Harriet E. Brisson
Brisson Studio
P.O. Box 85
Rehoboth, MA 02769

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

"Anagama: Wood Fired Ceramics", Peck Gallery, Providence, RI, 2002

"50-NOW: Fifty Year Retrospective", One Person Exhibition, University Gallery, Newport, RI, 2001

"Reflections", Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI, 2001

"Spirited Ruins", Sherman Art Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2000

"Scorched Earth", Invitational Exhibition, Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI, 1999

"Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition", Invitational, Tiverton Four Corners Art Center, Tiverton, RI, 1998

"Habitat II: Buckminster Fuller Centennial Exhibition: Building for the Future", Minar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997

"Contemporary Developments in Design Science", Invitational, The Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York, NY, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1996

"Hypergraphics '96: Art, Science and Technology", McKillop Gallery, Newport, RI, 1996

"R G B", One Person Exhibition, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence, RI, 1995

"Virtual Ceramic Exhibition", http://www.ilpi.com/Artsource/vce/VCEhome.html, 1995

"Light Forms", Solo Exhibition, Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI, 1995

"Festival international de la Poesie", salle Raymond-Lasnier du centre culturel, Trois-Rivieres, Canada, 1994

"11 artists -- au poete inconnu", Invitational Exhibition, Suisse d'Alger, Uzes, France, 1994

"Bay State Clay", Invitational Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1993

"Biennale Internazionale di Ceramica Contemporanea", Invitational, Galleria d'Arte Diagramma/Studioeffe, Grottaglie, Italy, 1991

"III. World Triennial Exhibition of Small Ceramics", Gradec, Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Honorable Mention, 1990

"L'occhio di Horus: Itinerari nell'immaginario matematico", Invitational Exhibition sponsored by Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Opened in Bologna, traveled to Parma, Milan, Naples, and Rome, Italy, 1989

"46th Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d'Arte", Palazzo della Esposiziona, Faenza, Italy, 1989

"Advanced Structures Around the World", Organized by Syracuse University for Exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, West Point, Annapolis, MD and Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL, 1988

"Dimensionalism: Advanced Interdisciplinary Art", Galleria Pallavicini, Casino dell'Aurora, Rome, Italy, 1987

"Neon: An Exhibition in Light by Thirteen New England Artists", Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, 1986

"International TELIC III '85", Invitational Exhibition, Art Research Center, Kansas City, MO, 1985

"Hypergraphics 1984: Visualizing Higher Dimensions", Rhode Island School of Design, Woods-Gerry Gallery, held in conjunction with "Flatland 1884" Symposium at Brown University, RI, 1984

"Surface Design Invitational Exhibition", Southeastern Massachusetts University Gallery, South Dartmouth, MA, 1983

"Energy Art", National Juried Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, 1981

"Hipergraficos", Sala de Exposiciones del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 1981

"2 + 1 + 2 = 11: Two Person Exhibition", LYC Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria, England, 1980

"Hypergraphics III", Exhibition and Symposium, Princeton, NJ, 1979

"Art and Technology", Boston Visual Artist Union, Boston, MA, 1978

"Hypergraphics", Invitational Exhibition and Symposium, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1977

"Virtual Realities", Two Person Exhibition, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 1976

PUBLICATIONS:

1999 - "Aesthetic Geometry", First Interdisciplinary Conference of the International Society of The Arts, Mathematics and Architecture, edited by Nathaniel A. Friedman and Javier Barrallo, The University of the Basque Country, 1999, pp, 67 - 74

1996 - "From Hyperspace to Cyberspace: An Artist's Perspective", 7th Annual International Conference on Engineering Computer Graphics and Descriptive Geometry, edited by A. Wyzykowski, T. Dydych, R. Gorska, L. Piekarski, L. Azkowska, Cracow, Poland, Vol. 1. pp. 47 - 51.

1994 - "Geometric Form in Ceramics: Some Tilings and Forms That Fill Space Completely", Ceramic Art, Taipei, Taiwan

"(In)Finite Structures in Science and Art", Hyperspace, Vol. 3, No. 1, Japan Institute of HyperSpace, Kyoto, Japan

1993 - "Visualization in Art and Science", The Visual Mind: Art and Mathematics, edited by Michele Emmer, A Leonardo Book, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, pp. 39 - 44

"Contemporary East European Ceramics", exhibition review, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Journal, Vol. 13, 1992-93. pp. 90 - 94

1992 - "Visualization in Art and Science", LEONARDO, Journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology, Vol. 25, No. 3/4, 1992

"(In)Finite Structures in Science and Art", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Engineering Computer Graphics and Descriptive Geometry, edited by V. O. Thomas, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and W. P. Lewis, University of Melbourne, Vol. 1, pp. 61 - 65

1991 - NCECA: the First 25 Years, 1966 - 1991, published by National funding by the National Endowment for the Arts

1989 - "Rendere visibile L'invisibile (Visualizzare lo spazio a piu dimensioni)" essay - L'occhio di Horus: Itinerari nell'immaginario matematico, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Rome, Italy

1985 - "Hypergraphics", The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Engineering Design Graphics Division, American Society for Engineering Education, Vol. 49, No.3

1978 - "Randomness and Order in Sculptural Form" essay, Hypergraphics: Visualizing Complex, Relationships in Art, Science and Technology, edited by David Brisson, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1978, pp.169 - 176

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Miyazaki, Koji, An Adventure In Multidimensional Space, Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd., Japan, 1983 and English language edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Toronto, Canada, 1986. p.59

Larson, GEOMETRY, McDougal Littell, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 2000

Peterson, Ivars, Fragments of Infinity, A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York, 2001, pp 54 - 55, Plate 3

Peterson, Susan, The Craft and Art of Clay, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992. p. 87

Peterson, Susan, Contemporary Ceramics, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY, 2000, p. 32

Salem, Lionel, La Science Dans L'Art, Editions Odile Jacob, 15 Rue Soufflot, 75005 Paris. May, 2000, pp. 43-44

Senechal, Majorie and Fleck, George, editors, Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach, Birkhauser Boston, Inc, Cambridge, MA, 1988, p. 36

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1997 - present - Professor Emeritus, Rhode College, Providence, RI, working independently in my studio

1969 - 1997 - Professor of Art, Rhode Island College, Providence, R.I

1966 - 1969 - Instructor of Art, Mount Pleasant High School, Providence, RI

1963 - 1965 - Owned and operated Ceramics by Brisson, Auburn, AL

1958 - 1963 - Instructor of Art, Auburn University, Auburn. AL

1990 - 1998 - President of the Board of Directors of Studio Potter, A Non-profit Corporation that publishes STUDIO POTTER and STUDIO POTTER NETWORK NEWSLETTER each semi-annually. Currently serving on the Executive Board of Trustees.

1990 - "Hypergraphics," a 30 minute video documentary on the interdisciplinary collaboration of artists, scientists and mathematicians in exhibitions and symposia. Produced by Harriet E. Brisson, assisted by Lawrence Budner and partially funded by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Grant.

EDUCATION:

Master of Arts in Teaching, Rhode Island School of Design, 1966

Master of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1955

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, 1953