Warren Mather (American, 1947-)
2007 ÒLandscape Shapes.Ó Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA.
2006 ÒSOFA New York,Ó Represented by Lacoste Gallery. New York City, New York.
ÒThe Artist and the Book,Ó Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York.
2004 ÒCreations in Clay,Ó Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire.
2003 ÒPhoto-Ceramics,Ó Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA.
ÒFusion: Photo + clay,Ó Odyssey Gallery. Asheville, North Carolina.
ÒCraft Transformed,Ó Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA.
2002 "World Architectural Ceramics Exhibition," Foshan, China.
"Yankee Clay: Ceramic Artists of the Northeast," Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut.
" Images on Clay," Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA.
"Plates & Platters," Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina.
2001 "Circling the Square," Fresh Pond Clayworks, Cambridge, MA.
"National Clay Invitational," Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina.
"Bottled Spirits," Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky.
2000 "photo/graphic ceramics," Roswell Visual Arts Center & Gallery, Roswell, Georgia.
1999 "The Art of Pouring," The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.
1998 "al fresco," Fresh Pond Clayworks, Cambridge, MA.
"Tile Show," Vermont Clay Center, Stowe, Vermont.
1997 "Five on Fire," The Radcliffe College Ceramics Studio Faculty Show, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
1996 "International Ceramic Studio Collection 1976-1995," Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
"Video - Computer - Glaze Painting" Holyoke Center Arcade, Cambridge, MA
1995 "Ceramics in a Virtual World," World Wide Web, http://www.uky.edu/Artsource/vce/VCE home.html.
"Is This Post-Modernism? A collaboration between the Faculty of the Museum School and the U.S. Postal Service."
The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA.
1993 ÒInternational Invitational Traveling Ashtray Show,Ó NCECA, San Diego, CA.
1992 ÒNew Ceramic Works,Ó Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA.
1991 "Exhibition of Soviet-American Symposium" Dzintari Institute, Jurmala, Latvia.
2006 ÒDowntown CrossingÒ and MarathonÓ two photo-clay murals for the Lobby entrance of the Boston Intercontinental Hotel,
Boston, MA
2005 ÒFlow,Ó $75,000, A sixty foot long mural for the new Science Center at Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire,
Collaboration with Nancy Selvage.
2002 ÒBoston Waterfront," A photo essay on ceramic plates. Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
2002 ÒCentral Square,Ó A photo essay on ceramic plates. Cambridge Savings Bank, Cambridge, MA
2000 "Choose your View." $100,000, A ceramic installation of the Grand Canyon for the US Park Service. Visitor Center at
the South Rim, Grand Canyon Village, Arizona.Collaboration with Nancy Selvage.
1999 "Boston Fireplace." A faux fireplace of photos of Boston on Delft style tiles. Private residence, Boston
1997 "Chemiluminescence," A ceramic mural for a private residence, Newton, MA
1993 "Sonoran Snake," $20,000, A fifty foot long ceramic mural installed at the entrance to the
Sonoran Desert Pavilion, State Zoo of North Carolina, Asheboro, NC. Collaboration with Nancy Selvage.
Collections
Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
Emmanual College, Boston, MA.
General Electric Corporation, Fairfield, CT.
International Experimental Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary.
National Art Museum, Riga, Latvia.
State Street Financial Center, Boston, MA.
The Colonnade Hotel, Boston, MA.
The John Hancock Mutual and Life Insurance Corporation, Boston, MA.
Awards
1996 Vermont Studio Center, Artist Residency Grant $1000, Johnson, Vermont.
1991 Artist in Residence. Soviet-American Symposium. Moscow Artists Union, Jurmala, Latvia.
1987 Polaroid 20" x 24" Use Grant. Cambridge, MA.
1986 Finalist in Sculpture. Massachusetts Artist Foundation, Boston, MA..
1985 Visiting Artist Residency-International Symposium. International Experimental Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary.
1980 Cash Prize. New England Competition, The Copley Society, Boston, MA.
1978 Finalist in Sculpture. Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Boston, MA.
Gerry Williams, ÒPhoto-Clay,Ó Studio Potter, June, 2004
Up Front Section, "Warren Mather," Ceramics Monthly, April, 2002.
Up Front Section, "Warren Mather," Ceramics Monthly, April, 1999.
Up Front Section, "Warren Mather," Ceramics Monthly, November, 1996
Ruthann Tudball, Soda Glazing, A & C Black, London, Great Britain, 1995.
Nancy Selvage, "Sonoran Snake," Studio Potter, June, 1995.
Janos Probstner, International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary, 1990.
Sigred Barten and Rosemarie Lippuner, Bucher Ohne Worte, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, and Musee des Arts Decoratifs de la Ville De Lausanne, Switzerland, 1986.
Charlotte Speight, Images in Clay Sculpture, Harper & Row, 1983.
Leon Nigrosh, Low Fire, Davis Publications, Worchester, MA, 1980.
Warren Mather and Bernice Hillman, "Salt in the City, The Sodium Carbonate Solution," Studio Potter, December, 1978.
Video
1991 "Sovietski/Amerikanski," Martin & Suzy Holt, Mt. Art Works, Helena, Montana.
1989 "90 Seconds with Warren Mather," WGBH, Boston, MA.
Education and Experience
1985 - present Faculty, Boston Museum School, Boston, MA.
1981 - present Studio Manager, Boston Museum School, Boston, MA.
1978 Certificate of Mastery Program, Boston University, Boston, MA.
1976 - 1985 Director of Summer Program, Harvard/Radcliffe Ceramics Studio, Cambridge, MA.
1974 Fieldwork with centenarian population in Vilcabamba, Ecuador.
1971 Fieldwork with Inuit in Alaska and Canada.
1970 Graduate Study in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
1969 BA Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.