Patti Warashina
Patti Warashina | |
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Born | Masae Patricia Warashina 1940 (age 83–84) Spokane, Washington |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Washington |
Movement | Funk art |
Awards | United States Artists Fellow (2018) Smithsonian Visionary Award (2020) |
Patti Warashina (born 1940) is an American artist known for her imaginative ceramic sculptures. Often constructing her sculptures using porcelain, Warashina creates narrative and figurative art.[1] Her works are in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[2]
Early life
The youngest of three children, Warashina was born in 1940 and raised in Spokane, Washington.[2] Her father was a dentist, born in Japan, and her mother was Japanese-American.[3] She moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, where she studied with sculptors Robert Sperry, Harold Myers, Rudy Autio, Shōji Hamada, Shinsaku Hamada, and Ruth Penington.[4] Warashina earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962 and her Master of Fine Arts in 1964, both from the University of Washington.[4]
Career
Warashina’s work is often humorous, and includes "clay figures placed in imagined environments that show her subversive thinking."[5] She uses sculpture to explore such themes as the human condition, feminism, car-culture, and political and social topics.[6]
As an art student at the University of Washington in the 1960s, Warashina noticed that the environment in the ceramics studio included a somewhat macho culture; women were not included in technical discussions relating to managing the kiln. She began creating a series of figurative works that used humor to skewer this gender imbalance in the field.[7]
In 1962, Warashina had her first solo exhibition at the Phoenix Art Gallery in Seattle. Warashina's first husband was fellow student Fred Bauer, and from 1964 to 1970 she exhibited as Patti Bauer.[4] In 1976, she married Robert Sperry.[8]
She began teaching in 1964 and has taught at Wisconsin State University, Eastern Michigan University, the Cornish School of Allied Arts, and the University of Washington.[9] During the 1970s and 1980s, Warashina, Sperry, and Howard Kottler ran the ceramics program at the University of Washington's School of Art, growing it into one of the best-known in the United States.[10] Warashina has been associated with the California Funk movement. Her artwork was included in a survey of ceramic Funk Art organized by Arizona State University's Ceramic Research Center in Tempe, Arizona titled, Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond in 2004.[11]
Warashina has held a number of major solo exhibitions including the retrospective Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California in 2012, and at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington in 2013.[2][12]
Awards and recognition
Warashina is nationally recognized for her work. In 1994, she was elected to the American Craft Council's College of Fellows. She received the Twining Humber Lifetime Achievement/Woman of the Year Award in 2001 from Seattle's Artist Trust and earned the University of Washington Division of the Arts Distinguished Alumna Award in 2003.
In 2005, Warashina was interviewed for Smithsonian's Archives of American Art[13] which also holds a number of her papers in its collection.[14]
United States Artists awarded Warashina a 2018 USA Fellowship.[15]
In October 2020, Warashina won the Visionary Award from the Smithsonian Craft Show.[16]
Works
- City Reflections (2009), Portland, Oregon
Grants
- 1975: National Endowment for the Arts
- 1978: Ford Foundation
References
- ^ Brassaw, Mandolin; Jones, Sara; Raley, Dan; Wogan, Lisa; Fontaine, Lyra; Lootens, Madeline; Meyers, Jennifer (5 October 2015). "Seattleites Who Have Gotten Cooler with Age". Seattle Magazine. Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ a b c Upchurch, Michael (14 July 2013). "BAM hosts a dazzling Patti Warashina retrospective". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ Sillman, Marcie (24 June 2020). "She screamed so loud she scared off a rhino, and other Patti Warashina stories". KUOW-FM. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ a b c "Finding aid to the Patti Warashina papers". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 3 September 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Artist: Patti Warashina". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 15 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom". Bellevue Arts Museum. 2013. Archived from the original on 15 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ Farr, Sheila (11 July 2013). "The Wit and Wisdom of Artist Patti Warashina". Seattle Metropolitan. Archived from the original on 15 June 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Finding Aid to the Robert Sperry Papers". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
The Robert Sperry papers were donated by Sperry's wife Patti Warashina in 2003 and 2004.
- ^ Warashina, Patti (1980). "You Captured My Heart". In Hedges, Elaine; Wendt, Ingrid (eds.). In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts. New York: The Feminist Press. pp. 148. ISBN 0912670622. OCLC 5170930 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Hackett, Regina (17 December 2001). "Pioneering ceramic artist Patti Warashina is still standing". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ Held, Peter; Natsoulas, John; Newby, Rick (2004). Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic Funk From the Sixties and Beyond. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Art Museum. ISBN 9780967954752. OCLC 56992962.
- ^ Cheng, Scarlet (15 September 2012). "A mesmerizing spin with ceramist Patti Warashina". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ Kaminsky, Christine; Kangas, Matthew (October–November 2009). "The Ceramic Self". American Craft. 69 (5): 72. ISSN 0194-8008.
She was interviewed in 2005 for Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.
- ^ "'Art Was at a High Level and Living Was Very Difficult': Ruth Asawa on Black Mountain College, the Art-Craft Divide, and More". ARTnews. 4 February 2019. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Durón, Maximilíano (16 January 2018). "United States Artists Names 2018 Fellows, Including Dread Scott, Pepón Osorio, and Cassils". ARTnews. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Catlin, Roger (October 9, 2020). "For This Year's Crop of Smithsonian Craft Show Artists, the Pandemic Changes Everything". Smithsonian. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
External links
- Convertible Car Kiln, 1971, work in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Oral history interview with Patti Warashina, 2005 Sept. 8, Archives of American Art
- [1] Patti Warashina at the American Museum of Ceramic Art
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