Artist Panel: A Form of Reverence

A Form of Reverence

Artist Panel Discussion with Anders Hamilton and Anna Mayer
Led by Derek Weisberg (curator)

Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view May 7 – June 20, 2026

Join us on Thursday, May 7 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. for an artist panel discussion with Anders Hamilton and Anna Mayer led by Derek Weisberg, curator of A Form of Reverence.

Artist Talks at Greenwich House Pottery are generously supported by the Windgate Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Robert and Beatrice Hompe Foundation, Maxwell / Hanrahan Foundation, and the Richard Schwarzkopf Memorial Fund. 

Additional support for Artist Talks is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 

There is no fee for cancellation, however please notify us if you will not be able to attend so that we can give your seat to someone on the waiting list.

Join us for the opening reception of A Form of Reverence in our Jane Hartsook Gallery after the conversation.

Artist Bios

Anders Hamilton (b. 1992, Everett, WA) was raised in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His obelisk sculptures are composed of a variety of materials including ceramics, glaze containing rare earth elements, wood, found twigs, leaves and flowers. Hamilton received his BFA from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) in 2015. His work has recently been shown at Alexander Gray Associates (Germantown, NY), Giovanni’s Room (Los Angeles, CA), Mother Gallery (Manhattan, NY), and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT). He has worked in the ceramics field as an educator, fabricator, and currently as a Studio Director for BKLYN CLAY.

Anna Mayer uses ceramics—dirt that becomes stone-like once heated—to respond to colonial legacies within land use, archaeology, and 1960s-70s Land Art. Through ceramics projects that enact various kinds of burial and recovery, she points to extractive and exploitative human behaviors towards the land. Mayer’s various materials include human-made artifacts, soft and hard sediments, and complex psychological states. With these she explores various ways to access and imagine what is unacknowledged. Solo exhibitions include the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2021) and the Jung Center (Houston, 2022), as well as A-B Projects, AWHRHWAR, and Adjunct Positions, all in Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include Artpace (TX), Moody Center for the Arts (TX), Blaffer Art Museum (TX), Ballroom Marfa (TX), California Museum of Photography, Glasgow International (UK), and Catherine Bastide Gallery (BE). She is a 2023-24 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and a 2024 Houston Artadia Awardee. She is part of the 2024-25 Galveston Artist Residency. Mayer is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts.

For over 20 years Derek Weisberg has given visual form to the fragility of man, the vulnerability of the human condition and his personal reconciliation with loss through Expressionist figurative sculptures. Through his searching, questioning and resolute art making Weisberg has arrived at a place where his work now concentrates not on death, but on life. His practice is focused on sculptures which encourage contemplation and introspective actions infused with kavanah defined as “intention of the heart,” in the Jewish tradition.

Recent solo exhibitions include Trotter & Sholer in New York City, Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco and Paris’ Lefebvre et Fils as well as a two person show with Nana Kuromiya at ATLA, in Los Angeles, and a two person show with Alice Mackler at Kerry Schuss Gallery in New York. Weisberg has also been selected for residencies including the Sharpe Walentas Studio in Brooklyn, the Residency Program in Versailles, France, Ceramica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico and most recently Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul. His work is held in collections worldwide including The Bunker in West Palm Beach, Ceramica Suro in Guadalajara, the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California and the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

Weisberg was born in 1983 and received a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts. He currently teaches at Greenwich House Pottery and Columbia Teachers College and lives and works in Queens, NY.