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Mixed media on paper, unsigned, retaining exhibition label to verso, float mounted and framed under glass.
Sheet size 38 x 25 in.; Frame dimensions 48 1/4 x 35 in.
Private Collection, Durham, North Carolina Raleigh Contemporary Galleries, Raleigh, North Carolina
Tom Spleth is a nationally renowned artist and educator who works in a myriad of mediums including paintings, prints, sculpture and ceramics. He was an assistant professor at the SUNY College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1978-1984 and he has taught and lectured at several institutions, such as the University of Minnesota, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Penland School of Crafts. His painting exhibitions include the McColl Center for Visual Art , Charlotte, NC, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
He has exhibited his ceramic work at the Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, International Museum of Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, and Greenwich House Pottery, New York, New York. Among the grants and commissions he has been awarded are an Architectural Tile Commission, Governors Square, Raleigh, NC, New Works Grant, Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC, Interdisciplinary New Works Grant with the New Performing Dance Company, North Carolina Arts Council, Durham, NC, Art in Public Places Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, and an Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.
Grommet holes to each corner, as intended; not examined out of the frame. Good estate condition.