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Donna Green - Artists + Designers - Hostler Burrows

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.

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DONNA GREEN
b.1960, Sydney, Australia

EDUCATION

2018           The Vessel as Metaphor with Tony Marsh at The Anderson Ranch,
                        Snowmass, CO, USA 
2017-2018  New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY, USA
2011           Workshop with Chris Gustin, David Pinto and Doug Casebeer at
                        The Goodhope Plantation, Jamaica
2000           The Handbuilt Vessel with John Gill at The Anderson Ranch, Snowmass,
                        CO, USA
1997           The National Art School, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1995           Workshop, “Fire Up” with Janet Mansfield, Gulgong, NSW, Australia
1986-1988  The New School, New York, NY, USA
1980-1984  Sydney College of the Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Industrial Design

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022      Vessels, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021      Donna Green, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY, USA
2018      Clay, Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY, USA
2015      Donna Green: Ceramics, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2013      Vessels, Storefront Gallery at Greenwich House, New York, NY, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023      The Garden of Friends, The Leiber Collection, East Hampton, NY, USA
2022      Industrialism-SIZED, UrbanZen, New York, NY, USA
             Vessels, Sized Studio, Los Angeles, CA, USA
             Kari Dyrdal/Donna Green, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021     Clay Dynasty, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Stone, Green, Watson: Contemporary Ceramics, Utopia Art Sydney,
                  Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020     Forest Primeval, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, CA, USA
             FOG Design + Art, Hostler Burrows, San Francisco, CA, USA
             Ceramics Now, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, USA
             Form, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Its not FAIR, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019     Australian Landscapes, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Sydney Contemporary 2019, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Dobrinka Salzman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
             Clay 5, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Design Miami, Hostler Burrows, Miami, FL, USA
             Sculpture Space, Long Island City, New York
             Kimcherova Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2018     RE:CONSTRUCTION, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA 
             Sydney Contemporary 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Clay 4, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             The Small Works, Malia Mills and Folioeast, East Hampton, NY, USA
             Hampton Good Design, Wainscott, NY, USA
             Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY, USA
2017     Sydney Contemporary 2017, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Museum III, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
             Alternative Museum, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Winter Salon, Malia Mills, East Hampton, NY, USA
2016     Clay 3, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Weird Ceramic, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC, Australia
             The Last Hurrah, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015     Clay 2, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
             Collectible, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012     Home, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY, USA
2009     Please Handle the Pots, Legge Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1997     Ceramics, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

RESIDENCIES

2019     Artist Fellowship, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, USA
             Resident Artist, Center for Contemporary Ceramics, California State University 
                  Long Beach, CA, USA

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

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