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Bio:

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Originally from Minnesota, Gabby received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  In 2018, she completed one year expanding her art practice as a special student at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.  From 2019-2020, she attended Colorado State University as a Post-Baccalaureate student.  Gabby creates functional and sculptural ceramics that are constructed from wheel thrown parts and slabs of clay.  Her work is featured in juried and invitational exhibitions in galleries around the nation. During the spring of 2020, she was selected to be a summer resident at The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.  Before moving to back to Colorado, she was an Anonymous Artist Fellow at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis. Minnesota.  Gabby now resides in Carbondale, Colorado where she was an Artist in Residence at Carbondale Clay Center from 2021-2023. She is currently continuing her making practice in her studio space at the Studio for Arts and Works (SAW). 

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Statement:

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Articulating my inner thoughts and curiosities has always been a hands-on experience.  Driven by child-like fascination, my intent with clay has been to learn more about the material itself and use it to articulate the things of my imagination. 

The objects that I make expand upon what it means to make “functional” ceramics.  I want to take clay off the table and into unexpected areas of people’s everyday lives, dancing with concepts of absurdity and practicality.  Re-translating mundane everyday objects successfully through clay is a humorous and challenging push-and-shove to the boundaries of functional ceramics.  Influenced by Tupperware, metal kitchen equipment, and retro plastic electronics, the refined shapes and saturated monochromatic color of the work suggests that these familiar forms exist in a cartoon-like environment.  I learn from the material landscape around me, which, in turn, informs how I make things.  The objects I create give others a glimpse inside my own world - a world that is an accumulation of material intelligence, opinion of beauty, and curiosity.