"Brine Pickle Saddle Crock"
Gas-Wood-Soda Fired Stoneware with Nails, Wood, Oil-Based Stain,
12" x 12" x 12"
"Combing one's hair is an aesthetic statement as is mowing the lawn. That hair-combing, lawn-mowing suburbanites often prefer to spend vacation time hiking in the woods eating granola bars is difficult for me to understand. I prefer my wife's hair in the morning as she gets out of bed, fresh, frizzy, exhibiting the wide permutations of the Tao. I prefer her legs unmown and uncut as she prefers, or at least understands, my preference for a beard. I comb, I cut, I "neaten", but only as a necessary concession to an intolerant society. In my clay making, I strive to make expressive use of each process. I search for new materials, alter clay recipes while I am mixing them, try new wheels to throw new forms, use different surfaces, and fire in new ways. Through process, challenge manifests itself in the product. Conscious decisions hopefully become subservient to less verbal priorities as thought and actions become partners."
Louis Katz, Corpus Christi, TX
Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi
MFA: Montana State University, BFA: Kansas City Art Institute
Artist-in-Residence, Archie Bray Foundation
Exhibitions:
"ALICE", performance piece, NCECA, Las Vegas, NV
"GRIT", Bee County College Gallery, Beeville, TX
"Alternative Barbie", Peoples Art Space, Corpus Christi, TX
Back to Within The Borders Home Page
This virtual catalog created by Daphne Roehr Hatcher
e-mail her at: claygarden@pobox.com
visit her web site at: www.pinemills.com
