Shazieh Gorji

Ceramics  Artist

Education

B.A., Liberal Arts, Concentration Visual Art: Ceramics & Printmaking Bennington College VT, USA 2004

Artist Statement

I feel strongly about documentation and the travelogue format. My concepts are draw from memory, landscape, nostalgia, movement, people, and their characteristics. Mainly fired in wood kilns my process involves mark making and alterations; expressed through textures, gestures and allegorical representations. Digging for clay in the Hingol River of Baluchistan, covering myself in the mineral mud, and sleeping under the night sky, I become a part of the landscape, and the landscape a part of me. Such interactions and experiences all contribute to these personal anecdotes in clay.

Group shows & Exhibts

Vase Finder Nationals, Online Exhibit, January 2009
Maati, Delhi Blue Pottery & Sanskriti Foundation, India, February 2009
Le Petite Dialogue, Duo exhibit, Studio 11 Gallery, USA, April 2009
Ceramica Multiplex, City Museum of Varzadin, Croatia, April 2009
Fox Mountain Pottery, Anagama Woodfire Workshop, Open Day Exhibit, USA 2009
Clay Clan, VM Art Gallery, Pakistan, May 2008
Film: 60 * 60, MotiRoti, Traveling Show, 2008 - Present
Fete Picasso, Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, France, July 2007
Eve, SAARC Women Artists’, Pakistan, March 2007
Third ASNA Clay Triennial, Arts Council, Pakistan, November 2006
Tale of the Tile, Mohatta Palace Museum, Pakistan, August 2006
Prints, The Better Bennington Corporation, USA 2004
USDAN Gallery, Bennington College, May, USA, May 2004
Wood fired Pottery, Buck Creek Pottery, USA, May 2003
USDAN Gallery, Bennington College, USA, March 2003