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Mark
Gordon (252)
399-6474 (252)
293-4925 e-mail: mgordon@barton.edu |
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Education |
BA in
Philosophy, BA in
Physical Education, |
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Teaching |
Barton
College, Wilson, NC, Associate Professor, 1999-present |
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Selected
Awards and Honors |
Regional
Artist Project Grant, Rocky Bobbi
Bowman Scholarship, Regional
Artist Project Grant, Nash Arts, NC, 2004-05 Fulbright
Senior Specialist Grant Peer Review Committee, 2002-2006 Juror for
Emerging Artist Grants, Regional
Artist Project Grant, Arts Council of Wilson, NC, 2002-03 Regional
Artist Project Grant, Artist's
Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY, 1996 Artist's
Residency, Visual
Arts Grant Advisory Committee, Fulbright Commission 1993-95; Chair, 1995 Visual
Arts Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Arts/Industry
Residency, Artist's
Residency, Gladding McBean & Co. Terracotta, Fulbright
Teaching Award to Research
and Creative Activities Award, Artist's
Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY, 1990 Fellowship
in Visual Arts, MacDowell Colony, Visual
Arts Fellowship, Arts Graduate
Research Fellowship, The Alumni
Fellowship, Research
Grant to |
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Solo Exhibitions |
2009 |
University
of South Carolina-Upstate, |
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2008 |
Durham
Art Guild, |
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2007 |
Arts
Council of |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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2004 |
Duke
University Student Union, |
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2003 |
Circle 10
Gallery, Oriental, NC |
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2002 |
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2001 |
Arts
Council of |
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2000 |
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1999 |
Highland
Art Center, |
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1998 |
Rogue
Gallery and |
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1997 |
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1996 |
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1995 |
Beaufort
Arts Council, |
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1994 |
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1993 |
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1992 |
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1991 |
Universidad
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1990 |
MacNider |
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1989 |
Galeria Arte Fuego, |
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1988 |
Obetz Gallery, |
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1987 |
Geoffrey
Taber Gallery, |
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1985 |
American
Cultural Center, Cairo, Egypt American
Cultural Center, Jerusalem,
Israel |
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1984 |
Museo Nacional de la Cerámica Gonzalez
Marti, Valencia, Spain Centro Cultural Municipal Viera Y Clavijo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary
Islands, Spain |
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1983 |
Instituto Dominicano de la Cultura Hispanica, Santa Domingo, Dominican
Republic Galeria
Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic |
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1982 |
Instituto Cultural Dominico-Americano, Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic |
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1981 |
Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic Centro de la Cultura de Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Galeria
Experimental, Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic |
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Recent
Juried and Invitational Group Exhibitions |
2008 |
Lagrange
National Biennial XXV, Continental
Ceramics, ClaySpace Juried National, Warrenville, [Best of Show for “Halo”] Nellie
Allen Smith Commemorative Juried Pottery Competition, [First
Place in Functional for “Urn II”; Third Place in Non-Functional for
“Orbit I”] 4th
Annual “Ashes to Art” The Gallery at Funeria, Ceramics
Biennial, New Hampshire Institute of Art, “Artistic
License” Invitational Mask Exhibition, Tristate Sculptors Members Exhibition, Eastern Salmagundi
XII, Sculpture
Celebration, |
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2007 |
“Handcrafted”
Rocky 29th
Annual 9th
Annual Regional Art Exhibition, The MicroMonumentals Traveling Exhibition, Tri-State Sculptors Educational Association,
Tristate Sculptors Members Exhibition, Rocky Three
