Andrea Gill

Artist Statement

Pottery, whether it’s primary purpose is function or not, is the ideal arena for weaving together the dimensional and flat. Volume, structure, color, and pattern are the visual components, but historical models and contemporary issues affect the making process and meaning. I want to create a moment to focus, for contemplation or meditation. The complicated, competing visual information is intended to entertain and mediate between seeing and feeling. The goal is to connect the emotional, visceral and retinal with a moment of peace, perhaps even joy. It is not the experience of the infinite in a perfectly imperfect tea bowl; rather, the visual chaos and order of a Persian rug viewed from up close and afar.

Artist Bio

Andrea Gill was a Professor of Ceramic Art at Alfred University for thirty-three years until her retirement in 2017. She has shown her work nationally and internationally since 1976 and is in many public and private collections including the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester. A recipient of a Tiffany Fellowship, she is a Fellow of the American Craft Council and received the Voulkos Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation. Gill studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 1971) and Ceramic Art at Alfred University (MFA, 1976). She and her husband John share a studio in Alfred, NY.