ARTIST STATEMENT
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Gayle Fichtinger’s ceramic sculpture and ink drawing are the outcomes of intensive nature study and travel to China researching scholars stones and Yixing ceramics. Through her work she responds to her forested environment. Disruptions in the growth patterns of trees like fungi, burls, and gnarls draw her attention. Her hope is to elevate the overlooked bits and pieces of nature for a deeper understanding of the ecosystem.
Working on an intimate scale using a smooth red stoneware clay much like the zisha clay used by the Yixing potters, she sculpts natural objects from observation. Carving and mark-making define surface pattern and textures. The clay is fired without glaze to preserve the color and integrity of the material and be closer to its natural state. Her work is meant for contemplation. |
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BIO
Gayle Fichtinger is a ceramic artist based in New London, New Hampshire. Her ceramic sculpture and ink drawing are the outcomes of intensive nature study in New England and sabbatical travel to China researching scholars stones and Yixing ceramics. Fichtinger lives and works in the former 1824 Low Plain School-American Legion Hall with her husband, goldsmith, Paul Lafreniere. Born in 1959, she grew up on a small dairy farm homesteaded by her great grandparents, Sebastian and Teresia Fichtinger from Bavaria in 1870 near New Munich, Minnesota. At an early age she found a strong connection to nature and has carried this imagery through all of her work. She holds a MFA in ceramics from Arizona State University in Tempe (1985) and a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin in Madison (1981).
Fichtinger is a former art professor at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia from 2006-2020 and Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire from 2000-2006. During her tenure at SCAD, she was awarded a Professional Grant (Florence, Travel Research) in 2010; a Sabbatical Award (China, Travel Research) in 2014; a Presidential Fellowship (Rome, Travel Research) in 2016; and taught at SCAD-Lacoste, France in 2018.
Fichtinger has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions of ceramic sculpture. Her works are included in numerous private collections and the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, Danforth Museum of Art, Erie Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, the Czech Ceramic Design Agency, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. Articles and reviews of her work have been published in Garland Magazine, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and The Boston Globe. Her work is featured in Marvin Sweet’s book, The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar published by the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China, 2006.
Fichtinger is a former art professor at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia from 2006-2020 and Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire from 2000-2006. During her tenure at SCAD, she was awarded a Professional Grant (Florence, Travel Research) in 2010; a Sabbatical Award (China, Travel Research) in 2014; a Presidential Fellowship (Rome, Travel Research) in 2016; and taught at SCAD-Lacoste, France in 2018.
Fichtinger has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions of ceramic sculpture. Her works are included in numerous private collections and the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, Danforth Museum of Art, Erie Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, the Czech Ceramic Design Agency, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. Articles and reviews of her work have been published in Garland Magazine, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and The Boston Globe. Her work is featured in Marvin Sweet’s book, The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar published by the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China, 2006.
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GAYLE FICHTINGER
Studio Artist, Ceramic Sculpture and Drawing, New London, New Hampshire, USA
BORN
1959, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
EDUCATION
MFA, Ceramics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1985
BS Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1981
College of Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph, MN, 1977-79, Art (Junior Year Abroad, Madrid, Spain)
SELECTED TEACHING POSITIONS
Professor of Foundation Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, (Winter Quarter 2018, Lacoste, France), 2006-2020
Full-time Faculty, Art / Studio Foundations Coordinator, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, 2003-2006
Adjunct Faculty, Art, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, September 2000-2003
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Presidential Fellowship Presentation, Following Bernini’s Terracotta Angels to Rome, Alexander Hall Theater, SCAD, Savannah, GA, 2017
Gallery Lecture, Landscapes: Near and Far, Malone Gallery, Troy University, Troy, AL, 2015
Sabbatical Presentation, Journey to Yixing, Alexander Hall Theater, SCAD, Savannah, GA, 2015
Book Signing with Author Marvin Sweet, The Yixing Effect, NCECA, Pittsburg, PA, 2008
Gallery Lecture, Forest Fragments/Firewood Portraits, Centre Lodge Kiosks Installation, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, 2000
Gallery Lecture, Forest Fragments, The Fells, The John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury, NH, 2000
Sculpture Commission, Bronze, Fidelity Investments Corporation, Boston, MA, 1999
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Landscapes: Near and Far, Malone Gallery, Troy University, Troy, AL
