Donna Polseno's current work is the result of a long and multi-faceted personal history of object making. Polseno has followed a reasonably linear, but somewhat meandering path of making functional pottery, abstract vessels, figurative sculpture, figurative sculptures holding classical pottery forms, to the making of functional pottery again. Her sculptural work of the female figure represents the metaphor of the human form as vessel. These highly seductive figures relate to us symbolically, narratively, and emotionally.

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Donna Polseno November 2010

Burkett’s ceramics are contemporary interpretations of common pottery forms such as teapots, covered jars, and pouring vessels. Burkett is perhaps best recognized for his prolific output of cups, each one having a unique shape, a different glaze, and individual decoration. Burkett is fascinated by the sense of intimate touch that happens when one holds a piece of small scale ceramic work such as a cup. Burkett’s gear series is his most recent effort to balance the mechanical with the personal, and the impersonal with the poetical. In past exhibitions, his cups have been assembled into a display covering the entire length of a gallery wall, making a small personal object such as a cup into a formidable presentation.

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Richard Burkett October 2010

I believe that art making and the appreciation of art are profoundly important activities. As our society becomes increasingly inundated with technology, I believe that the beautiful handmade object will gain in value -intrinsic and economic- and importance. As life becomes more complex, art will continue to serve as an essential, visceral and therapeutic connection to the wonder of our humanity.

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MARKO FIELDS AUGUST 2010

Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind. Jennifer Allen's work fulfills these tendencies by being attractive, useful, comfortable and memorable. Whether it is a vase that demands flowers or pots that enrich mealtime, her work is ultimately made to honor and commemorate the rhythms of home.

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JENNIFER ALLEN JUNE/JULY 2010

Hayne Bayless' work is playful, yet he also pushes the concept of the sculptural vessel into a different, unconventional and totally satisfying new direction. Plinth Gallery will host a solo show of his work in May, 2010.

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HAYNE BAYLESS MAY 2010

Margaret Realica's work is a conceptual commentary on environmental issues, as well as a transcendent of the container and her "T" series. Both are derived from a collection of images and thoughts from places and events. The porcelain is wheel thrown, altered, and high fired. Some pieces are airbrushed with metallic lustres. The mixed media includes acrylic blocks, photos and drawings embedded as transparencies, gears, found objects, machinery, and electrical parts

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MARGARET REALICA APRIL 2010

Karen Swyler’s elegant porcelain are both understated and eloquent. While they may reference the vessel, their altering and pairing speak volumes about relationships.

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KAREN SWYLER MARCH 2010

The voluptuousness of Erin Furimsky’s work is readily apparent. There is a familiarity of both form and surface that is at first, perhaps easily recognizable. But upon further investigation, what we see is only an abstraction.

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ERIN FURIMSKY FEBRUARY 2010

As an artist, and as a member of a historically marginalized group, I find that I tend toward non-tribalism. Rather than creating art that speaks of love or victimization of African Americans, I speak of the problems underlying the recognition of difference.

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KEVIN SNIPES NOVEMBER 2009

Humorous, slightly irreverent, and yes, iconoclastic, Russell Wrankel's ceramic sculpture offers a wonderful diversion from our current occupation with politics, the economy, and other serious aspects of our daily lives.

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RUSSELL WRANKLE EXHIBITION OCTOBER 2009

Conner Burns occupies a unique position in American Studio Ceramics. His work while completely functional defies our preconception of what a functional form is. His fluid shapes, surfaced with a simple ash glaze, embellish our daily rituals of food preparation and consumption. His work is both unassuming and non-pretentious.

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CONNER BURNS EXHIBITION AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2009

To say that Danny Meisinger's ceramic work is large, is really an understatement. His approach to vessel making occupies quite a pivotal place in the current American Ceramic lexicon by his skillful manipulation of clay, sensitivity towards the tribulations of such large scale work coupled with surfaces that embellish rather than distract.

