Represented by Nickerson Art Gallery, Main Street, Chatham, MA
SELECTED RESUME:
First prize, photography, “All Cape Cod Juried Art Show.” Creative Art Center, Chatham MA. June 6 -30, 2010.
“Northeast Prize Show,” Juried by Cheryl Brutvan , Curator of Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, Florida and former Curator of Contemporary Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, May - June, 2010.
One Hundredth Anniversary ECS School and Montreal Artists, Just for Laughs Museum, Montreal, Canada. November 24-26, 2009.
"Images," The Paul Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA, July 2009.
"Clay: From the Ground Up," Art Alliance Art Center, Lemont, PA. April 24-26, 2009.
"Clay Art," Cape Cod Potters Inc., Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. March - April 2009.
Second prize, photography, “All Cape Cod Juried Art Show,” Creative Art Center, Chatham, MA, June 2008.
"The Art Alliance of Central PA, Fortieth Anniversary Juried Exhibition," Paul Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA, May 2008.
The artist's new house addition, Chatham, MA, 2006-8
"Art of the State," The State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA, June-September 2006.
Honorable mention photography, All Cape Cod Juried Exhibition, Creative Art Centre, Chatham, MA, June 2006.
Second prize photography, "Essence of Cape Cod," Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Creative Art Center, Chatham, MA, September 2005.
Sculpture Award of Merit, "Images," The Paul Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA, July 2005.
"Art of the State," The State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA, June-Sept. 2004.
Invitational, "Wish You Were Here," National Headquarters of the American Philatelic Society, Bellefonte, PA, June-Oct. 2004.
Juried Non-Member Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York City, New York, May 2003.
"Shoulders Exposed," Horrocks’ multi-media exhibition for the year 2000, opened the HUB Gallery at the new HUB/Paul Robeson Center, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 2000.
The Twelfth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo, Texas, 1998.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
The Creative Spirit, Art in Chatham's Old Village, Carol Pacun, The Old Village Association, Inc., Chatham, MA 2004. Cover detail as well as pgs. 35, 41-42.
Review of "Shoulders Exposed" by John Kissick, Head, Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, Penn State University, 2000.
Handbuilt Ceramics, Kathy Triplett, Lark Books, 1997, pp. 75, 81.
The Domestic Object Catalogue, cover sculpture for the exhibition "The Domestic Object," The Berkshire Museum, The Worcester Center for Crafts and the Fuller Museum of Art, 1993.
Ceramics Monthly, January 1992, pg.12.
Ceramics Monthly, January 1988, pp. 67-68.
EDUCATION:
Studied painting with Fritz Brandtner, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bennington College, BA (visual arts).
Metropolitan Museum scholarships for classes in ceramics, (with Greenwich House potter) and graduate art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, NY.
Techniques of Oriental Porcelain Throwing with Kenneth Beittel, Penn State University.
EXPERIENCE:
Assistant to Edward W. Forbes, Director Emeritus, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
Assistant to Edith A. Standen, Textile Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ceramics instructor, Studio on the Canal, Princeton, NJ.
Established studio in State College, PA. 1972.
Conceived and curated "The Art Alliance Art Through Touch Traveling Exhibition." (With a grant from the PA Council on the Arts, in the 1990s this touchable art exhibition visited galleries, a museum and also institutions in isolated areas with no access to professional art.)
Has had several solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Solely represented ceramic art in "Salute to Contemporary Art Craft in Pennsylvania, The Year of American Craft," at The State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, 1993.
During the last seventeen years Horrocks has also taught workshops on design and on ceramic raku techniques in the eastern United States and Canada.
Horrocks' sculpture, ceramics and photographs are included in public and private collections in North America, Europe and Australia.
