Jeff Reich
Jeff Reich
Resume
Selected Exhibitions
Material Impulse, Group Ceramic Exhibition,GVG Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico,June 2017
Paintings and Ceramic Work by Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich, Manheim/ARC Contemporary Fine
Arts, Cottonwood, Arizona, January - April, 2017
In the Fullness of Time, two-person show with Farraday Newsome, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, September 2016
Tempe Center for the Arts Juried Biennial:Clay,Group ceramic show, Tempe, Arizona, September 2016
Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges, solo exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona, February 2016
Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome: Compatible Visions, Plinth Gallery, Denver, Colorado, May 2012
Contemporary Ceramics, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Potters for Peace Exhibition, NCECA 2011, Tampa, Florida, March 30- April 2, 2011
Governor’s Arts Awards 2011, artwork selected as an award, Arizona Commission for the Arts, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2011
Contemporary Forum 2011 Art Auction, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
20 Years in Retrospect: Northern Clay Center’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Northern Clay Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2010
Narrative Animal Imagery, The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, California, October 2010
31st Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, Arizona, January 2010
Strange Brew: The Gerry and Daphna Teapot Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, Arizona, December 2009 - March 2010
Compatible Visions, 2-person show with Farraday Newsome, Phoenix College Art Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2009
SOFA West Santa Fe, Cervini Haas Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2009
SOFA Chicago, Cervini Haas Gallery , Chicago , Illinois, November 2008
Fantasy Teapots from the Arthur Goldberg Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, October 2008
Ceramics Invitational, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 2008
Table Manners, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona, March 2008
Contemporary Forum Art Auction, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2008
29th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, Arizona, March 2008
Teapot Triennial, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, August 2007
Hand + Spirit + Art, Arizona Designer Craftsman, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, March 2007
Serving the US, Invitational NCECA exhibit at Louisville Glassworks, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2007
Spotlight on: Arizona Artists, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 2006
Agaves and Yuccas in Art, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, September 2006
Ink and Clay, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, January 2006
Carpe Argillum - 2006 All Arizona Clay, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona, January 2006
Cups, Cups, Cups national invitational, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2005
20 year Anniversary Invitational, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 2005
Collaborative works with Farraday Newsome, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2005
In Hot Water Teapot Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, January 2005
Functional Ceramics, Cervini Haas/Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 2004
The Artist and the Garden, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, March 2004
Steamin’, invitational teapot exhibition, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, Arizona, July 2004
Here I Am, invitational exhibition, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, July 2004
International Tea Bowl Exhibition, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona, November 2003
Steeped in Tradition: The Contemporary Art of Tea, Mesa Contemporary Art sand Phoenix Sky Harbor Art Gallery, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona and Phoenix, Arizona, October 2002
Embracing Night, collaborative work with Farraday Newsome, Ceramics Research Center, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, August 2002
Accent on Ceramics, Selections from the Contemporary Arizona Ceramics Collection at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, February- August 2002
Wood-fired New Work, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, July 2000
NCECA Exhibit, Arizona Designer Craftsmen, Rotunda Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1991
Fired, Baked and Fried, invitational Arizona Clay exhibition, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, January-March, 1989
Feats of Clay, nationally juried clay exhibition, received a purchase award, juror Ron Nagle, Lincoln Arts Center,
Lincoln, CA, June-July, 1998
Southwest By Northwest, contemporary ceramics by fourteen artists from Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, International Gallery, San Diego, CA, July- August 1988
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art Education, University of Arizona, 1984
Gallery Representation
ARC Contemporary Fine Art, Cottonwood, Arizona, 2017-present
Plinth Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 2012-present
Cervini Haas Gallery/ Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2004-2013
Detroit Gallery of Contemporary Crafts, Detroit, Michigan, 1985-1987
Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, 2004-present and 1985-1987
Mind’s Eye Crafts, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1986–1987 and 1990-1998
Tucson Museum of Art, Crafts Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, 1986-1995
Ratliff-Williams Gallery, Sedona, Arizona, 1990-1992
International Gallery, San Diego, California, 1988
Cello Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1986- 1987
Eleanor Jeck Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, 1986-1991
Yuma Arts Center, Yuma, Arizona, 1989- 1991
Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona, 1989- 1992
Art Find, Sedona, Arizona, June, 1990-January, 1992
The Gallery at Tucson Mall, Tucson, Arizona, 1984- 1986
House Works, Tucson, Arizona, 1985- 1988
Collections
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Kamm Teapot Foundation, The Teapot Museum, Sparta, North Carolina
Northern Clay Center, collaborative with Farraday Newsome, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona
Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona
Contemporary Arizona Ceramics Collection, Sky Harbor Art Program, City of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
Arts in Mesa, Boeing Corporation, Mesa, Arizona
City of Mesa Contemporary Art Collection, Mesa, Arizona
Professional Activities
Pottery Director, 1987-2014, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
Visiting Adjunct Professor, Mesa Community College at the Mesa Arts Center, 2006-2008, Mesa, Arizona Artist Slide Lecture, Arizona Clay, Ceramics Research Center at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, September 2002
Chairman/President of Artist Advisory Committee of Ceramics Research Center at Arizona State University Art Museum, 2002
Artist Lecture, Simon Fraser University, B.C., Canada, 2000
Workshop, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, 2000
Curator, Wood Spirits, national wood fired ceramics exhibition, Galeria Mesa, 1991 NCECA Conference
Articles/Books
Hard Edges and Soft Curves, article by Linda Kuehne, Ceramics Art and Perception, 2013 issue 93
The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay, Lark Books, 2012, page 119
Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing, Angelica Pozo, Lark Books, 2010, pages 15, 109
500 Tiles, editor Suzanne Tourtillot, Lark Books, 2008, pages 380, 396
500 Cups, editor Suzanne Tourillot, Lark Books, 2004, page 293
Ceramics Monthly, “A Moving Experience: The New Mesa Arts Center Pottery Studio,” by Jeff Reich, June/ July/August 2005, featured author, pages 60-63.
Clay Times, The Gallery, March/April 2005, Volume 11, number 2
Ceramics Monthly, “ASU Ceramics Research Center 2003 Studio Tour”, January 2004, page 64-67.
Ceramics: Art and Perception , “Wood Spirits” exhibition curatorial review by Jeff Reich, 1991
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