July 7 – 30, 2023 | Arrowmont Gallery in Knoxville
Zero Lucks to Give addresses the desperate and callousness youth affords us and champions maturity, experience, and the ability to recognize our good fortunes. From the concepts of challenging fate, blindness to longevity, and the warm embrace of finding love, we both see our past decisions and now ante up, acknowledging the games we played in the past.
Love plays a central role in our collective sense of reward while addressing the time spent and metaphorical gambles of our searches. We see, highlight, and confront the battles of gender and identity, the imbalance of equity in all its constant social and economic cycles. We strive to place humor, grace, and an earned nonchalance as we look over our shoulders to the past while clutching onto our well-worn optimism for a bright future.
This narrative is presented in both bodies of work through a variety of surface techniques including sgraffito (carving through slip), slip inlay, and transfer on mid-range, porcelaneous stoneware. All works are glazed and, in some cases, finished with overglaze enamels.
Mark Errol graduated from Georgia State University in 2014 with his MFA where he was the recipient of the Ernest G. Welch Fellowship. Mark accepted the position of Lecturer in 2015 at Valdosta State University in Valdosta GA where he teaches Ceramics and is the Gallery Director of the Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery.
Mark and his husband, photographer Glenn Josey are the co-owners and operators of Plough Gallery in Tifton GA. The gallery’s concentration is on fine art and craft and has been a leader in bringing public art and education through experience to their town.
He maintains an active studio practice that centers on functional ceramic forms that act as a vehicle to share topics of domestic life, shared love, and his ever-longing quest to win the lottery and build their dream home. In addition to clay, he works with textiles, printmaking, and photography. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, been featured in Studio Potter and Ceramics Monthly. Errol has taught workshops and has been a visiting artist at numerous universities and art centers. He teaches often at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and has been the Clay Coordinator for the Spring Session of Pentaculum since 2020.
Instagram: @marksmud and @ploughgallery
Website: www.marksmud.com
Kathy King is currently an active studio artist in the Boston area and is an Instructor and the Director of the Ceramics Program – Office for the Arts at Harvard in Allston, MA. As Director of the Ceramics Program, King oversees community programming for over 900 students per year and collaborates with over eight different academic departments at Harvard investigating the ceramic medium. Prior to moving back to the Boston area in 2008, she was an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. She has held positions as a Visiting Faculty member at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, MA. Her undergraduate work included the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA and she received her BA in Studio Art with a major in Ceramics from Connecticut College, New London, CT in 1990. She received her MFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL in 1998. She has given workshops and lectures at over seventy-five colleges, schools, and art centers throughout the USA.
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts has featured King as an Emerging Artist in 1999, a Demonstrating Artist in 2002, a co-juror with Mark Burns for the 2012 National Student Juried Show, and been a lecturer and panelist on multiple occasions. In 2018, she was awarded a Brother Thomas Fellowship by the Boston Foundation, Boston, MA, and was a nominee in 2021. She was awarded a Craft Schools US Residency to the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Center and other residencies include Archie Bray Foundation in MT and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in ME. Her work can also be found in numerous publications and periodicals including Ceramics: Art and Perception, Studio Potter, Clay Times, Art Papers, and Ceramics Monthly. She has served on the Board of Directors of Studio Potter, The Marks Project, POW – Pots on Wheels. She currently serves on the Collections Committee for the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
Instagram: @kathykingart
Website: www.kathykingart.com
Arrowmont Gallery in Knoxville is located at 110 S. Gay Street and is open Fridays 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm; Saturdays and Sundays, noon – 5:00pm.
