Installation View of work at Northern Clay Center, Emily Galusha Gallery, NCECA 2019, Trading Post: Exchange and Sojourn (exhibition title), 2019, Stoneware, Earthenware, Porcelain Paper Clay, Glass, Resin, Cotton, Kanthol Wire, Silica Sand (dimensions variable) Photo Credit-Northern Clay Center
Memory Pieced Strip Sampler Quilt: Trade, Commodity, Exchange & Goods - Trading Post: Exchange and Sojourn exhibition Northern Clay Center (NCECA 2019)
detail - Memory Pieced Strip Sampler Quilt: Trade, Commodity, Exchange & Goods - Trading Post: Exchange and Sojourn exhibition Northern Clay Center (NCECA 2019)
Memory Spoon: 'minding my garden, as they did with their gardens' 2021
Ceramic, Porcelain Paper Clay, Silica Sand, Black Sand, Resin, Dried Flowers embed, grown in my garden
L 13.5" x W 4.5" x D 4.25"
Memory Spoon: 'minding my garden, as they did with their gardens' (detail) 2021
Ceramic, Porcelain Paper Clay, Silica Sand, Black Sand, Resin, Dried Flowers embed, grown in my garden
L 13.5" x W 4.5" x D 4.25"
Memory Spoon: 'minding my garden, as they did with their gardens' (detail) 2021
Ceramic, Porcelain Paper Clay, Silica Sand, Black Sand, Resin, Dried Flowers embed, grown in my garden
L 13.5" x W 4.5" x D 4.25"
Memory Spoon: 'minding my garden, as they did with their gardens' (detail) 2021
Ceramic, Porcelain Paper Clay, Silica Sand, Black Sand, Resin, Dried Flowers embed, grown in my garden
L 13.5" x W 4.5" x D 4.25"
Memory Spoon: 'a new menu and new customers, from the Meal Market, to Merchants Coffee House, to the New York Manumission Society, c.1709 - 1785'
Ceramic, Cone 6 Oxidation, Porcelain Paper Clay, Resin, Silica Sand, Dried Flowers
*dried flowers embed in resin from my garden
L 15” x W 6” x D 3”
Memory Spoon: 'a new menu and new customers, from the Meal Market, to Merchants Coffee House, to the New York Manumission Society, c.1709 - 1785'
Ceramic, Cone 6 Oxidation, Porcelain Paper Clay, Resin, Silica Sand, Dried Flowers
*dried flowers embed in resin from my garden
L 15” x W 6” x D 3”
Memory Spoon: 'a new menu and new customers, from the Meal Market, to Merchants Coffee House, to the New York Manumission Society, c.1709 - 1785'
Ceramic, Cone 6 Oxidation, Porcelain Paper Clay, Resin, Silica Sand, Dried Flowers
*dried flowers embed in resin from my garden
L 15” x W 6” x D 3”
Memory Spoon: 'a new menu and new customers, from the Meal Market, to Merchants Coffee House, to the New York Manumission Society, c.1709 - 1785'
Ceramic, Cone 6 Oxidation, Porcelain Paper Clay, Resin, Silica Sand, Dried Flowers
*dried flowers embed in resin from my garden
L 15” x W 6” x D 3”
Memory Spoon: ‘in a Hardenbergh kitchen cellar, a garden grew inside her spirit’ 2021
Ceramic, Porcelain Paper Clay, Glass, Silica Sand, Resin, Dried Flowers (grown in my garden)
L 13.5” x W 7” x D 2.75”
Memory Spoon: ‘in a Hardenbergh kitchen cellar, a garden grew inside her spirit’ 2021
Ceramic, Porcelain Paper Clay, Glass, Silica Sand, Resin, Dried Flowers (grown in my garden)
L 13.5” x W 7” x D 2.75”
Memory Basket: ‘transatlantic passage, planted, picked, transformed, sold, traded, sewed, stitched, separated to then be quilted’
Earthenware, Wire, Cotton (Sea Island, Nankeen, Arkansas Green Lint, Red Foliated, grown by artist)
Cone 3 Oxidation
2020
Detail
Memory Basket: ‘transatlantic passage, planted, picked, transformed, sold, traded, sewed, stitched, separated to then be quilted’
Earthenware, Wire, Cotton (Sea Island, Nankeen, Arkansa Green Lint, Red foliated, grown by artist)
Cone 3 Oxidation
2020
Memory Spoon: ‘from Huys de Hope to Assam’, remembering Matu and Tuktuki
Porcelain Paper clay, Silica Sand, Epoxy
Cone 6 Oxidation
Memory Spoon: ‘the elegant parlor and special room of Harriet Forten and Robert Purvis’ (1810-75), (1810-1898), porcelain, paper clay, resin with embed flowers (from garden of artist), cone 6 oxidation, silica sand, black sand
