Gratitude, wood fired clay
Mercy 4, wood fired clay
Offering, wood fired clay
Mercy 2, wood fired clay
Mercy 5, wood fired clay
Mercy 1, wood fired clay
Mother and Child, wood fired clay
STATEMENT
The ceramic sculptures by Tania Kravath, slab built forms, are moving, full of heart and spirit and speak for the voices of women and children throughout history. Kravath’s work is tied to political and social narratives. The marks and patterns of her surfaces suggest the arbitrary events that affect and mark each being. The surface treatments evoke a feeling of ancient artifacts unearthed yet resonate with life and are alive with feeling.
ITania Kravath
789 West End Avenue
New York, New York 10025
TKravath@gmail.com
TANIA KRAVATH.COM
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2024 | ”Connection & Loss”, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 2021 | “Observing Women”, Ceres Gallery ,NY |
| 2018 | “Where Is Home?”, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 2015 | “Layers”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2013 | “Spirit” A Collaboration, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2010 | “Warrior Women”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY Bronze Warriors, Woodstock Art Association & Museum, NY |
| 2008 | Conversations, Futernick Art Gallery, Alper JCC, Miami, Fl. “Bearing Witness”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2006 | “Generation To Generation”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2004 | “Travelers”’, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2002 | “Journey Through Fire”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
Group Exhibitions:
| 2024 | ”Diversity of Women’s Voices”, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 2021 | “Don’t Shut Up” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY “Outside My Oeuvre”, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 2017 | Vulvacular, Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 2017 | Women Under Siege, Ceres Gallery,NYC |
| 2017 | Favorite Things, Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 2016 | Women Under Siege, Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 2011 | Affordable Art Fair, New York City |
| 2011 | Women’s Nature, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 2010 | Bronze Warriors, Woodstock Art Association & Museum, NY |
| 2009 | “Big Stuff”, LBI Science & Arts Foundation, NJ “Ineffable Woman”, CIIS, SF, CA |
| 2008 | “All Fired UP”, Maxwell Gallery, Peekskill, NY “Women in Wood”, NCECA, Pittsburgh,Pa. |
| 2007 | “Paths”, Byrdcliff Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Woodstock, NY “Tabletops, Ceramic Invitational”, LBI Foundation, Loveladies, NJ Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY “ Scratching The Surface”, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 2006 | “Friendship Ceramic Competition” ,Nippon Gallery, New York, NY “Maverick Spirit”, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY “Ceres Gallery Revisited”, Krasdale Foods Inc. NY |
| 2005 | “Voices in Clay”, Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter,NY Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury,NY “Angles & Issues”, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 2004 | Lexington Center for the Arts, Lexington, NY Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, Ma. |
| 2003 | Gallery 221, New York, NY Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, Ma. |
| 2002 | “Ceres At 20-Birthday Duet”, Ceres Gallery, NY “Hallelujah’02”, Ceres Gallery, New York, “A Different Purim Sound”, Tisch Sussman Gallery, JCC in Manhattan,NY “Explorations in Clay”, Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, NY |
| 2001 | “Go Figure”, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY |
| 1999 | “Hallelujah ‘99”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY “Arts Walk”, The Premises Gallery, Hudson, N.Y. “Members Open”, Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA “Raising Miriam’s Cup” , Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD |
| 1998 | “Ceremony in the Desert”, Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1997 | “Drawing from the Source”, Miriam’s Cup Invitational, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY “Artists of Carnegie Hall Gallery Show”, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY |
| 1995 | “Artist/Teacher Exhibition, Avery Fisher at Lincoln Center, New York, NY |
| 1994 | “Artists of the WCA”, Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | “Hallelujah ‘93”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1992 | “Seven Showing”, Highland University, NM |
| 1985 | “Sawdust Firings”, Peters Valley Crafts Center, NJ |
| 1984 | “Alumni Exhibit”, CCNY, New York, NY |
| 1983 | “Works in Clay”, 78th Street Pottery Collective, New York, NY |
| 1980 | “Timeless Motifs”, Bridgehampton Artist’s Coop, New York, NY |
| 1979 | “Womenart”, Cork Gallery,Lincoln Center, New York, NY |
Publications:
| 2004 | Catskill Mountain Guide, December 2004 Ceramic Monthly, March, 2004 |
| 2003 | Provincetown Arts, Volume 18, 2003/04 |
| 2000 | Sculptures by Tania Kravath in Bridges, Volume 8, Nos. 1, 2 |
| 1998 | Self-Portrait in Sh’ma, A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, January 9, 1998 |
| 1997 | Moment, The Magazine of Jewish Culture and Opinion, Vol 22 #2 |
| 1996 | Passages: Jewish Women’s Immigration and Family History, Art review in Bridges |
| 1992 | Matriarchs, Article and photographs in Bridges |
| 1989 | The Woman Spirit Sourcebook, Harper & Row |
| 1987 | Healing, Illness, Death & Mourning, Sinister Wisdom |
| 1986 | The Tribe of Dina, A Jewish Women’s Anthology, Sinister Wisdom |
Professional Experience:
| 2004-2005 | Instructor, Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education, Hunter, NY Instructor, Old Church Cultural Center, Demerast, NJ President, Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 2004 | Instructor, Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education, Hunter, NY |
| 2002 | Ceramics Instructor, JCC, NY |
| 1989 | Visual Arts Instructor, Summer Arts Institute, Faculty, Lehman College, NY |
| 1988 | Ceramics Instructor, Earthworks Studio, NYJ |
| 1984 | Ceramic Instructor, 78th Street Pottery, NY |
| 1980 | Commissioned Murals, Montefiore Hospital, Pediatrics, NY |
| 1978 | Murals & Interior Design, Cecil B’s, Scarsdale, NY Murals, C. Bachrach, Ogilvy & Mather, NY |
Art Educator:
| New York City Board of Education 1967-1999 |