Greenwich House

Ceramics Now 2017
2017-07-21 17:00 - 2017-08-18 18:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Ghada Amer, Study for a Black Sculpture On a Blue Base, glazed ceramic, 7 3/8 x 2 ½ x 5 ¼ in. 18.7 x 6.4 x 13.3 cm., 2017. Photo: courtesy of Greenwich House Pottery. Photographer: Alan Wiener.
Ceramics Now
Ghada Amer, Judy Hoffman, Alice Mackler, Ellen Robinson
Opening Reception | July 21, 2017 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through August 18, 2017
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present work by Ghada Amer, Judy Hoffman, Alice Mackler and Ellen Robinson exhibiting their research as Artist-in-Residence at Greenwich House Pottery. The residency at GHP is a distinguished program offering artists an environment to explore and generate new bodies of work in ceramics.
Ghada Amer returned this year to complete her second residency at GHP, spending rigorous hours in the studio and developing a tactile expertise with clay. Using this knowledge, she generated a body of ceramic sculptures, both large-scale paintings and miniatures, thoroughly investigating the marriage between the sensual nature of clay and her message of female empowerment. She continues to cultivate this theme further, bridging the span between her painting and ceramic work.
Ghada Amer is an American artist, born in Egypt, living and working in New York City. Amer received her MFA in the arts at Villa Arson in Nice, France. She has held solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal; and the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome among others. Ghada Amer is represented by Cheim & Read in America, Kukje in South Korea and Goodman Gallery in South Africa.
With a studio practice that reflects the characteristics of her work, Judy Hoffman took full reign in experimenting with new forms, parts and surfaces, creating a database of urban, organic sculptures. Hoffman meticulously organized shapes and surfaces from this playful chaos. Her sculptures are constructed by assembling these individual parts. Hoffman utilized the residency as a place to focus and reflect, dedicating time to technical problem solving and conceptual evolution. As a result, her work presents a dream of playful environments that are other-worldly, lively, biological and urban.
Judy Hoffman is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Hoffman attended the New York Studio School and received her BA from Grinnell College in Iowa. She is a recipient of grants from the Women’s Studio Workshop and the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her work has been included in Sculpture Magazine and the New York Times. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions including the Museum Frauenkultur, in Fürth,Germany and Bric House in New York, NY.
During her residency, Alice Mackler created female figures vibrant in color and grotesque in texture. Mackler immersed herself in the work, connecting instinctually with the tactility of the material. Her background in painting informs her eye for color and source of expression. The residency provided her with the opportunity to further develop eccentric forms and radiating surfaces. Experimenting with scale, Mackler challenged herself to move beyond her 12 inch tall figures, doubling their size. Mackler continues to allure viewers with the quizzical nature of her ruby-lipped females, communicating a body language that is their own.
Alice Mackler is an American artist born in 1931 in New York and received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Mackler has exhibited in the group exhibitions Unorthadox at The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, The Avant-Garde Won’t give Up: Cobra and its Legacy, at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA and Gardens of the Pure at MOCA Tucson. She has also held solo exhibitions at the Independent Art Fair and Kerry Schuss Gallery in New York, NY, 2017. Alice Mackler’s work will be included in the upcoming book from Phaidon, Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art.
Ellen Robinson’s residency served as a place of quiet contemplation for textural assemblages and soft surfaces. Her invented constructions, at first glance, pass as organic natural forms, but further looking reveals these forms as abstractions of those ideas. Yet, Robinson transforms these associations into objects full of dichotomies and contrasting impressions. The work invites either a quiet or intense response through her use of monochromatic tones and whimsical arrangement. During the residency, Robinson was able to explore a variety of surface treatments and assemblage choices, working through new forms and ideas.
Ellen Robinson is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, where she began working in ceramics. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Henry Street Settlement and has shown her work at galleries such as Alona Kagan Gallery in New York, NY, One Main Street Gallery in Buffalo, NY and Diamantina Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Déesse Terre, Ghada Amer
2017-04-06 17:00 - 2017-05-07 18:00
Installation view of Déesse Terre, 2017. Photo: courtesy of Greenwich House Pottery. Photographer: Alan Wiener.
Déesse Terre
Ghada Amer
Exhibition on view April 6 through May 17, 2017
Ghada Amer’s solo exhibition Déesse Terre was produced during an intensive three-month artist-in-residence at Greenwich House Pottery.
“There is no precedent for Ghada’s ceramics beyond her own body of work. Since the 1970’s, Figurative art has experienced a renascence in the ceramics’ sphere. Ghada’s large wall hangings are undulating curvilinear forms with raised rounded edges framing the image. These ‘ceramic paintings’ contain portraits of women made bright with color and fierce through their rugged organic forms. These pieces grew in size and formal complexity, one might say, anticipating her sculptures. The sculptural work, zigzagging freestanding slabs she developed are far more conscious of their arrangement. They reference her paintings torn from their stretchers, folded and crumpled. These brilliant and imposing slabs are viewable in the round necessitating larger figures and subsequently more developed narratives.”
Ghada Amer is an American artist, born in Egypt, living and working in New York City. Amer received her MFA in the arts at Villa Arson in Nice, France. She has been featured in many major exhibitions worldwide with solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal; and the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome among others. She was included in major group exhibitions at Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea; and the Museum of Modern Art New York, and PS1. Amer has also exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale and the Whitney Biennale. Amer’s works are part of major public collections such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit Institute of Art; Mathaf, Doha; Samsung Museum, South Korea; and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Ghada Amer is represented by Cheim & Read in America, Kukje in South Korea and Goodman Gallery in South Africa.

