American Masters, a landmark invitational exhibition highlighting sixteen of the country's most established and talented studio potters is showing at MudFire Gallery May 10, 2008 through June 21, 2008.
American Masters features fine craft by American potters whose work has shaped the landscape of contemporary ceramics.
May 10-June 21
Reception Saturday, May 10, from 5-9 pm.
Rick is a studio potter, workshop leader, and ceramic historian. He has served as associate editor of Clay Times and currently teaches ceramics and sculpture.
For 31 of the last 35 years, potter Rick Berman has been writing a book about indigenous pottery in India. In 1996 he made a film on Indian pottery and he is working on an 80-foot brick and tile wall for an Indian monastary.
In 2003, he curated the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia's "Clay" exhibit. Rick has taught at University of Georgia, West Georgia College, North Georgia College, and Georgia State University. Besides pottery, Rick enjoys playing the guitar and harmonica.
It seems that I’ve always had the freedom (either real or imagined – if there’s a difference between the two), to make whatever I wanted to make at any given time in my career. My nature has always been to see something I like, figure out how to make it, get bored, and see something I like…” All of this has ended up as a career in what I humorously call “research and development.” Always being careful that my research never takes me down that road of working towards achieving some degree of commercial success, at the risk of losing my personal freedom.
To me success is loving the process of making things with your hands, loving to look at what you make with your eyes, and having a few people along the way that really dig what you’re doing. The universe continues to provide and I’m extremely grateful for all of the opportunities I’ve been given.
Rick Berman Resume
Education
1973 University of Georgia MFA
1971 Georgia State University BVA
1972, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996 Studied with and documented
potters of Ahmednagar, India
Selected recent exhibits
Three Georgia Potters: Madison Morgan Cultural Arts Center Madison, Georgia
2006
Cedar Creek Gallery National Teapot Show VI Creedmoor, N.C. 2005
Three Man Show: Tom, Rick, and Jerry, Oconee County Arts Federation
Gallery, Watkinsville, Ga. 2005
Chastain
Art Center Gallery, “Rick Berman: New Work,” Atlanta, GA, 2003
The Signature Shop and Gallery, “Rick Berman: Raku + Salku ”, Atlanta,
GA, 2003
“21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada”, Columbus
College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, 2003
“Potters of Georgia and North Carolina”, Bascom-louise Gallery, Highlands Visual Arts Center, Highlands, NC, 2003
“Perspectives-Georgia Potters and Collectors”
Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA, 2003
“Third Annual Sul Ross State University Ceramic Invitational”
Alpine, TX, 2001
“Teapots”,The Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA, 2000
“LaGrange National”, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College,
LaGrange, GA, 2000
The Signature Shop and
Gallery, “Rick Berman: New Work,” Atlanta, GA, 2000
“Salt Fired: Form and Surface”, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT, 1999
Albany Museum, Albany, GA
Bayle Museum, Roanoke, VA
Bob Brady/Sandy Simon, Berkeley, CA
Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Tom and Elaine Coleman, Las Vegas, NV
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Greenville Museum, Greenville, SC
Harriet Tubman Museum, Macon, GA
The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
Mehera Irani, Ahmednagar, India
Jim Melchert, Berkeley, CA
Penland School, Penland, NC
John Portman, Atlanta, GA
Andres Serrano, Brooklyn, NY
Peter Voulkos, Oakland, CA
Takasago Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Shunsaku Ueda, Tustin, CA
State University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA
The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Franz Wildenhain, Rochester, NY
Xu Xing Thao, Suzhou, China
Yo Yo Ma, Boston, MA
Jane Fonda, Atlanta, GA
Congressman John Lewis
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