Tina Gebhart

Tina Gebhart’s visual emphasis is on pure form and lyrical elegance. Glazing in white, with only slight surface crystallization shifts, emphasizes these aspects of the form, allowing light to decorate the pieces with shadow. She is interested in the visual repetition of forms, especially as subforms within a single pot. In particular Gebhart enjoys making teapots because they embrace the complexity of parts coming together as a whole.

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Tina Gebhart (TGH01)

Lobed Jar

Price: $145.00

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Tina Gebhart (TGH02)

Flashing Lobed Bottle Vase

Price: $85.00

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Tina Gebhart (TGH03)

Lobed Bell Bottle

Price: $85.00

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Tina Gebhart (TGH04)

Flashing Low Chutney Bowl

Price: $60.00

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Tina Gebhart (TGH05)

Double Belly Cup

Price: $40.00

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Tina Gebhart at MudFire

Gallery group show Porcelain, August 2010

Tina Gebhart Artist Statement

The power of the utilitarian pot is its accessibility to a broad range of viewers. Experience with even a basic commercial bowl informs the way the viewer-user will experience new ideas of a bowl. It may begin with a simple "This is different than any bowl I've seen", which can be the catalyst for a visual-experiential exploration. By containing both familiarity as well as difference, a new kind of bowl can encourage a new kind of noticing.

From the most intimate form (the Cup, in its contact with the user's mouth), to the most abstract form (the Vase, in its simple parameters of holding water and a flower), I wrap my visual interests around the constraints of each form's particular use.

My visual emphasis is on pure form and lyrical elegance. Glazing in white, with only slight surface crystallization shifts, emphasizes these aspects of the form, allowing light to decorate the pieces with shadow.

I am interested in the visual repeat of forms, especially as subforms within a single pot. The multitude of variations on components and their respective combination possibilities is endless. In making these pots, I set up one structure to compound a second structure, creating a double-order within the piece. I do this in both the profile of the pot and the layering of forming and alteration.

I work with indents as exo-skeletal forces that press the original profile into a new one, changing the swells of the clay. In the final form, both profiles exist simultaneously, defining the new form and creating points of visual emphasis and movement.

Tina Gebhart Artist Resume

Education:

MFA 2001, Ceramics, N.Y.S.C.C. at Alfred University B.F.A.
BFA 1995, Ceramics, Pennsylvania State University, PA (Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude)
- Secondary specialization in Figure Drawing; Minors - Art History & French

Select Group Exhibitions:

"Porcelain" Invitational, Mudfire Gallery, Decatur, GA 8/10
"San Angelo National Ceramics" Juror-Sherman Hall; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, TX 3-6/10
"10th Annual National Juried Cup Show" Juror-Dean Adams; Downtown Gallery, Kent State Univ., OH 3/10
"Clayworks: Cultivating Clay & Community" Panel Juried; NCECA Conference, Philadelphia, PA 3/10
"Strictly Functional Pottery National: Then & Now" Invitational, Best-of (17 yr history), NCECA, PA 3/10
"Roots & Wings" Invitational, Baltimore Clayworks, MD 3/10
"8 Fluid Ounces" Juror-Andy Shaw, Glassell Gallery, LSU, LA 2/10
"Let's Table This: AMOCA Collection" Curator-Dr. Billie Sessions; from the permanent collection of the
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pamona, CA 1-4/10
"Clay West" International; Jurors-Joe Zeller, Chuck Hindes, Utah State U., UT 1/10
"Currents in Contemporary Clay" Juror-Linda Arbuckle & John Boyd, Focus Gallery, Univ. of FL 1/10
"OH+5 Border Biennial" All-media Juror-Brian Harper et al.; Dairy Barn Arts Gallery; Athens, OH 1/10
"Objects of Virtue" Juror-Julia Galloway; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 12/09
"It's Only Clay" Juror-Richard Bresnahan; Bemidji Art Ctr, Bemidji, MN 11/09
"Nellie Smith Pottery Competition" Juror-Rick Berman; Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC 11/09
"Clay3 National" Juror-Mary Kay Botkins; ClaySpace, Warrenville, IL 11/09
"Strictly Functional Pottery National XVII" Juror-Pete Pinnell; Market House Craft Ctr; Lancaster, PA 9/09
"History in the Making IV" Juror-Ron Meyers; Genesee Pottery, Genesee, NY 9/09
"Spotlight 2009 Southeast" Juried; Kennesaw State Univ., GA 8/09
"Strictly Functional Pottery National XVI" Traveling Exhibition; Juror - Linda Arbuckle; 4-6/08
Market House Craft Center, Lancaster & Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
"Another Cup?" Invitational - Deb Bedwell; Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 1/08
"Intimate Vessels: Cups, Tumblers, Teabowls" Invitational; Jenison-Meacham Art Ctr, Belmond, Iowa 7/07
"National Cup Show" Invitational & Juried; Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA 6/07
"Strictly Functional Pottery National XIV" Juror-Tom Coleman; Market House Craft Ctr, Lancaster, PA 5/06
"Tea Time: The Art of the Teapot" Invitational; Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI 5/06
"Form & Function: The Teapot" Juried; National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(NCECA), Skutt Ceramics, Portland, OR 3/06
"Mastery in Clay: 2005" Invitational; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 10/05
"NCECA Clay National" Juried; NCECA, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 3/05
"Maryland Clay" Juror-Jimmy Clark; NCECA, Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD 3/05
"Endless Variations: Shino 2005" Juror-Malcolm Davis; NCECA, Baltimore Clayworks, MD 2/05
"Culturing Surfaces" Curated; NCECA, Homewood Museum, Baltimore, MD 2/05
"100 Teapots 2 National" Juror-Gay Smith, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 1/04
"Strictly Functional Pottery National XI" Juror-Wayne Higby, Market House Craft Center, Lancaster, PA 5/03
"Strictly Functional Pottery National X" Juror-Jack Troy, Market House Craft Center, PA 5/02
"25 Invite 25" Invitational-Linda Christianson, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL 6/01
"Studio Days" Invitational; Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA 9/00
"Beyond the Northwest: Teapots" Curator-Sequoia Miller, Kobo Gallery, Seattle, WA 8/99
"Strictly Functional Pottery National II" Juror-Bill Daley, Market House Craft Center, Lancaster, PA 5/94

Select Solo/Small Group Exhibitions "Fired Up" Invitational; MD Hall Gallery, Annapolis, MD 6/09
"Constructing the Altered" Solo; Upper Traylor Gallery, Berea College, KY 1/09
"Pennsylvania Connections" Juried; National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
conference, Hawk Studio Gallery, Pittsburg, PA 3/08
"Clayworks" Invitational; M. T. Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ 9/06
"Gettysburg College Faculty Exhibition" Quadro; Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg, PA 2/06
"Local Dirt" Juried; NCECA Conference, MD Hall Gallery, Annapolis, MD 3/05
"Stages of Life" Juried; NCECA, Theater Project Gallery, Baltimore, MD 3/05
"Baltimore Clayworks Artists" Juried; NCECA, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 3/05
MFA Thesis Show Trio; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, NY 4/01

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