Future Archaeology, Bryan Czibesz and Shawn Spangler
2017-02-17 17:00 - 2017-03-17 18:00
Installation view, Future Archaeology, 2017. Photo: courtesy of Greenwich House Pottery. Photographer: Alan Wiener.
Future Archeology
Bryan Czibesz and Shawn Spangler
February 17 – March 17, 2017
Future Archaeology is a collaborative two person exhibition with Bryan Czibesz and Shawn Spangler. Together, they assemble human and machine-made vessels by utilizing the potter’s wheel and a custom 3D printer. Czibesz and Spangler draw inspiration from archaeological vessels. They reinvestigate these forms with their own wheel or 3D printer as a way of integrating objects into a new context. The aesthetics of Czibesz and Spangler’s work echo their creative methods and tools for production – altogether presenting fluidity, geometry and precision.
Both the potter’s wheel and ceramics 3D printer function as fresh tools of invention, bringing undiscovered opportunities for the material. For Czibesz and Spangler, their tools become an extension of themselves. Czibesz fabricates and customizes his 3D printer, instructing the machine how to mold the clay with digital scans, designs and alterations. Spangler uses the potter’s wheel as an efficient, tangible method for forming vessels. His manipulation of the material leaves impressions on the clay. With this unification of two contrasting tools, Czibesz and Spangler demonstrate the intersection between past human activities and cultural materials of the future. Spangler states “we bestow these objects with the power to narrate our experience…” guiding us to locate “where we once were and where we are going.” Together, they question authorship, explore artifacts and present us with dazzling emblems of this process.
Bryan Czibesz earned his MFA from San Diego State University and has shown his work at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the Riga Porcelain Museum and the Ceramics Annual at Scripps College. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at The International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary, c.r.e.t.a. Rome, the Clay Studio in Philadelphia and the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He is currently Assistant Professor of Art in Ceramics at SUNY New Paltz.
Shawn Spangler holds an MFA degree from Alfred University in NY and has been an Artist-in-Residence in Jingdezhen, China, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts and the Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Spangler is a founding member of the artist collective, Objective Clay and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Hawaii.
Czibesz and Spangler have previously collaborated for exhibitions at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design in Ashville, NC and the United States Department of State in Karor, Palau.

Saddle Up, Dorodango, Anika Schwarzwald and Samuel Stewart-Halevy
2016-10-07 - 2016-11-04
Saddle Up, Dorodango
Anika Schwarzwald and Samuel Stewart-Halevy
Opening Reception | October 7, 2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through November 5, 2016
Anika Schwarzwald and Samuel Stewart-Halevy are architects who have long been fascinated by the materials and procedures of ceramic work. In Saddle up, Dorodango, they have tracked the sediments of the earth’s crust into the specialized and highly technical realm of industrial ceramics. Here they have discovered previously unimaginable forms and functions and an expanded array of possibilities for a material that has always been plastic in nature. They hope to understand what remains universal about clay matter once it passes into these unfamiliar states and through the global supply chains of contemporary ceramic production. Anika is a designer of cultural, educational and public building projects at Studio Gang in New York. Samuel is pursuing a doctoral degree in the history and theory of architecture at Columbia University.

Meditations on an Unending Line, Lilli Miller
2016-09-09 - 2016-09-30
Meditations on an Unending Line
Lilli Miller
September 9 – 30, 2016
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present ceramic work by Lilli Miller. Diligently working in clay since 1952, this exhibition demonstrates a lifelong, extensive practice exploring the ceramic vessel. Previously studying dance and music, Lilli Miller translates similar modes of harmony, repetition and balance towards the manipulation of clay forms. She finds a likeness between these exercises, as they all provoke a meditative practice. Her variation of size, shape and color express a search for tranquility and beauty. Working with clay at Greenwich House Pottery for over 60 years, she communicates that the place has always been a “precious haven” to her and for her work.
“As a young modern dancer, I was often preoccupied with how to achieve and extend an unbroken line moving through space. Years later, studying the cello with my remarkable teacher, Barbara Mallow, I understood that the same principle applied: how to give the musical line breath and continuity so as to achieve the deepest expressiveness.
And so, what I look for in my pots, and hope the best of them achieve, is that they grow and breathe – that their forms travel into space and their rims move like the planets, endlessly.” – Lilli Miller, 2016
Lilli Miller was born in 1921 in New York, New York. At a young age she was exposed to the arts through the University Settlement House in the Lower East Side. While studying at Brooklyn College, she received a scholarship from the New Dance Group to study the Graham Technique. Miller danced professionally with Anna Sokolow and Jean Erdman and also danced at the Yiddish Theatre on 2nd Street. In 1945 she married Joseph Miller, eventually discovering Greenwich House Pottery. Beginning on the wheel, Miller gravitated to hand-building where she continues to devote ample amounts of energy for her ceramic work today.

Ceramics Now, 2016
2016-07-14 - 2016-08-11
Installation view of Ceramics Now, 2016. Photo: courtesy of Greenwich House Pottery. Photographer: Alan Wiener.
Ceramics Now
Giselle Hicks, Margaret Lanzetta, Sheila Pepe and Halsey Rodman
July 14 – August 11, 2016

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present, Ceramics Now, a group exhibition featuring Giselle Hicks, Margaret Lanzetta, Sheila Pepe and Halsey Rodman. The art in this exhibition represents the body of work created during their short-term residencies at Greenwich House Pottery. The exhibition, bringing together these artists for the first time, examines their respective idiosyncratic approaches to the material.
The Residency and Fellowship Program is designed to support artists and their projects. At GHP we offer artists a chance to learn from clay in a direct way and to foster connections between artist, material and the larger ceramics community. Ultimately, these efforts introduce more artists to the pleasure of clay and new perspectives that ceramics uniquely provides. At the Pottery we facilitate relationships where artists can come together to work out ideas and create a new body of work through in-depth involvement in a social sphere rich in history, culture, expertise and ideas. Community and collaboration at the Pottery are cultivated through discussions between faculty, students, staff as well as immersion in the Pottery’s West Village Community. Our goal is to strengthen our relationship to communities and to nurture creative work within them.
Margaret Lanzetta, Sheila Pepe and Halsey Rodman are New York-based artists known for their art in other disciplines. Their time spent as Residents was used to familiarize them with the material and to produce a body of work that they would otherwise not be able to see through to fruition. These artists were given time, space and technical assistance to actualize their ideas. Giselle Hicks, an artist living in Helena, Montana, was this year’s Fellow. Her time in residence was used to expand upon and produce an entirely new body of work. The fellowship allowed her the time and space within New York City to work but also to be part of the diverse and vital community we have to offer.

Paul Sacaridiz
2016-04-08 - 2016-05-06
Paul Sacaridiz
Opening Reception | April 8, 2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through May 6, 2016
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York City solo exhibition debut of Paul Sacaridiz. Sacaridiz is at a place in his practice where his skills and intellect collide. Taken on their own Sacaridiz’s objects bear no resemblance or connection, but placing disparate components into close proximity his art intimates a cohesive narrative. Individually these are hermetic sculptures whose power grows in relationship to the other works, making their interest grow where otherwise only formal concern might reside.
“The problem with objects is that they can be so specific…I am interested in the collision of abstraction, urban planning and utopian systems; and the seemingly impossible task of understanding something in its entirety. My work carefully situates objects within systems that seem to imply an internal logic, but at the same time appear illusive and open-ended. Structures carefully frame out objects that appear random and chaotic alongside precise mathematical models and awkward structural forms… highly constructed, layered and insistent on being understood for what it is, rather than as placeholder for metaphor or illusion.”
—Paul Sacaridiz
Paul Sacaridiz (b.1970) lives and works in Deer Isle, Maine where is Executive Director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. As an artist his work encompasses the making of sculpture and leadership within academic and not for profit arenas. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Charles Allis Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft among others. He has been the recipient of numerous artist residencies including the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and the Arts/Industry Program at Kohler Company. He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and has served on the board of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Prior to leading Haystack he was Professor and Chair in the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Svend Bayer
2016-02-18 - 2016-03-19
Svend Bayer
Opening Reception | Friday, February 19, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exclusive Viewing and Sale | March 25 & 26, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York City solo exhibition debut of Svend Bayer. Bayer is one of the most influential potters in England, consistently making pots of enormous generosity in form and feeling. A deeply reflective potter, Bayer uses tradition as a starting point for making pottery that is deeply thoughtful and introspective. Over the last 40 years, he has refined form, glaze and fire into the extraordinary. This exhibition marks the first time a large collection of his works will be on view to a United States audience.
“I think a good pot, it has to reveal something about the maker. What you find in it is actually not so different than you would hope to find in another person. You would hope to find sort of life and a kind of response – it’s a rightness. I think it is important that you would want to touch it, to hold it. I used to think that there had to be evidence of good craftsmanship. I’m not sure about that anymore; in fact I don’t think it really matters. I think that craftsmanship is simply a tool which enables you to express yourself.”—Svend Bayer
Svend Bayer was born in 1946 in Uganda to Danish parents. He attended Exeter University, was a pupil of Michael Cardew, and worked as a thrower at Brannam’s Pottery. In the 1970’s Svend established his own pottery facility at Sheepwash in Devon with kilns based on structures he encountered during his year-long travels in Japan, South Korea, and South East Asia. The site was chosen for the proximity to the North Devon ball clay mines and sawmills. Since 2000 he has had solo exhibitions at Harlequin Gallery, Beardsmore, Rufford Ceramics Centre, North Cornwall Gallery, University of Utah, Northern Clay Center, Sturt Gallery, Gallery Lykke, Slader’s Yard, Goldmark Gallery, and the Craft Potter’s Association, London.
In conjunction with his exhibition, Svend Bayer will be conducting a one-day demonstration workshop at the Pottery, Saturday, February 20, 2016 from 10:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m.

More Possibilities for Distance and Mass, Mathew McConnell
2016-01-08 - 2016-02-05
More Possibilities for Distance and Mass
Mathew McConnell
Opening Reception | Friday, January 8th, 2016 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through February 5, 2016
One-Day Workshop | Friday, February 5, 2016 | 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York City solo exhibition debut of Mathew McConnell. An Arkansas-based artist, McConnell is a provocateur, engaging a dialogue of appropriation, originality and authenticity almost entirely outside the purview of the ceramics sphere. A cerebral artist, McConnell’s approach to art is analytical and pragmatic using others art as a catalyst for his own.
“My current investigations are based on the works of other visual artists. Often using a singular form or image as a starting point, I recreate the work with alterations to suit my own compositional needs. The resulting forms vary between what could be mistaken as a facsimile of another artist’s work and an artwork with a source seemingly outside any individual reference.
In the construction of these replicant objects, I sometimes find myself trying to pinpoint the exact moment at which the work becomes more mine than theirs. Sometimes this moment occurs in the mere selection of a form, and at other times it does not occur at all. By careful construction of these simulated, manipulated, exalted, and subverted forms, I find, at the best of times, a means of reconciling the difference between what is an art of someone else’s and what is an art of my own.” – Mathew McConnell
Mathew McConnell (b. 1979, Johnstown, PA) holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a BFA from Valdosta State University in Georgia. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and his works have been included in group exhibitions in China, Australia, New Zealand, and in many venues across the United States. In 2012, Mathew was granted an “Emerging Artist” award from the National Council on Education in Ceramic Art. He has also been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and was Artist in Residence and Guest Lecturer of Contemporary Craft at Unitec in Auckland, New Zealand. His work was recently the subject of a profile in the publication Ceramics: Art and Perception. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, where he oversees the ceramics area.

Naomi Cleary & Perry Haas
2015-11-21 - 2015-12-18
Naomi Cleary & Perry Haas
Opening Reception | Friday, November 21, 2015 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through December 18, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the two-person Exhibition of Naomi Cleary & Perry Haas. This exhibition highlights the eclecticism prevalent within the field of contemporary ceramics.
Cleary uses the industrial process of mold making and casting to create replicas of existing objects. Repeating form time and again. Cleary’s expression comes through her drawing and layering of the surfaces, creating colorful abstract patterns and recognizable imagery. Her drawings unfold on the interior and exterior of the porcelain forms.
Haas creates one-off forms on the potter’s wheel. Each piece documents the subtleties of its making. Furthering this Haas uses wood firing that leaves the flame, ash and time to develop the ceramic surface. While Haas has shown himself to be knowledgeable of the firing process, there is still a fair amount of chance as to how each piece will evolve in the kiln. Their separate approach to pottery comes from seemingly irreconcilable positions, but oddly the pairing opens a space to consider their similarities.
Naomi received a BFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA in 2002 and an MFA in 2007 from The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, returning to Philadelphia in early 2008. Currently, she is the Associate Director of Retail and Marketing at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia.
Perry has held residences in Missoula, Montana and in Guldagergaar, Denmark. He has been awarded the Young Wood Fire Artist Award of 2014 at the European Wood Fire Conference. Currently Perry is a resident at The Archie Bray Foundation, in Helena Montana.

