Installation View, Photo Credit
Philipp Scholz Rittermann
EDUCATION
| 1987 |
MFA, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
| 1984 |
BA, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA |
| 1976 |
AA, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| Fall 1999 |
present, Full time, Ceramics |
| 1989-1999 |
Adjunct, CeramicsGrossmont College, El Cajon, CA |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
| 2015 |
“The Nature of Trophies”, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego CA. One Person |
| 2014 |
“Casting Plus”, San Diego City College Art Gallery, San Diego CA |
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“Image: A Ceramic Show of Decalcomania”, Eutectic Gallery, Portland OR |
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"Lux Store Project", Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA |
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“OMA Art Auction”, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA |
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“Object Object!!”, Helmuth Projects, San Diego CA |
| 2013 |
"Allied Craftsmen Today", Mingei Museum of Art, San Diego CA |
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“Clay Prints: Image, Surface and Narrative in Contemporary Ceramics”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN |
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“Museum Menagerie”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA |
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“Renewed: A Short Story About the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program,” San Diego Central |
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Library, Curated by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego CA |
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“Object Object!”, Helmuth Projects, San Diego CA |
| 2012 |
"Group Exhibition", Point Loma Library, Point Loma, San Diego, CA |
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"Lux Store Project", Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA |
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"Faculty Exhibition", Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA |
| 2011 |
"Trophies", instillation, New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA |
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"Group Exhibition", Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY |
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"Plates and Platters", Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Wash. DC |
| 2010 |
"Here Not There", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
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"The White Show", Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Wash. DC |
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"Cups", Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM |
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"Decalomania", Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM |
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"SOFA Santa Fe", Clark+Del Vecchio, Santa Fe, NM |
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"SOFA NY", Cross Mackenzie Gallery, New York City, NY |
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"Animal Art", New Childrens Museum, San Diego, CA |
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"Beast", Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY |
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"Flora and Fauna", Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Boom and Bust", Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2009 |
"65th Scripps College Ceramic Annual Invitational", Claremont, CA |
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"Hot TEA", Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Nature as Trophy", Pacific Beach Library, Pacific Beach, CA, One person |
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"Functional and Sculptural Teapots", JRB ART at the ELMS Gallery, Oklahoma City |
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"Teapots: Object to Subject", William D. Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, CA |
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“Dust to Decadence”, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA |
| 2008 |
“Clay and Print”, Artist Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“Feats of Clay XXl” Lincoln, CA, Tile Heritage Prize |
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“Nature or Nurture”, Bread and CEI, San Diego, CA, One person |
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“Ceramics Invitational”, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA |
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“Sip, Slurp, Gulp”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 2007 |
“Clay and the Transferred Image”, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN |
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“Agape”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2006 |
“Al Fresco”, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI |
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“New Work of Allied Craftsmen”, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA |
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“The Yxing Effect”, Holter Museum of Art. Helena, Montana |
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“Teapot”, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL |
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“Beatrice Wood Ceramic Annual”, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA |
| 2005 |
“NCECA Invitational Exhibition”, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan |
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“Clay and Print 1”, Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, IN |
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“Cups, Cups, Cups”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM |
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“California Clay Competition”, Artery Gallery, Davis, CA, Laguna Clay Award |
| 2004 |
“Celebrating Nature”, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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“The Art of Tea”, Rockville Arts Place, Gaithersburg, MD |
| 2003 |
“ The Inspired Vessel”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. LA, CA |
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“Painted Clay”, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA |
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“San Diego Clay Artists and their Mentors”’ Santa Fe Room, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA |
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“San Diego State Ceramic Alumni Exhibition”’ Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA |
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“The Cultivated Landscape”, Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI |
| 2002 |
“Ceramics Invitational” 2002, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt St. Univ |
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“I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art”, San Diego Museum of Art, CA |
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“Terra Sutra”, The Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 2001 |
“World Ceramic Biennale”, World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea, juried |
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“The Yxing Effect”, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass |
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“Once Upon A Time”, Wusutum Museum of Art, Racine , WI |
| 2000 |
“Artist Statement”, Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA, One Person Show |
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“Monarch Tile Ceramic Competition”, San Angelo , Texas, Prix Primo Tile Award |
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“Artists and Time”, Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI |
