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Currently:
Made at The Clay Studio
The Clay Studio, PA. USA
August 6 to September 12, 2010.

Upcoming:
It Was 20 Years Ago Today...An Exhibition and Teaching Collection at The Northern Clay Center,*
Minneapolis, MN, USA.
September 24 to November 7, 2010.

Research:
Royal College of Art | MPhil Research
The Absence and Presence of the Human Form
in Sculpture-Where is the Vanishing Point?

*A sampling of work from the past 20 years of exhibitions, the exhibition will include pots and sculpture from our first retrospective in 2000, as well as additional selections from the last ten years. We were able to acquire the objects in the 10th anniversary show to form the core of our teaching collection; we will be raising funds to do the same with this second iteration of the survey. We also plan to publish a catalogue of the exhibition and second volume of the NCC history.

Artist Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California, Edith Garcia's work draws you into an alluring world of installation and sculpture. She focuses on the daily onslaught of emotional extortion we endure and the minimal occurrences that transpire each day, and she grafts them into site-specific installations and objects. Her current work derives from what she refers to as 'contemporary monsters', influenced by everyday life as well as by growing up in a society that uses the hybridisation of humans throughout its history.

Her body of work has been exhibited throughout North America, Mexico and Italy, in spaces such as the Northern Clay Center, Minnesota, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City and is included in the permanent Sculpture Garden of the Archie Bray Foundation, Montana. She was awarded a McKnight Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at the Northern Clay Center, showed her work at 'Family of Clay' at CCA Ceramics, California, acted as a juror for the Jerome Foundation, and was Editor of 'VJ: audio-visual art + vj culture' (Laurence King Publishing).

She was also Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ulster, Ireland; UWIC Cardiff School of Arts, Wales; Camberwell College of the Arts and University of Westminster, UK. Her work was featured in exhibition and publication 'Confrontational Ceramics' in USA, Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics, as well as featuring in Neu Keramik, Ceramic Review, Ceramic Monthly, Time Out London, and American Craft Magazine.

In 2009 she was Guest Curator for exhibition Contemporary Monsters at the Northern Clay Center and her work is currently featured in 500 Sculptures by Lark Books was an Invited Demonstrator at International Ceramics Festival at Aberystwyth, Wales. UK and was International Guest-Artist-In-Residence at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA.

Currently she is a full-time researcher at the Royal College of Art in London working on research focused around: The Absence and Presence of the Human Form in Sculpture-Where is the Vanishing Point? In addition she is at the beginning stages of the publication Ceramics and the Human Figure for A&C Black to be published in 2011-2012.

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