A part of, a parting, Eun-Ha Paek
2015-10-09 - 2015-11-06
A part of, a parting
Eun-Ha Paek
Opening Reception | Friday, October 9, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through November 6, 2015
Artist Talk | Thursday, November 5, 2015 | 3:00 p.m.
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the Solo Exhibition of Eun-Ha Paek. Eun-Ha harnesses humor through juxtaposing the familiar and the bizarre. Her works have a startling playfulness in spite of their preciousness. She is a visionary artist whose intimate sculptures elicit the uncanny.
“The same way a boulder on a hill stores potential energy, a banana peel on the floor is the setup to a joke, storing potential “ha-has”. The setup might cause a smirk, without any real action taking place. My work uses this potential to construct narratives on the precipice of the familiar and strange; to explore our inner workings of grief and hope with humor.” – Eun-Ha Paek
Eun-Ha Paek born in Seoul, Korea and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her animated films have screened in the Guggenheim Museum, Sundance Film Festival and venues internationally. Grants and awards include a Travel and Study Grant from The Jerome Foundation (2008) and the Anna Siok Award from Greenwich House Pottery (2014). Her work has received mentions in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and G4 Tech TV. She has been a guest lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology and a visiting critic at Maryland Institute College of Art.

GHP Faculty and Staff Exhibition 2015
2015-09-11 - 2015-10-02
GHP Faculty and Staff Exhibition
Opening Reception | Friday, September 18, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view September 11 through October 2, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition showcasing the ceramic works of current Greenwich House Pottery faculty and staff. Approaching the ceramic medium from a wide range of sources and personal backgrounds, this collection is as varied and dynamic as its contributors.
Established educators in the arts, designers, and working artists, our instructors have been involved in numerous public works projects as well as residencies at Kohler, The Clay Studio, Archie Bray, Hunter College, and The Museum of Art & Design. Alma maters include Cranbrook, Yale, RISD, Pratt Institute, California College of the Arts, Alfred University and Emily Carr College of Art & Design.
GHP faculty and staff have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad including the Whitney Museum, Museum of Art & Design, Guggenheim, Smithsonian Institute, Museum of Modern Art , Victoria Albert Museum, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the NCECA Biennial.

No Truth, No Lies, Andrea Clark
2015-07-09 - 2015-08-07
No Truth, No Lies
Andrea Clark
Opening Reception | Thursday, July 9, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through August 7, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the recent works of Andrea Clark in her New York City solo exhibition debut. An artist originally from Kentucky, Andrea was selected by a three person panel to participate in Greenwich House Pottery’s ten month resident artist program. This exhibition showcases the work that she has produced during her time here. It highlights her delicate, varied ceramic experimentations in form, color, texture, and light. Over her tenure at GHP Andrea sourced materials and experimented with scale, surface, and technique to create some truly unexpected pieces.
“My current work concentrates on constructing objects out of folded paper painted with porcelain. Through this intricate process of making, I re-familiarize myself with the object. By reducing it to a permanent, solid, material form I seek to release the object’s immaterial essence. I perceive the end of my time at Greenwich House Pottery as the beginning of my experimentation with the essence of objects.” –Andrea Clark
Andrea Clark (b. 1990) received her BFA from the University of Kentucky in 2013. Clark has exhibited in Seattle, Cincinnati, Michigan, Kentucky, and the Netherlands.

GHP Artists Exhibition 2015
2015-05-21 - 2015-06-12
GHP Artists Exhibition 2015
Opening Reception | Thursday, May 21, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through June 12, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the Annual Greenwich House Pottery Artists Exhibition. Each Spring we honor and celebrate the hundreds of talented individuals who sign up for class, prolifically make work, and bring vitality to our tight-knit clay community. The works on display are carefully selected by each artist, and represent their most successful piece or own personal favorite. A ceramic showcase this vibrant, varied, and vast cannot be found often!
“Being of ‘ancient vintage,’ I have a long corridor of memories to draw from. Since Jane Hartsook, I’ve experienced so many different directors, teachers, studio managers, assistants, and students. Within this stream, what has remained a constant is the essence of a warm and encouraging community. I’ve witnessed a stimulating exchange of ideas, the richness of diverse backgrounds and lives – all with the common denominator of an intense and passionate focus on clay.
The yearly exhibition of work done by the students has retained a vitality and scope of imagination that has been a source of great pleasure. The sheer trajectory of the work has been stimulating and impressive.
Working with clay these many years allowed me to bring along my involvement in the dance and music worlds. From each of these practices, I drew upon my intense interest in the reach and breath of a ‘line.’ This was not conscious, but a realization that came with the immersion in doing. I’m eternally grateful that I still have the strong desire to work with clay, and that Greenwich House Pottery exists where I and so many others have found a precious haven.”
– Lillian Miller 2015 – GHP Member

Matter of Time (affection, affliction), Jeremy Hatch
2015-04-10 - 2015-05-08
Matter of Time (affection, affliction)
Jeremy Hatch
Opening Reception | Friday, April 10, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through May 8, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York solo exhibition debut of Jeremy Hatch. Hatch, an artist based in Montana, has done the unimaginable – cast a chain link fence. In this large-scale installation Hatch has reimagined the space into a porcelain virtuosic performance bisecting the gallery space with the fence weighted down with locks. During the exhibition, visitors will be able to add their own locks to the fence.
“‘Matter of Time’ (affection affliction) builds upon my use of the physical and psychological properties of porcelain as a means to explore themes of memory, relationships, nostalgia and failure. The installation consists of a cast porcelain chain-link fence running the length of the gallery and relies on viewer participation in order to complete the work. From a library of plaster molds, gallery visitors are invited to cast a lock, inscribe it, and attach it to the ceramic chain-link panels. At the conclusion of the exhibition, the fence and amassed locks will be fired, fusing the objects together, serving as a permanent record of the event.
Over the past decade the ritual of attaching ‘love locks’ to public bridges, fences, gates and other urban structures has become an international phenomenon. My interest lies in the inherent contradictions contained within this seemingly innocuous romantic gesture. The custom can also be seen as a form of destructive vandalism. Just as sections of historic bridges are collapsing under the weight of accumulated locks, my porcelain replica risks a similar fate. Rather than struggling to maintain a sense of security, it embraces the potential for failure and the realization that vulnerability is fundamental.”—Jeremy Hatch
Jeremy Hatch is currently Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Montana State University and founder of Ricochet Studio, a design lab that explores the intersections of art/craft/design by collaborating with artists from various disciplines. Hatch’s studio practice employs a variety of techniques and concepts linked to ceramics, from vessel-based sculpture to large-scale porcelain installations, digital and architectural applications. He has attended a number of international residencies including the Takumi Studio in Japan, the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands, and Kohler’s Arts/Industry program in Wisconsin. Since 2003 he has led numerous courses and workshops that focus on industrial processes for ceramics: design and prototype production, mold-making, and slip casting.

