ALLEGHANY MEADOWS

ALLEGHANY MEADOWS

Alleghany Meadows received his BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, and his MFA from Alfred University. He studied with Takashi Nakazato, Karatsu, Japan, received a Watson Fellowship for a year field study of potters in Nepal, and was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch. He has presented lectures, workshops and been a visiting artist at art centers and universities nationally and internationally, including Penland, Alfred, Kansas City Art Institute, RISD, Archie Bray, Haystack, Curaumilla, Chile, Good Hope, Jamaica and University of Georgia Cortona, Italy. He exhibits widely and is the founder of Artstream Nomadic Gallery and Studio for Arts and Works (SAW). His work is in numerous private and  public collections, including the Everson Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Long Beach Museum of Art, American Museum of Ceramic Art, and the Huntington Museum of Art, where he was honored with the Walter Gropius Master Award.

AVAILABLE WORKS

Alleghany Meadows
Artist Statement

I often draw inspiration from details in nature, the form of the sky seen from a solitary hilltop, the tension in a peony blossom squeezing outward during a warm week in late June. I love to work physically hard, long hours in the studio. Repetition and rhythm in my process are how I search for subtleties, forms, surfaces, patterns. I am fascinated by the potential when repeating elements stack and arrange, becoming something greater than a sum-total of parts. A series of soup bowls nesting together evokes an emerging flower, then transforms into a stage for breaking bread with loved ones, then circles back to a stack of bowls after they are washed, poised and alert for their next experience. My hope is to subtly influence the perception of time and to inspire creative decisions in ordinary domestic experiences, like eating breakfast, arranging flowers or sipping tea.