YSABEL GRAYhere
ceramic artist
Exhibitions and/or Publication of work:
*2009 Auction 13 Long Beach Museum of Art
•2009 September solo-show 4th Street Vine, Long Beach
*2009 May Publication in "Reader Art" on Juxtapoz.com
•2008 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts
•2006 Lakewood Artist Guild student exhibition
•2005 Long Beach City College Student exhibition
Previous Awards and Honors
•2008 CSULB Presidents Honor Roll
•2006 3rd place Lakewood Artist Guild Student exhibition
•2006 Valedictorian of Southwestern Longview Private High school
Professional Experience and/or Arts-Related Employment
•2001-2008 Gallery Representation Trout Town Joe, June Lake Ca.
•2004-2005 Gallery Representation Mike Mosaics, Lakewood Ca.
•2004-2006 Teacher of Ceramics at City of Lakewood Recreation Department
•2006-2007 Teacher of 2-d Design at Southwestern Longview Private high school
Professional Interests and Goals
•Graduate with a BFA in ceramics
•Travel and obtain residencies to work in different countries
•Work with Aid for Artisans
•Apply to Graduate School to attain a MFA in Ceramics
•Work as a Artist and Teach in both Brazil and the US
In a society where we are bombarded with visual information it may be hard to slow down and turn a glance to a gaze. As a very busy person something must be complex in order to keep my attention. I find greatest joy when something forces me to stop whether it be in the making of the piece or the search for representational images when viewing the work. In this work my goal is to entrap the viewer into the different worlds that I have created, and force them to spend time with it in order to absorb all of the information. I also hope that in subsequent viewings new and different images will appear.
The works of Rauschenberg and Dubuffet are very interesting in the way they express the world around them. Similarly, I attempt to express my own reactions to my enviroment and life with the same intensity.
