Splitting/Unifying (toilet tanks, slip spigots and medical sink laver with faucets), 2019.
Glazed vitreous china with epoxy and found slip spigots.
54” x 40” x 36” Photo courtesy of Kohler Co.
Installation View, Solo Exhibition, Between Washing and Unwithering, LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston MA, Oct 8 - Nov 7 2020
The Porous Sea (Tank), 2019. Glazed earthenware. 51” x 38” x 29” Photo courtesy Ashley Estabrook.
Nicki Green
Lecturer, Ceramics
Email: nickigreen@berkeley.edu
Website: www.nickigreen.org
Instagram: @nickigreenstudio
Office hours: Mondays 12-1pm, email for appointment
Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Originally from New England, she completed her BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Her sculptures, ritual objects and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation and aesthetics of otherness. Green has exhibited her work internationally, notably at the New Museum, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles and Rockelmann & Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany. She has contributed texts to numerous publications including Duke University Press’ Transgender Studies Quarterly and Fermenting Feminism, Copenhagen. In 2019, Green was a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Award and United States Artist Fellowship. She has participated in residencies at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, the Arts/Industry Residency at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI and a graduate fellowship at the Headlands Center for Arts. Green lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Courses Taught:
ART 15 Ceramics Foundations
ART 132 Advanced Ceramics: Research and Materials
ART 137 Advanced Projects in Ceramic Sculpture
Recent Highlights
"At The Center of Nicki Green." Article by Alyson Brandes for American Museum Of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) Blog. Oct 13 2020
"Between Washing and Unwithering" Solo Show at LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston MA, Oct 8 - Nov 7 2020
ARTFORUM Critic’s Pick: Nicki Green at Et. Al. Etc. ARTFORUM review by Monica Westin. Oct 7 2019
"Bay Area Ceramics Scene Fired Up in New Ways." Article by Charles Desmarais for SF Chronicle DateBook. July 24 2019