Ghada Amer, Trisha Baga, Robin Cameron, Joanne Greenbaum, Pam Lins, Alice Mackler and David Salle Exhibition
2015-02-27 - 2015-03-27
Ghada Amer, Trisha Baga, Robin Cameron, Joanne Greenbaum,
Pam Lins, Alice Mackler and David Salle
February 27 – March 27, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition bringing together for the first time the ceramics of New York City artists Ghada Amer, Trisha Baga, Robin Cameron, Joanne Greenbaum, Pam Lins, Alice Mackler and David Salle, into one exhibition. These artists highlight the artworld having found expression in clay – encapsulating the mood of the contemporary scene. All of these artists work out of the studios at Greenwich House Pottery, through class, a clandestine ceramics club or our residency program. Though the Pottery might be the thread binding these artists together there is a commonality in their expressive approach to material manipulation and a profound intrigue for color.
Figuration, abstraction, neo-expressionism and the postmodern are all represented in this exhibition. Each artist approaches the material with similar motivation, to exploit clay’s potential – bending the material to their will. Salle explores and his work documents the physicality of the material, pushing, pulling, pinching and tearing at the forms while Mackler uses the material as an expression of her inner impulse. The pure abstractions of Greenbaum are in-between, neither representative but not completely without grounding. Baga and Lins recreate actual objects, or in Baga’s case, persons. Their approach to the material expresses a real joy in exploration and creation. Cameron, whose work vacillates between the figure and the vessel, recycles the old to breathe life into the new. Amer’s works are representations of the figure in her case, the woman. Amer works within the tradition of functional forms made with vivid porcelain coloration. Regardless of the artist, color is a central theme among their works, that and an unbounded enthusiasm for material potential.
The groundswell of interest in ceramics now taking place is unprecedented and New York City is the epicenter. In addition to the numerous gallery and museum exhibitions around the city, our studios are filled with artists looking to expand their practice. These artists are exploiting clay’s expressive potential and have found a welcoming home in our studios. Whether making work for an upcoming solo exhibition in their respective gallery, or developing ideas for the Whitney Biennial, their activity has added to the culture, community and undoubtedly to the discourse of the field. At present this work is largely neoexpressionist and at odds with conceptual art, though not to imply that it is without meaning. It is raw, unmediated, irreverent and reverential. This art turns away from conceptualism to look inward, with the focus on itself and the medium.
GHADA AMER
(b. 1963, Cairo, Egypt) and emigrated at age 11 to France where she began her artistic training at Villa Arson in Nice. She lives and works in New York City, where she is represented by Cheim & Read Gallery and has had her work presented in numerous solo and group local exhibitions at Cheim & Read, Deitch Projects, the Whitney Biennial and the Brooklyn Museum of Art among several others. Internationally, she has shown her work widely, including at Biennales in Venice and Sydney.
TRISHA BAGA

(b. 1985, Venice, Florida) is an artist living and working in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at Vilma Gold Gallery in London, and the Kunstverein Munich, and has shown her work at Greene Naftali Gallery, EAI, PS1, Johann Koenig Gallery, Performa09, The Housatonic Museum, LAXART, and El Centro Cultural Montehermoso.
ROBIN CAMERON

(b.1981, British Columbia, Canada) is an artist based in New York, who is known for her books, prints and zines. In addition to a solo exhibition at Art Metropole in Toronto, her publications are available at Printed Matter and have been shown at the New Museum’s Resource Center. A comprehensive selection of her publications is held in the Library of the Museum of Modern Art.
JOANNE GREENBAUM

(b.1953 New York City) lives and works in NYC and Berlin. Her work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. She has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, and Hyperallergic. Her awards include the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 2014, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pollock Krasner Grant, and the NYFA Fellowship in Painting. She is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, greengrassi in London, Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, IL, Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art in Switzerland, Galerie Crone in Berlin, Germany, and Van Horn in Dusseldorf, Germany.
PAM LINS
(b. Chicago, Illinois) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Lins teaches at the Copper Union School of Art, Princeton University, and is on the faculty of Bard’s MFA program. Lins is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery, NY. Lins has shown in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Tang Museum of Art and CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art. Lins has received numerous awards including a Radcliffe Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies Harvard (2013), The Guggenheim Foundation (2008), the Howard Foundation Award in Visual Arts from Brown University (2007), and the Pollack/Krasner Foundation (1998). Lins has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Bomb Magazine, the New Yorker, and ArtForum.
ALICE MACKLER

(b. 1931, New York City) Mackler’s work was singled-out in reviews by Roberta Smith in the New York Times and Andrew Russeth in the New York Observer. Alice Mackler was also included in an article titled, “6 Artists Who Made It Big After Turning 70” by Julia Halperin in Blouin Art Info March 23, 2013. In 2013, she had her first solo exhibition at Kerry Schuss. She studied at the Arts Students League and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
DAVID SALLE

(b. 1952, Norman, Oklahoma) lives and works in Brooklyn. In 1970, he began his studies at the newly founded California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he worked with John Baldessari. After earning a BFA in 1973 and an MFA in 1975, both from CalArts, Salle moved to New York. Solo shows of Salle’s art have been organized by the Museum am Ostwall Dortmund (1986–87), Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1986–88), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1999), and Waddington Galleries in London (2003), among others. He has participated in major international expositions including Documenta 7 (1982), Venice Biennale (1982 and 1993), Whitney Biennial (1983, 1985, and 1991), Paris Biennale (1985), and Carnegie International (1985).

Scapes, Lee Somers
2015-01-16 - 2015-02-13
Scapes
Lee Somers
Opening Reception | Friday, January 16, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through February 13, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York City Solo Exhibition debut of Alabama-based artist Lee Somers. Lee constructs multilayered assemblages – mosaics of miscellaneous resplendent ceramic shards that reference, among others, early Chinese landscape paintings. Lee’s ceramic paintings are narratives that “compress geologic time” collapsing the entirety of human civilization into a moment.
Lee is “fascinated by the intersection of our cultural and natural histories. Architecture and landscape locate the human perspective in this nexus. Cartography and the natural sciences abstract and expand, overlaying our perceptions with alternate models of time and space. In travel, time spent outdoors, observation of ruins, cities, landscapes, and moments of sublime experience I am compelled by the systems in which we exist.”
Finding “ceramics the perfect material metaphor for the entwinement of natural and cultural processes… a microcosm, compressing geologic time and the history of civilization into moments. Working with it is a process of reconciling intentions with serendipity… The resulting works weave a matrix of relations where juxtaposition is evident, components are both individual and integrated, and imagination is given multiple points of departure.” –Lee Somers
Lee Somers (b. 1977) works in ceramics and mixed media to explore a variety of interests in geology, landscape, material culture and architecture. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums, most recently at the Fort Collins Lincoln Center (Colorado) and the Seattle Design Center (Washington). A teacher and artist recently awarded the Franzen Teaching Fellowship at Colorado State University and Art 342. Lee currently lives in Montevallo, Alabama where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Montevallo.

