LARRY BUSH

risd connection: Associate Professor and Head, Department of Ceramics

medium: porcelain

about my work: “My ambition is to make utilitarian ware that encourages an intimate interaction. The meaning of my work lies in the way it might shape and give texture to life. Nature is my model, sometimes literally, always conceptually…. With function and form; color and texture; history and need, I attempt a layering of forces and structures similar to that found in natural things.”

selected exhibitions
2002 Natural Selections: New England Artists Interpret Nature, Newport [RI] Art Museum
2002 Yankee Clay: Ceramic Artists in the Northeast, Slater Memorial Museumm, Norwich, CT
1998 Made in Clay, Jane Harsook Gallery, Greenwich House, NYC
1997 Rhode Island Collects Ceramics, The RISD Museum
1997, 1996 RISD/NSCAD, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, and Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996 Steeped in Tradition, Ariana Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1996 Galerie Eewal, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
1994 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1993 Ceramics Invitational, Bennington [VT] College

awards/fellowships
East/West Ceramics Collaboration III, University of Hawaii, 2002
New England Foundation for the Arts, NEA Regional Fellowship, 1993
RISD Faculty Development Grant, 1987

collections
Detroit Institute of Art
Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred, Alfred, NY
NYSCC, Alfred, NY
The RISD Museum
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Steindler Collection, Honolulu, HI

education
New York State College of Ceramics, MFA, 1984
University of Washington, BFA, 1975