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Auction Ends: Oct 19, 2010 10:00 PM EDT

Art

Elegant Bottle with Bird Lid

Item Number
122
Estimated Value
400 USD
Opening Bid
83 USD  -  Item Has a Reserve

Item Description

Enjoy this elegantly designed sake bottle, or use it for your favorite beverage. Three individual components to the piece, the base is also the drinking cup. The body, and the lid, which is a twist type lid, remove to pour your favorite drink,  leaving you with a bird in the palm of your hand.

The piece is 10.5 in. h. made of porcelain, and the bird is paper porcelain and nichrome wire. Salt-Fired to cone 9.

 

Item Special Note

Bart Fetz obtained his MFA in ceramics at the University of North Texas 1995. Currently a instructor at Western Wyoming College.

Working with functional and sculptural forms in clay pursuing alternative methods of combining form, surface and content within the Functional Object.   

Clay is a material that so vastly differs in the ways it presents itself that it continually intrigues me as a maker. Clay is a microcosm of the universe, with its’ flux and seamlessness. Nature abides as dynamic change; providing the capacity for growth from destruction. Nature exists as perpetual continuity, where each and every particle is integrally interconnected.  I am committed to investigating this logic, continually defining these ideas within the aesthetics of my work.

Animal forms, and images inhabit my work, through unconscious and conscious impulses. Layers of significance- layers of form and surface, image, content, visual cohesion, functionality, may all be combined.  There resides in all things a kind of energy. I am trying to express this through the utilization of asymmetry within the symmetry of process…someone once wrote “it has a beauty as yet undiscovered by me.”

 

Showing nationally, at NCECA;( National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts.) “Seven Potters Follow Ohr” Heinz Center Pittsburg, Pa. 2008.

 NCECA, Tampa FL.  2011.

Showing Internationally, in Tokyo Japan, Gallery Broken; ”He She” 2008.

Kamakura, Japan,  Earth Gallery; “together and Apart” 2010

Gallery affiliations;  Gallery in the Woods. Brattleboro VT.