Yes Sir No Sir This Way That, Thaddeus Erdahl
2014-12-04 - 2015-01-09
Yes Sir No Sir This Way That
Thaddeus Erdahl
Artist Reception | Thursday, December 18, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view December 4, 2014 through January 9, 2015
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York City Solo Exhibition debut of sculptor Thaddeus Erdahl.
“When considering the murky reservoir of human history, it is difficult to separate legend from reality. Through my work, I examine human myth in the modern age, specifically on characters that emerge from our society’s underbelly; the less popular folk. Using their “legends”, I feel compelled to tell stories that illustrate analogies in life; blending together archetypes, shared experiences, and my own personal mythology. Who we are in the world is a kaleidoscope of interpretations, biased memories, and personal connections.
Ceramic sculpture and portraiture, in particular, are forms of a visual narration that I use to satisfy my urge for documenting what I see in human nature. Evocative of well-loved toys and obsolete artifacts, I use the implied history of these objects to encourage the viewer to disconnect from the present situation and conjure their own individual narratives from my sculptures.
Working with concepts that are personal and sometimes narcissistic perceptions of the gloomy side of life, dark humor is my buffer. Dry or irreverent, it is humor that mystifies the tragic.” –Thaddeus Erdahl
Thaddeus (tj) Erdahl has exhibited his ceramic sculpture and presented workshops and lectures nationally throughout the United States. Thaddeus received an M.F.A. in Ceramics from the University of Florida where he was a University of Florida Alumni Fellowship recipient. In 2008, he attended Think Tank III, a national arts in higher education symposium, as a Graduate Fellowship Recipient. After graduate school Thaddeus was selected as an Artist-in-Resident at the prestigious Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and briefly acted as their Program Manager. In the spring of 2012 he completed a 5-month ceramics sabbatical replacement at the University of Northern Iowa. Recently Thaddeus was award a one month Artist-in-Residency at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark.

Adam Field, Samuel Johnson and Peter Pincus Exhibition
2014-10-24 - 2014-11-22
Adam Field, Samuel Johnson and Peter Pincus
Artist Reception | November 14, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view October 24 through November 22, 2014
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the work of Adam Field, Samuel Johnson and Peter Pincus in a dynamic reassessment of surface. Using the pottery form as a catalyst for infinite variation, these artists endeavor to reconcile their unique approach to mark-making with a conceptual interest in relationship to form. Field, Johnson and Pincus set about to reevaluate the connection between form, surface and content.
Adam Field earned his BA in Art from Fort Lewis College. For two years he immersed himself in the San Francisco bay area, where he began his full time studio practice. He relocated to Maui, where he established a thriving studio business. He spent most of 2008 in Icheon, South Korea, studying traditional Korean pottery under 6th generation Onggi master Kim Il Mahn. In 2013 he created HIDE-N-SEEKAH at the NCECA conference in Houston, TX. After maintaining his studio in Durango, CO for 5 years, Adam recently moved to Helena, MT where he is a long-term artist in residence at The Archie Bray Foundation.
Samuel Johnson is an Associate Professor of Art at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. Samuel has participated in sixty-eight exhibitions, including seven solo exhibitions. His work is in the permanent collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art and featured in the book, Stoked: Five Artists of Fire and Clay. Samuel grew up on the western prairie of the Red River Valley, outside of Breckenridge, Minnesota. Before earning his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa in 2005, he apprenticed with Richard Bresnahan, studied ceramic design at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – The School of Design in Copenhagen, and worked in Japan as a studio guest of Koie Ryoji. He lives in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
Peter Pincus is a practicing artist, living and making in Penfield, NY, and Visiting Professor of Ceramics at Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Craft, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Icheon World Ceramics Center, TRAX Gallery, the Art of the Pot studio tour and National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. A recipient of the NICHE award for slip cast ceramics, Peter’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections. Peter received both his BFA (in 2005) and MFA (in 2011) from Alfred University.

Intersect, Kenyon Hansen
2014-09-12 - 2014-10-10
Intersect
Kenyon Hansen
Artist Reception | Friday, September 12, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through October 10, 2014
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York City solo exhibition debut of Michigan-based artist, Kenyon Hansen. An artist with an active studio practice, Hansen has invented a unique approach to form over his short but adventurous career. In the last few years Hansen has rendered his practice to an elegant, vibrant and very distinctive form and surface. Hansen’s jars, coffee pots, mugs and teapots are some of the most original being made today. Sturdy and robust crockery that falls somewhere between farmhouse and modern.
“I believe that finely crafted, thoughtfully made pottery can contribute to a renaissance of tradition and habit. My hope is that the pots I make can play a role and be a factor in a renewal of ritual. Clay allows me to play with a physical language. When I throw or hand build, I am engaged in the conversation, curiosity often pushes the dialog, while the desire to find something new guides me forward. I strive to create pottery that is both considered and balanced containing a healthy dose of spirit and care.” – Kenyon Hansen
Kenyon Hansen is a full-time studio potter from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has been an artist–in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, where he was awarded the Lincoln Fellowship, as well as Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. In 2013 he was selected as an Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly. Kenyon has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. His functional ceramics can be found in galleries throughout the country and in friend’s homes. Kenyon is currently a visiting artist and adjunct instructor at Finlandia University in Hancock, Michigan.

