Jason Green

(back) Brief Biography
Jason Green teaches Ceramics and Sculpture at Walnut Hill School, a high school for the arts, in Natick, MA. He was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2001.

He exhibits his work nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Invitational Exhibit of International Ceramics at the Guangdong Shiwan Ceramic Museum in China, Tiles on the Edge at Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Mastery in Clay at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia and Yankee Clay: Ceramic Artists of the Northeast at the Slater Museum in Norwich, CT.

He recently travelled to China as a visiting artist at the Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, and has also been a visiting artist at Alfred University, Harvard University and MassArt.

Green began creating sculptural tile after several years of building temporary architectural installations that were lined with unfired clay. In 1999 he was invited to the Ceramic Millennium workshop "Beyond Gravity: Ceramics in a Digital Culture" in The Netherlands. The resulting installation "Transept", made in collaboration with Denise Pelletier, continued to nourish his interest in sculptural ideas that investigate site and refer to architecture. Summer residencies in 1999 and 2000 at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, provided him the time, space and environment to begin developing his current body of artwork. At Watershed, which was once a functioning brick factory, Green experimented with building sculpture using antiquated molds once used for architectural elements. As his process evolved, he began designing and fabricating his own molds using plaster and wood components. At Watershed, he also discovered his technique of transferring pattern to the surface of his pieces using slip and embossed paper.

Using brick, tile and other fabricated architectural elements, combined with decorative interior surfaces, Green investigates ideas dealing with decoration, decay, construction and reconstruction. He intends his patterned fragments to elicit questions and dialogue dealing with the relationships between physical spaces, the body, time and memory.

Education
MFA in Ceramics, 1998: New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
BFA in Ceramics, 1995: University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts, Storrs, CT

Grants and Fellowships
Individual Artist Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2001
Professional Development Grant, Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA, 2001
E. E. Ford Faculty Summer Study Grant, Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA, 2000, 2002
Dartley Fellowship in Visual Arts, Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA, 1998

Solo Exhibitions
• Fragments and Facades, Artworks! at Dover Street, New Bedford, MA, June 2002
• End Presentation, Turner Gallery, NYSCC at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 2001
• Jason Green: Architectural Terra Cotta, Hilles Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2001
• Jason Green - Objects and Installations, New Space Gallery, Manchester Community-Technical College, Manchester, CT, 1995

Visiting Artist Residencies
• Visiting Artist in Residence, Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, P. R. China, 2002
• Artists Invite Mentors, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME, 2002
• Visiting Artist in Residence, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 2001
• Visiting Artist in Residence, Office for the Arts at Harvard Ceramics Program, Boston, MA, Nov. 2000-May 2001
• Beyond Gravity: Ceramics in a Digital Culture, Workshop's-Hertogenbosch, Ceramic Millennium, The Netherlands, Summer 1999
• Zarnett Kiln God Resident, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME, Summer 2000 (Grant recipient)

email Jason Green at jasonhgreen@excite.com

view more work at www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/j/jasongreen