New Work in Clay: Chris Alveshere, Jeff Campana, and Matt Repsher

What these artists have in common are masterfully crafted works with sophisticated use of color and compelling surface treatments. Alveshere’ s pots are an investigation of items he finds curious, feels sentimental to-wards, or objects he find humor in. His work is made in long, continuous runs of produc-tion, altering commonalities of the forms, while adapting parts, proportions, and at-tachments. Forms, parts, and clay and glaze colors are curated to be strong and in-ventive. He prefers to work through repetition, replication, and multiples. Campana first become known for wheel-thrown pottery that was dissected and reas-sembled, yielding decorative lines with structural and psychological implications. After a decade working along a fixed process and concept, he needed a new experience in the studio which resulted in a new way of making molds, which are systemic in their de-sign and fully modular in use. Repsher’s process begins with constructing wheel-thrown vessels then dismantling them through carving a facade of structure that often pierces the wall of the pots. The pot form appears built by layers of arches, posts, lintels, and discs, all of which are refer-ences to architectural elements that influence him. The architecture of the pots is rein-forced by the surface painted on the form.

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