GHP Faculty and Staff Exhibition 2014
2014-08-15 - 2014-09-06
GHP Faculty and Staff Exhibition 2014
Exhibition on view August 15 through September 6, 2014

On a Grecian Urn, Adam Shiverdecker
2014-07-10 - 2014-08-07
On a Grecian Urn
Adam Shiverdecker
Exhibition on view July 10 through August 2, 2014
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the New York City solo exhibition debut of Manhattan-based artist, Adam Shiverdecker. An artist with a unique approach to material, Shiverdecker takes advantage of the “shortcomings” of the clay’s materiality. Wrapping it around high temperature wire and the subsequent heating it to temperatures beyond inhabitable to sustain life, causes the ceramic to wither and crack along the armature. The result is a look of artifact and antiquity which makes the work all the more tragic and haunting.
Adam’s work “imagines what would happen if the entire military arsenal were simply pushed into the ocean. I’m a committed pacifist, but I am also drawn to the sleekness, the power, and the materiality of machines of war. My work attempts to represent my ambivalence to icons of military might by taking the forms of fighter jets, submarines, and missiles and denaturing their surfaces. By reforming weapons out of wire, I reference both the practice of children’s war games and modeling…I then coat these structures in…clay, allowing for an arbitrary amount of decay. It is this fantasy of decay…which my work tries to trigger. I also apply this logic to historical forms, specifically Greek ceramic vessels. I’m interested in these Greek vessels because of the way they represent a culture that venerates war and conflict, as this seems to anticipate elements of our own bellicose culture.”—Adam Shiverdecker
Adam Shiverdecker is the Studio & Fabrications Manager of Greenwich House Pottery. Prior to accepting this position he was the Assistant Professor of 3D Interdisciplinary Art/Ceramics at The University of Toledo. Before assuming his role at Toledo, he was the Artist-In-Residence in the ceramics program and adjunct faculty at Tyler School of Art and a two-time summer resident artist at The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana (2009, 2011). Adam was named an emerging artist by Ceramics Monthly and was the Myhre Scholar at The Archie Bray Foundation. Before pursuing his MFA at the University of South Carolina (2008), Adam graduated from the University of Toledo with a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts (2005).

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2014-06-20 - 2014-06-27
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Ceramics Club
Exhibition on view June 20 through June 27, 2014
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present ceramics from the group, cc. The group will be exhibiting works they created while working in the studios at Greenwich House Pottery.
The president and copresident invite you to cc pop up:
Dear Amateurs!
Since 2009 we have met monthly….. and have made almost no progress, but a heck of a lot of ceramics.
Chicken legs, ears, pizza huts, vagina bowls, vagina one hitters, tacos, rocks and blocks, bricks, snake skins, pickles, whistles, fritzcarraldos, mickrey heads, drum sets, justice, santa heads, toilet paper holders, water bottles, trophies, nice hair, best tennis, and mursic achievement, snowwhite and dwarf and frenemy, murgs for friends, dog bowls, interspecies spooning, chicken pots, dinner party redo, lumpy bottles and tea kettles, pugs, broken frames,……
Remember you asked for it and to please clean your mess.
Questions? ask Adam!

GHP Artists Exhibition 2014
2014-05-22 - 2014-06-12
GHP Artists Exhibition 2014
Exhibition on view May 22 through June 12, 2014
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the Annual Greenwich House Pottery Artists Exhibition. Each Spring we honor and celebrate the talented individuals who sign up for class, prolifically make work, and bring vitality to our tight-knit clay community. The works on display are carefully selected by each artist, and represent their most successful piece or own personal favorite. A ceramic showcase this vibrant, varied, and vast cannot be found often!

Things I Learned From Comic Books and Bumper Stickers, Kristen Morgin
2014-04-10 - 2014-05-10
Things I Learned From Comic Books and Bumper Stickers
Kristen Morgin
Opening Reception | Thursday, April 10, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view April 10 through May 10, 2014
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition of California-based artist, Kristen Morgin. An artist with a diverse studio practice, Morgin makes work referencing death and decay via enormous unfired clay sculptures and equally as elegant small scale trompe l’oeil ceramic sculptures referencing everyday objects and pop iconography. The work on display here represents her sculptures from her very own collection, work that she has held onto, which lends itself to insight into the artist’s relationship to her work.
“I started out that way but recently I began to create pieces from things I already know I like and live with, tributary objects that look like their model. The first piece I did like this was a Monopoly game I had at home. I wanted to take this mass produced item and make it one of a kind. When I was creating it I was thinking about my own history with the game. It occurred to me that the goal was to annihilate your opponent and take all their assets… Relationships started to happen when I was making work for the table. Sometimes the objects next to their models are like a longtime married couple that need each other and bring out the best in one another. At other times there is a confrontation and one piece overtakes the other. I liked these conversations and it brought a new dialogue to the work.”—Kristen Morgin
Kristen L. Morgin was born in 1968 in Brunswick, GA. Kristen is the eldest daughter of Lowell and Lucille Morgin. She has three younger sisters. Kristen earned a BA degree from California State University, Hayward. Kristen earned a MFA degree with an emphasis in ceramics from Alfred University in 1997. Kristen currently resides in Gardena, CA. Kristen has held job positions as a gallery docent, a children’s playhouse set painter, a secretary in an auto glass shop, and a professor of art. She currently earns her living as an artist.

Concrescence, Ted Adler
2014-02-28 - 2014-03-27
Concrescence
Ted Adler
Artist Reception | Friday, February 28, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through March 27, 2014
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Kansas-based artist, Ted Adler, in his New York City solo exhibition debut. Adler makes biomorphic abstractions using the vessel as a metaphor for the figure. These current wood fired vessels are his latest in his documenting the effects of process and time, simulating an experience of existence, which Adler references with his title, Concrescence, a term of Alfred Whitehead’s denoting the formation of an entity, giving form to formlessness.
“Clay is interesting…as both a material and a metaphor. When making, I look to engage a sense of “madeness” through the plasticity of the material and the sensuous, fluid volumes of the vessel. The rich, varied surfaces of wood-firing convey the change and flux of the kiln environment. These processes tend to capture the sense of clay’s protean malleability that enhances the way that the objects might be interpreted as a metaphor for the fugitive nature of experience. By using the vessel as an analogy for selfhood and subjecting it to processes of forming and firing that lend themselves to a sense of transformation (which is both actual and figural), I hope to elicit a sense that our relationship to ourselves and the world around us is more slippery than we ordinarily like to admit.” –Ted Adler
Ted Adler is Associate Professor of Art and Area Head of Ceramics Media at Wichita State University. He received his BA from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR in 1993 and his MFA from Ohio University in Athens, OH in 2002. Adler also studied with renowned artist Toshiko Takaezu, with whom he apprenticed for more than a year in her Quakertown, NJ studio. Adler has exhibited work in more than 75 exhibitions in addition to lecturing and demonstrating at numerous ceramic centers and universities across the nation, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont School of Crafts, and the Anderson Ranch Art Center.

