Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Solo Exhibition with Collaborator, Dr. Dale McDonald. Curator Stewart Asprey, Unfired clay and handmade ceramic marbles, 2017
Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Solo Exhibition with Collaborator, Dr. Dale McDonald. Curator Stewart Asprey, Unfired clay and handmade ceramic marbles, 2017
St. Louis Community College, Meramec Gallery. St. Louis, MO, Solo Exhibition with collaborator Dr. Dale McDonald. Curator Jim Ibur, Unfired Clay, 2016
St. Louis Community College, Meramec Gallery. St. Louis, MO, Science or Art? Solo Exhibition with collaborator Dr. Dale McDonald. Curator Jim Ibur, Unfired Clay, 2016
The Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, University of Texas Permian Basin. Odessa, TX, Invitational Solo Exhibition. Curator Chris Stanley, Unfired clay and handmade ceramic marbles, 2018
The Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, University of Texas Permian Basin. Odessa, TX, Invitational Solo Exhibition. Curator Chris Stanley, Unfired clay and handmade ceramic marbles, 2018
The Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Gallery, McMurray University, Abilene, TX, Solo Exhibition. Curator, Jennifer Nichols and Kathie Walker-Millar, Unfired clay and handmade ceramic marbles, 2019
The Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Gallery, McMurray University, Abilene, TX, Solo Exhibition. Curator, Jennifer Nichols and Kathie Walker-Millar, Unfired clay and handmade ceramic marbles, 2019
Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, TX, “Multiplicity”. Six-person Invitational Exhibition, Curator Karen A Gilliam, Handmade fired and unfired ceramic marbles, 21’ x 21’ x 11”, 2016
Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO Contemporary Clay Biennial. Invitational Exhibition, Curator and Juror Steve Hilton, Handmade fired and unfired ceramic marbles, 19’ x 9’ x 8”, 2016
Artist Statement
As a geologist and a clay artist, I have developed an appreciation for the anomalies in the many forms of life, clay, rock, and soil covering the Earth. I am intrigued by the way the Earth’s surface is changed by both erosional and depositional means.
I am currently thinking about these iterations as I work. Since these fragmented shapes are repeatedly subdivided into parts, each a copy of the whole, I'm compelled to continue to use self-similarity and texture which allows me to interpret nature for the viewer and myself: with both of us seeing the world differently after viewing my work.
Because of social and environmental concerns, I am committed to not firing any of my ephemeral work.
-- Steve Hilton
Bio
Steve Hilton earned his MFA in Ceramics at Arizona State University in 2005. He also holds an MS in Art Education, and a BS in Geology from Missouri State University. In the past 15 years, his work, a fusion of sculptural and wheel thrown (sometimes functional) components, has been placed into the permanent collections of museums, universities and individuals in the United States, Thailand, Australia, Austria, Portugal, China, Japan, Canada, Korea, Germany, Romania and Cuba. During the same timeframe, he has been juried into numerous international and national exhibitions in conjunction with curated solo shows in the United States. Steve is currently a full time ceramics and art education faculty member at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX and is a Fellow of the Council of NCECA (The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts).