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photo by Nicholas LaClair

 

b. 1966 Anniston, AL

Margaret Boozer lives and works in the Washington, DC metro area. She received a BFA in sculpture from Auburn University and an MFA in ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Her work is included in the collection of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Wilson Building Public Art collection and in many private collections. Boozer taught for ten years at the Corcoran College of Art and Design before founding Red Dirt Studio in Mt. Rainier, MD where she directs a ceramics and sculpture seminar. Recent projects include a commissioned installation at the US Embassy in Djibouti and authoring chapter on her work as soil-centric art for  U. S. Geologic Survey’s Soil and Culture. Current exhibitions include Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.


education

1992 MFA, Ceramics, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
1989 BFA, Sculpture, Auburn University, Summa Cum Laude



selected solo exhibitions

2009 Margaret Boozer: Dirt Drawings, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2008 Margaret Boozer: Accumulation, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC

2006

Margaret Boozer: Reinvented Landscape, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR

2004

Margaret Boozer: Land/Marks, Strand on Volta Gallery, Washington, DC
2001 Black and White, Red Dirt Gallery, Washington, DC
2000 Dig: New Ceramics by Margaret Boozer, Duncan & Miller Gallery, WDC
1999 Pot Luck: Ceramics and Sculpture by Margaret Boozer, Red Dirt Gallery, WDC
1999 Some More or Less Mathematical Musings on Making Pots, Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD


selected two- and three-person exhibitions

2010

 Margaret Boozer and Ani Kasten, Bulthaup Corporation, Georgetown, Washington, DC

2007

Distintegration:  site specific works by Margaret Boozer, Michele Kong and Cory Wagner, curated by Twylene Moyer of Sculpture Magazine, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2005 Geologic Personality:  Margaret Boozer and Catherine White, Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2004 Gorlitzz and Boozer: Sculpture in Glass Beads and Clay, AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
2003 GROUND WORK: Recent Work by Margaret Boozer, Carole Greenwood and Erin Root, Strand on Volta Gallery, Washington, DC
2002 Earth Drawings and Water Colors: A Collaborative Exhibit by Julia Ricketts and Margaret Boozer, Baas Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Threshold States: Ceramics by Margaret Boozer, Prints and Drawings by Julia Ricketts, Red Dirt Gallery, WDC




selected group exhibitions

2012

Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, NY, NY

 

Field Work, curated by Susan Main, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2011

Site Aperture: Margaret Boozer, Mia Feuer, Talia Green and Mariah Johnson. Curated by Danielle O’Steen, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
2009

3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Korea 2003, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Korea (invitational)
  The Souvenir Shop, Art Star Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
 

Art Night, Hickok Cole Architects, Washington, DC
 

Project 4 group exhibition, Gensler Architects, Washington, DC
2008

Art Night , Hickok Cole Architects , WDC
 

Terra Incognita: Unknown Land, Curated by Rebecca Harvey, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD

 

Earth: In it, On it, Of it.  Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

2, Project 4, Washington, DC

  Myth of Permanence, Standard Ceramic, Pittsburgh, PA , organized by Catherine White and Margaret Boozer, in conjunction with NCECA
2007 NCECA Clay National, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
  Natural Inclinations, invitational, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
  Primed, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, 2007 Art Auction Gala Primed, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, 2007 Art Auction Gala
  Auburn and Beyond: 12 Alumni Artists Return, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
2006 Mid-Atlantic Pulse:  Works from the Hillyer Committee at Hillyer Art Space in Washington, DC
  Dimensions, Zenith Gallery, WDC
 

Sculpture Unbound, Edison Place Gallery, WDC

  Clay:  Sculptural and Functional Work, Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts, WDC
2005

Seven, Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC, curated by Lenny Campello

  “I Really Want to See…”, Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD, curated by Joan Webber
 

Alternative Porcelain, Chaney Gallery, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD
 

Particles and Passion, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
  Metro Clay,  Rockville Arts Place, Gaithersburg, MD
 

Coming Home:  A Journey in Clay, Stancill Quarry, Perryville, MD
2004

Sculpture in Four Dimensions, Museum of the Americas, WDC
 

Summer Group Exhibition, Signal 66, WDC
 

Anonymous, Gallery at Flashpoint, Washington, DC
2003 2nd World Ceramic Biennale, Korea 2003, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Korea
  2003 Scripps Annual Ceramic Invitational, Scripps, the Women’s College, Claremont, CA
 

Wall Works, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD

2002

Women’s National Art Invitational Exhibition, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson University, SC
 

From Earth to Fire - 21st Century Tiles, The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
2001

USA Clay, Renwick Gallery,Smithsonian Institution, WDC
 

Silicate:  Recent Issues in Ceramic Sculpture, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD

 

Artistic Imaginings in Clay, Art Museum of the Americas, WDC
  Artists’ Tiles:  Beyond Tradition, Invitational, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA