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Ceramics Congress Workshop

11/22/2021

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You can learn how I made these Siamese Gold Finches in my workshop "How to Make Hybrid Ceramic Animals" at this year's online Ceramics Congress happening November 25-29. This event features a ton of workshops, Q & As and discussions with international presenters and a great community of ceramic artists.
​Tickets and Schedule for the Ceramics Congress are available here.
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Hearsay/Heresy at SPRING/BREAK Art Show

9/7/2021

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I have three new sculptures up at SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC opening this week! I'll be showing  with Track 16 Gallery alongside Sandow Birk, Elyse Pignolet, Alicia Piller, Kris Rac, Camilla Taylor, Chris Ulivo, Cathy Ward, and Noa Yekutieli.  The fair runs from Sept 8-13, and is located at 625 Madison Avenue. Track 16 is in Booth 1063. Tickets are available at www.springbreakartshow.com. 
I created my works with the theme of Hearsay/Heresy in mind, and spent time thinking about Medieval illuminated manuscripts and reading Jorge Luis Borges' "Book of Imaginary Beings". The above sculpture, Leopard Chimera, is a combination eagle chick, leopard, and camel. There is a music box inside that plays "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" from the musical Oklahoma. 
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Solid Objects Exhibit

8/23/2021

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I'm a part of Solid Objects, an online group exhibit including artists Karolina Maszkiewicz, Donna Mccullough, and Cheryl Riley. The exhibit is curated by Patricia O. Miranda as part of the guest curator initiative of Now Be Here art. The title, Solid Objects, comes from a 1918 Virginia Woolf story about a man who abandons his political career to go on a search for objects.

From the curator: "This online exhibition presents the work of four artists whose unique artistic languages radically alter the ways in which we relate to objects. These works prompt a diverse range of emotional and aesthetic responses and invite a reflection about our personal and collective experiences. Debra’s Reconstructions combine and modify decorative ceramic figurines found at thrift stores to create new narratives that ponder on the complexity of our human psychology. " For this exhibit, each artist made short videos documenting a piece of their work. You can see all the works here. 
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Talking Coincidence on What's My Thesis

6/7/2021

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Coincidence, serendipity, and fate - I talk about all of this, and how it affects my art practice with host Javier Proenza  on What's My Thesis? a show about tangential/silly/strange research pursuits that inform artist's work. You can listen by clicking here, or find What's My Thesis on Apple podcasts (or where ever you listen to podcasts). Or, if you prefer, you can also watch on YouTube here if you'd like to see me sitting in front of a wood paneled wall at a cabin in Big Bear (I was on a mini vacation when we recorded the show). 

This image sums up most of my thoughts in the podcast. It's a little vignette I saw at a Goodwill thrift store a week or so after the recording. Final note: this podcast has some adult content so put earmuffs on little ones.  
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Artist Talk with Greater Austin Clay Alliance

4/23/2021

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Earlier this month I did an artist talk for the Greater Austin Clay Alliance (GACA) about my art practice, restoration work, and technical processes. It is now available to watch on YouTube here. 
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Interview in ShoutOut LA

2/1/2021

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If you're interested in my restoration business or my practice as an artist, check out this interview I did with ShoutOut LA back in November of 2020.
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Salvage at Paradigm Gallery

1/17/2021

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I'm excited to be a part of Salvage, curated by Christopher Jobson, founder of Colossal, at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia. The exhibition opens Friday, January 22, and there will be an online Q & A with the curator and artists at 5:30 pm EST. The Q & A is free with limited space available.  (RSVP here). Salvage is a group exhibition featuring new work by Yurim Gough, Debra Broz, André Schulze, and the Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR).

From the gallery: In a culture awash in disposable objects and materiality, it is seemingly impossible to determine what has finally outlived its usefulness or nostalgic pull only to be relegated to storage, the thrift store, or finally, the landfill. This faded sentiment is just the beginning of the journey for this group of four artists who use their abilities to miraculously salvage fragments of tradition and culture that were destined to be lost, relegated to the periphery, or buried forever....
From her studio in L.A., artist Debra Broz morphs the dusty porcelain animals from an antique curio into wholly new hybrid creatures. At once hilarious and jarring, she deftly shatters and reassembles each figure to introduce duplicate limbs, heads, or tails. As if tampering with the DNA of an industrial porcelain workshop itself, the cross-species organisms appear wholly intentional and disturbingly cute.
Read more about the exhibition here.


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Céramique

11/3/2019

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I just received my copy of Céramique, a new book just published in France. There are 90 artists featured and I'm excited to be included alongside some of my favorite artists working in contemporary ceramics. This beautifully designed book was compiled and edited by Charlotte Vannier of Pyramyd Editions. The text is all in French, but it's still a wonderful art book to look at if you don't speak French. Available for purchase here.
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Colossal Update!

10/29/2019

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I'm thrilled to be featured on Colossal for the second time! Click here to check out the update about my work. I talk about what's keeping me inspired in the studio, and I tell the story of my grandpa's exploding outhouse (you'll have to read to find out!)\
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Big thanks to the folx at Colossal for doing what they do. I've followed them for a long time and they share some really amazing work from artists all over the world. Keep an eye on www.thisiscolossal.com for really great art and design work. I'm honored to be a part of it. 
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Repurposed at ICOSA

7/9/2019

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Carrot Babies, 2019, 10 x 4.5 x 5", secondhand ceramic & mixed media
The Carrot Babies just made their debut in Repurposed at ICOSA Collective in Austin! Here are the show details: 

​EXHIBITION DATES: July 5 – August 3, 2019    

Repurposed is a group exhibition co-curated by Erin Cunningham and Amanda Linn McInerney, both members of the artist-run gallery ICOSA Collective. This exhibition focuses on artworks that have been created from discarded and undervalued materials that possess a status of the imbued history of those objects. The diverse group of artists, from six different states, are known for their ability to elevate their materials and refine their craft through a variety of techniques. When developing the concept for this exhibition, the curators both had recent experiences that made them consider the impact of consumerism on the environment and on personal psychology. It seemed there was enough “stuff” in the world. They realized how important it was to feature works of art that reused materials and reconceptualized them into things that were beautiful, sometimes humorous or tongue in cheek, but also thoughtful and meaningful. The show draws upon family connections, folklore, and cultural and personal histories to create works that repeat and reconstruct forms and ideas.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Carolina Alamilla (Miami, FL)
Doug Baulos (Birmingham, AL)
Michael Bonadio (Birmingham, AL)
Melanie Brauner (Everett, WA)
Debra Broz (Van Nuys, CA)
Zach Clark (Oakland, CA)
Erin Cunningham (Austin, TX)
Tobias Flores (Hays, KS)
Vladimir Mejia (Austin, TX)
Amanda McInerney (Austin, TX)
Karri Paul (Los Angeles, CA)
Jerry Slayton (Austin, TX)
Shalena White (Austin, TX)
Jason Tanner Young (Montevallo, AL)
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