"Alma's Garden"
Stoneware, 20.5" x 9" x 9"
"Drawing and painting on pottery has held my attention for at least 25 years. I begin by combining wheel-thrown parts to create vessels with animated profiles. Once the work is formed, I carve lines into leather-hard clay, moving the drawing over surfaces that bulge and recede, turn and bend. Pots are not flat like paper or canvas, and this is especially motivating to me. Images of people, places and events can move up, down, over and around. Color, a primary element of my work, is applied by painting slips and glazes onto the clay after it has dried. The work is finally completed by a firing to cone 6 stoneware temperature.
These illustrated pots reflect my world, revealing harmony as well as discord, noise as well as quiet. Mama's farm, boyfriends and girlfriends, art receptions and artists, rooms with TVs and offices with computers - these are some of the themes that crop up. Images of life, mingled with the ingredients of clay, slip, glaze and fire, this is the essence of my work."
Marty Ray, Dallas, TX
Professor, North Lake College, Dallas, TX
MFA: Southern Methodist University, BS: East Texas State University
Exhibitions:
"Ceramics USA, 1996", SOVA Gallery, University of North Texas
"Dynamic Duos: Collaborative Works", Adkins-Hoover Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Senses Beyond Sight", Dallas Visual Art Center
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