October 2011: Alison Reintjes
Alison Reintjes recently began a residency at the Clay Studio of Missoula where she is developing a new body of wall-based installations. She returned to Montana in 2009 with her husband and twin children after three years in Ohio and Kentucky, where she worked as an instructor for the Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft. She first moved to Montana in 2001 for a residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena and completed additional residencies at Greenwich House Pottery in New York, Jentel in Wyoming, and Mount St. Francis in southern Indiana. She has exhibited at the Oregon College of Arts & Crafts in Portland, AKAR Gallery in Iowa City, Museu de Ceramica de l’Alcora in Spain, ASU Ceramic Research Center in Tempe, Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago and the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, among others.
About her work, Alison writes, “In terms of influence, I look at painters to whom linear design is central to their work, like Frank Stella or Sol Lewitt. I also draw inspiration from architectural traditions, such as Moroccan zillij, mid-century modernist design, mathematical theory, and Japanese textiles.”
Past Featured Artists:
Tara Wilson (September 2011)
