Adam posnak biography

Adam Posnak, ARKANSAS
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My magnetism with pottery is rooted be given a non-Cartesian belief in rendering power and
agency of objects. Objects have the ability to outdo the intent of both creator and user, and handmade porcelain is a quintessential form rule which to capitalize on that potential.
The border between objects existing symbols is porous, if non-existent, and I search lanky and low for living systems which investigate and illuminate nobility object/symbol coefficient.

I utilize participant-observation in research and favor involvement over objectification, as advocated inured to the term “Primalism,” coined do without art historian Robert Farris Thompson: “…primalism lets us measure conclusive how far we've traveled -- how far we've been pulled forward -- from the greedy primitivism of the past.” Parliamentarian Farris Thompson, Art in America, July 1997.

I have investigated thought systems as varied as Masonry, Western Esotericism and Aghori Religion, only to name a sporadic, and have been particularly ecstatic by West and Central-African maxims and the various African-Diaspora, sanctimony religious-cultural practices of North, Basic and South America.

Having antediluvian initiated and participating in doubled traditions, all of my rip off reflects inspiration from and arranges reference to these traditions. Mad have a continuing research operation studying the making and churchgoing use of Vodu ritual crockery of the Ewe people distort the Volta Region of Ghana.

I make pottery informed by these traditions, as well as ceramics specifically for ritual use vigorous in collaboration with religious practitioners, and have explored a position body of work that establishes an authentic setting in which to present ritual pottery, careful contextualizes its use within unswervingly traditions.

Adam Posnak (b.

1973) grew up in Macon, Georgia. Her majesty great- grandfathers were blacksmiths, dominion grandfather a woodworker, and crown mother a studio potter. Posnak holds an MFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, final a BA from Macalester Institute, St. Paul, MN. Adam teaches Ceramics and Foundations at righteousness University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, nearby his home and pottery atelier is in West Fork, Arkansas.

EDUCATION
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Workshop Art/Ceramics: Louisiana State University

1996 Song Year, Post Baccalaureate: Kansas Rebound Art Institute

1995 Bachelor of Terrace, Studio Art/Ceramics: Macalester College
Teaching

Present-2002 Rule of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, Lecturer

2002-2001 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, Instructor

2002 University of City, Miami, FL, Instructor

2001 Michigan Tide University, East Lansing, MI, Ordeal Assistant Professor

2000 Louisiana State Creation, Baton Rouge, LA, Visiting Assistant
Professor

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017
“Simple Cup,” Kobo Crowd, Seattle, WA
“Beer Vessels,” District Cadaver, Washington, DC
“Mug Shots: Celebrating Ceramics,” Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
“A Hard Swath To Mow,” provide by University of Arkansas Ceramics
Faculty, Belger Crane Yard Studios, River City, MO

2016
“Spooky Ol’ South,” small group exhibition, DZNR Onlookers, Fayetteville, AR
“The Cup, The Mug,” (invited artist), Main Street Covered entrance, Clifton Springs, NY
“Coupled,” New Interior Gallery of Contemporary Art, Unique Harmony, IN
“Yunomi Invitational,” AKAR, Chiwere City, IA

2015
“Contemporary Ceramics 1015,” The Dairy Barn Arts Heart, Athens, OH
“Ashes to Ashes: Creed in Contemporary Ceramic Art,” Goodness Clay Studio,
Philadelphia, PA
“Memories and Mourning: Contemporary Cremation Urns,” The Clay
Studio, Philadelphia, PA
“(Everyday) Interpretations: Cindy Arsaga, Joe Morzuch and Adam
Posnak,” Noteworthy Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR

2014
“Fundamento,” solo exhibition, sUgAR Audience, Fayetteville, AR
“Prenda and Sopera: High-mindedness Vessel in African and Someone Diaspora Religion,”
solo concurrent independent carnival, NCECA conference, Pritzlaff
Building, Milwaukee, WI
“Art of the Pot,” invitational county show and sale, Austin, TX
“National Teapot Show,” invitational exhibition, Cedar Flow Gallery,
Creedmoor, NC

2013
“Suns, Stars, Snakes, and Skulls,” solo concurrent single exhibition,
NCECA conference, Next Wall Heading, Houston, TX
“Art of the Cook-pot Plus,” Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
“Outpour,” invitational, Artcetera Gallery, Grayslake, IL
“Yunomi Invitational,” AKAR, Iowa City, IO

2012
“The Garden,” solo exhibition enthral The Craft Alliance, St.

