51st Annual Pottery Show &amp; Sale

Artist Statement:

“I work to make useful and beautiful objects that will add a bit of pomp to daily life. Inlayed lines travel over lips, under feet and around handles on my pots, referencing quilt, Art Deco and floral patterns. “

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Susan Dewsnap

Auburn, ME

Artist Statement:

“My work is about making and reacting to ceramic pottery forms with a surface of lines and shapes that evoke or refer to images we might know or be acquainted with but become something unto themselves.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Justin Donofrio

Fort Collins, CO

Artist Statement:

“Through the lens of functional pottery, I focus on questions about our relationship with objects. Each vessel is made using clay that I harvest from various landscapes as well as artificially colored porcelain which both reference natural tones.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Chris Gustin

Dartmouth, MA

Artist Statement:

“I don't want my pots to conjure up a singular image for the viewer. By inviting the hand to explore the forms as well as the eye, I want to provoke numerous memories, recollection that has the potential to change from moment to moment, provoking connections that go past the intellectual to the innate.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show

Nicholas Joerling

Bakersville, NC

Artist Statement:

“It’s nice, this many decades in, to find myself just as eager to get to the studio as when I first began.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Yeonsoo Kim

League City, TX

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Artist Statement:

“My work characterized by consistency, perfection, thoroughness, and handmade work, which emphasizes free will, randomness and casualness. I have been thinking about relationship between ideas, notions, and concepts of tradition and contemporary art.

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Bradley Klem

Denver, CO

Artist Statement:

“My work uses ceramic vessels’ familiarity and historical context combined with contemporary imagery of man’s impact on the environment to ask, can we take action and inspire change?

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Simon Levin

Pawnee, IL

Artist Statement:

“The work I make is an exploration of a human’s interaction with elemental forces, fire, earth, and wind, all within the tight discipline of functional pottery.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

David MacDonald

Syracuse, NY

Artist Statement:

“My work centers around the vessel form and the notion of utility. I am inspired by the decorative traditions practiced in Africa and other primal cultures that utilize geometric patterns.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Matthew Metz

Alfred Station, NY

Artist Statement:

“My pots are about labor and time- like a hand stitched quilt. The work offers an intensity of surface and a personal decorative intent, that is revealed in everyday use.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Lindsay Oesterritter

Manassas, VA

Artist Statement:

“I work in an intentionally straightforward manner, choosing the clay and techniques for the marks that will be left behind. The process of making are recorded on the surface of the object revealing material characteristics and telling a visual story.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Lisa Orr

Northborough, MA

Artist Statement:

“My fluidly formed artworks for the table have a playful quality inspired by historic vessels sporting embossed narratives. The abundance of color and texture frames the food with the vibrant signals found in a healthy garden.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Ben Owen Pottery

Seagrove, NC

Artist Statement:

“A multi-generational potter from Seagrove, North Carolina continuing a family tradition. Influences from nature and studies in Asia have expanded his creative palette of forms and finishes.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Sang Joon Park

Highland Mills, NY

Artist Statement:

“My intent is to express my thoughts through my vessels, which are mostly thrown on the potter’s wheel. For some of my pieces, I use traditional Korean techniques — inhwamun stamping/inlay technique to create floral patterns, and gwiyal slip technique to apply expressive color slips”

Aysha Peltz

Whitingham, VT

Artist Statement: My pots have evolved because of an intuitive response to the manipulation of freshly thrown porcelain. In my most recent work, glaze has become an equal motivation for form development. The folding, ripping, and tearing of wet porcelain still influences the contour of my pots but more and more, channeling pools and drips, have encouraged new shapes- particularly those in which line and glaze dynamically interact.

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Brenda Quinn

Ossining, NY

Artist Statement:

“Brenda delights in pursuing her passion for painting and ceramics, creating patterns on pottery from elements observed in her garden.

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Mark Shapiro

Worthington, MA

Artist Statement:

“Endeavoring to make something useful and even beautiful from formless mud seems a worth a try. It honors our shared humanity and defies meaningless labor.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Taylor Sijan

Hackettstown, NJ

Artist Statement:

“I craft richly decorated, functional pottery. Each piece is a confluence of things I find beautiful - asymmetrical compositions, evocative colors, botanical imagery, and fine details - expressed within the parameter of objects intended for active participation in someone’s life.

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Malcolm Mobutu Smith

Bloomington, IN

Artist Statement:

“My vessels are inspired by the intersections graffiti, jazz and organic abstraction. Generally, these cups or scoop forms rely on altered wheel-thrown elements improvising volume with flatness.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Chad Steve

Tequesta, FL

Artist Statement:

“Each piece is decorated with slip and gathered sands, glazed and fired in an atmospheric soda firing. The forms are simple and effortlessly functional. The surfaces are spontaneous with natural variations transitioning between land and water.

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Jack Troy

Huntingdon, PA

Artist Statement:

“My quest is to receive from the kiln the self-evident best pot of my 61-year career; the one I made all the others to achieve.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Jerilyn Virden

Greensboro, VT

Artist Statement:

“I use earthenware clay to create utilitarian and sculptural pieces. Hollow construction allows me to exaggerate features, contributing a visual weight that floats above the table, accentuating a form’s sense of generosity and strength.”

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Mallory Wetherell

Kearney, NE

Artist Statement:

“My pots are canvases – billboards of sorts – for my politics, my humor, my interests. Each piece is hand-painted on porcelain, to create one of a kind accessible works of art. “

*Works pictured do not necessarily reflect what will be available for purchase during the show.

Minsoo Yuh

Athens, GA