2006 Firewood: Terracotta Portraits, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2005 Gayle Fichtinger, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD
2003 Terracotta Sculpture, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Tennessee Technological University, Smithville, TN
2002 New England Currents, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2000 Forest Fragments/Firewood Portraits, Centre Lodge Kiosks, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
2000 Forest Fragments, The Fells, The John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury, NH
1997 Pollination, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Insects and Objects, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 Still Life, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1990 New Figurative Clay, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1990 Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1989 Figurative Clay, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 New Ceramic Sculpture, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1988 Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1985 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Harry Wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024-2023 Face Value: Portraits from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (Catalog)
2023 Art that Matters to the Planet: Interconnectivity, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY
2019 Ancient Now online exhibition, Garland Magazine
2019 Anthropocene 2019, Alexander Hall, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2018 Marvin Sweet & Friends: A Celebration, Gorse Mill Gallery, Needham, MA
2018 Beasts: Wild Animals in RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2016 Longleaf Regenerated, 11th Biennial Longleaf Conference, Savannah Riverfront Marriott, Savannah, GA
2012 Animal Magnetism: Sculpture from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2010 7, Group Exhibition, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA
2009 deFINE ART Festival, Open Studio Night, Alexander Hall, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2009 Inspired: Exploring the Yixing Sensibility, Meramec Gallery, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
2006 The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, (Book)
2005 Taking It With Us: Ceramics by Sister Dennis Frandrup and Former Students, Benedict Arts Center, College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN
2005 In Three Dimensions: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2004 Creative Configurations: Patterns and Surface Decoration in the RAM Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2004 Beyond Boundaries: The Yixing Influence on Contemporary American Ceramics, Arizona State University Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ (Catalog)
2001 The Yixing Effect, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA (Catalog)
2000 Figure, Fantasy & Illusion: Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (Catalog)
1996 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, & Functional Art International Exhibition, Coconut Grove Exposition Center, Miami, FL
1996 Celestial Seasonings: A Loose Interpretation, Celestial Seasonings, Boulder, CO; Ferrin Gallery, North Hampton, MA
1995 Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA (Catalog)
1995 The Counteractive Teapot, Albertson-Peterson Gallery, Winter Park, FL
1995 The First Exhibition of American Ceramics from the Collection of the Agency of Czech Ceramic Design, Commercial Bank, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
1995 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, & Functional Art International Exhibition, Coconut Grove Exposition Center, Miami, FL
1994 First International Ceramics Exhibition, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
1993 1993 The Year of American Craft, Maveety Gallery, Gleneden Beach, OR
1993 The Tea Party, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1993 International Invitational Traveling Ashtray Exhibition: NCECA ’93, San Diego, CA
1992 Boston Pediatric AIDS Project: Benefit, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Artcetera ’92: AIDS Action Committee Benefit Auction, Boston, MA (Catalog)
1992 Art Plate Gala II: ASU Art Museum Benefit Auction, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ
1992 Figurative Clay, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA (Catalog)
1991 Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (Catalog)
1991 Ceramics ’91, The Farrell Collection, Washington, DC
1991 Ceramics: Twenty-Year Gallery Survey, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1991 NCECA ’91: MFA Graduate Alumni Exhibition, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1990 The Human Form as Mythical Vessel, Dinnerware Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1990 Findings ’90, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
1989 Clay Now: The Best in American Ceramics, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1988 Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 The Aesthetic Edge: National Clay Invitational, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
1988 National Ceramic Invitational, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
1988 Feast Your Eyes: Food in Art, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ
1987 Comic Relief, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ
1987 Artist-in-Education Exhibition, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ (Catalog)
1987 Figurative Ceramics National, Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR
1987 Crafts National II, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
1987 9th Annual Vahki Exhibition, Galleria Mesa, Mesa, AZ
1986 Personal Vision, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1986 On the Edge, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, AZ
1986 Contemporary Ceramics, Sette Gallery, Tempe, AZ
1986 Arizona Focus, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1986 NCECA ’86, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos; University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
1986 Ceramic Invitational, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, AZ
1986 Figural Ceramics National, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1986 Southwest Sculpture Competition, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ (Catalog)
1986 Dimensions ’86, National 3-D Art Show, Sar-ko-par Park, Lenexa, KS
1985 Ceramics Festival II, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1985 Clay National, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA (Purchase Award, Two-Year Traveling Exhibition, Catalog)
1985 7th Annual Vahki Exhibition, Galleria Mesa, Mesa, AZ (Juror’s Award)
ARTICLES / REVIEWS / CATALOGS / LINKS
Fuller Craft Museum, Face Value:Portraits from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Catalog, 2023
Tammy Wong Hulbert, Ancient Now, Garland Magazine, World Crafts Council-Australia, June 19, 2019, https://garlandmag.com/article/ancient-now/
Kathy Varadi, Anthropocene 2019 blog, March 27, 2019, https://www.anthropocene2019.com
Peter Relic, Gayle Fichtinger illuminates Rome’s great sculptor, SCADworks blog, March 6, 2017, https://www.scad.edu/blog/gayle-fichtinger-illuminates-romes-great-sculptor
The Longleaf Leader-Summer 2016, Longleaf Art Spotlight, p. 31, Vol. IX, Issue 2
Asli Shebe, Fichtinger speaks to students on her experience in China, District: the student voice of SCAD, scaddistrict.com, 2015, https://scaddistrict.com/fichtinger-speaks-to-students-on-her-experience-in-china/
Marvin Sweet, The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, Foreign Languages Press Beijing, China, 2006
Arizona State University Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ, Beyond Boundaries: The Yixing Influence on Contemporary
American Ceramics, Catalog, 2004
Marvin Sweet, Gayle Fichtinger: Carving a Path, Ceramics: Art and Perception, March 2003, pp. 60-61, No. 51, http://www.marvinsweet.com/publications/fichtinger.pdf
Upfront, Ceramics Monthly, February 2003, pp. 6, 18, Vol. 51, No. 2
Cate McQuaid, Nervous Energy, The Boston Globe Friday/Weekend Arts & Performance, August 30, 2002, pp. C13, C16
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, The Yixing Effect, Catalog, 2001
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Figure, Fantasy & Illusion, Catalog, 2000
Christine Temin, Perspectives, The Boston Globe, August 14, 1996, p. C5
Joanne Silver, Visual Arts, The Boston Herald, August 2, 1996, p. S12
Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay, Catalog, 1995
Portfolio, American Craft, October/November 1994, p. 82, Vol. 54, No. 5
Upfront, Ceramics Monthly, January 1994, p. 22, Vol. 42, No. 1
Preview, Art Now Gallery Guide/Southwest, February 1993, p. SW-11
Gallery, American Craft, February/March 1993
AIDS Action Committee, Boston, MA, Artcetera ’92, Benefit Auction, Catalog, 1992
The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA, Figurative Clay, Catalog, 1992
Nona Caspers, Exhibitions/Gayle Fichtinger, American Ceramics, Spring 1991
Upfront, Ceramics Monthly, February 1991, pp. 16, 18, Vol. 39, No. 2
Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Catalog, 1990
News and Retrospect, Ceramics Monthly, May 1989, p. 72, Vol. 37, No. 5
George Haborak, Ringling National, Ceramics Monthly, January 1989, pp. 34, 35, Vol. 37 No. 1
Jacques A. Servin, Union Gallery exhibition…, Arizona Daily Wildcat (Tucson), January 22, 1987, p. 10
Arizona Commission on the Arts, AIE Brochure, 1987
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ, Southwest Sculpture Competition, Catalog, 1986
Joe Young, Art Critic, Scottsdale Progress, June 27, 1986, p. 32
Dan Collins, Exposure, New Times, (Phoenix), August 20-26, 1986, pp. 42, 43
Erie Clay National, Ceramics Monthly, May 1986, pp. 44-49, Vol. 34, No. 5
News and Retrospect, Ceramics Monthly, January 1986, p. 77, Vol. 34, No. 1
Gallery, American Craft, February/March, 1986
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, Clay National, Catalog, 1985
Nora Burba, Kitchens ’85, Phoenix Home and Garden, August 1985, pp. 30, 31, cover
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Kamm Teapot Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum/Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ
Czech Ceramic Design Agency, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
First National Bank, Columbia, MO
Mountain Bell Corporate Collection, Denver, CO
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Studio Artist, Ceramic Sculpture and Drawing, New London, New Hampshire, USA
BORN
1959, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
EDUCATION
MFA, Ceramics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1985
BS Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1981
College of Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph, MN, 1977-79, Art (Junior Year Abroad, Madrid, Spain)
SELECTED TEACHING POSITIONS
Professor of Foundation Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, (Winter Quarter 2018, Lacoste, France), 2006-2020
Full-time Faculty, Art / Studio Foundations Coordinator, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, 2003-2006
Adjunct Faculty, Art, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, September 2000-2003
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Presidential Fellowship Presentation, Following Bernini’s Terracotta Angels to Rome, Alexander Hall Theater, SCAD, Savannah, GA, 2017
Gallery Lecture, Landscapes: Near and Far, Malone Gallery, Troy University, Troy, AL, 2015
Sabbatical Presentation, Journey to Yixing, Alexander Hall Theater, SCAD, Savannah, GA, 2015
Book Signing with Author Marvin Sweet, The Yixing Effect, NCECA, Pittsburg, PA, 2008
Gallery Lecture, Forest Fragments/Firewood Portraits, Centre Lodge Kiosks Installation, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, 2000
Gallery Lecture, Forest Fragments, The Fells, The John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury, NH, 2000
Sculpture Commission, Bronze, Fidelity Investments Corporation, Boston, MA, 1999
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Landscapes: Near and Far, Malone Gallery, Troy University, Troy, AL
2006 Firewood: Terracotta Portraits, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2005 Gayle Fichtinger, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD
2003 Terracotta Sculpture, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Tennessee Technological University, Smithville, TN
2002 New England Currents, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2000 Forest Fragments/Firewood Portraits, Centre Lodge Kiosks, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
2000 Forest Fragments, The Fells, The John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury, NH
1997 Pollination, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Insects and Objects, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 Still Life, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1990 New Figurative Clay, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1990 Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1989 Figurative Clay, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 New Ceramic Sculpture, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1988 Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1985 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Harry Wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024-2023 Face Value: Portraits from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (Catalog)
2023 Art that Matters to the Planet: Interconnectivity, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY
2019 Ancient Now online exhibition, Garland Magazine
2019 Anthropocene 2019, Alexander Hall, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2018 Marvin Sweet & Friends: A Celebration, Gorse Mill Gallery, Needham, MA
2018 Beasts: Wild Animals in RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2016 Longleaf Regenerated, 11th Biennial Longleaf Conference, Savannah Riverfront Marriott, Savannah, GA
2012 Animal Magnetism: Sculpture from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2010 7, Group Exhibition, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA
2009 deFINE ART Festival, Open Studio Night, Alexander Hall, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2009 Inspired: Exploring the Yixing Sensibility, Meramec Gallery, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
2006 The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, (Book)
2005 Taking It With Us: Ceramics by Sister Dennis Frandrup and Former Students, Benedict Arts Center, College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN
2005 In Three Dimensions: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2004 Creative Configurations: Patterns and Surface Decoration in the RAM Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2004 Beyond Boundaries: The Yixing Influence on Contemporary American Ceramics, Arizona State University Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ (Catalog)
2001 The Yixing Effect, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA (Catalog)
2000 Figure, Fantasy & Illusion: Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (Catalog)
1996 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, & Functional Art International Exhibition, Coconut Grove Exposition Center, Miami, FL
1996 Celestial Seasonings: A Loose Interpretation, Celestial Seasonings, Boulder, CO; Ferrin Gallery, North Hampton, MA
1995 Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA (Catalog)
1995 The Counteractive Teapot, Albertson-Peterson Gallery, Winter Park, FL
1995 The First Exhibition of American Ceramics from the Collection of the Agency of Czech Ceramic Design, Commercial Bank, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
1995 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, & Functional Art International Exhibition, Coconut Grove Exposition Center, Miami, FL
1994 First International Ceramics Exhibition, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
1993 1993 The Year of American Craft, Maveety Gallery, Gleneden Beach, OR
1993 The Tea Party, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1993 International Invitational Traveling Ashtray Exhibition: NCECA ’93, San Diego, CA
1992 Boston Pediatric AIDS Project: Benefit, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Artcetera ’92: AIDS Action Committee Benefit Auction, Boston, MA (Catalog)
1992 Art Plate Gala II: ASU Art Museum Benefit Auction, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ
1992 Figurative Clay, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA (Catalog)
1991 Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (Catalog)
1991 Ceramics ’91, The Farrell Collection, Washington, DC
1991 Ceramics: Twenty-Year Gallery Survey, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1991 NCECA ’91: MFA Graduate Alumni Exhibition, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1990 The Human Form as Mythical Vessel, Dinnerware Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1990 Findings ’90, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