Hounds Gallery, Placas de Artistas, San Pedro Garza
Garcia, “Eyes,
Nose, Mouth: A Contemporary Mask Exhibition,” Municipal Utility District Art
Gallery, “Countdown
to Peace” |
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2006 |
Feats of
Clay XIX, Skin
Deep: A National Juried Exhibition Celebrating the Variety and Beauty of
Ceramic Surfaces, 49th
Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Rocky Southworks 11, “10th
Anniversary ELITE
Tile Triennial, Museo de Ceramica,
Concordia
Continental Ceramics Competition, 28th
Annual MicroMonumentals Traveling Exhibition, Tri-State Sculptors Educational
Association, Sculpture
Salmagundi X, Amazing
Clay 3: A regional invitational ceramics exhibition Invitational
Mask Exhibition, |
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2005 |
39th
National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, “Greater
Gateway
Juried National, Northwest New “Handcrafted”
Rocky Tri-State
Sculptors exhibition, Appalachian State University, 24th
Annual, Community Council for the Arts, Craven “Blueprint”
4th
“Added Dimensions,” Caswell Arts Council, Yanceyville (--Honorable Mention) The Down
East Sculpture Exhibition, 4th
Annual SCHWA Exhibition, Emerge Gallery, Page-Walker
Arts and Salmagundi
IX Sculpture Exhibition, Rocky Suitcase
Exchange Traveling Show, Tri-State Sculptors Educational Association
[2002- 05]: Artstation, Auckland, New Zealand
[2005]; Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, New Zealand; Randolph
County Art Guild, Asheboro, NC; University of North Carolina- Asheville; Elon University, NC; Coastal Carolina University, Conway,
SC; Redux, Charleston, SC; East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC; Community Council for the Arts, Kinston,
NC; Transylvania County Arts Council, Brevard, NC; Delta State
University, Cleveland, MS; Caldwell Arts
Council, Lenoir, NC |
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2004 |
26th
Annual San
Francisco Bay Area National Juried Show, Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA
American Crafts Council Southeastern Regional “Spotlight 2004” Tamarack,
Beckley, West Virginia and West Virginia Division of Culture and History,
Charleston 47th
National Juried Art Exhibition, Rocky Gateway
Juried National, Northwest New 12th
Southeast Regional Fine Arts Exhibition, Arts and Design Society of Fort
Walton Beach, Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL “Amazing
Clay Too: A Regional Invitational Ceramics Exhibition” Salmagundi
VIII Sculpture Exhibition, Rocky “Sight
Unseen: A Touchable Exhibition”
traveled to “Placas de Artistas” Feria del Libro y la Cultura de MERCOSUR, Tri-State
Sculptors Invitational, Sawtooth 40th
Juried Fine Arts Show, 9th
Annual Nelly Allen Smith Commemorative Juried pottery Competition Cape Fear
Studios, “Fine
Contemporary Crafts” National Juried Exhibition, ARTSPACE, |
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2003 |
NCECA
(National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts) National, R.B. Stevenson
Gallery, Ragdale Invitational, Ragdale
Foundation, “Quintessence”
Invitational, Tri-State
Sculptors Invitational, Salmagundi
(Outdoor installation:) 4th
Annual Juried Show, “Handcrafted”
Rocky 39th
Juried Fine Arts Show,
[Juror: Vae Hamilton](-- 24th
National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, 2nd
“Added Dimensions” Exhibition for 3-Dimensional Art, Caswell Council for the
Arts, NC (--Award of Distinction) Eastern
Plains Juried Show, Arts Council of |
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2002 |
Grand
Arts at 25th
Anniversary Ragdale Foundation Exhibition, 24th
Annual NC Clay
Invitational, Carolina Artist Gallery, 45th
National Juried Art Exhibition, Rocky Handcrafted,
Rocky Salmagundi
VI Sculpture Exhibition, Rocky 38th
Juried Fine Arts Show, Antiques
as Art, Arts Council of Juried
Electronic Gallery Membership Exhibit, National Conference of National Art
Education Association, Barton |
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2001 |
20 Years
of Excellence, Bemis Foundation, 29th
Annual Handcrafted,
Rocky Converging
Cultures, Rocky Salmagundi
V Sculpture Exhibition, Rocky Southeastern
Juried Exhibition, Art International, The Art
of Gardening, Arts Council of National
Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, |
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2000 |
22nd
15th
National Ceramics Exhibition, 21st
National Fine Arts Exhibition, 34th
National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Handcrafted,
Rocky LaGrange
National Exhibition, |
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Written
Reviews |
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Artwork in
Professional Publications |
2009 |
“Plumb Bob IV” and
“Hemisphere Vessel” in Kakalak Poetry
Anthology, Spring [Honorable Mention] |
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[with
