The Midas Touch and Booty...

Ok...get your mind outta the gutter already! NOT that kind of booty...booty like pirate treasure booty. Just a quick post to show off some bling that I just fired and also some of my goods that I brought back from Chautauqua...wait a minute...is there a market for a mixture of ceramics and soft core porn?!?! HMMMMMM....

First let me blab about an exhibition I am involved with in a small gallery show outside the Pittsburgh area coming up next week. I am dropping off pieces from Me, Nancy, and Josh Floyd over at the co-op gallery on Sunday. The show was put together by our friend and regional majolica potter, Christy Culp, and features 25 potters from the area in and around Pittsburgh. The show is called..."Contemporary Ceramics Dine In" and opens on September 4. I will get more details on Sunday and post pics along with them.

I will be showing four smaller vases that were fired in the salt kiln back in the bubble. Each are partially glazed in a beautiful blue celadon and now have gold luster fired onto the indented stamp marks. They look pretty fancy if I do say so myself. I will post images of these pieces when I have all the details for the show. For now however, check out these images of some other new pieces that received a little bling.(above and below) I will be posting these along with more new work on my etsy site. Sorry for ignoring and neglecting you, oh my dear etsy.

I also want to brag about this great painting done for me by the very talented Jenny Wu. Jenny was a student in residence for the past two summers at the Chautauqua Art School. During the summers our mugs and cups would disappear for days at a time...Dan and I often thought we just left them sitting out in the kiln palace or wherever the last place we were when we finished that cup. Well, Jenny would sneak them away and use them in her paintings...the mugs(and teapots) were often featured in her compositions. That was all well and good, but they always sold and we never saw them again. This year I commissioned Ms. Wu to make a "portrait" of my mugs...one that I could keep. This is it below...I love it! Its 10x20 inches and the mugs are a wood fired one and also one that I was making there in Chautauqua. I am going to get a frame this week and have a place already picked out in my house for the piece. I enjoyed meeting Jenny Wu and knowing her the past two summers...she is a great young painter and also a very cool person. Thanks again Jenny!

Did I say this was a quick post...anyways, here is another memento from the summer. This is a sorta collaboration piece I did with resident student Tim Peters. Tim was making all these really massive, kind of Ab.Ex. tiles that were about a foot square and a 2-3 inches thick. He was willing to part with this one and I fired decals and chartreuse glaze spots in to the surface. Below is how it turned out. I do LIKE! Shout out to Tim Peters!... Enjoyed working with you this summer and I wish you all the best up at Alfred.

stay tuned for more clay dork adventures...