“Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes, ends up where it was in the first place. But at the end, it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through. Frustration is one of the great things in art; Satisfaction is nothing.”
Vince Palacios (b.1961) is an American ceramic artist born in Flint, Michigan. Palacios has been working in the field of ceramic art since 1988. He received his Masters of Ceramic Art from Alfred University and his BFA in ceramics at California State University at Long Beach. He now serves as Professor of the Ceramics Department at El Camino College in Torrance, California. He made his way to El Camino College in 2011 after teaching for six years at Western Illinois University and ten years before at California State University, Long Beach.
He has shown his work nationally and internationally and is included in a number of important private collections as well as prominent museum collections. Palacios continues to exhibit his work and has developed a unique approach to the use of raw glass and ceramic materials as a means of crafting intricate narratives addressing geological process, pyroclastic interaction, and heat/chemical reactions.
Palacios has had solo exhibitions at ODD ARK•LA in Los Angeles, CA; The AMOCA Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA; The Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Malcomb, IL, The Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL; Chosun Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea and Rosewood Arts Center In Ohio amongst others. Palacios continues to exhibit his work both nationally and internationally and is included in several important private collections as well as prominent museum collections such as Alfred University Art Museum, New York; The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California; JINRO Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea; Kapfenberg Cultural Center, Kapfenberg, Austria; Kamm Teapot Foundation, North Carolina; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long beach, CA; Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC and The City Museum of Varazdin in Croatia amongst others.
