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DAN ANDERSON

# 1 $75

# 2 $100

# 3 $100

# 4 $75

MAO Porcelain, woodfired (shino glaze), decal fired

Reddy Kilowatt & Willie Wirehand: the Electric Boys Stoneware, woodfired (celadon over white slip), decal fired

Midway Water Tanks Porcelain, woodfired (Wert’s Shino glaze), decal fired

Water Tank Porcelain, woodfired (Wert’s Shino glaze)

# 5 $100 Triple Water Tanks Stoneware, woodfired (Celadon over white slip), decal fired

ARTIST STATEMENT

ARTIST BIO

Since clay became a medium of expression over 10,000 years ago, it has allowed archeologists the ability to ascertain much about a given society/culture. As a young, undergraduate art student, my art advisors enrolled me in several studio classes before I took a clay class. Many observers of my clay work are unaware of my background in printmaking before I ever touched clay. One of my favorite techniques in my print classes was photo silkscreen. It did not take me long to combine silkscreened ceramic enamel decals on my ceramic surfaces once I "caught the clay bug." I have been utilizing decals - both "ho-made" screened decals in my studio and laser printed decals that I have printed for me - for over four decades. The decal images on my work give viewers important information and insight into my background and experiences. In addition they are a "road-map" as to how my brain ticks. I enjoy how the decal imagery contemporizes my ceramics. The words humor, nostalgia and satire do not escape me.

Dan Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 2, 1945. He grew up in a typical middle-class family that operated a family-run corner grocery store in Hudson, Wisconsin. Dan attended the nearby University of WisconsinRiver Falls where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education. At the time, he had every belief that he was going to be a high school art teacher. During his junior year, he traveled to Italy through the university studies abroad program. This serendipitous experience, apprenticing for Renato Bassoli (a Renaissance artist who lived and operated a studio in Milan) turned Dan’s life topsy-turvy. When he returned to the United States, with a new mission, he finished his undergraduate degree (1968) and immediately applied to graduate school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Dan graduated with his MFA degree from Cranbrook in 1970. He received several job offers to teach college level ceramics and began his teaching career at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Located 20 miles from St. Louis, Missouri, Dan chose SIUE because the campus was relatively new and he knew that if he worked hard, he could build the program from the ground up and leave his mark. Thirty-two years later, in 2002, he retired from university life. Over these three plus decades, Dan positioned SIUE as one of the top 10 graduate ceramic programs in the country (US News & World Report). A frequent workshop presenter, Anderson has lectured and demonstrated at over 150 venues over the past four decades. Major galleries represent Dan across the United States and his work is in numerous private and permanent collections. His “mounds’ anagama wood kiln is fired at his rural Edwardsville studio, Old Poag Road Clay & Glass, twice a year.


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