detail - Memory Spoon: ‘the elegant parlor and special room of Harriet Forten and Robert Purvis’ (1810-75), (1810-1898), porcelain, paper clay, resin with embed flowers (from garden of artist), cone 6 oxidation, silica sand, black sand
Chotsani Elaine Dean
Memory Spoon: ‘a receipt that requires sugar, a cup that needs tea, a garden that needs tending, a cup of coffee with dinner, a cotton dress to be mended’
Ceramic, porcelain, slip-cast, paper clay
16” x 3” x 2.5” - 2019
Memory Spoon: ‘from Huys de Hope to Assam’, remembering Matu and Tuktuki
Porcelain Paper clay, Silica Sand, Epoxy
Cone 6 Oxidation
Memory Spoon: ‘the elegant parlor and special room of Harriet Forten and Robert Purvis’ (1810-75), (1810-1898), porcelain, paper clay, resin with embed flowers (from garden of artist), cone 6 oxidation, silica sand, black sand
detail - ‘Memory Spoon: a receipt that requires sugar, a cup that needs tea, a garden that needs tending, a cup of coffee with dinner, a cotton dress to be mended’
Ceramic, porcelain, slip-cast, paper clay
16” x 3” x 2.5” - 2019
‘from seed to hand, mine’, Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Clay Slip, Kanthal Wire, Sea Island Cotton, Cone 6 Oxidation, 2018 - Chotsani Elaine Dean
'outbid, freed without money' - porcelain, kanthal wire, cotton, cone 6 oxidation (cotton grown by artist) - Trading Post: Exchange and Sojourn exhibition Northern Clay Center (NCECA 2019)
‘mijn bushel’ in Sojourner’s native language
Earthenware, Cotton (Sea Island, Nankeen Brown, Arkansas Green Lint, Red Foliated, grown by me)
Cone 3 Oxidation
2020
‘mijn bushel’ in Sojourner’s native language
Earthenware, Cotton (Sea Island, Nankeen Brown, Arkansas Green Lint, Red Foliated, grown by me)
Cone 3 Oxidation
2020
Memory Spoons: Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere, no.5: ‘on how Edna Lewis's family sent ham, eggs and cornmeal to her in NYC’; porcelain, paper clay, resin embed with flowers grown by artist, black sand, epoxy, cone 6 oxidation, 2019
Memory Spoon: ‘plantation values, the tension and only available pride, as she waits for her cotton bushel weight to be revealed, then a victim of her success for another’s reward’
porcelain, paper clay, resin embed with cotton grown by artist, black sand, epoxy
2019
Memory Spoon: ‘plantation values, the tension and only available pride, as she waits for her cotton bushel weight to be revealed, then a victim of her success for another’s reward’
porcelain, paper clay, resin embed with cotton grown by artist, black sand, epoxy
2019
‘the prayer to and word from God, when Isabella Baumfree changed her name’ (c. 1879 - 1883),
Stoneware, Porcelain Paper Clay, Silica Sand, Wire, 14" x 7.5" x 4.5", 2018
detail - ‘the prayer to and word from God, when Isabella Baumfree changed her name’ (c. 1879 - 1883), Stoneware, Porcelain Paper Clay, Silica Sand, Wire, 14" x 7.5" x 4.5", 2018
Memory Spoon: from Mr. Brown’s ‘Trading Post’: ‘Mr. Brown, steward of a Liverpool liner, gave up following the sea, hired a house on the north side of Thomas Street and fitted up a tea garden. (New York City, 1816-1817)
Ceramic, Porcelain, slip-caste, paper clay 13.5” x 5” x 4” - 2019
Memory Spoons: ‘Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere’, no.2 2017 - one spoon from series of 3
Plantation Sugar Jars: ‘for the washerwomen, maumas, exodusters, Jubileers’
Plantation Sugar Jar: no. 2 ‘for Chloe Spears, (1750-1815)”
Plantation Sugar Jar: ‘for Chloe Spears, (1750-1815)”, 2017, Porcelain, Paper Clay; 5.5” x3.75” x 3.75”
‘my bushel, mine’
Ceramic, Stoneware, Black Clay Slip, Wire, Cotton (grown by artist)
6” x 3.34”
2019
Memory Spoons: Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere, no.4: ‘Georgia Gilmore stood up in court, was fired and blacklisted, National Lunch Company’; porcelain, paper clay, resin, black sand, epoxy, cone 6 oxidation, 2019
Memory Spoon: ‘plantation values, the tension and only available pride, as she waits for her cotton bushel weight to be revealed, then a victim of her success for another’s reward’
porcelain, paper clay, resin embed with cotton grown by artist, black sand, epoxy
2019
Memory Spoon: ‘plantation values, the tension and only available pride, as she waits for her cotton bushel weight to be revealed, then a vicitim of her success for another’s reward’;
Porcelain, Paper clay, resin embed with cotton grown by me, black sand, epoxy
Appliqué Memory Basket: ‘Maria W. Stewart born, Maria Miller (1803-79), 97 years later’
Ceramic, Stoneware, Porcelain, Paper Clay, Glass, Silica Sand, Wire, Cone 10 Reduction, Cone 6 Oxidation
18” x 18” x 6.5”
2017
detail - Appliqué Memory Basket: ‘Maria W. Stewart born, Maria Miller (1803-79), 97 years later’
Ceramic, Stoneware, Porcelain, Paper Clay, Glass, Silica Sand, Wire, Cone 10 Reduction, Cone 6 Oxidation
18” x 18” x 6.5”
2017
detail - Memory Spoon: from Mr. Brown’s ‘Trading Post’: ‘Mr. Brown, steward of a Liverpool liner, gave up following the sea, hired a house on the north side of Thomas Street and fitted up a tea garden. (New York City, 1816-1817)
Ceramic, Porcelain, slip-caste, paper clay
13.5” x 5” x 4”
2019
Trade Cup and Saucer: from Dutch Point, 17th c.
Ceramic, Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Slip, Cone 6 Oxidation
6.5” x x 6.5” saucer
3” x 4” x 4” cup
2019
Trade Cup and Saucer: from Dutch Point, 17th c.
Ceramic, Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Slip, Cone 6 Oxidation
6.5” x x 6.5” saucer
3” x 4” x 4” cup
2019
(detail) Trade Cup and Saucer: from Dutch Point, 17th c.
Ceramic, Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Slip, Cone 6 Oxidation
6.5” x x 6.5” saucer3” x 4” x 4” cup
2019
Memory Cup and Saucer: ‘from a century of traded lives’
Ceramic, Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Slip, Cone 6 Oxidation
3” x 4” x 4” cup 6.5” saucer
2019
Memory Cup series: ‘what I would ask of Phillis Wheatley, our time for tea’ 2018
Memory Cup series: ‘what I would ask of Phillis Wheatley, our time for tea’ 2018
Commodity Cake Stand: ‘it isn’t the same without suiker’
Stoneware
Cone 6 Oxidation
2019
Memory Cup and Saucer: ‘from a century of traded lives’ - Ceramic, Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Slip, Cone 6 Oxidation
3” x 4” x 4” cup 6.5” saucer
2019
image from solo exhibition, Trading Post: Routes, Roots and Goods, at the Moon Gallery, Berry College in Rome, GA
Memory Pieced Strip Sampler Quilt: Trade, Commodity, Exchange & Goods - 2019 (install at 701 Center for Contemporary Art, South Carolina Biennial 2019)
Ceramic Tile, Stoneware, Porcelain, Black Clay, Cone 6 Oxidation, 58” x 26”x 1.5”
(detail) - Memory Pieced Strip Sampler Quilt: Trade, Commodity, Exchange & Goods - 2019 (install at 701 Center for Contemporary Art, South Carolina Biennial 2019)
detail - Coded Sampler Quil: no.2, ‘from the Nadir, I hear them’ Ceramic tiles, stoneware, porcelain, earthenware, Cone 04, 6, 10
Huys De Hope, Solo Exhibition, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina January - February 2020
Memory Pieced Timeline Quilt: ‘travel time from one trading post to another, remnants of settlement, consequence of trade and destructive value’
Stoneware, Earthenware, Porcelain
Cone 04, 3, 6 Oxidation, Cone 10 Reduction
2020
(detail) - Memory Pieced Timeline Quilt: ‘travel time from one trading post to another, remnants of settlement, consequence of trade and destructive value’
Stoneware, Earthenware, Porcelain
Cone 04, 3, 6 Oxidation, Cone 10 Reduction
2020
(detail) Memory Pieced Timeline Quilt: ‘travel time from one trading post to another, remnants of settlement, consequence of trade and destructive value’
Stoneware, Earthenware, Porcelain
Cone 04, 3, 6 Oxidation, Cone 10 Reduction
2020
detail - Memory Pieced Timeline Quilt: ‘travel time from one trading post to another, remnants of settlement, consequence of trade and destructive value’
Stoneware, Earthenware, Porcelain
Cone 04, 3, 6 Oxidation, Cone 10 Reduction
2020