lives and works in San Diego, California

 

Education

 

2005     University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, M.F.A.

2001     University of Wisconsin– Eau Claire, Department of Art and Design, B.F.A.

1997     University of Wisconsin – Barron County, A.A

 

Artist in Residence

2006 - 2008     500X Gallery, Dallas, TX

2007 - 2008     Southside on Lamar – Dallas, Texas

2005               Watershed Center for the Arts – Newcastle, Maine

Selected  Exhibitions 

(* Denotes solo exhibition)

2012

Informal Exchange - Seattle Design Center - Seattle, Washington

Curator: Hope Rovelto

 

Wastelands and Candylands - Boehm Gallery - San Marcos, California

Curator: Sasha Koozel Reibstein

 

2011

Uberyummy - Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art – San Bernardino, California
Curators: Alison Petty Ragguette and Karen Crews Hendon

Objects of Desire - Art San Diego, California
Curators: Laurie Mitchell and Jen Luce

Suspension - DN/ZA Projects - San Diego, California
Curator: Lauren Popp, Assistant Curator, New Childrens Museum - San Diego, California

Fired - Manifest Gallery - Cincinati, Ohio

 

2010

 

Here Not There: San Diego Art Now - Museum of Contemporary Art - San Diego, La Jolla, California

Curator: Lucia Sanroman, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art - San Diego, California

 

Rendezvous, National Clay Invitational - Artspace Gallery - Art Association of Jackson Hole - Jackson, Wyoming

 

Midnite Snacks - 1366 Space - Chicago, Illinois

 

 

2009

 

John Oliver Lewis and Kim MacConnel - Southwestern College Art Gallery - Chula Vista, California

 

Go West: John Oliver Lewis and Jessica McCambly – College of the Redwoods - Eureka, California

 

Sounds - Galerije 73 - Belgrade, Serbia

 

Trade Show - 11th Istanbul Biennial - Parrallel Exhibition - Ankara, Eskischir and Istanbul, Turkey

Curator: Anna Stump

 

Strange Clays – New Directions in Ceramics - Sullivan Goss – Santa Barbara, California
 

2008

The First International Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics - Liang Bao Building, Xi'an, China

Paper Jam – My House Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Island, The Art Gallery at the College of Staten Island, Staten Island, New York

Nightmares, Morton J. May Foundation Gallery, Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri

Your Favorite Artist Was a Member – 30 years at 500X  (Invitational) - 500X Gallery - Dallas, Texas

Tasty Bits - Gallery 414 – Fort Worth, Texas
Curator: Eric Tosten, Co-founder, Dallas Art Cast – Dallas, Texas
 

2007

Float Bloat Burst: John Oliver Lewis and Alex Soto - Project Room – 500X Gallery - Dallas, Texas

Summer Breeze Makes Me Feel Fine – good good things – Dallas, Texas

Amarillo Biennial 600 – CLAY - Amarillo Museum of Art - Amarillo, Texas,
Jurors: Marylin A. Zeitlan, Director and Chief Curator of the Arizona State University Art Museum - Tempe, Arizona
 
Introductions North – Meadows Gallery – Center for the Visual Arts – Denton, Texas

Material View - Treetop Gallery - Mountain View College - Dallas, Texas
Curator: Ryan Fitzer, Director, Treetop Gallery


2006

Sweet Tart - 500X Gallery - Dallas, TexasBig As Night 2 - Tyler St. Lofts - Dallas, Texas

Curators: Eric Tosten and Veronica Tosten – Co-founders, Dallas Art Cast

All Together – 219 Gallery - Eastfield College - Mesquite, Texas

Members’ Exhibition – 500X Gallery - Dallas, Texas

Draw_Drawing 2 - The Foundry Gallery - London Biennale - London, England
Curator: Giacomo Picca

Crafts National – Lancaster Museum of Art - Lancaster, Pennsylvania  -Juror’s Award
Juror: Gretchen Keyworth, Director and Curator of the Fuller Craft Museum - Brockton, Massachusetts

Ink and Clay 32 – Kellogg University Art Gallery – Pomona, California
Jurors:   Marylin A. Zeitlan, Director, Chief Curator of the Arizona State University Art Museum -Tempe, Arizona
Peter Held, Curator of Ceramics at the Arizona State University Art Museum - Tempe, Arizona
 