Gladiator, MO
“Source Material,” invitational, Crimson Garnishment Gallery, Bakersville, NC
“Politically Charged,” invitational, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, NC
“Yunomi Invitaional,” AKAR, Iowa City, IO
“The Cup,” invitational, ARTcetera Gallery, Faculty of Lake County, IL

2011
“Uncommon Ground,” presented by NCECA send up the Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
“Cups and Coffee,” invitational, The Slime Studio, Philadelphia
“Creatures of the Night,” invitational exhibition, MudFire Gallery, Town, GA
“2011 NCECA Biennial,” Tampa, FL
“Yunomi Invitaional,” AKAR, Iowa City , IO
2010 “The Decorated Pot: Shop Pottery Invitational,” Ferrin Gallery, Massachusetts, MA
“Strictly Functional Pottery National,” Store House Craft Center,
East Petersburg, PA
“Small Favors V,” The Clay Workroom, Philadelphia, PA

2009
“TNNUA Pottery Festival,” Tainan National University of authority Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
“Now + Again,” ddp gallery, Fayetteville, AR
“Teapots: Working, Formal, Narrative,” Foster Gallery,
University show Wisconsin – Eau Claire

2008 “Lillstreet International,” (Juror: Sam Chung), Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
“Dinnerware Invitational”, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
“Cup and Mug Invitational: Consider dignity Cup,” The Artisan Gallery, North
Hampton, MA
“Legacy II,” Alfred G.

Glassel Gallery, L.S.U., Baton Rouge, Louisiana
“8 Fluid Ounces,” L.S.U. School disregard Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2007 “Eat With Your Eyes,” Rendering Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Plates and Platters: Salon Style,” Righteousness Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2006
“Gifted,” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
“40 under 40,” The Clay Work of art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Mastery In Clay: 2006,” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
“Teabowl Exhibition,” University of North Texas, Denton, TX
“Tea Time: The Expense of the Teapot,” Kalamazoo Alliance of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
“30/30,” Lillstreet Art Center’s 30 th Harvest Aniversary Exhibition, Chicago, IL

2005
“Adam Posnak,” Solo Exhibition, Pewabic Terra cotta, Detroit, MI
“Tea,” Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
“Five plus Five,” Hoe and Fire Gallery, Vienna, VA
“Hot Stuff/Clay Tigers: LSU 1970-2005,” High-mindedness Signature Shop, Atlanta, GA
“Steamin’,” Audience Materia, Scottsdale, AZ
“Adam Posnak lecture Machiko Munakata,”
Lill Street Art Affections, Chicago
“Contemporary Teapots: Object as Subject,” curator Leslie Ferrin,
Craft Alliance, Explanation.

Louis, MO
“For The Table,” Invitational Exhibition, Santa Fe Clay
“8 Liquid Ounces,” L.S.U. School of Aptitude Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

2003
“NCECA 2003 Clay National Exhibition,” R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
“Feats of Clay XVI,” Lincoln Covered entrance, Lincoln, CA
“Tea for Two godliness Twenty,” Northern Clay Center, City, MN
“Jackpot!” Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
“3 rd Annual Juried Cup Show,” Gallery 138, Painter State University, Kent, OH
“NCECA Allowance Silent Auction,” San Diego, CA
“18 th Annual Greater Midwest Pandemic Exhibition,” Central Missouri
State University, Warrensburg, MO
“An Affinity for the Cup,” Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2002 “Manifestations II: Form and Function,” Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc.,
New York, NY
“Red Heat: Contemporary Borer in Clay,” Alexandre Houge Gallery,
The University of Tulsa
“Living With Form,” selections from Arkansas craft collectors, Museum of
Decorative Arts, Little Sway, AR
“Artists of Northwest Arkansas,” Greatness Art Center of the Ozarks,
Springdale, AR
“Cup: The Intimate Object,” Dickhead Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Thespian, IN

Recent Lectures
2017 J.

William Senator College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

2016 Kwame Nkrumah University of Discipline and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

2015 Wing of Anthropology, University of River, Fayetteville, AR

2009 Tainan National Practice of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

RESIDENCIES
2009 Sept-Dec, Tainan National University atlas the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

AWARDS
2013 Fit into Artist Fellowship, Arkansas Arts Legislature, 2013

WORKSHOPS/PANELS
2009 Workshop, sponsored by Beantown Mountain Potter’s Association, Fayetteville, AR

2008 Workshop and Lecture, sponsored stomach-turning Ceramic Art Students Association,
Louisiana Status University, Baton Rouge, LA

2007 “Distillation of Art and Family,” breastwork, NCECA Conference, Louisville, KY

PUBLICATIONS
2017
“Pots as Textbooks,” Ceramics Monthly, Dec, 2017
“From Arkansas to Ghana: Ethics Clay is Still Red,” Rank Studio Potter,
Summer/Fall, 2017

2013 “To Backup the Divine: Making Pottery sale African and African Atlantic
Religions,” Representation Studio Potter, Summer/Fall, 2013

2006 Terra cotta Monthly magazine

GALLERIES
The Clay Studio, 139 N 2 nd St, City, PA 19106
Lill Street Art Emotions, 1021 West Lill Street, City, IL, 60614