John and Robin Gumaelius
AWARDS_____________________________________________________________________
2006 First Place and Honorable Mention, The Art of Surprise, Portland, OR
2006 Third Place, Viewpoint Ceramics, CA
2006 Merit Award, San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, TX
2002 Best of Show, Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA
2002 Merit Award, Monarch National, San Angelo, TX
JURIED EXHIBITIONS________________________________________________________
2006 The Art of Surprise, Portland, OR
2006 San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo, TX
2003 The Word Made Clay, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2002 Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA
2002 Toys Designed by Artists, Arkansas Arts Center, AK
2000 Emerging Artists, Sundance, UT
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS________________________________________
2007 Story Birds, White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
2004 Ground Rules, Diamond Tanida, Portland, OR
2004 Stolen, Blue Bottle Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Guppets, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 Guppets, Auditorium Gallery, Provo, UT
2002 Gismos from the Nest of Chicken Man & Robin Red Breast, Gallery 303, Provo,
Utah
2002 What’s Up with Them? Melange, Panama City Beach, FL
2002 Recent Works, The Carillon Collective, Panama City Beach, FL
2002 Growth without Ground(installation), Art Front Gallery, Provo, UT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS_______________________________________________
2007 Stormy Weather, White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach OR
2007 Pondering, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia , WA
2007 Dinner Talk, Palmers Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2002 Ephraim Square Sculpture Show, Ephraim, UT
2000 Growth and Other Sad Stories We’ve Collected, Gallery 303- Provo, UT
JOHN GUMAELIUS
EDUCATION_________________________________________________________________
Brigham Young University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, August 2003
JURIED EXHIBITIONS________________________________________________________
2002 Utah Intercollegiate Art Show, Weber State Gallery, Ogden, UT
2002 Mayhew, Brimhall Gallery, Provo, UT
2001 77th Utah Spring Salon, Springville Art Museum, Springville, UT
2001 Works on Paper, Gallery 303, Provo, UT
2001 Mayhew, Brimhall Gallery, Provo, UT
2001 BYU Student Show, Gallery 303, Provo, UT
2000 Emerging Artists, Sundance, UT
2000 BYU Student Show, Gallery 303, Provo, UT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS________________________________________________________
2002 Ephraim Square Sculpture Show, Ephraim, UT
2002 Snow College Invitational, Snow Gallery, Ephraim, UT
2001 Snow College Invitational, Snow Gallery, Ephraim, UT
AWARDS_____________________________________________________________________
2002 Juror’s Choice, Utah Intercollegiate Art Competition, Weber State Art Gallery,
Ogden, UT
2002 Juror’s Choice, Mayhew, Brimhall Gallery, Provo, UT
2002 Lewis Scholarship, Provo, UT
2002 BYU Talent Award (also 2001-2002, 2000-2001), Provo, UT
2001 Juror’s Choice, BYU Student Talent Show, Gallery 303, Provo, UT
2000 Betty and Paul Boshard Scholarship, Provo, UT
2000 Juror’s Choice, BYU Student Show, Gallery 303, Provo UT
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS________________________________________________________
2007 Quinault Native Gardens Bench and Planters, Tahola, WA
2007 Taco Bell Comission, Aberdeen, WA
2006 Grand Heron and Fish, Aberdeen, WA
2004 Crosswalk Enhancement Project, Aberdeen, WA
2003 GranGuppet, The Canyons Ski Resort, Park City, UT
2002 Spitting Bird Fountain, The Cottages at Carillon Beach, FL
ROBIN GUMAELIUS
EDUCATION
2000, Masters of Fine Arts, The Ohio State University1998, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Brigham Young University
AWARDS RECEIVED
Edith Fergus-Gilmore Materials Grant & Scholarship, OH 2000The Ohio State University Fellowship, OH 1998Orca Grant, Brigham Young University, UT 1998Award of Merit, Spring Salon, UT 1997
INVITATIONALS
Figuring the Feminine, Northview Gallery, Portland, OR 2006Thirty-Five Year Celebration, Whitebird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR 2006Gilmore Awards Invitational, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH 2000
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT 2001Ohio Fine Arts Exhibit, The Hayes Center, Columbus, OH 1999Show Me the Shoe, St. Lois Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO 2000NCECA Student Show, Fort Hayes Gallery, Columbus, OH 1999Orton Cone Box Show, Traveling Exhibition 1998-1999Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT 1997 & 1998Intercollegiate Arts Show, University of Utah, Logan, UT 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Snatching Back Deciding Moments (installation), Cat’s Cradle, Provo, UT 2001Drowning in Dresses, Building 34, Columbus, OH 2000Grace Never Meant to Smash Faces (installation), Monkey’s Retreat, Columbus, OH 2000Great Expectations (installation), Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH 2000Lydia Sleeping with Churches & Crows (installation), Monkey’s Retreat, Columbus, OH ‘99Waiting for Rain (installation), Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH 1999High Heeled Feet (installation), Monkey’s Retreat, Columbus, OH 1999To Wear a Crown, Gallery 303, Provo, UT 1999
TWO PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Yard Sale, Image Optical, Columbus, OH 1999Two Heads Are Better Than One, BF Larsen Gallery, Provo, UT 1997Interlochen Faculty Art Exhibition, Interlochen, MI 200Works on Paper, Marian Gallery, Marion, OH 2000Small Things Many People, ACME Gallery, Columbus, OH 1999Heaven and Hell (installation), Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH 1999Weather’s Beautiful, Wish You Were Here, Salt Lake Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT 1998Michigan Matchbox Show, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1998
PUBLICATIONS
Figuring the Feminine. Portland Community College, 2006 p. 4500 Figures in Clay. Lark Books. 2004. p. 179, 238.White Bird Gallery, Coast Weekend, March 18-24, 2004 p. 16Ceramics Monthly, The Word Made Clay, April 2003 p. 432002 Monarch National Awards Catalogue, San Angelo Museum of Art, 2003The Weather’s Great, Wish You Were Here, Salt Lake Tribune, Arts Section, June 1998
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Walking home from school, we saw a small boy. Fifty or sixty crows stood within the winter brown patch of his front yard. There were more in the trees. All cocked their heads, watching the boy. “Caw, Caw,” said the boy. Up and down went the black heads.
John cawed.
He was not doing it right said the boy.
“Cwaww, Caaa.”
The boy said, “Practice”.
John does practice, and the birds seem to listen. They bob their heads looking at him with one eye and then the other. They do that to me too, though I’m too embarrassed to talk to them out loud. I stare at them as they pick the seeds out of my garden. They laugh. I think they can read my mind. I have never asked John what he is trying to say to them. Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe the talking is enough.
I hope it is enough, because that is what our art is, us talking. There is a little magic in it. Together, we make something better than either of us could make apart. We work together fluidly, except that John does the metal. We talk about it like we talk about everything, but John does it.
We build our birds and figures using clay slabs. When the pieces are leather hard, we paint them with undergazes. Then we carve through the painted surface to the white clay. Radio stories, history books, biking adventures, gardening notes, neighbors spied, strangers watched in stores and parks and cars jangle together in our heads and come so freely to our fingers that when we see the pieces finished we are often delighted--as if we are not their creators; they just come to talk with us for a while and then leave again.