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"The Plate Show", Collins Gallery, England, Scotland, Whales, On tour |
| 1999 |
“California Craft Contemporary”, Laguna Beach Museum, Laguna Beach, Juried |
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“The End is Near", Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI |
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“Erotica in Ceramic Art", SOFA NYC & Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA |
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“The Plate Show", Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| 1998 |
“Current Clay and Fiber", Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA |
| 1997 |
“White Light", Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA, One Person |
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“Ten Years, A Retrospective", Simay Space Gallery, San Diego, CA, One Person |
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“Monarch Tile Ceramic Competition", Kinnedy-Douglas Center, Florence, AL, Merit Award |
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“Artists and Eating Invitational", Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI |
| 1996 |
“Water Theme Invitational", Wustum Museum, Racine, WI |
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“Rendezvous Clay", Nebraska Museum of Art, Kearney, NE |
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"Cup as Metaphor 2", Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
| 2015 |
Breslaw, Cathy, "Environment Concerns Fuel Jeff Irwin's Sculpture", ArtScen. Publishing April, pg. 24 |
| 2013 |
Hiss, Mark, "Ceramic Menagerie", Stars of San Diego”, San Diego Home and Garden, McKinnon |
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Publishing, December, pg. 46-49 |
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Lawton, Jim, “500 Teapots”, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, NY pg. 183 |
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Wandless,Paul Andrew, “500 Prints in Clay”, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, NY pg. 147 |
| 2012 |
"The Best of 500 Ceramics", Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, NY pg. 227, 230 |
| 2010 |
Ollmen, Leah, "Jeff Irwin: Nature as Trophy", American Craft, Vol. 70, No. 1, pg. 36,37 |
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Pincus, Robert, "A Boisterous Exhibit Shines Spotlight on S.D.", San Diego Union-Tribune, June 13. |
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Ollmen, Leah, "Here Not There: San Diego Art Now' at the Museum of Contemporary Art", |
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Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2010 |
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Shepherd,Baudelaire, "Here Not There: Rewiew of MCASD Show, Espresso, September 19. |
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Judith Beermann, "Whites It All About", The Georgetown Dish, January 16. |
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Dayton, Linnea, The Photoshop Book, Illus. pg 96,97 |
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Pincus, Robert, "Here are 10 shows that deserve special mention for the year 2009" |
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Pincus, Robert, "Big Game Hunter", |
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MCASD, Artist Podcast, Itunes address, Track 15: |
| 2009 |
“Jeff Irwin", DVD produced by the National Council on the Education of the Ceramic Arts, Demonstration, |
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lecture and interview. |
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Pincus, Robert, Art Review, "Big Game Hunter", San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15, 2009 |
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Pincus, Robert, "Solace and Light-and low cost", San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 27, 2009 |
| 2008 |
Dayton, Linnea, Photoshop User Magazine, March, Illus. pg 76,77 |
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Lark Books, 500 Platters, Plates & chargers, Sterling Publishing, NY, Illus. pg. 351 |
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"Jeff Irwin Demonstration", Diverse Domain-Contemporary North American Ceramic Art, DVD produced |
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by NCECA |
| 2006 |
Andrew Wandless, Paul, Image Transfer on Clay, Lark Books, NY Illus. pg. 13,48 |
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Sweet Marvin, The Yixing Effect, Foreign Languages Press, China, Illus. pg. 122,123 |
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Launer, Pat, “Around San Diego”, San Diego Home and Garden, Illus. & review pg. 3 |
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Lark Books, 500 Animals, Sterling Publishing, NY, Illus. pg. 402,416 |
| 2004 |
Chung, Dong-Hun, “American Contemporary Ceramics”, Korean Craft Publications |
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“500 Cups”, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, NY |
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego |
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World Ceramic Center, Ichon, South Korea |
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Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI |
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California Museum of Art, Oakland, CA |
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San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TX |
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Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan |
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Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio |
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University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Ireland |
WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
| 2013 |
San Diego State University, San Diego CA, Lecture |
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Mingei Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, Lecture |
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San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Lecture |
| 2011 |
Contemporary Arts Committee, San Diego Museum of Art Support Group, Lecture |
| 2009 |
Pacific Beach Library, Pacific Beach, California, Lecture |
| 2007 |
Idyllwild Summer Arts, Workshop and Lecture |
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Ceramic Artists of San Diego, Grossmont College, Demonstration & Lecture |
| 2004 |
NCECA Conference 2004, Indianapolis, IN, Demonstration & Lecture |
| 2003 |
San Diego Museum Arts Council, Lecture |
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San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Lecture |
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Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, Lecture |
| 2002 |
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, Demonstration & Lecture |
| 2001 |
San Francisco Community College, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, Demonstration & Lecture |
| 1997 |
Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA, Demonstration & Lecture |
| 1995 |
Ceramic Artists of San Diego, San Diego, CA, Demonstration & Lecture |
| 1994 |
American Ceramic Society, Los Angeles, CA, Demonstration & Lecture |
| 1991 |
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA, Demonstration & Lecture |
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American Korean Clay Camp, I-Ri City, South Korea, Workshop & Lecture |
GRANTS
| 1990 |
San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture |
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
| 2011 |
Executive committee member, Allied Craftsmen of San Diego |
| 2006 |
San Diego Art Institute, Juror, San Diego, CA |
| 2003 |
Humboldt State University Student Exhibition, Juror, Arcata, CA |
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Co-Organizer for NCECA Conference San Diego |
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To Jeff Irwin Artwork
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