EDUCATION
San Francisco State University1996
San Francisco, California
BA - Ceramics
Dean’s List 1993 - 1996
Magma Cum Laude
JURIED SHOWS
2005
Urbis ArtiumGroup Show
2004
Artist Exchange Solo Show
2003
Clay Competion
Juror: John Toki
2001
Artisans Gallery
Secrets
Juror: John Killacky
2001
A.C.C.I Gallery
Naked
Juror: Pasha Rafet
1999
Kansas State University
Clay on The Wall
Juror: Juan Granados
Manhattan, Kansas
1998
Insight Gallery
Vessel as Sculpture
Best of show
San Francisco, California
1997
Artisans Gallery
The Cat Show
Mill Valley, California
1996
Banaker Gallery
California Clay Competition
Walnut Creek, California
GALLERIES AND COMMISSIONED WORK
2000
A PIECE OF ART
701 UNIVERSITY AVENUE
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
1997- 1999
INSITE GALLERY
CURATOR: THEODORE EVERETT
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
1996
THE OLD FIREHOUSE SCHOOL
LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA
Interactive Murals for preschool children
1996- PRESENT
ART EXPLOSION GALLERY
OPEN STUDIOS
Wendi Spiers was born in Picayune, Mississippi in 1970. She attended art school in San Francisco State University and graduated Magma Cum Laude with a BA in Ceramics in 1997.
She has won numerous awards including Best of Show at InSite Gallery's "Vessel As Art" exhibition and second place in Modesto Gallery's "Teapot Party" show.In 2000, her "Framed" series appeared in Ceramics Monthly magazine. Her environmental installation for preschoolers now occupies "the Old Fire House" is still in place in Lafayette.
She currently resides in Oakland and keeps a studio at Art Explosion Gallery located at 2425 17th street in San Francisco
Throughout my life art has been a sanctuary and an adventure for me. I use my sculptures to find and define myself and the world around me.One common theme I explore is the limitations in all forms, self- imposed, cultural, or otherwise.
Limitations give a sense of security, a instant identity, and unplanned purpose; it is the struggle to break free and the fear of that freedom that fascinates me.The realization that nature, once our all knowing and powerful parent, is now ailing brings a new weight to our shoulders.
And like children who sense for the first time that they have the power to injure their parents, we feel a caution and insecurity we have never fully known.I was born in Mississippi I moved to califorina at 5 but I remain connected to the south and go and visit once a year.
I graduated from San Francisco state university in 1996 I now work out of my studio at the Art Explosion.
