Gallery Artists
Welcome to our Gallery Artists page. Here you can find artists we've shown at Plinth Gallery as well as artists that we will be featuring in our upcoming schedule. Click on the image to see more of each artist's work.
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Bebe Alexander
Bebe Alexanders’ work is all hand-built using slabs and incorporates a variety of firing techniques to achieve a very weathered surface. Her sculptures are influenced by architectural forms and machinery. -
Jennifer Allen
Jennifer Allen’s function porcelain evokes sentiments of beauty, cheer, thoughtfulness and usefulness. Whether she forms a vase that decorates a room or dinnerware that celebrates a meal, her work is made to honor and enhance the rhythms of home life. -
DAN ANDERSON
Dan Anderson’s signature work references aging Midwestern architecture as well as mid century pouring devices such as oil cans. Dan’s work is both wood and soda fired and includes post-firing techniques with ceramic decals and sandblasted surfaces.Click here for more information & artist gallery
DAN ANDERSON EXHIBITION MAY 2009
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Paul Barchilon
Ceramic artist Paul Barchilon uses traditional geometric methods of dividing space to create intricate patterns. His brightly colored platters, trays, and vases reflect his interest in Moroccan art. -
hayne bayless
Hayne Bayless’ pottery is not always concerned with harmony, although that does happen at times. His work is more about tension. He is enamored with the friction between what he wants the material to do and what it would rather do The unintended result, often misread as a mistake and so dismissed, is one of the most fertile sources of new ideas. He honors the clay's inherent desire to be expressive.Click here for more information & artist gallery
HAYNE BAYLESS MAY 2010
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Sara Behling
Sara Behling has been a dedicated clay artist for more than 30 years. She finds inspiration in the world around to give meaning to the work she creates. Her work is inspired by informed concepts. -
Nicholas Bivins
Bivins creates utilitarian wares using a precise, minimal, and efficient geometric language that nourishes his focused interest in defining what is perfectly handmade. He is challenged in the exploration of how far he can push the ceramic medium within the limits of both the physics and chemistry of ceramics. -
Yoko Sekino-Bove
Bove’s porcelain work represents the integration of her collective emotions, curiosities, insights, and fancies in shapes of plants and animals. The plants and various creatures that she works with are chosen to deliver subtle, quiet gestures that carry the emotions. Her forms and their surface design entwine to create a story, yet it is the function that establishes the identity.Click here for more information & artist gallery
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Richard Burkett
Richard Burkett’s ceramics hovers between pottery and sculpture. Some pieces move in a sculptural direction, yet they still derive some of their form from parts of his more functional work. Certain pieces are more functional, but contain visual suggestions of his sculptural work. His work is both soda and salt fired.Click here for more information & artist gallery
Richard Burkett October 2010
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Marko Fields
Marko Fields’ background is as an illustrator; He utilizes his 2D skills in his 3D work to reconcile the surface decoration with form. Cultural references abound in his work. His surfaces are quite tactile, inviting touch. Iconography and storytelling are prevalent in his work; a personal vocabulary of imagery reflects a sense of mythology, spirituality and philosophy. -
Suzanne Hill
As both an artist and a craftsperson her saggar and pit fired ceramics move beyond pure function. Her decorative work is based on functional shapes. She combines the colors of landscapes and rock formations with classical vessel shapes to create unique works of art. The driftwood handles on some of the pieces are inspired by the scrub trees she finds on windswept and beautiful landscapes. -
Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan’s sculptural vessels combine patterned hand-built slabs with altered wheel thrown elements. He uses industrial parts and fittings to compliment the design of his pieces. -
Jennifer McCurdy
Jennifer McCurdy works with a translucent porcelain body that conveys the qualities of light and shadow. The forms are wheel thrown, altered, and then carved. Firing renders the porcelain extremely dense and hard. Some pieces have a 23 carat gold leaf interior to further reveal the curves and patterns. -
DANNY MEISINGER
While well known for his extremely large ceramic forms, Meissinger also works at a smaller scale producing sculptural vessels that are once fired in either a soda or reduction fired atmosphere.Click here for more information & artist gallery
DANNY MEISINGER EXHIBITION JULY 2009
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Courtney Murphy
Courtney Murphy creates modern hand-built and wheel-thrown terra cotta tableware. Her designs are influenced by simplified abstractions of nature, children's artwork, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes. She is interested in the personal connection that these objects help to create with others and their daily routines and rituals. -
Farraday Newsome
Farraday Newsome works within the format of the vessel exploring ideas of lushness, sadness, time, and grace. Her surfaces are highly embellished, and depict her interest in painterly space with the actual space of the three-dimensional piece. She glazes fields of natural and artificial objects that have a personal symbolic meaning. These are generally familiar objects, such as watches, fruit, dice, shells, seedpods, eyeglasses, bones and insects. -
Connie Norman
