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sitter w/hands crossed
wood-fired stoneware
15 H x 13 W x 15 1/2 D"
kneeler w/hand over mouth
wood-fired stoneware
26H x 15 1/2 W x 18 D"
sitter w/both knees up #1
wood-fired stoneware
16 H x 11 W x 15 1/2 D"
21 pods
wood-fired stoneware
(each pod) length 16" x 12" approx
untitled
wood-fired stoneware
62 H x 64 W"
spiral detail)
wood-fired stoneware
30 H x 48 W x 4 D"
kneeler
bronze
33 H x 20 L x 24 D"
life size sitter 2
bronze
46 H x 37 W x 50 D"
sitter w/one knee up
bronze
28 H x 18 W x 27 D"
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$2,500 to $80,000 |
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artist's
statement
A
child of medical missionaries to Japan, I spent eighteen
years of my life there. After college in the United States,
I returned to Japan to work as an apprentice in pottery
for four years. In the rigorous discipline of a traditional
Japanese apprenticeship, working with clay became a way
of life. During that time I was required to make thousands
of cups, never firing one. Submission to the demands of
this process taught me technical skills, a disciplined
concentration, and an understanding of and respect for
the clay.
It
also taught me that my experience while working with clay
is just as important as the finished piece. Whether it
is a pot or a sculpture, ceramic or bronze, the piece
will reflect the spirit in which it was made. I now work
in Connecticut, where I built a 30-foot-long Japanese
style anagama wood-firing kiln. A year of my work is fired
at once, in an intense 24-hour-a-day, week-long firing.
The resulting warm rich colors and rugged texture of these
ceramic sculptures are the gifts of heat and ash to the
clay, bringing life to the unglazed forms.
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Joy
Brown
education
Raised
and schooled in Japan, 1951–1968
B.A. in Fine Arts, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg,
FL, 1972
Ceramic apprenticeships in Japan, 1975–1978
Researched kilns and potteries in Korea and Japan,
including Okinawa, 1978
solo
exhibitions
Bachelier-Cardonsky
Gallery, Kent, CT, 1988–2007
Coady Contemporary, Santa Fe NM, 2007
Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY, 2005
Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2005
Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA, 2005
Hiro Gallery, Wakayama, Japan, 2002
Kumagai Museum, Tokyo, 1994
Au Gallery, Osaka, 1994
Paris–New York–Bangkok Gallery, Thailand,
1994
Galery Gianna Sistu, Paris, 1993
Paris–New York–Kent Gallery, Kent,
CT, 1988
Departure Gallery, New York, NY, 1983-1991
Mingei Gallery, New York, NY, 1981
selected
group exhibitions
Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY, 1997-2007
Fuller Museum, Brockton MA, Fire and Ash, 2007
Dubuque Museum of Art, Iowa, Legacy and Innovation
Contemporary Clay, 2006
Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Architectural
Echoes in Clay, 2006
Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2002-2007
Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NY, NY, 2003-2006
Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA, 2004-2007
Weber Fine Art, Greenwich Ct, Friends and their
Visions, 2006
AKAR, Ohio City, Ohio, 2006
Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA, 2005
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, Earth, Wood
and Fire, 2005
International Wood Fire Exhibition, Cedar Rapids
Museum of Art, Iowa, 2004
Germain Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY, Passionate
Fire 2003
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, Clay, Wood, Fire,
Salt, 2001
Worcester Center for Crafts, MA, Invoking the
Source: The Ancient Feminine, 2001
Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isles, ME, Thirty Stokers,
2000
University of Iowa Museum of Arts, International
Wood-fire Exhibition, 1999
Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, N.C., Wood, Salt,
Soda: Atmospheric Fired Ceramic, 1999
Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT, Woodfire
in America, 1996
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, Clay, Wood,
and Fire, 1996
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, Containers,
1992
Wheeler-Seidel Gallery, New York, NY, 1990–1992
University of Iowa Museum of Arts, American Woodfire,
1991
awards
and professional activity
Currents, wall mural installation, University
of NC, Asheville, 2007
Parade of Life wall mural commission, Yodogawa
Christian Hospital, Osaka, Japan, 2006
Presenter, “Clay - The Art of Earth and
Fire” Hotchkiss symposium, Lakeville, CT,
2006
Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen Memorial Outstanding Women
of Connecticut Award, 2003
One Earth, One Family wall mural commission, Hartford
Hospital, Hartford CT, 2002
Presenter, 1st & 2nd International Wood-fire
Conf., Iowa University, 1991, 1999
Founded Still Mountain Center to foster East–West
artistic exchange, 1998
Featured in The New York Times; The International
Herald Tribune; House and Garden; Ceramics Monthly;
Studio Potter; wood-fired Stoneware and Porcelain
(Jack Troy); Whimsy in the Garden (Martin &
Brown).
Ruth Chenven Foundation grant for kiln construction,
1986
Wakayama Museum award in ceramic sculpture, 1981
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