Aug 30, 2025
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Ceramic Rain Chain WIP
Simone Leigh in her Brooklyn studio. In the March 28, 2022 issue of The New Yorker there is an inspiring article about the artist Simone Leigh (@simoneyvetteleigh). Calvin Tomkins writes, “Leigh didn’t call herself an artist until 2001, when she was a single mother raising her daughter, Zenobia, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, and for years after that she had to struggle with an art world that looked down on ceramics, her chosen medium, as a material for hobbyists or studio potters. Her boundless energy, superb craftsmanship, and expanding vision kept her going, and the breakthrough, when it came, was so decisive that an invitation to represent her country at the Biennale seemed foreordained.” Despite the dig at the lowly studio potter, I found the article moving in so many ways.
Photograph by Braylen Dion for The New Yorker
Lucie Rie Vase with Flaring Lip
Impressed with Artist's seal (to the underside). Porcelain with manganese glaze and sgraffito design. height: 18.5cm.; 7¼in.; diameter: 12cm.; 4¾in.
Pottery Plate with spiral made by Samantha Henneke, Bulldog Pottery
Dame Lucie Rie
An Impressive Footed Bowl, 1970′s
Porcelain with a manganese and sgraffito decoration
Source: Sotheby’s
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Cactus Planter