FACULTY


Tammie Rubin
Assistant Professor
Ceramics

trubin@illinois.edu | website | CV

Teaching areas:

Ceramic Sculpture, 3D, Color Theory, and Time Art Foundations

Degrees:

BFA Ceramics and BFA Art History, University of Illinois, MFA Ceramics, University of Washington

Tammie Rubin is a sculptor and Assistant Professor of Ceramics and Foundations. Her sculpture explores her fascination with invented narratives and mythologies. Often she creates chimerical creatures and hybrid contraptions inhabiting mythic worlds. She obsessively collects manufactured objects, which inspire the patterns and textures of her sculptures. Catering plastic, toy icons, packaging, cheap replicas of nature and other objects that are often considered trivial and disposable, but in which she finds beauty. Through process she tries to satisfy her curiosity for sumptuous fluid surfaces, ideas of accumulation and myth. Utilizing the amorphous properties of clay, while exploring its inherent materiality she creates fanciful sculptures that feel both familiar and alien.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Silence! Magical Thinking in Progress, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
  • He Is Gone, imagined contraptions for last communications, Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
  • Curious Species, Burien Art Gallery, Burien Arts Association, Burien, WA
  • Beyond the Brickyard Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
  • Clay? II, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
  • Molded Earth, Target Gallery, Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria, VA
  • RED, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD