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Portland Store Gallery

Noah Starer

Opening Reception at Georgies: October 19th, 2-4pm

What is possible when we are completely open to surprise?

I’m Noah Starer, a Ceramics Artist from Ariel, WA. Early in life, I was lucky to meet artistic mentors who inspired me to view my world through many lenses. Having spent nearly 18 years as a social worker, doing ceramics as a part time hobby, I now embrace art as my full time passion. I am inspired by the universal, shared experience of humanity and intrigued with the function of art that dives into the unknown and causes people to ask, “What’s going on here?” It is here that I find the expression of my authentic self as artist. I approach my artistic process with a sense of exploring, tearing, breaking, expanding, in order to discover what the clay came to teach. The only boundaries are those of my own limiting beliefs.

In the same way that every piece is new and fresh to me, I hope my sculptures may catch you off guard, uncover an unexpected awareness, or reveal some aspect of your own story through the cracks, curves, lines and breaks in the clay. I invite you to ask yourself, what is begging to be discovered or revealed or celebrated or mourned?

Single, Collaborative & Theme Shows Coming Up

Interested? Email Pamela or call her at 503.283.1353!

Georgies of Eugene Store Gallery

The Artists of Local Clay

The artists of Local Clay recently shared some of their work with us as they prepare for their major fall showCLAYFEST 2013. Local Clay, as the clay arts craft association for central & southern Oregon, offers resources to a diverse membership of serious amateurs and professionals, potters and educators. People working in all kinds of ceramic functional ware, art pieces, sculpture, jewelry, and tile, and firing all types of kilns (whether gas, electric, raku, wood, or pit-fire) are all welcome. Click here for more information about CLAYFEST 2013 and Local Clay.

NOTE: This show is not currently on display at Georgies of Eugene while we rearramge the store fixtures. We just has so much fun with it that we wanted to share it one more time! There will be more shows at Georgies of Eugene in the future.

Click any piece to see a larger photo.

Peter Alsen	Peter Alsop	Elise Corin	Rhoda Fleischman

Leslie Friedman	Leslie Friedman	Karen Washburn	Karen Washburn

Anne Glancy	Anne Glancy	Anne Glancy	Avi Harriman

Ingrid Hanson	Ingrid Hanson	Ingrid Hanson	Diana Ryan

Annie Heron	Annie Heron	Annie Heron	Sue & John Siwinski

Online Gallery

This page is dedicated to the creativity of artists using Georgies Clays or Glazes (or both!) in their work. We invite you to click through the galleries to enjoy larger images of their creations and visit their websites to see more.

If you'd like to share your work in our online gallery, please send your photos for consideration to gallery@georgies.com. We can work with photos in most common file formats. And remember to send your artist's statement or biographical info too!

To browse the online gallery, click any filmstrip image to open full-size pictures. To navigate between pictures, click anywhere on the left side for the previous picture, or anywhere on the right side for the next. Click the X in the lower right corner or press the Escape key to close the full-size display.

Amanda Shaw

"I have had the opportunity to explore many artistic mediums, but ceramics has stolen my heart. No other craft is as challenging, complex, and exhilarating. I find that I go through moments of tranquility and then transition directly into moments of incredible suspense with each piece that I make. Sometimes the path is clear, I know exactly what I want from my materials. Other times, the clay or glaze has something else in mind and I have to feel out those moments and simply enjoy the process. I understand why people dedicate their lives to mastering ceramics, it can take a lifetime and still there will be more to learn!

My hands will forever be muddy, for I have found my heart's artistic passion in ceramics."

For more of Amanda's work visit Botanical Ceramics Northwest on Etsy.com.

Brizaida Medina

"My work is characterized by carrying positive messages, either from my culture or my life philosophy. Pieces like "We Are in the Same Boat" is how our actions may affect, rich, poor and people outside of our country. While the piece "A Caballo Vamos pal Monte" is based on a very popular song of Puerto Rico. In short, each of my creations has the purpose that the viewer feel identified with it and they enjoy the piece at any time that they see it."

