Jeff Kaller
Hemslöjdsvägen 1
S-660 10 Dals Långed
0531 - 710 05
jeff.kaller@steneby.se
My name is Jeff Kaller and I am the Rektor at Steneby – Stiftelsen Stenebyskolan and Steneby - Institutionen för Konsthantverk och Design.
My background is in ceramic art and teaching. My practice in ceramic art, like all the educations at Steneby, is a material based practice that involves knowledge in material, skill in handling the material and investigation through it.
I came to Steneby for many of the same reasons our students come here. We have a long history in material based artistic educations with wood, metal and textiles. Steneby is specialized, its depth of education offers a range programs, from foundation courses designed to prepare students for entry into university and work, through university education offering BA, MA, special topic courses. We work with many traditional materials and techniques at Steneby and we continue to develop the use of these materials and techniques. Our students demonstrate that we have new things to say with traditional materials and how we have traditional skills to work with new ones. Our studios exceptionally equipped – some with resources unmatched in Europe. Perhaps the most important aspect of Steneby it is a critically engaged and focussed environment where there is time to work, time for creative exploration, and time for learning.
Statement
Jeffery Kaller
Central to my art making is the exploration of materiality and the activity of process as it relates a human condition. Setting up a systematic framework into a grid-like structures focuses my inquiry in a manner that embraces my concerns, thus allowing content and associations to be inserted and the unforeseen revealed. Inherent are intersecting layers of abstract associative meanings, time, growth, decay, physical states of matter, expansion, contraction and scale; engaging work walks a line between these associations. I allude to images of architecture and models of physiology and geology. There is an exchange of information that occurs when ceramic is fired. Pyro-plastic transformation of the work in a kiln is out of my sight and immediate control. These fantastic material changes offer new pieces of vital information.
My recent work draws upon the funnel, or cone form. I use the form to allude to both natural and human-made information. The cone is a form found in various forms of physiology; they have also been appropriated to describe geometric principles and to gather material, direct it, and channel it into smaller openings, i.e. the funnel / cone.
Education
1999 - 2000 UIAH, University Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Fulbright Grant - Postgraduate Research in Ceramic Art and Design
1999 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, School of Art and Design, Alfred, NY
• M.F.A. Ceramic Art
1992 The University of the Arts -The Philadelphia College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
• B.F.A. Crafts, concentration in ceramics
Academic Appointments
2008 – Present Director, Foundation Steneby School / Steneby – The School of Craft and Design – The University of Gothenburg, Dals Långed, Sweden
2001 – 2008 Associate Professor, Columbus State University, Department of Art, Columbus, GA
2000 – 2001 Instructor, The University of the Arts - Philadelphia College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Gallery Representation / Affiliations
Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Solo / Two person Exhibitions
2007 Unearth, Rörstrand Museum, Lidköping, Sweden
Solo Exhibit, Newnan Centre for Performing and Visual Arts, Newnan, GA
2000 Ceramic Sculpture, Septaria Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1997 The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1995 The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Mentors / Past and Present, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Changing Form: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Harvey / Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
2009 Gallery Nomads, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC
Gallery Artist Survey, Harvey / Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
2008 International Ceramics Festival '08 MINO, Mino, Japan
Seventeenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
The Objects of Our Desires: Collectors and Collections in the Chattahoochee Valley, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, Columbus Museum, Columbus GA
2007 Two by Two: small-scale ceramic sculpture biennial, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Perspectives 2007, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
2006 Mastery in Clay: 2006, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Nääs Konsthantverk galleri, Nääs, Sweden
Small Favors: The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2005 The Clay Studio: 30 Years of Excellence, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Thirtieth Anniversary Auction, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Salad Days – Watershed Center for Ceramic Art, New Castle, ME
2002 The International Festival of Post-Modern Ceramics, City Museum of Varaždin, Varaždin, Croatia
Mastery in Clay: New Work, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Le Grand Buffet, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
UArts Faculty 2001: Artists Who Teach, Rosenwald–Wolf Gallery,
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1998 Twelfth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
Lotsa Clay VIII, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Lotsa Clay VII, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Villvin Kunsthåndverk Marked, Galleri Villvin, Risør, Norway
1996 The Clay Space, group exhibition, Miami, FL
Lotsa Clay VI, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
National Society of Arts and Letters, Regional Competition, Chelsea Ceramic Guild, New York, NY
1995 Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Lotsa Clay V, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1994 The Clay Studio 20th Anniversary Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
IWCAT '94, Cera Gallery, Tokoname, Japan
1993 Lotsa Clay IV The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
The University of the Arts Craft Alumni, John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Specific Spaces, Senior Exhibition, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
NCECA Student Exhibition, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Permanent / Private Collections
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Arnold, Lubbock, Texas
Kiryu International Exchange Association, Kiryu, Japan
The Fulbright Center, Helsinki, Finland
The University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Tokoname Chamber of Commerce, Tokoname, Japan
Jimmy Clark, Philadelphia, PA
Barry Rosen, New York, NY
Philip and Marge Koladner, Wayne, PA
Erna Joan and Pieter Jan Spijkerman, Sparta, NJ
Michael Dunas and Sarah Bodine, New Hope, PA
Kemp Mooney, Atlanta, GA
Awards / Grants
2008 Honorable Mention, International Ceramics Festival '08 MINO, Mino, Japan
1999-2000 Fulbright Grant, Finland, University of Art and Design, Helsinki
1989 Best of Philly, Philadelphia Magazine, Eggplant Parmesan Pizza
Publications / Bibliography
2009 500 Ceramic Sculptures: Contemporary Practice, Singular Works, Glen R. Brown, Lark Books, Cover, Cover, Pg. 89, 225
2008 Exhibit Catalog, International Ceramics Festival '08 MINO, Mino, Japan, P. 143
2007 Ceramics Monthly, Upfront (review), P. 28
2006 Svensk Form, Stockholm, Sweden, 05/06, review Love Jönsson, P 11
500 Pitchers, Lark Books, Terry Gess - Editor, Ashville, NC
2000 Ceramic Art Monthly, “Feature Article”, February 2000, Pg. 16 – 18
Fulbright Center News, Ceramics, Vol 10, Nro 1 (28) Pg. 24 - 25
1998 Keramic ’98 / Nordisk Symposium, symposium catalogue, Konstfack, Stockholm, Pg. 76-78
1998 Twelfth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, exhibition catalogue San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
1997 Handbuilt Ceramics, Cathy Trilplett, Lark Books, Ashville, NC, first edition, Pg. 26
1992 The Clay Cup, exhibition catalogue, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA