Curriculum vitae of Mario Quilles, low-fired ceramic artist.
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MARIO QUILLES: A Brief History
A graduate of the School of Industrial Arts, and the Cooper Union Art School, both in New York City, I then went on to study ceramicsand Raku firing in Los Angeles with Ron Klieber, Virginia Cartwright, and later Wayne Higby and Robin Hooper. |
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Exhibits include: Indigo Gallery, Madrid, NM, 2004 University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, 2003 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Helix Fine Art, Raku Fired Ceramics, Santa Fe, NM 2001, 2000 “Ceramica Puertoriquena Hoy / Today”: Clay Sudio, Philadelphia, PA, May 1998 “Arte de Hoy para el Futuro”, Santa Fe Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Sherman Oaks Gallery Glendale Community College Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO East/West Gallery, La Cresenta, CA Lever Bros Building Gallery, New York City, NY |
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Around sixteen years ago, after being a twenty five year veteran of the New York Advertising/ Graphic Art business, I was feeling tired of the deadline mania. I’d been Creative Director for a mid-sized agency. I looked around and saw my creative clock ticking and didn’t see many new challenges. I made a change, moved to California and enrolled in a ceramics course, my first love. Four years of handbuilding, Raku and Chemical Glaze study, and I had my first show. I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1989, and have been producing work, teaching and showing ever since.