2005

New Work * – University Of Wisconsin – Barron County – Rice Lake, Wisconsin

Works on Paper – Community Art Center Gallery - Fort Worth, Texas

McNeese National Works on Paper – Abercrombie Gallery - McNeese State University - Lake Charles, Louisiana
Juror: Annette Carlozzi, Senior Curator of American & Contemporary Art for the Blanton Museum of Art

DinnerWorks 2005 – Louisville Visual Arts Association Gallery - Louisville, Kentucky

Voertman Competition - University of North Texas Art Gallery
Juror: Regine Basha, Adjunct Curator for the Arthouse at the Jones Center - Austin, Texas
 

2004

Texas Exchange – Texas Tech University Art Gallery – Lubbock, Texas

Northern Invasion – Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas – Denton, Texas

Voertman Competition - University of North Texas Art Gallery - Denton, Texas
Jurors: Cam Schoepp, Associate Professor Art, Texas Christian University - Forth Worth, Texas
Terri Thornton, Curator of Education, Fort Worth Modern - Forth Worth, Texas

28th Annual  Art Competition - Union Gallery - University of North Texas – Denton, Texas
Juror: Susan Dunkerly, Associate Professor of Art, Baylor University – Waco, Texas
- Juror’s Award

Less than 5 – Tarrant County College Gallery - Hurst, Texas


2003

Ceramics UNT – Union Gallery - University of North Texas – Denton, Texas

Thematic Challenge – Cora Stafford Gallery - University of North Texas – Denton, Texas

Pressed and Fired – Hara Gallery - Denton, Texas

27th Annual Art Competition - Union Gallery - University of North Texas - Denton, Texas
 Juror: David Iles
- Juror’s Award
 

2002

Kaolithic Activity – Union Gallery - University of North Texas – Denton, Texas

Clay for a Cause – State Regional Art Center - Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Arts West – L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library - Eau Claire, Wisconsin
 

2001

John Oliver Lewis and Dave Zdrazil – Heyde Center for the Arts - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

 

Wood-fire Extravaganza – Cora Stafford Gallery - University of North Texas – Denton, Texas

In Progress – Foster Gallery - University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire – Eau Claire, Wisconsin


Bibliography

2012

 

Uberyummy, Catalouge, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, San Bernardino, California

 

 

2011

 

Fired -  Catalogue, Manifest Gallery, Cincinati, Ohio

 

 

2009

 

500 Ceramic Sculptures – Lark Books - (reproduction of work)

Martha Sadler, Playing with Clay - Concurrent Ceramic Art Exhibitions at CAF and Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara, California, April 23, 2009

'Go West' exhibit features to CR artists, The Times-Standard, Eureka, California, February 27, 2009

 

2008

Richard Speer, Candy Circus, Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon, October 15, 2008

Your Favorite Artist Was a Member – 30 years at 500X, Catalogue - 500X Gallery - Dallas, Texas
 
Wish, Catalogue, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Anjali Gupta, 500X Gallery, Artlies, #56 Winter, 2008, p. 74-79. (reproduction of work p. 77)
   
Steve Carter, X-Box Live: Launch Pad for Cutting-Edge Artists Celebrates the Big 3-0!,
Dallas Modern Luxury Magazine, January, 2008, p. 54-55.

Gaile Robinson, Tasty Bits, Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, January 18, 2008

Anthony Mariani, Processions: The Spirit of ’64 Gets a Makeover at 414, Fort Worth Weekly, Fort Worh, Texas, January 23, 2008
 

2007
 
Lucinda Breeding, Art That Dreams are Made Of, Denton Record Chronicle, Denton, Texas, July, 2007

Hunter Ingalls, Art Beat: AMoA's Show Defies Handles, The Amarillo Globe-News and Amarillo.com, August, 2007

Lucinda Breeding, Contemporary Artists Enliven Meadows Gallery, Denton Record Chronicle, Denton, Texas, July, 2007

Amarillo Biennial 600 – CLAY, Catalogue, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo Texas

Merritt Martin, Burst the Stereotypes, Dallas Observer, Dallas, Texas, March (reproduction of work)

Valenshine 2007, Catalogue, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
 

2006

Artist in Residence Catalogue, Watershed Center for the Arts, Newcastle, Maine

Crafts National, Catalogue, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Ink and Clay 32, Catalogue, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, California
 

2005

McNeese National Works on Paper, Catalogue, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana