Past Gallery Showings at Mugi Pottery

POTTERY BY REGINA WICKHAM : PAINTINGS BY CLARENCE KING

May 1 to 17, 2009

REGINA WICKHAM : POTTER

REGINA'S BIOGRAPHY
Regina Wickham has been working as a studio potter since 1972. She studied with Stanley Rosen at Bennington College, after early studies at Greenwhich House in New York and at Peters Valley in New Jersey. She has attended workshops with Hui Ka Kwong, Robert Pipenburg, Phil Rogers, among others. Since 1985 she has worked in the studios of Mugi Pottery and Soho Potters, NY. In 2000 Regina set up a studio and gas kiln in Cambridge, New York. She has shown her work in various galleries on the east coast, including Shelter Island Potters, NY; Gallery 668, NY; erl Originals, NC; Show of Hands, PA; Gallery 100, NY; Nikos Designs, Tarrytown; Valley Artisans Market, NY as well as Mugi Studios and Soho Potters.. Her work has been exhibited in the Strictly Functional Exhibit, PA.

CLARENCE KING : PAINTER

CLARENCE'S BIOGRAPHY
Clarence King lives and paints in Cambridge, New York, He studied studio art and painting at New York University and at the State University of New York at Albany. Clarence paints oil landscapes of the Hudson River valley and of rural upstate Washington County.

These recent landscape paintings are an attempt to make iconic images of the agricultural terrain of upstate New York. The subject matter is the ever changing weather, seasons,crops, and foliage and the geometries imposed on the land by generations of farming. The challenge is to depict these phenomena in an evocative and skillful way.

The still life paintings are of a few simple objects arranged on a table or reflective surface. Through careful observation and rendering, I try to elevate these mundane objects into something transcendent.

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POTTERY BY DAVID FRANK : PAINTINGS BY JIM ST. CLAIR

October 17 to November 2, 2008

JIM ST. CLAIR : PAINTER
PAINTER'S STATEMENT

For the past 20 years I have painted on a small workboat around the edges of New York harbor. I was drawn to the derelict overgrown industrial remains that, until recently ringed the city. Their silent isolation speaks volumes of other eras, histories and people long gone. The combination of industrial decay and encroaching irrepressible nature is a fluctuating blend of melancholia and hopefulness. Painting out there is a good excuse to spend a lot of time in a boat.

DAVID FRANK : POTTER
POTTER'S STATEMENT

I have made vessel forms out of clay, since 1969. The pieces that I design vary from the dishes you use, to the sink you wash in, to the vase that holds your flowers. It is my goal to have my pieces enrich your life everyday! I see my work as a narrative that speaks to you. Over the past five years, I have been busy introducing new glazes on to my pieces. I have my own gallery in North Guilford, which I use to display my work.

DAVID'S BIOGRAPHY
After graduating from Goddard College in 1975, David set up a pottery in Guilford, Connecticut. Rehabilitating the buildings of an old chicken farm and building his kilns. He has been making and selling pottery ever since. The buildings include a gallery that is open both by appointment and twice a year by notification using direct mail. While, David's main focus has been his own work; he has taught at the Guilford Art Center, Wesleyan Potters, Albertus Magnus College, Creative Arts Workshop, and the Wooster Craft Center. Currently, he is on the board of the Guilford Art Center. David has had two articles published in Ceramics Monthly and is in the permanent collection at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution and the Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich. David sees his work as a narrative, with each piece telling a story and having emotion. He is always happy to do orders and work with people on their own specific needs.

