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October 2011 Newsletter

Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter

Welcome to our monthly newsletter! It is part of our website indigostreetpottery.com , which you can browse from this page if you click on the subjects in the header. We write here about our studio, arts events, projects, studios of our friends, garden musings, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Hope you enjoy it!

August 13, 2011: 2011 Annual Art Auction, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Colorado www.andersonranch.org

May of 2012: Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome, 2-person exhibition, Plinth Gallery, Denver, Colorado http://plinthgallery.com/

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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. Jeff Reich Solo Show at Kean University, New Jersey

3. 50 From 6: Ceramic Invitational at Southern Utah University

4. Oil Painters Visit Indigo Street Pottery

5. Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

Welcome to our monthly newsletter! It is part of our website indigostreetpottery.com , which you can browse from this page if you click on the subjects in the header. We write here about our studio, arts events, projects, studios of our friends, garden musings, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Hope you enjoy it!

Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

email: indigostreetpottery@me.com

May - June, 2014: Jeff Reich, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University Galleries, Kean University, Union, New Jersey http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/

September 25 - November 8, 2014 : 50 From 6: Contemporary Ceramic Art From Six Rocky Mountain States, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah https://www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery/

November 6 opening, fair November 7 - 9, 2014: 21st Annual Sofa Chicago, Farraday Newsome represented by Katie Gingrass Gallery http://www.gingrassgallery.com http://www.sofaexpo.com

May 16 - July 5, 2015: Farraday Newsome, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York

http://www.clayartcenter.org/default.asp

50 from 6: Ceramics Invitational at Southern Utah University

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Oil Painters Visit Indigo Street Pottery

Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

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Jeff Reich Solo Show at Kean University, New Jersey

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Farraday Newsome, Darkness is a Garden, glazed terra cotta teapot, 9 x 12.5 x 9”, 2013

These are the salad days in our late spring garden, just before the big heat of the Sonoran summer descends! Our basket is holding Red Romaine, Simpson’s Black-Seeded, and Red Oak leaf lettuces, nasturtiums, Yellow Detroit beets, and few green onions. Our go-to salad dressing these days is 50% fresh orange juice, 50% balsamic vinegar and a couple tablespoons of chia seeds. We shake it all together and then wait about 15 minutes for the chia seeds to swell, which thickens the watery dressing to a more clingy consistency. Yum!

Pineapple Guava flowering. We have yet to have any fruit set, but this shrubby tree is still only a few years old. In the meantime, the flowers are delicious!

Peppers and sweet peas growing under the desert-adapted Anna’s Apple tree.

We’ve tied the developing seedstalks of our Lacinato Kale (AKA Dragon Kale) into a bunch so they don’t flop onto the trail as we wait for the seed-filled pods to mature.

Jeff Reich will have a solo exhibition in the Nancy DryFoos Gallery, Kean University Art Galleries, Kean University, New Jersey from May 15 through the end of June, 2014. The show, entitled Interwoven, will consist of ten wall-hanging sculptures, including a triptych, and four standing sculptures. http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/Upcoming.html

Reich states,

The clay sculptures I create are inspired by natural formations, such as boulders fallen upon each other, or a tree’s erratic growth during drought. Geometric forms allude to the manmade. Leaning forms conjure images of tentative balance.

My glaze compositions consist of two-dimensional fields superimposed on the three-dimensional surface of the clay. Windows of glaze drawings bring glimpses of repetitive plant forms. Thorny, sometimes leafless plants, like Allthorn, adorn the surface by means of glaze sgraffitto. Textural glazes invoke thoughts of clay cracking on dry river beds. Black reminds me of night when the desert is cooler.

I grew up in Michigan surrounded by water. Later, when I moved to Arizona, I was surrounded by mountains. My choice of colors, glazes and form convey my interpretation of nature's presence around us.

Jeff’s work is stoneware, glazed and fired to cone ten in a reducing gas kiln.

Jeff Reich, Desert Emergence, central section of wall-hanging triptych, glazed stoneware, 17 x 15 x 9”, 2014

Jeff Reich, Desert Emergence, left (16 x 16 x 9”), and right (17 x 15 x 9”) sides of wall-hanging triptych (center section in photo above these), glazed stoneware, 2014

Jeff Reich, Intertwined, views of both sides, glazed stoneware, 12 x 10 x 9”, 2014

Jeff Reich, Remnants of My Desert, glazed stoneware, 17 x 12 x 5”, 2014

Jeff Reich, Leaning, glazed stoneware, 8 x 10 x 12”, 2014

Jeff Reich, Interwoven, glazed stoneware, 18 x 17 x 14”, 2012

Jeff Reich, Allthorn, glazed stoneware, 23 x 18 x 18”, 2012

Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich are included in the invitational exhibition 50 from 6: Contemporary Ceramic Art from Six Rocky Mountain States, curated by Professor Susan Harris and Assistant Professor Russell Wrankle, The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University. The show will run September 25 - November 8, 2014.

https://www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery/index.html

We had the recent pleasure of having two oil painters set up and work en pleine aire at Indigo Street Pottery. Deborah White’s in-progress painting is on the left, Shari Jones’ is on the right. It was so fun to have them work here!

Jeff Reich, Agave, hanging boxy wall tile, glazed stoneware, 23 x 19 x 2”, 2012

Red Acre Cabbages and onions growing under the Mid-Pride Peach and Texas Blue Giant Fig tree.