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Biography
Brooke Alexandria D’Onofrio (b. Santa Clarita, CA) is a ceramic artist currently maintaining her studio practice in Fort Collins, CO. She earned her MFA from NYSCC at Alfred University and her BFA from the University of the Pacific in 2010, with additional post-baccalaureate studies at Colorado State University.
D’Onofrio has worked as a ceramic technician at Cabrillo College and Alfred University. She has taught ceramics and foundations courses as an adjunct professor at Alfred University and Colorado State University. In addition to her academic teaching, she has led workshops across the United States. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has participated in artist residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts.
She is currently a Ceramics Instructor at Colorado State University and the Director of the Artstream Nomadic Gallery.
Artist Statement
My ceramic vessels and sculptures look for the wiggle room in between categories relating to the fields of design, sculpture, craft, and painting. The form of the clay coil is a central essential shape in my work which is reproduced throughout non-human nature. The coil or tube is also all around and within us. They are our veins that connect our organs, the pipes in our homes, and the wires that carry our energy, information, and waste.
My shapes spring from molds I take of simple forms which I use as a jumping-off point for relentlessly exploring the many possible expressions of the shapes. Testing for flexibility of myself and my material, I create vessels that respond to my present moment and express my individual and collective thoughts. I take apart the conventional components of the vessel and re-compose to question what it all boils down to, and how something grows from there.
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