ceramic studio and gallery
Experiments in Photography
Hawaiian Landscapes
Laura Brodax | Michael Shannon
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Laura Brodax Pinhole 6x9 120 Ektar 2023
As modern digital photography has evolved greatly from early photographic techniques, using only film cameras, Laura and Michael have stepped back to capture images in a slower pace, on the Big Island of Hawaii, with an aesthetic of a landscape painter and a shared respect to outline the poetic universe.
A selection of this exhibition is on view at Modern Glaze.
Michael Shannon 2023
Laura Brodax Pinhole 6x9 120 FPP X-Ray Film 2023
Laura Brodax Pinhole 6x12 2022
Laura Brodax Holga 2023
Modern Glaze is a ceramic studio
and gallery showing contemporary ceramics by local and regional
clay artists. Located in the
long fade between Greenwood and Shoreline, Modern Glaze is part of the movement
to bolster the arts in north King County, WA.
Established in 2019, by ceramic artist Laura Brodax, Modern Glaze is a working ceramic studio. We accept commissions for residential, commercial, and public art tile murals and custom ceramic wares.
Laura Brodax Forest Bathing seriesModern Glaze Holiday
Pop-Up Sale
December 17-18, 2022
2pm - 5pm
Ernest Hilsenberg
Sonja Peterson
Kathryn Berd
Deborah Caplow
Modern Glaze Holiday Hours
Fridays and Saturdays 1:00-6:00
And by appointment.
Holiday Shopping featuring new work and classic favorites!
Holiday Shopping featuring new work and classic favorites!
modernglaze.com
14800 Westminster Way N Shoreline, WA, 98133
contact@modernglaze.com
Fridays and Saturdays 1:00-6:00
And by appointment.
“A
maquette is used to visualize and test forms and ideas without
incurring the expense and effort of producing a full-scale piece.”
Modern
Glaze is pleased to present The Clay Maquette Show, an invitational to
24 local and regional artists who (mostly) work in ceramics, to create a
small clay piece with a vision towards a larger scale sculpture. Some
of the artist’s maquettes are designed with a site-specific placement
and material, looking into contemporary and historical issues, while
others are of a playful nature left to the imagination.
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Participating artists are:
The Clay Maquette Show will be on display
Modern
Glaze is pleased to present The Clay Maquette Show, an invitational to
24 local and regional artists who (mostly) work in ceramics, to create a
small clay piece with a vision towards a larger scale sculpture. Some
of the artist’s maquettes are designed with a site-specific placement
and material, looking into contemporary and historical issues, while
others are of a playful nature left to the imagination.
Participating artists are:
Juliana Wisdom, Dan Neish, Lana Sundberg, Lois Harbaugh, Sonja Peterson,
S. Lantz, Margaret Bovingdon, Janet Galore, Robin Green, Liang-yin
Chen, Marge Levy, Peter Gross, Angel O’Leary, Eve Cohen, Linda Beaumont,
Claudia Fitch, Cathy Sarkowsky, Erin Shafkind, Lisa Conway, Lauren
Grossman, Stephen Freedman, Jeffrey Mitchell, Ivan Carmona, Ernest
Hilsenberg and Laura Brodax.
The Clay Maquette Show will be on display
September 17 - November 12, 2022.
Aaron Murray
These animals are meant to add humor and happiness to peoples
lives . 
Glazed stoneware cone 5 ox, 7.5” x 3” x 10”, $150
Brown stoneware cone 5 ox, 4” x 3” x 3”, $56
Wounded Hippo
Glazed stoneware cone 5 ox
, 3” x 5.5” x 2.5”, $90
Amorous Black Bear, 7.5 “ x 3” x 2”, Glazed stoneware cone 5 ox, $90
Friendly Bear, 8 “ x 3” x 2”, Glazed stoneware cone 5 ox, $90
Grumpy Bear, 7.5 “ x 3” x 2”, Glazed stoneware cone 5 ox, $90
Aaron Murray has worked with ceramic materials for 30 years
. His work has been featured in Paris , London , and New York City art
festivals and in many other galleries and shops . He has taught ceramics
for over 20 years and currently teaches in Kirkland. He also can be found
on occasion at Pike place Market .
