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May Issue 2004
Sunset River Marketplace in Calabash, NC, Features Works in Clay
From May 1 - 27, 2004, Sunset River Marketplace
in Calabash, NC, is featuring the pottery and clay works of several
different North and South Carolina artists. The exhibit, titled,
Journeys in Clay, is a testament to the many different
directions in which a clay artist may travel. It includes hand-built
and wheel-thrown pieces, decorative and utilitarian ware - in
a broad range of styles.
Yvonne Hegney's award-winning work may be found in high-end corporate
collections all over the county. Her interest in ancient cultures
adds dimension to her work with a sense of encrusted agelessness.
Classical forms as well as his own daily experience inspire Brian
Evans' wheel-thrown pottery. Although dramatically different in
style, both of these artists have studied under the renowned Hiroshi
Sueyoshi.
Ardie Praetorius studied clay with Don Ritz at the Penland School
of Crafts and credits him with teaching her that everything in
pottery, as in life, does not have to be symmetrical. Elizabeth
MacChainnigh has been influenced by 20 years in the landscape
business, and now she recreates the outdoors with a myriad scope
of glazes and texture. Dorothy Doubleday studied sculpture at
the Boston Museum School with Frederick Lewis Allen and ceramic
sculpture with Christine Frederighi at the Haystack School of
Crafts. Doubleday's Snowshoe Hare received the 2002 Brookgreen
Gardens Award at the Waccamaw Artists annual juried show.
Jane Truesdale learned pottery at the age of 16, as an artist's
assistant. Today she teaches the popular Sunset River Marketplace
pottery classes to students who run the gamut from hobbyist to
professional clay artist. She specializes in hand-building pieces
because, for her, this process seems the most creative.
Journeys in Clay also includes works by Betsy Parker, Glen
Green and Shandi Berls.
Gallery owner Ginny Lassiter has been looking
forward to this show, in part, because she is a potter herself.
It was Lassiter's interest in working with clay that inspired
her to add the pottery studio to the gallery's classroom space.
Says Lassiter, "There's something soul-satisfying about working
with clay. I love how the clay almost has a mind of its own and
leads you in whatever direction it wants."
Sunset River Marketplace showcases over 150 North and South Carolina
artists in its 10,000 square-foot space.
For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 910/575-5999 or visit (www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com).
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