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Chris Bolton Retrospective
Chris Bolton Retrospective

Thu, Feb 01

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The Dalles Art Center

Chris Bolton Retrospective

The Dalles Art Center in partnership with Columbia Gorge Community College is pleased to present Quinquinquagenary: 55 Years of Playing with Dirt. A Retrospective of Ceramic Work by Chris Bolton. Opening Night Party: Thursday, February 1st, 5 - 7 pm.

Time & Location

Feb 01, 2024, 11:00 AM – Mar 07, 2024, 5:00 PM

The Dalles Art Center, 220 E 4th Street, The Dalles, OR 97058, USA

About The Event

Chris has spent the last 5.5 decades exploring clay and ceramic arts or as he likes t say, “after exploring all the various art classes at my local Community College, in 1969 a chance encounter with the college pottery studio led me into the lucrative world of ceramics where success has often earned me literally hundreds of dollars a year.” Chris has worked in nearly all variations of the ceramic medium from sagger firing and raku, through salt firing, soda firing, wood firing and high fire gas reduction to basic electric kiln firing.

This exhibit will feature work from across his 55 - year career and includes a full range of mediums from his “checkered career as an artiste.”

Opening Night Party: Thursday, February 1st, 5 - 7 pm. 

About the Artist

Just another overweight desperado with corrective lenses and male pattern baldness, I was born when Truman was President and lived my formative years in a land populated by both Charlie and Joe McCarthy with its incumbent fluid reality. Since art seemed to offer the only way to reconcile this anomalous universe I began my checkered career as an artiste.

This has, over the past 55 years, surfaced in many of the usual ways... after exploring all the various art classes at my local Community College, in 1969 a chance encounter with the college pottery studio led me into the lucrative world of ceramics where success has often earned me literally hundreds of dollars a year.

From the beginning I fell headlong onto the slippery slope offered by clay and it’s been a downhill slide since. I have run my own ceramics studios, given numerous workshops, taught both Ceramics and Sculpture at South Seattle Community College, been featured in several solo shows and been juried out of my fair share of exhibits.

This all consuming fascination has led me to try my hand at nearly all variations of the ceramic medium from sagger firing and raku, through salt firing, soda firing, wood firing and high fire gas reduction to basic electric kiln firing.

I can currently be found teaching Community Education ceramics here at Columbia Gorge Community College while living out my dotage in The Dalles.

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