Lauren Gallaspy
160 Tracy St, 2A
Athens, GA 30601
gallaspylauren_gmail.com
706.424.1016
born
May 15, 1982, Livingston, Tennessee
education
MFA Alfred University, Alfred, NY
BFA University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2000-2001 Emory University
teaching experience
2012 Assistant Professor in Ceramics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (upcoming)
2011 instructor in ceramics, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
2009-2010 guest lecturer for intermediate ceramics and drawing II classes, University of Georgia
2008-2009 instructor in ceramics, University of Georgia
2007 graduate teaching assistant in foundations, Alfred University
2006 graduate instructor in ceramics, Alfred University 2006 graduate instructor in drawing, Alfred University
publications
2012 Ceramics Art and Perception, "Lauren Gallaspy's Workmanship of Risk," by Christina West (with text and color photos) (upcoming)
2012 The Best of 500 Ceramics, Lark Books
2012 Flagpole Magazine, review of "Drawn in Athens" (with text and color photo)
2011 Flagpole Magazine, review of Trace Gallery exhibition, "Surprise the Sky"
2010 Lost At E Minor Online Publication, Image and Statement
2010 Flagpole Magazine, review of "Six Decades in Clay" at Lamar Dodd School of Art
2009 Flagpole Magazine, review of group show at Trace Gallery
2010 Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Emerging Artist (with text and color photo)
2009 Flagpole Magazine, review of three-person show (with text and color photo)
2006 Poetic Expressions of Mortality, Figurative Ceramics from the Porter-Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art
2005 500 Cups, Lark Books
2005 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, review of group show (with text and color photo) by Jerry Cullum, award-winning art critic
one, two, and three-person shows
2012 Lauren Gallaspy, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2012 On Emily, Penland, NC
2011 Surprise the Sky, Trace Gallery, Athens, GA
2011 Painting on Clay, NCECA exhibition, Tampa, FL
2010 Featured Artist, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2008 Lauren Gallaspy and Andy Nasisse, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2005 AGA Introductions: Lauren Gallaspy, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
selected group and invitational exhibitions
2012 Urns, NCECA, Seattle, WA
2012 Fragility, NCECA, Seattle, WA
2011 Yunomi Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2010 Group Ceramics, Trace Gallery, Athens, GA
2010 Six Decades in Clay: An Expanding Tradition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2010 Positioning the Figure, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010 Studio Ceramics, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010 Introductions Show, Trace Gallery, Athens, GA
2010 Yunomi Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2009 Studio Ceramic Invitational, Trace Studios, Athens, GA
2009 Beyond Surface, University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2009 Southeast Ceramics, University of South Carolina's McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC
2009 30 x 5, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2009 Perils in the Sublime: A Poetic Consideration of Ecology, Landscape and Reconstruction, NCECA, Phoenix, AZ
2009 Ceramic Invitational, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2008 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 New Alfred, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2007 MFA Alfred Grads, Leon Gedould Gallery, New York, NY
2006 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Portland, OR
2006 Poetic Expressions of Mortality, Figurative Ceramics from the Porter-Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2006 Tell Me a Story, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Stories and Visions of Nature in Clay, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2005 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Baltimore, MD
2005 Octant, BFA Exit Show, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2005 Hot/Ice, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
2004 8 Fluid Ounces: A Cup Show, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2004 CUP, The New Gallery, University of Miami, FL
curatorial experience
2009-2012 Trace Gallery
2011 Spring UGACeramic Department Exhibition: Cortona, Italy
awards/grants/fellowships
2010 Emerging Artist, Ceramics Monthly Magazine
2004 Mary Rosenblatt Art Scholarship
2004 Regina Brown Undergraduate Fellowship Recipient
2003 Patrick Thomas Keim Memorial Award for work in ceramics
workshops & public lectures
2012 LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
2011 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2011 University of GA Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
2011 Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2011 Virginia Commonweatlth University, Richmond, VA
2010 University of GA, Athens, GA
2010 Tracy Street Collective, Athens, GA
residencies
2010 Guest Resident, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2005 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
collections
Porter-Price , Sandy Besser, Edie Brickel & Paul Simon