Robert Williamson
Base Beat (Bengal Rose)
Painting/collage
Acrylic, watercolor, marker, rice paper on 300lb archival paper, 30” x 24” x 1” (framed)
$800
Painting/collage
Acrylic, watercolor, marker, rice paper on 300lb archival paper, 30” x 24” x 1” (framed)
$800
Painting/collage
Acrylic, watercolor, marker, rice paper on 300lb archival paper, 30” x 24” x 1” (framed)
$800
Wall sculpture
Wood scraps, plywood, metal brads, stain, acrylic, graphite, 37” wide x 47” high x 1.5” deep $2,500.00
The Beats Series relates in part to the remnants of my neglected
high school drum kit sitting in the corner of the basement and beckoning me to
rekindle it’s energy. I started working with the percussion motif shortly
before Covid set in and I’ve continued to develop it’s simple themes of
pattern, rhythm, diagrams, notation, beat, and hot/cool color through collage,
sumi ink, and watercolor.
Greg Federighi
$350
15” X 9”, $250
10” X 7.5”, $175
Raku Crow on Brick
19.5” X 9”, $250
Clay is Earth.
Piercing my hands into the clay abyss
is grounding to the Earth.
This grounded connection is my door inward.
There is freedom within for the spirit to
explore the inner conscience
where creativity has no limitation.
I am the artist, the eye (I) to hand,
the creator of the action,
the center,
the now,
the point by which this reality turns nothing into something
Piercing my hands into the clay abyss
is grounding to the Earth.
This grounded connection is my door inward.
There is freedom within for the spirit to
explore the inner conscience
where creativity has no limitation.
I am the artist, the eye (I) to hand,
the creator of the action,
the center,
the now,
the point by which this reality turns nothing into something
Ernest Hilsenberg
Quote from Charles Bukowski:
“As the spirit wanes the form appears”
The quote to me represents my thinking on an artist as explorer, seeker, learner not letting the work be an end.
5”h x 4.5”w, $60
4.5”h x 3.5”w, $60
4.5”h x 4”w, $60
BFA Ceramic Art…Had the best professors Patti Warashina and Robert Sperry feel very lucky to learn and be exposed to these hugely individuals.
1975 Started Salty Dog Studios with Greg Federighi and 4 others. At the “Dog” I experimented with various types of ceramic firings temperatures materials and atmospheres.
Kathy Berd
12.25"w x 1.5"h, $190.00
3.25"w x 3.25"h, $48.00 each
7.5"w x 4.25"h, $125.00
I have always made
functional pottery, but in recent years switched from working with low fire red
earthenware with colorful narrative imagery, to high fire stoneware, with non -
objective imagery. The highlight of this new work remains surface design,
enlivened with cobalt blue dots. I start
with clean elegant forms made on the potters wheel, and once bisque fired, I
paint each dot, one at a time on the piece. I like to play around with depth
and space on the forms in this work, and get lost in the details. I am inspired by the ephemeral properties of
fireworks, and actual photos of space.
Lisa Conway
Trilobed Pink and Green Vessel
Earthenware and glaze, 4” x 5” x 5”, $175.00
Green Nut Bowl
Earthenware and glaze, 5” x 5” x 5”, $250.00
Blue and Green Butterfly Vessels
Earthenware and glaze, 4” x 10” x 8”. $175 (set)
I want to make beautiful objects that engage the viewer on a physical level. I want my pieces to remind us of our own bodies, whether they be blushing or sagging, ticklish, tender, erect or deflated. I hope that by strongly referencing the plant world in my work, I can avoid direct references to any specific human anatomy. My goal is to create pieces that evoke these physical sensations, and ultimately the subtle emotions and human relationships that go along with them. Like plants growing towards the sun, I believe sexuality is a major force around which we gravitate.
Lisa Conway was born outside Detroit, Michigan, and received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Michigan in 1990. She received her MFA in Ceramics from Louisiana State University in 1993. She has completed artist residencies at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, The Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, The Contemporary Crafts Gallery in Portland, The Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon, Leland Ironworks in Oregon City, and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Lisa has exhibited her work nationally including showing at the Portland Art Museum, with solo shows at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, IMA Gallery in Seattle, and Eutectic Gallery in Portland. She has taught ceramics at The University of Alaska in Anchorage, The Alberta College of Design in Calgary, and Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, where she has been Head of the Ceramics Area since 2003.
Marge Levy
Red Ravina Celebration
Glazed stoneware cone 5 ox, 7.5” x 3” x 10”, $1400
Remember Joy and Celebration Persist in Abundance
Brown stoneware cone 5 ox, 4” x 3” x 3”, $1400
Blue Ravenna Celebration
Glazed stoneware cone 5 ox
, 3” x 5.5” x 2.5”, $1400Marge Levy’s goals are to keep herself engaged
and entertained; learning nuances of creative pursuits through research and
teaching, thus sharing artistic inspiration and objects with others. Her
specialties are making pots to look at and use, helping organizations develop
their capacities, docenting at museums, swimming laps, laughing. She has also
pursued her lifetime interest in making pottery and objects at Pottery
Northwest. Ms. Levy has a rich career history in art and academics, and
continues to produce her own artwork.
Professor of Ceramics and Fine Arts at Purdue University (1969-1985),
Professor of Fine Arts and Dean of the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan (1986-1991),
Executive Director of Pilchuck Glass School (1991-2000)
Independent consultant working with glass schools in Turkey and
Italy and with artists and organizations in Seattle. (2000)
Developed art and cultural tours in Seattle for the Museum of Modern Art, ArtTable, and affiliates of the San Francisco Museum of Modern, Art, the Smithsonian, and the University of Arizona.(2005)
Educational, curatorial, and development projects with PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Cultural Organizations), On the Boards, and Pottery Northwest.
Docent at Seattle Art Museum (2006- )
Educational Advisory Council of the Bellevue Arts Museum, and of Off the Boards
Advisory Council to the independent creative performance center On the Boards.
Past president and fellow of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(President in 82-84) and co-chair of the NCECA SEATTLE 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Professor of Ceramics and Fine Arts at Purdue University (1969-1985),
Professor of Fine Arts and Dean of the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan (1986-1991),
Executive Director of Pilchuck Glass School (1991-2000)
Independent consultant working with glass schools in Turkey and
Italy and with artists and organizations in Seattle. (2000)
Developed art and cultural tours in Seattle for the Museum of Modern Art, ArtTable, and affiliates of the San Francisco Museum of Modern, Art, the Smithsonian, and the University of Arizona.(2005)
Educational, curatorial, and development projects with PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Cultural Organizations), On the Boards, and Pottery Northwest.
Docent at Seattle Art Museum (2006- )
Educational Advisory Council of the Bellevue Arts Museum, and of Off the Boards
Advisory Council to the independent creative performance center On the Boards.
Past president and fellow of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(President in 82-84) and co-chair of the NCECA SEATTLE 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Diane King
Caducus
Earthenware and glaze, 4” x 5” x 5”, $180.00
Earthenware and glaze, 4” x 5” x 5”, $180.00
Calcios
Earthenware and glaze, 5” x 5” x 5”, $250.00
Earthenware and glaze, 5” x 5” x 5”, $250.00
Distingo
Earthenware and glaze, 4” x 10” x 8”. $285 (set)
Diane King has worked in ceramics for over three decades. She taught middle school art for almost the same amount of time and has recently retired. She grows an astounding and beautifully curated garden which inspires her delicate curious ceramic sculptures. These works live in the realm of the unknown between flora and fauna, like a found treasure washed ashore. She displays the work with such care, as to hold you for a moment between questioning and discovery. Diane King lives in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.
Lana Sundberg
Clay wood glaze, 14”h x 10”, $500
Clay and Wood , 13” x 8”
Clay, wood, glaze, 10”h x 11”, $400
Black clay , wood luster , 9” x 7”, $600
Clay, wood, glaze, 11” x 6”, $400
Growing
up on Whidbey Island my days were spent exploring the natural world;
scavenging the beaches and woods were a constant in informing my
aesthetic as an Artist and a constant source of inspiration.
