Exhibitions

 
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The synthesis of Bay Area Figuration with Abstract Expressionism moves beyond classical to the sublime.

Michelle has exhibited her abstract figurative sculptures through galleries and museums in the U.S and Europe. Her rigorous academic training and passion for ceramics, color, printmaking, Eastern religion, French Symbolist poetry and ancient classic art forms attracts international audiences.

On View

 

Solo Exhibition recent work by


Michelle Gregor

Opening Reception
Sunday, December 5, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Udinotti Gallery
4215 N. Marshall Way
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

 
 
 
 

 Upcoming

Current

 

Palace of Leaves
Michelle Gregor

April 27, 2024 - September 15, 2024

Artists Gallery Talk
Saturday, August 3, 2024
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Triton Museum of Art
Warburton Gallery
1505 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050

 

Recent Solo Exhibitions

 

New work by


Michelle Gregor


May 2023 & May 2022

Sue Greenwood Fine Art
330 N Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

 
 
 
  • Michelle Gregor

    Brumfield Gallery, Astoria, OR
    (2022, 2020)

  • Confluence: Michelle Gregor

    John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
    (2018)

  • Susan Cooley-Gilliom Artist in Residence: Michelle Gregor

    Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
    (2018)

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My favorite point in the creative process is looking, spending time with a painting or sculpture, the long conversation.
— Michelle Gregor

Key Group Exhibitions

 
 

I’m All Clay, You’re All Clay

February 6, 2024 - March 2, 2024

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923 Twentieth Street
Sacramento, California 95811

William Abright, Robert Arneson, Robert Brady, Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, William Foley, Michelle Gregor, William Ishmael, Françoise LeClerc, Jim Melchert, Lisa Reinertson, Richard Shaw, Sandy Shannonhouse, Mary Ann Steinert-Foley, Claudia Tarantino, John Weber, Wanzin Zhang

 
 

Linda Christensen, Suzie Buchholz, and Michelle Gregor

April 22, 2022 - May 31, 2022

Sue Greenwood Fine Art
330 North Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

 
  • Tree of Ceramics

    John Natsoulas Center for the Arts
    (March 2 – May 1, 2022)

    Lectures and demonstrations Friday, March 18th and Saturday March, 19th with a reception and book signing on Friday the 18th. Book signing will have over 15 monographs covering different ceramicists, including Patti Warashina, Esther Shimazu, Tip Toland, Jason Walker, Lisa Reinertson, Michelle Gregor, Margaret Keelan, Arthur Gonzalez, Yoshio Taylor, John Toki & Gail Ritchie. Exhibition will feature a historical tree showing the lineage of all the artists in the show and how they relate to each other going back to the Post World War II era.

  • Tap Roots

    Epperson Gallery of Ceramic Arts
    (March 11 – April 10, 2022)

    Epperson Gallery and Arts Benicia join forces in an extensive exhibition of over 60 Ceramic Artist Faculty from Northern California Colleges and Universities. Organized by Suzanne M Long, Celeste Smeland, Lisa Reinertson, and Lordy Rodriguez. Artists include Lisa Reinertson, Jeff Downing, Michelle Gregor, Clayton Bailey, Wanxin Zhang, Arthur Gonzalez, Nancy Selvin, Shenny Cruces, and many more.

  • Relics and Rebirth

    Sacramento Fine Arts Center
    (March 16 – 29, 2022)

    Explores the many aspects of the feminine archetype particularly its analogy to the earth, the body as vessel, nature, and the supernatural and subconscious worlds. Christa Assad, Michelle Gregor, Josie Jurczenia, MaryMar Keenan, Erin McGuiness, Sara Paloma, Whitney Smith, and Sharon Virtue. Organized by Christa Assad and Sharon Virtue.

 
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Continuous Clay: Trends & Innovations

July 24 - September 5, 2021
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (MarinMOCA)

 
Michelle Gregor … is one of the most highly regarded second-generation sculptors of the Bay Area Figurative Movement working today and one of the most important women ceramic artists working in the United States.
— Jeff Downing, Professor of Art and Head of the Ceramics Area at San Francisco State University,
Curator, Continuous Clay: Trends and Innovations, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (MarinMOCA)
  • 30 Ceramic Sculptors Exhibition

    Concurrence with the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts (CCACA)
    John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (2024, 2021)

  • Material Matters

    Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
    (2024)

  • Persons of Interest

    Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
    (2023)

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    Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
    (2023)

  • Bay Area Figurative Exhibition

    John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
    (2023)

  • Michelle Gregor and Sandy Ostrau

    Sue Greenwood, Laguna Beach, CA
    (2023)

  • Women of Northern California: Making Meaning for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

    (2023)

  • Linda Christensen, Michelle Gregor, Kathy Jones, and Sandy Ostrau

    Sue Greenwood, Laguna Beach, CA
    (2023)

  • Linda Christensen, Suzie Buchholz, and Michelle Gregor

    Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
    (2022)

  • Deconstructing The Conversation

    National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Exhibition, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
    (2018)

  • Figuratively Speaking

    SMAart Gallery & Studio, San Francisco, CA
    (2015-2013)

  • Transcendent

    Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
    (2010)

“Michelle Gregor is one of the most significant female sculptors in the country, and definitely one of the best of California. I would have done anything to get her into this show.”

—John Natsoulas, Owner, John Natsoulas Gallery,
California Style (2013)

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  • Ceramics Art and Perception logo

    “Michelle Gregor, David Kuraoka and Don Reitz represent three distinct generations with a common passion for the process and practice of ceramics, including that elusive element that Peter Volkous so rightly termed ‘the courting of the accidental.’

    —Susannah Israel, artist and writer. "Transcendent", Exhibition Review. Ceramics Art and Perception, No.88 2012

  • Maria Porges, artist and writer, Words about Art logo

    “Gregor’s smoothly-modeled figures have a streamlined quality, reminiscent of the female bodies created by Modernists Elie Nadelman and Gaston Lachaise.”

    — Maria Porges, artist and writer, "Avatars and Angels," Essay. Michelle Gregor, 2013

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    "Gregor is a particularly fine colorist who's stains and engages reveal a sensibility closer to Chagall than to Viola Frey, and her attitudes toward the bodies that are her models as well as the bodies that are her sculptures are still classically based in formal Appollonian aesthetics"

    —Mary Hull Webster, contributing editor, artist, writer and teacher. (1995, December) "Michelle Gregor at Space 743", Exhibition Review. Artweek, 26(12), 18

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