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Chris Breuer grew up in the Chicago area. Even from a young age, he was adept in working with his hands, creating and building primarily with wood. He was also an avid musician and played jazz drums with a band for many years. Chris discovered his love for making pottery while he was a freshman at Pomona College. The following year, he transferred to Oberlin College and changed his major from Music to a combined major in Studio Art and Art History. As a student at Oberlin, he was one of the founding members of the college Pottery Coop, which today still welcomes students and townspeople alike. After graduating from college, Chris lived for two years in Philadelphia, where he worked as a cabinet maker and was a member of The Clay Studio. |
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Although largely self-taught, Chris also has had the benefit of studying under and working with some of the best-known artists in the country. For two years he worked as a live-in apprentice with David Davidson at Federal Furnace Pottery in Dunstable, Massachusetts. As a young potter he also attended workshops led by Warren Mckenzie, Harry Davis, Paul Soldner, William Daley, Ruth Duckworth, Donald Judd, Clement Greenburg and Garth Clark, and collaborated with the painter, Harley. In 1981, Chris returned to Oberlin, Ohio, where he and his wife and business partner, Paula Aghajanian, established Breuer Pottery. They began renovations on an old farmhouse and barn and designed and built their gallery and the studio and kilns for Chris. Chris has worked as a professional studio potter now for over thirty years. He also has been a curator for exhibitions of pottery and paintings and has collaborated on numerous works with other artists. Chris has designed and constructed both low- and high-temperature kilns for a variety of applications. He has presented lectures on inspiration and led creativity workshops for children and adults. His pottery includes custom architectural work made for installation, abstract figurative sculpture, and large and small scale pottery. He works primarily in raku, earthenware and salt glazed stoneware. Given the complexities of clay body composition, glaze chemistry and formulation, and kiln building and firing, Chris considers being a potter part scientist and part artist. He and Paula have managed their pottery gallery since 1982. His work has been in numerous exhibitions in Ohio including four May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Chris has also shown in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Taos, Arizona, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Michigan. His work is represented in twenty-six countries. |
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Copyright © 2008 Chris Breuer. All rights reserved.
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