photographs] |
2008 1 |
“ Pushing
the Envelope: Mortar Construction“ in Potterymaking Illustrated, September/October [7
photographs of process and artwork] Cover photo; article “Creating
Complex Ceramic Sculpture with Bone-Dry Clay and a Simple Mortar,” online
article for www.ceramicartsdaily.org |
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2007 |
“ Hot-Wired: Wrapping Raku Pots with Wire” in Raku,
Pit & Barrel Firing Techniques, Edited by |
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2006 |
“Pyre”
in Kakalak Poetry Anthology, Spring “Morningstar,”
“SpikeLog,” Cylinder Arch,” BrickSphere
with Inclusions,” “Goblet Log,” in Clay Times: The Journal of Ceramic Trends and Techniques (pdf file),
September/October (“Mark Gordon's Textural Forms of ‘Wonder Clay’: Rustic
Antiquity,” by Mac Ward) |
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2005 |
“Wire-Wrapped
Raku Vessels” in Potterymaking Illustrated (pdf file),
May/June “Green
Star” in Clay Times: The Journal of Ceramic Trends and Techniques,
May/June “Tile
XVIII” in Ceramics Monthly, September “Ceramica Raku Cubierta con Alambre,” Revista Internacional Ceramica (pdf file), No.99 [ |
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2004 1 1 |
“Goblet
Arch” in Ceramics Monthly, February “Bricksphere with Inclusions” in Clay Times: The
Journal of Ceramic Trends and Techniques, March/April “Hemisphere
Pod” in American Craft, April/May “Critic’s
Picks: Michele Natale on the best art” in What’s
Up, |
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2003 |
“Tripod,”
“BrickSphere,” “Ovoids,”
and “Cones and Bricks” in Ceramics: Art and Perception (pdf file),
#53, Fall (“ |
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2002 |
“Tripod”
in Ceramics Monthly, December “Brick
Arch IV” in Clay Times: The Journal of Ceramic Trends and Techniques, May “BrickSphere” in Ceramics Monthly, January |
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Served as Program
Reviewer, Panelist, Juror |
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2006: North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction, Visual Art specialist for program review, Art
Education Program, Appalachian State University 2005-present: Council on International Exchange
of Scholars, Fulbright Senior Specialist Review Committee 2005: North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction, Visual Art specialist for program review, Art Education Program,
2002-05: Council on International Exchange
of Scholars, Fulbright Scholar Grant Review Committee 2003: North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction, Visual Art specialist for program review, Art Education
Program, 2003-05: Juror for Emerging Artist Grants,
2001-02: 1993-05: Member Grant Advisory Committee,
Fulbright Commission Chair, 1995 |
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Articles, Essays, CD
Entries [--authored] |
2006 |
"The Quest
For Visual Literacy: Some Principles for a College-Level Educational Program
in 3-Dimensional Art (link to pdf)," The American Juried
Art Salon, www.artsalon.com; June “Criteria
for a Juror: Response to the Artwork (link to pdf),” The American
Juried Art Salon, www.artsalon.com; April “Thoughts: Stephen Hill
Workshop at Dan Finch Pottery” in By Design, NC Art Education
Association, Spring |
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2004 |
“Art of the |
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2003 |
“A Message from the
Faculty Forum President: Liquid Nails and Barton Students” Faculty Communique, |
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2002 |
[Co-authored] Title II
Program Review Standards, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Served as Co-Chairperson
of the Title II Program Review Standards Panel in Visual Arts, under the
auspices of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI). The
panel drafted evaluation guidelines to be used by teams reviewing Art
Education licensure programs in “A Time of Renewal: My
Fulbright Experience in |
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Work included in Collections: |
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C.W. Post
Campus of Blount
Bridgers House, MacNider Rocky Community
Council for the Arts, Gladding McBean & Company Terracotta, Lenox |
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American Cultural Center,
American Cultural Center, Tel Aviv
Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderno,
American Cultural Center, Museo de la Cerámica Gonzalez
Marti, Centro
Cultural Viera y Clavijo,
Museo Museo de Loza Historica y Popular, Museo de Artes
Plasticas Claudio Sempere,
Museo de la Cultura
San Nicolas, Museos Provinciales:
Rio Negro; Corrientes; Salta;Neuquen;
La Pampa; La Plata; Misiones;
Santa Cruz; Chaco; Entre Rios; Mendoza
Universities: San Luis; Cuyo; La Plata; Misiones; Cordoba; Rio Negro |