Press Release
Adrian Arleo
Harbingers

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Artist Statement
For two decades, I have been creating sculpture that combines human and animal imagery in a variety of ways. Some of these works allude to a relationship of understanding or connection between the human and animal realms. In others, the human figures possess animal faces, limbs, or other features in a way that reveals something hidden about the character or primal nature of the person.

My Honeycomb sculptures are another variation on blending the human form with elements from nature. What appeals to me about the quality of this material is its appearance of simultaneously growing and deteriorating. I also like the way the wax approximates the material created by bees, enabling the work to be visual, tactile, and appealing to the sense of smell, like fresh honeycomb. On the flip side, the work might suggest the swarming, stinging insects that create this beautiful material. As with many things in life, beauty and the grotesque can cohabitate.
           Adrian Arleo

Education
1986 MFA Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design,
    Providence, RI
1983-84 Graduate Studies, University of Massachusetts,
    Amherst, MA
1983 BA Art and Anthropology, Honors in Art, Pitzer College,
     Claremont, CA
Summer 1982 Hoko River Archaeological Field School,
     Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Fall 1981 American University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Selected Collections
The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Kings County Public Art Collection, Kings County, WA
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA
Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
University of WA. Seattle, WA
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon, Korea
David Beitzel, New York, NY
Candace Groot, Chicago, IL
Gloria and Sonny Kamm, Los Angeles, CA
Ruth Kohler, Kohler, WI
Christopher Nelson, Annapolis, MD
Susan and Roy O'Connor, Missoula, MT
Dr. Ron Porter, Columbia, SC
Arlene Schnitzer, Portland, OR
Dr. Judith S. Schwartz, New York, NY
John Sinker, Detroit, MI

Audio & Video

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