Aurore Chabot
Tucson, Arizona

Twixt Land and Sea
earthenware
12.5 x 35.5 x 17 cm
2002

____Selected exhibitions

  • Mastery in Clay: New Work, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, 2002
  • Clay on the Wall, Gallery 128, New York, 2001
  • Ceramics: Cultural Connections, State Museum, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, 2001
  • Paper Pots, John Elder Gallery, New York, 2001, 1999
  • Clay Odyssey, 50th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition and Auction, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Civic Center, Helena, Montana, 2001
  • Freewheeling, Five Ceramic Masters from the University of Colorado, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, 2000
  • Couplets: Duality in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, 2000
  • The World Community of Ceramists, The Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1999

Born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1949, Aurore Chabot has a MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, 1981, and a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 1971. A professor of art at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Chabot received an International Travel Grant and Artist-in-Residence Grant from the University of South Australia, Adelaide, 1998. Commissions of her work include A Vortex of Time and Place, a ceramic tile mural at the Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, 2002.
I am guided by the discordant sensibilities of architectural and organic systems to create hybrid forms, influenced by what I can discern from the paleontological, geological, and archaeological clues left from the earth’s constantly changing cycles.