Barbara Walkover
| Impact or the New Normal (pair) Paper Clay, 5” x 3” and 2” x 3”,NFS |
| Puppet Heads: The Weight (after Lana) /
Just Hatched /
Guy with Cap
Raku Clay, Painted steel stand / Raku Clay, Unglazed paper clay stand / Raku Clay, Green glass stand,4” x 3”, NFS |
| Puppet Heads: Just Hatched / Guy with Cap |
| Tree Angels Raku Clay, on it’s own stand, 4” x 3.5”, NFS |
I began
working with clay about 10 years ago with an attraction to it’s plasticity and
texture. As a psychotherapist, my work is emotionally responsive and
imaginative in non-material ways. I find that interacting with shapes
that emerge from the process of handling clay to be a grounding and satisfying
experience. I love the exploration, the learning and the surprising
results.
The figurative pieces I’m showing emerged from the raku kiln last summer. The more recent containers reflect the impact of Covid on what can be held.
I am grateful to Lana for creating a space in which we learn from and support each other. And I am honored to be in the company of accomplished artists as they hone technique and explore new media.
The figurative pieces I’m showing emerged from the raku kiln last summer. The more recent containers reflect the impact of Covid on what can be held.
I am grateful to Lana for creating a space in which we learn from and support each other. And I am honored to be in the company of accomplished artists as they hone technique and explore new media.
Christine
Westergaard
Terracotta, 3.5” x 8”, $135
Terracotta 7” x 8.5” x 3”, $165
Black Angular Vase
Terracotta, 12” x7” x 3”, $165
I have been a painter and printmaker all of my adult life, and my subject has been the idea and experience of landscape. Like Emerson, I am astonished by “beauty breaking
out everywhere” in the natural world, and it inspires my art and my inner life. I am new to working in three dimensions. Clay has reshaped my experience of art-making.
Biography:
MFA Claremont Graduate School
College instructor and design professional
Studio artist since 1971
Exhibition record includes regional + national juried and invitational shows
Biography:
MFA Claremont Graduate School
College instructor and design professional
Studio artist since 1971
Exhibition record includes regional + national juried and invitational shows
Amis
Balcomb
Pinch Pot, Paper Clay and Acrylic, 2.75” x 2.5” x 2.5” , NFS
Pinch Pots, Paper Clay, Ink and Acrylic/ Paper Clay and White Crackle, and Silver Glaze/Paper Clay and Acrylic, 1.75” x 2.25” x 2.25”/ 2” x 3” x 3”/ 1. 5” x 2.5” x 2.25”, NFS
Raku Pinch Pot , Paper Clay and White Crackle, and Silver Glaze, 2” x 3” x 3”, NFS
Slab Box, Terra Cotta Paper Clay and King’s Blue Underglaze, 8.5” x 9.5” x 4”, NFS
Pinch Pots, Paper Clay and Acrylic, 1.75” x 2.5” x 2.25”,/ 2.25” x 3” x 2.5”/ 1.75” x 2.75” x 2.25” , NFS
My clay work at the Clay Salon has introduced me to
wonderful creative people that I enjoy sharing clay time and conversation with.
Working with Lana is a joy. Hand building in clay is the right speed for
conversation and reflection. Everything about it is a connecting point: connecting
pieces of clay to make an object, connecting me with how people have used clay
throughout time, and connecting now with people and myself while making clay
objects. Working with clay is nurturing.
My current clay intrigue is to make hollow ball pinch pots and low bowls. The interior space is as interesting to me as the outer shape and surface of each piece. They are influenced by nature and by Southwest Native pottery, and adobe houses with the blue door and window frames that keep the evil spirits out. I’m interested in the red terra cotta clay that reminds me of northern New Mexico, in raku with its rich value scale of blacks to whites, and in low fire clay that I can burnish to a smooth finish in the leather hard stage, and choose to leave plain or glaze, or paint with acrylic.
My low bowls are designed to explore the interior space and outer shape of the curved bottom and the Hopi inspired curved edge. I like to think of them as being spirit bowls that I don’t fill so there is always space for spirituality and creativity. It is important for me to be deliberate in making space and time for them in my life. My hollow ball pinch pots are explorations that can be formed into an infinite variety of shapes with endless possibilities for surface decoration and texture before poking a hole in them for an opening to the interior space.
