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JUDITH POINTER JIA
About the Artist Judith Pointer Jia was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, but spent most of her formative years in Holcomb, Kansas. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1989 and completed additional coursework in ceramics at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville between 1992 and 1995. Three years later, she earned her M.F.A. in Artisanry - Ceramics concentration from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Today, she lives and works in Danville, KY with husband, Xiuming, and son, Kylin as an Assistant Professor of Art at Centre College. Artist's Statement My imagination is imbued with practicality and hope. I perceive beauty and imagine possibilities in my daily surroundings and memories. I have an appreciation for subtlety that I attribute to having grown up on the vast Great Plains of Kansas with its miles of open space and vernacular architecture. Only after leaving did I realize how it had trained me to find aesthetic pleasure in things that are straightforward and devoid of ornament. I seek to create forms with a structural integrity, a subtle beauty revealed through evidence of construction and a rich but muted surface. Thin slabs of clay are used to form hollow, often closed structures. Seams and measurement marks stained black map the construction of the forms. Layers of stains and glazes form the skin. My goal is to make work that somehow displays an honest grace. Judith Pointer Jia |
