Dubhe Carreño
Dubhe Carreño was born in Caracas, Venezuela. At 18 years old she came to the United States to pursuit a career in classical dance and to continue her training in ballet. Dubhe studied at the Boston Ballet School during the summer of 1994 and the following fall she danced with Ballet Theater of Boston. Looking to relieve the stress of the demands of a dance company she enrolled in a pottery class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She immediately fell in love with clay and decided to study it in depth, intuitively understanding her affinity with this material’s plasticity; both physically and conceptually and discovering its richness and potential. She enrolled at the Massachusetts College of Art and received her BFA with a concentration in ceramics in 1999 and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. Upon graduation, Dubhe was hired as an instructor by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she taught until the spring of 2006. Dubhe Carreño currently teaches ceramics at Northeastern University.
Noticing a lack of exhibition venues that were dedicated to ceramics in Chicago, Dubhe Carreño opened her gallery in 2004 committed to educating art audiences about the physical and conceptual versatility of today's ceramic art. Dubhe Carreño Gallery was created as a platform to present the talent of young artists who in many cases have transformed ceramics into a new genre by breaking deeply rooted conventions based on ceramics' past and its inevitable association with functionality and tradition, however, understanding history's inherent potential to inform current issues and preoccupations in contemporary art.
Photo by Robert Mollers
118 N. Peoria St. 2nd Floor | Chicago, IL 60607 | Tel. 312.666.3150 | info@dubhecarrenogallery.com