| 词条 | Michelle Gregor |
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| bgcolour = #6495ED | name = MICHELLE GREGOR | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Michelle Gregor | birth_date = 1960 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | known_for = Ceramics, Sculpture | training = San Francisco State University | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} Michelle Gregor (born 1960, USA) is a San Francisco-based figurative sculptor. She works in mid-fire stoneware ceramic and porcelain. Early life and educationGregor was raised in Tahoe City, California. She holds a BFA in Ceramics from University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA in Ceramics from San Francisco State University, where she studied under sculptor Stephen DeStaebler. WorkGregor is known for her abstracted human figure sculptures, featuring complex layers of underglaze and glaze and occasionally metallic lusters. Gregor builds her forms out of solid clay, then slices them open with a strong wire to enable hollowing as the clay enters its dryer 'leather hard' stage. She then reassembles the pieces for drying and kiln firing. [1] Each piece endures as many as seven or eight firings, giving them their characteristic liquid, yet hard surfaces.[2] Her works, some up to life-size in scale, convey a sense of balance and mass, seemingly on the edge of flight.[3] Despite their grandiosity, Gregor's figures often carry a humility, a restraint in gesture and expression. Gregor has been called a 'descendant' of sculptors as diverse as Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos and Viola Frey, [4] and is considered an important second-generation sculptor in the Bay Area Figurative Group, succeeding artists such as Manuel Neri and Stephen DeStaebler. Her contemporaries include Susannah Israel, John Toki, Arthur Gonzalez and Lisa Reinertson. In 2004 Gregor was commissioned to sculpt three large-scale bronze exterior architectural friezes at the Olympic Club Building at 665 Sutter Street, San Francisco. In 2013, Gregor's piece The Oracle was acquired by the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California. From 2002 until the present, she has been the head of the ceramics program within the Department of Fine Arts at San Jose City College in San Jose, California, USA. Her work is represented by the [https://natsoulas.com/ John Natsoulas Gallery] in Davis, California. References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Toki|first1=John|title=Hands In Clay|date=1999|publisher=Mayfield Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-7674-0501-0|page=192–193|edition=4th}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gregor, Michelle}}2. ^{{cite book|last1=Seed|first1=John|title=Michelle Gregor|date=2015|publisher=John Natsoulas Press|location=Davis, California|isbn=978-1-881572-41-1|pages=6–8}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Nan|title=500 Figures In Clay, Volume 2|date=2014|publisher=Lark, Sterling Publishing|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4547-0774-5|page=83, 104|edition=1st}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Smyth|first1=Cherry|title=Damn Fine Art|date=1996|publisher=Cassell|location=London|isbn=0 304 333646|page=133–132|edition=1st}} 2 : Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people |
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