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ARTIST STATEMENT
My recent work has taken the form of the shrine. I am fascinated by the sacred nature suggested by this format as well as by the mysterious, often lush and secretive interior spaces that they contain. The majority of these pieces house hidden niches in the backs of the forms that can be used to hold small mementos, notes, or simply memories. They bridge the gap between the sculptural and functional form while imbuing the object with deep emotional content. The shrines in this series represent the home. Home can represent the concrete (the place where you physically live) or the abstract (the self, the seat of the soul, the feeling of belonging, etc).
RESUMÈ
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Modern Morphism Curated and
exhibited,
Common Ground (NCECA CIE)
Historic Yellow Springs,
Heroines and Harlots: Women in
History Da Vinci Art
Women’s Caucus for Art Benefit:
Girls Gotta Run Holy Family University,
Resonance 2008
Art Loft Presents NCECA Members
Jacqueline Jrolf & Una Mjurka (NCECA CIE) Art
Loft,
2nd
Small Rays of Hope-Fragments of a
Larger Idea Rhonda Schaller Studio,
Fete Picasso: Small Art
Objects-Allumons Vallauris AIR Vallauris,
Crossroads Rhonda
Tactile Senses: Vulnerability in the Visual Arts sculpture included in a presentation at the
International Symposium for the
Arts in the Humanities at The
The Symposium for the Arts In Society at New York University 2007
Access: A Feminist Perspective
Rhonda Schaller Studio,
Reliquaries, Ossuaries and Urns:
Ceramic Sculptures of
Bank of
Raku to Ray Guns Ceramic Teaching Tools for exhibition Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 2006
Poetry…A Notion curator,
exhibitor, Clay College of
Tyler Ceramics Past and Present The Icebox Project Space,
Celebrating Oyster: An Exhibition of Oyster Plates, Past and Present
Art Futures Artist in Residency program, Philadelphia Museum of Art 2004
Annual Art Exhibition and Auction
Tree House Animal Foundation,
Art Partners Artist in Residency program, Philadelphia Museum of Art 2004
Faculty Exhibition Ethel Sargent
Clark Gallery,
Annual Art Exhibition and
Lotsa Clay VII Clay Studio,
Memorial Tile Project MANNA
Annual Art Exhibition and
Recent Works Cosmopolitan Club,
Invitational Clay Show Sisters’ Gallery, Sinking Spring, PA 1996
Women in the
Ceramic Alternatives ’95
Off The Wall Art Forms Gallery,
Artists Choose Artists Mainline
NCECA Regional Student Exhibition
Snyderman Gallery,
CCA Presents…
EDUCATION
B.F.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [Senior Honors]