kate MacDowell

Mutiny on the Bounty, 2013. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze. Wall mounted collection pictured ap. 25 x 25 x 3 1/2.

Fecund, 2012. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 14 x 8 x 6 1/2".

Fecund (detail).

Memento Mori, 2012. Slip cast and hand built vitreous china, cone 10 glaze, 6 x 6 x 5".

Memento Mori (detail).

Stolen 1 & 2 2012. Handbuilt porcelain, cone glaze 6.

Assisted Living 1 & 2, 2012. Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze.

Assisted Living 1 & 2, 2012.  Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze.

Outfoxed, 2011. Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 17 x 11 x 2 1/2".

Outfoxed (detail).

Quiet as a Mouse, 2011. Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze, size variable.

Quiet as a Mouse (detail).

Queen of Denial, 2011. Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 15 1/2 x 11 x 5".

Queen of Denial (detail).

The God of Change, 2011. Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 12 x 10 1/2 x 2.

The God of Change (detail).

Gun Shy, 2010. Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 14 1/2 x 8 x 7".

Gun Shy (detail).

Entangled, 2010. Handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 12 1/2 x 10 x 4 1/2".

Badgered, 2010. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 19 x 13 x 5 1/2".

Ants Ate All My Sugar, 2010. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 11 x 7 x 5 1/2".

Locusts, 2010. Hand built porcelain, mixed media, 

Locusts (detail).

Stillborn, 2010. Hand built and slip cast porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 18 x 15 1/2 x 4".

Sweet, 2010. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 4 x 5 x 2".

Taste, 2010. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 11 x 4 1/2 x 1".

David and Goliath, 2010. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 3".

Solastalgia, 2010. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 7 x 7 x 4".

Soliphilia, 2010. Hand built porcelain, 10 x 5 1/2 x 4".

First and Last Breath, 2010. Hand built porcelain, mixed media, 11 x 9 x 12".

Romulus and Remus, 2009. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 18 1/2 x 12 x 7".

Serpentine, 2009. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze,  6 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 6".

Invasive Flora, 2009.  Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 16 x 17 x 8".

Invasive Flora, 2009.

Cross-pollination, 2009. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 10 x 10 1/2 x 3 1/2".

Canary 3, 2009. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 13 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 6".

Casualty, 2009. Hand built porcelai, cone 6 glaze, 15 x 9 x 3".

Buzz, 2009. Hand built porcelain, acrylic gel, 14 1/2 x 11 x 7 1/2".

Daphne, 2007. Hand built porcelain, 53 x 17 x 40".

Breaking, 2008. Hand built porcelain, resin, 6 x 3 1/2 x 2".

Uprooted, 2007. Hand built porcelain, 15 x 13 x 7".

Crave, 2006. Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 3 x 24 x 4 1/2".

Crave (detail).

Kate Biography

I’ve lived and worked in many different environments and cultures that have influenced the way I perceive the world, and therefore my pieces. These experiences have ranged from teaching in urban high schools and producing websites in the high-tech corporate environment, to volunteering at a meditation retreat center in rural India a few hours outside of the fever pitch of Bombay. I’ve also collected visual imagery and ideas from my travels through Renaissance Italy, Classical and Minoan Greece, Nepal and Thailand.

Upon returning to the United States in 2004, after a year and a half working overseas, I began to study ceramics full-time at the ArtCenter in Carrboro, North Carolina and later at Portland Community College's Cascade campus and the Oregon College of Art and Craft's community education program. I have also studied flame-worked glass at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, and participated in an artist residency at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine.

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