Sculpture Caroline Blackburn has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including the grand prize at the Ink & Clay 40 exhibition and first place at the Beverly Hills Art Show in the spring of 2017. Her artistic journey has been significantly influenced by her professional career in the Arts, spanning over three decades. Caroline has worked with many distinguished exhibiting artists while designing educational programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art from 1988 to 2002. She also directed print, media, and marketing for UCLA Architecture from 2002 to 2018, giving her a unique perspective on contemporary art and architecture.

Caroline's sculptural ceramic work is driven by her desire to create fresh, immediate pieces that capture the viewer's attention through color, form, and surface texture. Her pieces are unique, one-of-a-kind works of art, created using a combination of techniques like hand-building and throwing on a wheel. Every vessel represents a continuous shift between surface, texture, color, and object, giving it a personal and universal contemporary touch.

Caroline's extensive vocabulary of glazes helps her achieve the intense, active surface in each piece. She combines colors, textures, and drawings using a variety of materials, such as ceramic pencil, slip, oxide, or glaze, to create a painterly surface that reflects the phenomena found in nature. Her approach to color is unique, as she considers each piece to be a canvas, applying slips, drawing with a ceramic pencil, hand-painting with brushes of varying widths, and grinding the surface with a stone to create a sublime effect. Caroline's work is a reflection of her passion for the Arts, and each piece is a testament to her artistic vision and skill.

Caroline Blackburn Artist Career Highlights

• 2019 Ink & Clay 44, W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Donor’s Choice Award
• 2018 Beverly Hills Art Show (Spring), Second Place
• 2017 Beverly Hills Art Show (Fall), First Place
• 2016 Beverly Hills Art Show (Spring), Second Place
• 2016 Pasadena Fine Arts Club Artists Award
• 2015 26th California Clay Competition, Artery Gallery, Davis, CA, First Prize, Association of Clay and Glass Artists Award
• 2015 Beverly Hills Art Show (Spring), Honorable Mention
• 2014 Ink & Clay 40, W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, University President’s Purchase Award (First Prize)
• 2014 Beverly Hills Art Show (Fall), Second Place
• 2012 Orange County Fair Visual Art Competition, Honorable Mention
• 2011 Beverly Hills Art Show (Spring), Honorable Mention
• 2011 22nd California Clay Competition, Artery Gallery, Davis, CA, Afatosa Award