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DANNY MEISINGER EXHIBITION JULY 2009

Dan Anderson's contemporary iconography either in both form or image provides a humorous and insightful approach to ceramic vessel making. Use of ceramic stains, glazes, decals, under-glazes and sandblasting the surface on traditional wood fired surfaces lends that unique counterpoint to both old and new tradition to his work. Dan's hand-built and wheel thrown constructions as in "Purina Chows" provides a new and fresh interpretation to the very stayed teaset/tea ceremony.

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DAN ANDERSON EXHIBITION MAY 2009

Suzanne Kane constructs hinged ceramic boxes that mimic books and open to reveal the niches, filled with odds and ends.

"Tactility us central to my work. I pursue themes regarding the sense of physical touch by exploiting surfaces and textures, as well as integrating a potential for manipulation or movement into my pieces. This physicality helps me connect with the subliminal through symbol and metaphor."

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AMANDA JAFFE/SUZANNE KANE EXHIBITION APRIL 2009

Amanda Jaffe and Suzanne Kane will share the Plinth Gallery April 2009 exhibition. Both ceramic artists vivid use of layers of color in glaze and under-glaze to exploit the textural context of their work. The high gloss finishes of Jaffe's constructed tiles and the hewn qualities of Kane's ceramic stained surfaces are wonderful juxtapositions.

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AMANDA JAFFE/SUZANNE KANE EXHIBITION APRIL 2009

Peter Saenger's elegant high fired porcelain forms are both sensuous and voluptuous. His interest in puzzles and interlocking forms has enabled him to exploit the slip casting process as a master mold and model maker. Saenger is one of a few ceramic artists working today who bridges that gap as a designer and studio potter.

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PETER SAENGER EXHIBITION MARCH 2009

Ryan Mitchell's visceral ceramic sculpture continues in an abstract expressionist tradition with it's genesis by Peter Volkous. His constructions explore the relationship between material, process, construction and deconstruction.

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Ryan Mitchell Exhibition November/December 2008 "Beautific Conundrum 3"

Tom Turner is widely respected as a potter for his lush glazes and skillful manipulation of porcelain. He is often referred to as a master potter by colleagues. Widely anthologized and highly collected, His work sets a standard for American studio pottery.

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Tom Turner October 2008 Exhibition "Porcelain Vessels"

Jerry Berta purchased the original "Rosie's Diner" and moved it to his hometown of Rockford Michigan where he reopened it as a working diner. It served as an influence for his ceramic and neon diner pieces. His diners and teapots have been widely anthologized.

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Berta/Kaczymarczyk Exhibition September 2008 "Recent Ceramic Work"

Madeline Kaczmarczyk hand-builds elegant vessel forms and decorates them with multiple layers of airbrushed glaze and underglaze. Her recent work combines hand beaded surfaces on figurative forms.

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Berta/Kaczymarczyk Exhibition September 2008 "Recent Ceramic Work"

After a meteoric career as a production potter, Tacha Vosburgh returned to her love of sculpting animals and the human figure in clay.

"My figures are like a myth, a story that never happened, but is always happening. They are portraits of no one in particular, but of everyone. I am reaching for that strange, but somehow familiar place that we long to connect with, that place of grounding that we know about if we just take the time to remember."

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Exhibition July/August 2008 "Dreaming and Reflecting"

Merry Cox skillfully hand-builds ceramic forms and embellishes them with masterful drawings and paintings in under-glaze pigment. Her work is cutting edge commentary on our culture's obsession with accumulation, waste, and the hunger for more at the expense of content and substance.

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Merry Cox Exhibition June 2008 "Subdivide and Conquer"

Jonathan Kaplan is a well known and visible presence in contemporary American ceramics. His new work of large vessels combine hand thrown and slip cast elements. Again, he utilizes industrial fasteners, fittings, and machined steel creating "plinths" for these monumental forms.

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Jonathan Kaplan Exhibition April 2008