinces “, invitational, Front Gallery Edmonton
1990 “Tea Party”, invitational, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto
1988 “Going for Gold”, Winter Olympics, juried, Calgary "Archie Bay International", Holter Museum of Art, Helena Montana
1987 “Majolica Terracotta Vessels”, invitational, Gallery of BC Ceramics
1986 “Alberta Clay Comes of Age: Studio Ceramics in Alberta III, 1964 - 1984”, invitational, traveling, Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Alberta Potters Association
Selected Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Alberta Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
British Petroleum
Burlington Art Gallery
Claridge Collection, Montreal (Bronfman Foundation)
Government of Canada, External Affairs, Office of the Chief of Protocol
Northwestern Utilities
Prime Minister of Canada - Jean Chretien
The Westin Hotel
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
His Imperial Highness Prince Takamado, Japan
Alberta Teachers Association
Steelcase Corporation
Canadian Public Relations Society
Edmonton Art Gallery
Process and Intention
Our way of creating the large illusionistic pots could best be termed constructivist with ready-mades. By press moulding we make round and oval discs, which are then cut and altered, stacked and joined to form segmented pots. By using ovals cut on the bias, we can get gestural pots with a lot of movement. We like the way they look much like a pot in a painting by Matisse or Braque or Picasso. With their cut-down front rim and slightly comic handles, they become a kind-spirited caricature of historic “real” pots.
We are interested in painting flat things to look round and round things to look flat. These pots are about perception; that is, those visual clues that let us know the nature and dimension of things. With colour, pattern, figure/ground, shading, silhouette and by using many “universal referents”, we create visual gaps that the viewer fills up with their own constructed reality.
Our pots usually have an illusionistic pot or a pot-on-a-pot “front” side and the reverse side often becomes a shaped canvas for a figurative/narrative glaze painting. With figurative, classical and humorous imagery, we try to join the gestural quality of drawing and painting with the innate gesture of ceramic vessels. These vessels present the viewer with the ambiguity of classical themes and contemporary painting.
e-mail the gallery about this artist at info@scottgallery.com
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