Brizaida Medina is a Puerto Rican artist based in Evansville Indiana since 2008. Her full-time profession is engineer. She started as a professional artist in 2003 and has won several awards for her artwork and earned national and international recognition.

For more of Brizaida's work visit Brizaida Medina Studio on Etsy.com.

Christine Oster

"I hope my art brings more beauty into your life and a smile to your face."

"When I work in clay, I am reminded that I am not always in control, and that is a good thing. I begin by envisioning the shape and size of the project I am working on. Sometimes it ends up as I imagined, and sometimes the clay takes on a life of its own. I am learning to let it go, and often, that is when the magic happens. The process of making ceramic objects engages me so completely that I forget about the world and time.

"I recently retired to northwestern Montana, and for the first time in my years as a clay artist, I have my own studio. The beauty of my environment inspires me: mountains, rivers and streams, trees, deep blue sky, and white clouds. It's important for me to have work that feeds my soul; those pieces are my pendants and altered pieces. The pendants grew out of my love of jewelry, past experiences as a silversmith, and also my work with Precious Metal Clay. Because the PMC was so expensive, I began making my pieces with stoneware first to practice, and found that those pieces were every bit as beautiful and interesting as the silver ones. Plus, I could add more color to stoneware, which opened up lots of possibilities."

Christine Oster has been creating in one form or another since she began making mud pies, and later baking cakes and sewing, as a child in Columbus, Ohio. Her work in clay is a continuation of that creative passion.

For more of Christine's work visit R.eal A.rt W.orks Gallery & Gifts.

Jennifer Hill

"I create ceramic art of diminutive proportions that evokes a sense of containment and contradiction. A safe interior glaze makes the vessels technically utilitarian but certain pieces are designed with an unusual and rather perplexing structure for function. The tactile exterior develops a strong contradiction between inside and out through both color and texture. Some vessels are built with a rough, weathered construction, protecting an inviting satiny white smoothness. I live on Kauai where the flora of the land and sea is rich and luscious. My artwork is influenced by the textures of my environment and the clever devices nature enlists to thrive."

Jennifer Hill uses Amaco Velvet underglazes, Duncan Concepts underglazes for bisque,Georgies cone 6 clear glazes PG620 Transparent and PG646 Semi-Transparent Satin, and pigment stains. Before moving to Hawaii, she lived here in Portland and worked at Georgies. Her bauble vessels are hand-built, bauble by bauble. The cups and yunomis are wheel-thrown, trimmed, and textured by hand, mark by mark. All are fired to cone 5.5 in electric kilns.

For more of Jennifer's work visit www.jenniferhillceramics.com.

Liisa Rahkonen

"I do not have an image before I start working. I throw my slabs and just start cutting and ripping out random shapes. I follow the shapes that the pieces suggest: a human head here, arms like swaths of kelp there. Most are quite disparate and I have no clear pathway of how they will fit together until close to the end. Even then, I find myself cutting the finished piece apart and reassembling the pieces. Glazes are applied in layers, then sanded or rasped off, excavating layers of color."

For more of Liisa's work visit www.liisarahkonen.com.

Terri Axness

"I enjoy the complexity of clay, the endless possibilities, the challenges. The incredible northwest is so diverse and capturing elements of it in clay provides infinite subject matter. Currently, my work is celebrating where we live, town and country."

Terri Axness is a retired teacher, painter and potter known for the diversity of her work. Terri was raised in Baker City, Oregon. She received her BA from University of Oregon, MS in Education from Eastern Oregon University, and has taught art in public school for over thirty years. She works in acrylic, oil, pencil, watercolor and clay capturing a wide variety of subject matter from the serious to the whimsical.

(Photography by Megan Dorrah)
For more of Terri's work visit www.axnessart.com

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