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Kolodziejski, Cindy
American; (b. 1962, Augsburg, Germany; lives in Venice, CA)
1999 MFA California State University, Long Beach, CA
1986 BFA Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

As an undergraduate student of Ralph Bacerra at the Otis College of Art and Design in

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Los Angeles, California, Cindy Kolodziejski absorbed Bacerra’s interest in patterns and adapted

Lauria, Jo. “Pluperfect: The Painted

his detailed way of working. Bacerra’s influence can be seen in Kolodziejski’s narrative

Narrative Vessels of Cindy

sculptures produced in the 1990s, which mapped provocative imagery onto ceramic vessels

Kolodziejski.” Ceramics: Art and

imitative of seventeenth and eighteenth-century domestic objects. Works created following
the completion of her MFA at California State University, Long Beach, where she worked
with Tony Marsh, indicate a shift away from fantasy-based teapots and vases toward a more
scientific approach and aesthetic. Kolodziejski‘s labor-intensive objects of the early 2000s
drew inspiration from cell studies and vegetative forms. The ceramic pieces, which boasted

Perception no. 19 (1995): 56–60.
Seckler, Judy. “Cindy
Kolodziejski's: Water World.”
Ceramics: Art and Perception
no. 79 (2010): 93–96.
“Southern California Ceramics:

colored layers and a variety of slips and stains, often included clamps and rods to heighten

Cindy Kolodziejski.” American

the laboratory equipment feel of the sculptural pieces. Kolodziejski‘s most recent work is

Ceramics 14 (2002): 42–43.

thematically centered on water. Inspired in part by ukiyo-e (floating world) woodblock prints
and underwater creatures, the work features portraits and narratives meticulously painted
onto ceramic forms. Kolodziejski is a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award winner (2003) and
the recipient of a J. Paul Getty Trust for the Visual Arts Individual Artist Grant (2003), Durfee
Foundation Grant (2004), and City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (2005).

CINDY KOLODZIEJSKI WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION

Star-Crossed Teapot

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