1989 Clay Now: The Best in American Ceramics, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1988 Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 The Aesthetic Edge: National Clay Invitational, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
1988 National Ceramic Invitational, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
1988 Feast Your Eyes: Food in Art, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ
1987 Comic Relief, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ
1987 Artist-in-Education Exhibition, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ (Catalog)
1987 Figurative Ceramics National, Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR
1987 Crafts National II, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
1987 9th Annual Vahki Exhibition, Galleria Mesa, Mesa, AZ
1986 Personal Vision, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1986 On the Edge, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, AZ
1986 Contemporary Ceramics, Sette Gallery, Tempe, AZ
1986 Arizona Focus, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1986 NCECA ’86, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos; University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
1986 Ceramic Invitational, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, AZ
1986 Figural Ceramics National, Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
1986 Southwest Sculpture Competition, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ (Catalog)
1986 Dimensions ’86, National 3-D Art Show, Sar-ko-par Park, Lenexa, KS
1985 Ceramics Festival II, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1985 Clay National, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA (Purchase Award, Two-Year Traveling Exhibition, Catalog)
1985 7th Annual Vahki Exhibition, Galleria Mesa, Mesa, AZ (Juror’s Award)
ARTICLES / REVIEWS / CATALOGS / LINKS
Fuller Craft Museum, Face Value:Portraits from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Catalog, 2023
Tammy Wong Hulbert, Ancient Now, Garland Magazine, World Crafts Council-Australia, June 19, 2019, https://garlandmag.com/article/ancient-now/
Kathy Varadi, Anthropocene 2019 blog, March 27, 2019, https://www.anthropocene2019.com
Peter Relic, Gayle Fichtinger illuminates Rome’s great sculptor, SCADworks blog, March 6, 2017, https://www.scad.edu/blog/gayle-fichtinger-illuminates-romes-great-sculptor
The Longleaf Leader-Summer 2016, Longleaf Art Spotlight, p. 31, Vol. IX, Issue 2
Asli Shebe, Fichtinger speaks to students on her experience in China, District: the student voice of SCAD, scaddistrict.com, 2015, https://scaddistrict.com/fichtinger-speaks-to-students-on-her-experience-in-china/
Marvin Sweet, The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, Foreign Languages Press Beijing, China, 2006
Arizona State University Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ, Beyond Boundaries: The Yixing Influence on Contemporary
American Ceramics, Catalog, 2004
Marvin Sweet, Gayle Fichtinger: Carving a Path, Ceramics: Art and Perception, March 2003, pp. 60-61, No. 51, http://www.marvinsweet.com/publications/fichtinger.pdf
Upfront, Ceramics Monthly, February 2003, pp. 6, 18, Vol. 51, No. 2
Cate McQuaid, Nervous Energy, The Boston Globe Friday/Weekend Arts & Performance, August 30, 2002, pp. C13, C16
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, The Yixing Effect, Catalog, 2001
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Figure, Fantasy & Illusion, Catalog, 2000
Christine Temin, Perspectives, The Boston Globe, August 14, 1996, p. C5
Joanne Silver, Visual Arts, The Boston Herald, August 2, 1996, p. S12
Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay, Catalog, 1995
Portfolio, American Craft, October/November 1994, p. 82, Vol. 54, No. 5
Upfront, Ceramics Monthly, January 1994, p. 22, Vol. 42, No. 1
Preview, Art Now Gallery Guide/Southwest, February 1993, p. SW-11
Gallery, American Craft, February/March 1993
AIDS Action Committee, Boston, MA, Artcetera ’92, Benefit Auction, Catalog, 1992
The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA, Figurative Clay, Catalog, 1992
Nona Caspers, Exhibitions/Gayle Fichtinger, American Ceramics, Spring 1991
Upfront, Ceramics Monthly, February 1991, pp. 16, 18, Vol. 39, No. 2
Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Catalog, 1990
News and Retrospect, Ceramics Monthly, May 1989, p. 72, Vol. 37, No. 5
George Haborak, Ringling National, Ceramics Monthly, January 1989, pp. 34, 35, Vol. 37 No. 1
Jacques A. Servin, Union Gallery exhibition…, Arizona Daily Wildcat (Tucson), January 22, 1987, p. 10
Arizona Commission on the Arts, AIE Brochure, 1987
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ, Southwest Sculpture Competition, Catalog, 1986
Joe Young, Art Critic, Scottsdale Progress, June 27, 1986, p. 32
Dan Collins, Exposure, New Times, (Phoenix), August 20-26, 1986, pp. 42, 43
Erie Clay National, Ceramics Monthly, May 1986, pp. 44-49, Vol. 34, No. 5
News and Retrospect, Ceramics Monthly, January 1986, p. 77, Vol. 34, No. 1
Gallery, American Craft, February/March, 1986
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, Clay National, Catalog, 1985
Nora Burba, Kitchens ’85, Phoenix Home and Garden, August 1985, pp. 30, 31, cover
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Kamm Teapot Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum/Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ
Czech Ceramic Design Agency, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
First National Bank, Columbia, MO
Mountain Bell Corporate Collection, Denver, CO
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