DAVID'S CV
Education
1975 Bachelor of Arts in Ceramic Form, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
1974 Special Student in Geology Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1974 Worked with Dona Teadoro, Oaxaca, Mexico and a "black ware" village San Bartolo de Coyotepec
1970 Studio Apprentice, Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, CT
1969 Worked with Professor Leopold Pospisil, Department of Archaeology, Yale University, New Haven, CT (working with pottery from Hirum Brigums Collection from Machu Pitchu, Peru)

Teaching Experience
1998-2004 Faculty Wooster Craft Center, Danbury, CT
1989-present Faculty Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, CT
1970-present Faculty Guilford Handcrafts Center, Guilford, CT
1999 Faculty Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT
1971-1982 Faculty Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
1971 Pottery and glass workshop, Franconia College, Franconia, NH

Administrative Experience
2004-present Board Member, Guilford Art Center
1982 Juror Guilford Handcrafts Center Exposition
1975-1982 Director Pottery Department, Guilford Handcrafts Center
1979 Curator "Approaching Clay Potters and Process" Guilford Handcrafts Center
1974-present Built and Operate my own Gallery in Guilford, CT

Permanent Collections
1999 Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1996 Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT

Published Articles
Taking a Closer Look, Ceramics Monthly May, 1999
Storytelling, Ceramics Monthly November, 1998

Additionally, David has built the following of his own design:

Ten soft brick gas kilns
Two hard brick soda/salt kilns
Three Raku kilns
One catenary arch salt kiln made with homemade castible
Ten kick wheels
Two glass furnaces, both tank type
One electric annealing oven
One "ground hog" kiln

Pottery by Victoria Bengolea and Paintings by Raphael Bueno

May 9 through 25, 2008

Victoria Bengolea

Born in Argentina, Victoria lives in Paris since 1979 where she currently pursues her work. Victoria also teaches throwing and conducts research in high temperature gazes. She studies ceramics at the Institut de la Céramique Française, in Sèvres, France, as well as throwing with Thierry FOUQUET, Sèvres. Victoria participates in Barbara Wright's summer workshops on Shelter Island, New York.

POTTER'S STATEMENT:
"I produce containers aiming at simplicity and beauty as well as conformity to function and form.

I am constantly amazed by the depth, dimension and wealth of high temperature glazes. This is the field I work in following consistently the teachings and discoveries of Frere Daniel de Montmollin. Glazes go well beyond a color simply determined by its pigment; it resides at a level of surprise and fascination.

Containers are an exchange medium to receive and offer; they blend into our daily life with innumerable repeat uses that trivialize them. Despite this, they have always attracted me. In fact, to such an extent that each day I feel the urge to manipulate and re-appropriate them over again. And as I re-discover them, I am both the technician and a spectator of the pieces I create. So, I need to communicate and share these thrills."

Victoria's work is permanently displayed in her workshop in Paris. She exhibited on various occasions at:
   Shelter Island Pottery
   Ferme sur Grand Val, Sucy en Brie, France
   Galerie Artedomus, Vincennes, France
   Galerie Colline Fortier, Paris
   Pro Loco, Recco, Italy
   Celadon, Water Mill, Long Island
   Gallery M, Greenport, Long Island
   Estudio de Arquitectura, Inés Mendez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

43 rue Léon Frot
75020 Paris
France
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Rafael Bueno was born in Buenos Aires 1950. He lives and works in New York City and Paris. He is graduated as an architect at UBA University of Buenos Aires and studied drawing at the Asociación Estimulo de Bellas Arte, Argentina. Since 1974 he's shown his artwork individually as well as in numeros groups shows in Buenos Aires, New York and Paris.
Among them: Galeria Lirolay, Atica, Fundación Klemm, A. Indick, Adriana Rosenberg, Arte BA, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Centro Cultural Recoleta, CAYC, Museo Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, Museo Castagnino de Rosario, Espacio Giesso. America's Society NY, Grand Palais Paris, Albright Knox Buffalo NY, M13 Gallery NY, Howard Scott Gallery NY, Boltax Gallery Shelter Island NY, Hogar Collection NY, Cite Universitaire de Paris, IILA de Roma. Aina Nowack Madrid. He was awarded First Prize, Painting at the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina 1978, First Prize Architects painters at the Galeria Rodrigo Carmona, Air France Award 1984.

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Mugi Associates Show :: April 11 thru 27, 2008
Our Artists: Dina Amin : Chrissy Bevilacqua : Ellen Blumethal : Laura Burns : Beth Forman : Heidi Golan : Robin Klein : Raj Kumar : Ingrid Remak : Dara Witonsky