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
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
