DONNA GREEN
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Donna Green in her studio, 2019
Donna Green’s ceramic sculptures are in a continuing state of growth and transformation. Green plays with coils of stoneware, prodding and poking to create anthropomorphic gestural shapes that burst and stretch into space testing the clay’s physical limits. Her distorted vessels investigate the dichotomy of ugly and beautiful; the heroically scaled urns undulate and drip with layer upon layer of glaze. Green draws inspiration from the ancient Jomon ceramics of Japan and Chinese Han Dynasty storage jars, as well as Gonshi, the natural occurring scholars’ rocks, and Baroque garden grottos.
Donna Green was born in Sydney,Australia, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design in 1984 from Sydney College of the Arts in New South Wales, Australia. In 1985, Green moved to New York and joined Industrial Design Magazine as one of its editors. Green began working in clay in 1988, studying at Greenwich House Pottery and the New School in New York; and in 1997 at the National Art School, Sydney. Green has participated in several workshops including ‘Fire Up’,1995 with Janet Mansfield in Gulgong, New South Wales, working on-site with Danish artists Nina Hole and Jorgen Hansen; and in 2018 Green took part in “The Vessel as Metaphor” with Tony Marsh at the The Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado. In 2019, Green was a Resident Artist at California State University Long Beach. Later in 2019, she undertook an Artist Fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery. Green’s work has been exhibited at McClain Gallery, Houston,TX; Greenwich House Pottery, NewYork, NY; Utopia Art Sydney, Australia. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney,Australia. Green lives and works in New York.
DONNA GREEN
Australian, b. 1960
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1980-1984 Sydney College of the Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Industrial Design
1986-1988 The New School, New York, New York
1995 Workshop, “Fire Up” with Janet Mansfield, Gulgong, NSW
1997 The National Art School, Sydney, NSW
2000 The Handbuilt Vessel with John Gill, The Anderson Ranch,
Snowmass, Colorado
2011 Workshop with Chris Gustin, David Pinto and Doug Casebeer,
The Goodhope Plantation, Jamaica
2017-2018 New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture,
New York, NY
2018 The Vessel as Metaphor with Tony Marsh, The Anderson Ranch,
Snowmass, Colorado
RESIDENCIES
2019 Artist Fellowship, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Resident Artist, California State University Long Beach
Contemporary Ceramics Center
PUBLIC COLLECTION
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, NSW
PUBLICATIONS
“Hidden in Plain Sight,” Architectural Digest, March 15, 2018
“A Bold All Red Bouquet…”, The Wall Street Journal, 22 December 2016
“Donna Green: Clay 2,” Art and Australia, February, 2015
“A De Kooning Inspired Flower Arrangement,” The Wall Street Journal,
May 30, 2014
“Coiled Pots,” Ceramics Technical, No. 5, 1997, Sydney, NSW
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Stone, Green,Watson: Contemporary Ceramics, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2020 Fog Design + Art, Hostler Burrows, San Francisco, CA
2019 Design Miami, Hostler Burrows, Miami, FL
2020 Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY
‘Form’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2019 ‘Sydney Contemporary 2019’, Carriageworks, Utopia Art Sydney,
NSW
Dobrinka Salzman Gallery, New York, NY
‘Clay 5’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY
2018 ‘RE:CONSTRUCTION’, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
‘Sydney Contemporary 2018’, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
‘Clay 4’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
‘The Small Works’, Malia Mills and Folioeast, East Hampton, NY
Hampton Good Design, Wainscott, NY
Kimcherova Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY
2017 ‘Sydney Contemporary 2017’, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
‘Museum III’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
‘Alternative Museum’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
‘Winter Salon’, Malia Mills, East Hampton, NY
2016 ‘Clay 3’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
‘Weird Ceramic’, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
‘The Last Hurrah’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2015 ‘Vessels”, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
‘Clay 2’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
‘Collectible’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2013 ‘Vessels’, Storefront Gallery at Greenwich House, New York, NY
2012 ‘Home’, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY
2009 ‘Please Handle the Pots’, Legge Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1997 ‘Ceramics’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, NSW
