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October Issue 2007
Gregg Museum of Art & Design in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Tom Spleth
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design in Raleigh, NC, is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Making the Mold, Breaking the Mold: The Art of Tom Spleth, a retrospective exhibition of this nationally known and highly regarded ceramicist, painter and printmaker. The exhibition will follow the artist's circular paths through various media over the past 40 years, on view from Oct. 25 through Dec. 20, 2007.
A retrospective of any artist's work covers a lot of ground; Tom Spleth's covers more than most. Spleth, known primarily as a ceramicist, has made (by his own estimation) approximately 20,000 functional pieces, and has also produced figurative and abstract sculpture, furniture, tiles and light boxes as well as paintings, prints and drawings.
Spleth's (b.1946) journey as an artist began in Tulsa, OK, in the 1960s. He was encouraged by his parents, who arranged for private painting lessons after high school. Later he attended Kansas City Art Institute where he was introduced to ceramics and studied under Ken Ferguson. After receiving his BFA in 1969, he pursued his study of ceramics further at Alfred University in New York and received an MFA in 1971. Spleth returned to Alfred to teach foundation drawing and ceramics from 1978-84. From 1985-6 he became an artist-in-residence at the Art/Industry Program of the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI, after which he moved to Raleigh, NC, where he and Jean McLaughlin were married and lived for 12 years. During this time he served as director of the City Gallery in Raleigh and of the exhibition gallery of the Wilson Arts Council in Wilson, NC. He and Jean currently reside in Little Switzerland, NC, where Tom has his studio and Jean is the director of Penland School of Crafts.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 919/515-3503 or visit (www.ncsu.edu/arts).
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