Connie Norman’s work deals with inner dialogue, words, phrases, and “parts of conversations that are often inspired by stories from her life, memories, or things overheard, that are repeated again and again. She is fascinated by the rhythmic qualities created by color, texture, and patterns. The application of text to her pieces enhances both the surface texture and the message itself. -
Jim and Shirl Parmentier
The Parmentier’s style celebrates the ceramic form. Carved patterns in the clay surface are highlighted as the glaze flows and emphasizes the patterns. -
Lisa Pedolsky
Lisa Pedolsky’s handbuilt functional forms move beyond strict utility. They are also vessels that hold personal references where a myriad of experiences and ideas reside, establishing context and giving meaning to her work.Click here for more information & artist gallery
Lisa Pedolsky, 2011
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Doug Peltzman
Doug Peltzman’s ceramics are a balance between a dynamic decorated surface and an inviting form. Creating utilitarian objects with layered and active surfaces is an outlet for the artist’s playful yet structured investigation. -
Donna Polseno
Donna Polseno’s functional ceramics are the result of a long and multi-facetted personal history of object making She has followed a reasonably linear, but somewhat meandering path of making functional pottery, abstract vessels, figurative sculpture, figurative sculptures holding classical pottery forms and returning again to functional pottery.Click here for more information & artist gallery
Donna Polseno November 2010
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Margaret Realica
Margaret Realica works with mixed media such as plexiglass, wire, brass fittings, and combining these diverse parts with ceramic forms that reference teapots. She also creates elegant small vessels with lustrous glazed surfaces.Click here for more information & artist gallery
MARGARET REALICA APRIL 2010
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Jeff Reich
Jeff Reich’s ceramic sculptures integrates abstract expressionist influences with contemporary desert landscapes. Angled, sectioned and recombined forms of teapots, jars, wall tiles, and sculptural vessels are influenced by the growth patterns found in desert plants, rocks and mountains. -
Jerry Rhodes
Jerry Rhodes ceramic vessels are Raku or saggar fired. They combine seemingly disparate elements drawn from a global, temporal, and cultural palate to form a composition. -
Peter Saenger
Peter Saenger designs ceramic objects and creates innovative solutions. His design goals have always been to create objects that are exciting to see, touch, or use. He makes objects that are dynamic and in motion, lively and fun.Click here for more information & artist gallery
PETER SAENGER EXHIBITION MARCH 2009
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Bill Sanders
Bill Sanders artistic style incorporates a distinct mix of his Pacific influences and upbringing with his own evolving interests inspired by his travels. -
Junya Shao
Junya Shao’s Yixing teapots are contemporary ideas about beauty and form, reflecting a strong foundation in exquisite craftsmanship and careful attention to detail and design. She often combines contemporary imagery as a source for a piece, yet remains respectful of Yixing history. While her work is deeply steeped in the Yixing tradition, her thoughtful exploration of contemporary imagery and design is truly unique. -
Janey Skeer
Skeer works in both ceramics and metal. Her work focuses on the relationships of edges, shapes, and spaces. -
Kevin Snipes
Kevin Snipes’ narrative porcelain constructions deal with the concept of duality. His pieces use written text in the form of cartoon-like word bubbles, or notation-like scribbling to give the viewer clues into the unfolding stories.Click here for more information & artist gallery
KEVIN SNIPES NOVEMBER 2009
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Karen Swyler
Karen Swyler’s elegant porcelain are both understated and eloquent. While they may reference the vessel, their altering and pairing speak volumes about relationships.Click here for more information & artist gallery
KAREN SWYLER MARCH 2010
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Shalene Valenzuela
Shalene’s ceramic work consists of quirky pieces that reflect upon a variety of issues with a thoughtful, yet humorous and ironic tone. Her narrative style explores topics ranging from fairytales, urban mythologies, consumer culture, societal expectations, etiquette, and coming-of-age issues.Click here for more information & artist gallery
Shalene Valenzuela February 2011
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Rita Vali
The majority of Rita Vali’s work is contemporary ceramic tableware. She combines modern forms having a minimalistic aesthetic with a surface decoration of graphic patterns and text. -
Eric Van Eimeren
Eric Van Eimeren enjoys the challenge of finding innovative solutions to the centuries old problems regarding functional ceramics. The idea that form follows function rings true him, however; He believes that function can, at times, be persuaded to follow sculptural form, creating an interesting dialogue between utility and sculpture. -
Tacha Vosburgh
This is portrait of Luigi, a Sonoran Iguana, is representative of Vosburgh’s Lizard Series. Luigi is a wonderful model. He is affordable and talented. For just a few greens a day he is able to hold a pose for hours. The skin texture of the lizards is created by a unique glaze airbrushed over an underglaze. Each piece is fired individually for accurate even heat to achieve the desired texture. -
Michael Wisner
For Michael Wisner, the creative process as a collaboration between the raw materials found in nature and the artist. His ceramic work investigates form and pattern using texture as the design element, and is fascinated with simple gestural shapes and how pattern evolves as it moves over the pottery surface. -