Location: United States
I started life as a painter. I was mentored by Ilya Bolotowsky and Ibram Lassaw. I worked with notables such as Willem de Koonig, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Alphonso Ossorio and Larry Rivers. I worked as curator at The Parrish Museum in Southampton, The Guild Hall Museum in Easthampton, The Metropolitan Museum/Queens Museum and lectured at the Cloisters. And worked closely with Victor D’Amico on projects for the MOMA.
I started making pottery during my Master’s degree in painting at Pratt Institute. But it’s hard to make a living as an artist so I became an advertising Executive Creative Director/Art Director and film director. I ran several agencies, served on their Board of Directors, owned my own agency. and managed healthy profits for my clients.
I was an adjunct professor at The Art Institute of Phoenix, CMO at Arizona Clay Association and board member of the American Advertising Federation.
I never made a teapot in my life as a potter. I thought teapots were for hand builders and I was strictly a wheel throwing potter. During the pandemic, I was in my studio and like everyone else, I was antsy. A little claustrophobic. Stuck. I couldn’t work for weeks.
I saw a Clarice Cliff teapot and was struck by the simplicity of the lines. And the complexity of technique. I decided to give it a whirl. I could certainly make a teapot. It was just clay. Nothing to be intimidated by. I created these forms and added gold and silver lusters for accent in a third firing.
I’m proud to show this new collection that excites me. Until, of course, I do something completely different.
Wheel-thrown and hand-built porcelain, fired to cone 5 then luster fired with silver luster.
Wheel-thrown and hand-built porcelain, fired to cone 5 then luster fired with silver luster.
Wheel-thrown and hand-built porcelain, fired to cone 5 then luster fired with silver luster.
Wheel-thrown and hand-built porcelain, fired to cone 5 then luster fired with silver luster.
“Spherical”
“Industrial Tea Boiler”
“Precision Tea Generator”
“Pipe Pot”
“Sp[ring”
“Percolator, Too.”
