WHAT THE FUTURE MAY HOLD: ARTISTS CONSIDER THE POST-BUSH WORLD
An invitational exhibit of ceramic works openning January 23, 2009 with a reception at 5:00pm at Sante Fe Clay Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.  The show runs through February 21st.  "A few months back, when nearly everyone in this country, if not the world, was a little afraid to wake up on the morning of November 5th, we posed this question to 50 ceramic artists: What does that post-Bush world look like to you? Are you hopeful? Scared? Renewing your passport? Then we asked that they express their speculation or dread or celebration, whatever it was they might be feeling as we rounded this corner into the unknown, in clay.

Some 30 national recognized artists took up the challenge and on January 23rd we will open a month-long exhibition titled "What the Future May Hold: Artists Consider the Post-Bush World". The roster of artists who have agreed to participate is impressive and includes many newcomers to Santa Fe Clay like Pavel Amromin, Renee Audette, Jesse Albrecht, Ehren Tool and Nuala Creed, as well as artists we have shown in the past: Joe Bova, Bart Johnson, Misty Gamble, Gena Fowler, Charles Kraft, James Tisdale, Diego Romero and many more.

We think Artists Consider the Post-Bush World will prove to be a thoughtful, amusing and challenging exhibition and we hope you will join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 23rd from 5 to 7 pm. "

AFTER CHINA: The Politics of Fabrication with Ian F. Thomas, Marie Weichman and Dryden Wells.  Show opens January 14, 2009 and runs through February 6th at Slippery Rock University. Artist talk with Ian F. Thomas on February 3rd.


PART OF THE WHOLE, a solo exhibition of drawings, sculpture and mixed media works will open February 4, 2009 at Olympic College in Bremerton, WA. 


AB.STRAC.TION
An invitational exhibit of ceramic works openning February 27, 2009 with a reception at 5:00pm at Sante Fe Clay Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.  The show runs through March 28th.  "Abstraction, as applied to the visual arts, can be defined as the process of taking away or removing detail in order to reduce a thing to a set of essential characteristics. It is art that is solely about the creation of beautiful effects using the visual language of form, color, and line, which may suggest, but never seeks to faithfully render, the visual world as we know it. And while abstraction in art is a 19th century invention, truly, this sort of peeling away, paring down, tinkering with the whole, is not a new concept. It seems to be an essential part of our DNA: we appear to be driven by a curiosity to strip things to their basic elements in order to discover the fundamental truth or identity of a thing.

In February, some 30 nationally recognized clay artists known for exquisitely crafted abstract forms will participate in a month long exhibit at Santa Fe Clay.

The work promises to be varied and rich with submissions by artists Anne Currier, Don Reitz, Jill Oberman, Maren Kloppmann, Eva Kwong, Tim Rowan, Ted Adler, Jerilyn Virden, Jill Allen, Ruth Borgenicht, Jason Hess, Mike Jabbur, Sally Brogden, Yih-Wen Kuo, Nina Hole, Jason Green, Joseph Pintz, Heather Mae Erickson, Tyler Lotz, Erin Furmisky, Karen Thuesen Massoro, Karen Swyler, Frank Saliani, Marie Weichman and many others.

Please join us on Friday, February 27th from 5 to 7 pm for an opening reception."

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark
June 20 - Sept. 10, 2009