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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Bob Bruch
Bio
I have led a “double life” of sorts in the field of business, as well as art. I first received a B.S. in Economics from Lehigh University (graduating Cum Laude), followed by an MBA from Stanford Business School. Upon graduating from Stanford, during the tumultuous period of the Vietnam War, I spent several years in a pilot MBA program for VISTA (domestic Peace Corps) consulting for community groups in a Hispanic neighborhood in San Francisco.
It was during my time in VISTA that I first began to work as an artist – a practice I continued to develop while later working at IMG (the dominant firm in the sports marketing field). My expertise in business and art allowed me to help create a ceramics cooperative in Cleveland in 1978.
In 1990, I decided to go to art school and spent four years at the Cleveland Institute of Art. I also received a graduate degree in Nonprofit Management from Case Western Reserve University in 1996.
I have been working as a studio artist since since 1995 and have had the good fortune to exhibit my work in a range of venues, including the prestigious Strictly Functional Pottery National, the Clay National, and the Annual Juried Competition of Contemporary Islamic Art. A sampling of my pieces is available at: bob-bruch.blog.
Artist Statement
In developing my asymmetrical work, I am guided by the interaction of volume and line. Unpredictable but not random, my irregular coil-built constructions result from slight modifications introduced at the base of each vessel during the initial phase of my hand-building process. From these base variances, upon which I build each piece, a uniquely organic –– yet “predetermined” –– shape emerges.
As my construction begins to close in along the top of each vessel, I shape a more deliberate edge line to finish the piece. The tension and dialogue between the fluid rim lines and the asymmetrical volume conveys the movement of dynamic energy.
Each piece in this series represents a moment in time in which the movement of each wave can be seen to have influenced the trajectory of the other elements moving fluidly in a similar, circular, or opposite direction. There is also the suggestion of the future direction as these waves create currents, surges, collisions, oscillations and whirlpools.