My current clay intrigue is to make hollow ball pinch pots and low bowls. The interior space is as interesting to me as the outer shape and surface of each piece. They are influenced by nature and by Southwest Native pottery, and adobe houses with the blue door and window frames that keep the evil spirits out. I’m interested in the red terra cotta clay that reminds me of northern New Mexico, in raku with its rich value scale of blacks to whites, and in low fire clay that I can burnish to a smooth finish in the leather hard stage, and choose to leave plain or glaze, or paint with acrylic.
My low bowls are designed to explore the interior space and outer shape of the curved bottom and the Hopi inspired curved edge. I like to think of them as being spirit bowls that I don’t fill so there is always space for spirituality and creativity. It is important for me to be deliberate in making space and time for them in my life. My hollow ball pinch pots are explorations that can be formed into an infinite variety of shapes with endless possibilities for surface decoration and texture before poking a hole in them for an opening to the interior space.
Margaret Bovingdon
Chellene
White Clay, 19” x 16”, $460
JadwynRaku clay, white crackle glaze , 3”h x 4”w, $85
TadRaku Clay, 19” x 19”, $580
People interest me the most, artistically speaking. Ordinarily, I draw
and paint them, but piecing people together out of clay feels even more like
making friends. Our teacher Lana is incredible. With her virtually anything is
possible. After my first effort imploded she swiftly connected me with
ceramicist Ernest Hilsenberg. It’s thanks to his generosity in the form of
technical and moral support and the use of work space at Salty Dog Studios that
the larger of these pieces exist today.
Margaret Bovingdon grew up in Seattle. She graduated from Cornish College of the Arts and studied art therapy at Antioch University, earning a Master’s degree in 2011. Her studio is at Building 30 in Magnuson Park.
Margaret Bovingdon grew up in Seattle. She graduated from Cornish College of the Arts and studied art therapy at Antioch University, earning a Master’s degree in 2011. Her studio is at Building 30 in Magnuson Park.
Steve Mortz
Untitled Memory
Ink, oil pastel, spray paint on mounted paper
9” x 12”
$235
Ink, oil pastel, spray paint on mounted paper
9” x 12”
$235
Steve Mortz
Dancing Doodles in Black and White
Ink, spray paint on mounted paper
18” x 24”
$650
Ink, spray paint on mounted paper
18” x 24”
$650
Steve Mortz
Pandemic Era
Ink, oil pastel, collage, spray paint on mounted paper.
18” x 24”
$650
Ink, oil pastel, collage, spray paint on mounted paper.
18” x 24”
$650
Steve Mortz
Fire in the Jet Stream
Ink, oil pastel, collage, spray paint on mounted paper
18” x 24”
$650
Ink, oil pastel, collage, spray paint on mounted paper
18” x 24”
$650
Steve Mortz
Time Lapsed Memories
Ink, oil pastel, collage, spray paint on mounted paper
18” x 24”
$650
Ink, oil pastel, collage, spray paint on mounted paper
18” x 24”
$650
Toby Kilpatrick
Mark at Olana
2017
Acrylic on Paper
8” x 10”
$150
2017
Acrylic on Paper
8” x 10”
$150
Bette Burgoyne
*click on detail*
#113
2020
Color pencils on black paper, thrift store frame with memory collage mat
21” x 7”
$300
2020
Color pencils on black paper, thrift store frame with memory collage mat
21” x 7”
$300
Inspired by:
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Rachel
Siporin
Cotton
Hollow Romp
2020
Etching, printed on Rives BFK
12” x 4”
$400
2020
Etching, printed on Rives BFK
12” x 4”
$400
Related to:
Sculpture Study
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Sculpture Study
Rachel
Siporin
Jack and the Geodisic
Dome
2020
Etching, printed on Rives BFK
16” x 8”
$600
2020
Etching, printed on Rives BFK
16” x 8”
$600
Related to:
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Two Faced Self Portrait
Lana Sundberg
Untitled
2020
Clay and lichen
11 ½” x 5”
$300
2020
Clay and lichen
11 ½” x 5”
$300
Inspired by:
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56-Topiary