red, blue, and white, Steven Lee
2013-04-11 - 2013-05-09
red, blue, and white
Steven Lee
April 11 – May 9, 2013
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Montana-based artist Steven Young Lee in New York City Solo Exhibition debut. Lee explores identity through the appropriation of historical style. Though his approach is characteristically postmodern and he addresses identity through the substance of existence via cultural constructions, his approach is refreshingly not ironical.
“My work investigates how individual realities are formed. I am fascinated in concepts and development of self that are based on identification with environment, traditions and superstitions while often straddling cultural boundaries…challenge[ing] preconceptions that can reshape our sense of identity and culture…I see these as reminders of the past, but also as objects that I have become emotionally invested in discovering my own sense of place.”—Steven Young Lee
Steven Young Lee is the Resident Artist Director of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. A native of Chicago, Lee received his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2004. In 2004-5, he lectured and taught at numerous universities throughout China. While there, he created a new body of work as part of a one-year cultural and educational exchange fellowship in Jingdezhen, Jianxi Province. A former Bray resident, Steven also spent a year teaching at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. in 2005-2006.
In the United States, he has taught classes at Alfred University, Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, the Clay Art Center in New York and the Lillstreet Studio in Chicago. His work has been exhibited in China, Canada and throughout the United States and is held in private collections in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Montana.

Perceptive Pleasure, Rob Raphael & Jessica Stoller
2013-02-28 - 2013-03-26
Perceptive Pleasure
Rob Raphael & Jessica Stoller
February 28 – March 26, 2013
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present the work of Rob Raphael & Jessica Stoller. Related through medium and attitude, both Raphael and Stoller work in porcelain exploring the perceptual connection of the material toward beauty and the perception of the feminine. Stoller examines the idea of beauty – a dialectical construct bound with the grotesque. Raphael creates architectonic minimalist forms imbued with pattern and decorative elements whose material components he enlists to create sexual tension.
“I am interested in using clay as a vehicle to explore issues of idealized beauty, vanity and the subjugation of the female body using porcelain as my primary media, a material inextricably linked to secrecy, desire and commodification. I create figurative-based sculptures that are often partially masked, covered or unseen; calling viewers to witness these haunting works, including bodies contorted in marred, embellished form. From Marie Antoinette’s breast cup to the Venus of Willdendorf, my work evokes forms and objectsof the past, creating compelling ceramic sculptures that takes lineage from the vast history of the female body articulated in clay.” – Jessica Stoller
Jessica Stoller received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Stoller’s work has been widely reviewed, in such publications as The New York Times, Ceramics: Art and Perception, and N. Pandora Feminist Journal, among others. She has been included in recent exhibitions at The Bronx Art Museum, NY; Fuller Craft Museum, MA; and Nuture Art, NY. Solo show venues include Hionas Gallery, NY; and The Clay Studio, PA. Stoller has been honored to participate in residencies including the Kohler Arts & Industry Program, WI and The Museum of Arts and Design’s Open Studio Program, NY. A Daimler Chrysler Emerging Artist Nominee, her work is also included in numerous private collections.
“In my recent work, I have been creating structures from unfinished lumber, a traditional material for building. Ornamenting the lumber structures are delicate porcelain floral bouquets and geometric shapes fused together with dripping glaze and paint. I am interested in combining these perceived masculine and feminine materials to create a platform to investigate structure and ornament, decoration and function, and sexual difference.” – Robert Raphael
Robert Raphael lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited nationally, including a solo exhibition at The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA). Recent group exhibitions include Dean Project (New York), Like the Spice Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), The Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR), and Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (Wilmington, DE ). This spring Raphael will be exhibiting in the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace Biennial. Raphael received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

My Voice Changes When I Speak Your Language, Linda Sormin
2012-10-26 - 2012-11-21
My Voice Changes When I Speak Your Language
Linda Sormin
October 26 – November 21, 2012
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Linda Sormin’s new work in her first solo exhibition in New York City.
Sormin fills the gallery with intricate ceramic forms and invites an encounter with cultural and familial ghosts. Embroidering raw clay through objects she has found and re-purposed, Sormin uses this collection of material and things to enact stories of her ancestral Batak Indonesian past and experiences as an immigrant moving between cultures.
“Sormin practices the art of the slow burn– both literally… and also figuratively, in that her sprawling installations communicate a carefully controlled fury. It is a vivid, visual chamber music, in which not a single note of pragmatism, didacticism or functionalism can be heard… The visitor is encouraged to wander through this ceramic wonderland as if through an ancient forest.” –Glenn Adamson
Through objects and large-scale installations, Linda Sormin’s work explores issues of fragility, aggression, mobility and survival. Born in Bangkok, Sormin grew up in Canada and worked in community development for four years in Thailand and Laos. She studied literature and ceramics at Andrews University, Sheridan School of Craft & Design (Diploma ’01) and Alfred University (MFA ’03).
Sormin’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art (Bergen, Norway), Denver Art Museum (Denver, USA), gl Holtegaard (Denmark), Vallauris (France) and Middlesbrough (UK). From 2003-06 she taught ceramics at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, BC) and the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). She is currently Professor, Head of Ceramics at the Sheridan School of Craft & Design in Oakville, Canada.

Peter Gourfain
2012-09-06 - 2012-10-04
SEPTEMBER 6 – OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery is pleased to present the work of artist Peter Gourfain. In his second solo exhibition at the Jane Hartsook Gallery, Gourfain shows work that spans his life as an artist and exemplifies his interdisciplinary approach to art making—with prints, drawings, carvings, bronze and ceramics.
“For all his commitment to social justice, what Gourfain does in the face of times like these is what all artists do: make art. Unlike most contemporary production, Gourfain has never been restricted to the galleries and museums. And unlike most art not restricted to museums and galleries, his is in fact “museum-quality” art, wherever it is found. His production includes not only the paintings, sculptures, pots, and prints shown in “high” art contexts, but striking banners, leaflets, buttons, and graphics that have also been seen in the streets, the meetings, the publications, the demonstrations.” – Lucy R. Lippard
Peter Gourfain was born in 1934 and received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956. He currently lives and in Brooklyn, New York and has been on the faculty of Greenwich House Pottery since 1995. Gourfain has had solo exhibitions at the Projects Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Elvehjem Museum in Madison, Wisconsin, the Patricia Hamilton Gallery in New York City and at the Brooklyn Museum, in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been included in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum, the Corcoran Biennale at the Corcoran in Washington, DC., the Museum of Modern Art and most recently at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York City. Gourfain received the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York State Council for the Arts Grant. He has been a visiting artist at the University of California Davis, Penland School of Crafts, Rhode Island School of Design and Skowhegan among others.
