Holt, Lisa & Harlan Reano – 14″ Tall Storage Jar with Cochiti Cloud Designs (2005)
$ 4,000.00
This is an impressive large storage jar by Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano. They make an amazing team, working to create innovative pottery using traditional techniques. Lisa makes the pottery and it is painted by Harlan. This jar has a round storage jar shape with a short neck. There is a skill to making a storage jar shape to achieve such a roundness of form along with the amount of volume it takes up for painting. The neck and top of the shoulder have classic Kewa (Santo Domingo) cloud and star designs. Around the center of the jar are very tightly painted classic Cochiti rain clouds and a large sunflower pattern. The imagery is detailed and perfectly painted! Near the base are mountain designs. The jar is painted with wild-spinach plant (black) and red clay slip. It was traditionally fired for a nearly perfect coloration of the cream-colored clay. It is signed on the bottom, “Lisa Holt & Harlan Reano”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.
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This is an impressive large storage jar by Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano. They make an amazing team, working to create innovative pottery using traditional techniques. Lisa makes the pottery and it is painted by Harlan. This jar has a round storage jar shape with a short neck. There is a skill to making a storage jar shape to achieve such a roundness of form along with the amount of volume it takes up for painting. The neck and top of the shoulder have classic Kewa (Santo Domingo) cloud and star designs. Around the center of the jar are very tightly painted classic Cochiti rain clouds and a large sunflower pattern. The imagery is detailed and perfectly painted! Near the base are mountain designs. The jar is painted with wild-spinach plant (black) and red clay slip. It was traditionally fired for a nearly perfect coloration of the cream-colored clay. It is signed on the bottom, “Lisa Holt & Harlan Reano”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.
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Holt, Lisa (b. 1980)
Lisa Holt & Harlan Reano
Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano make an amazing team, working to create innovative pottery using traditional techniques. Lisa makes the vessels, and Harlan paints them. Lisa learned to make pottery from her mother, Inez Ortiz, and she is also a niece of Virgil Ortiz, Janice Ortiz, and a granddaughter of Seferina Ortiz. The materials are all traditional as the red and cream are both native clays while the black is wild spinach (a plant). Traditional forms and designs have become modernistic interpretations of cultural imagery. Lisa and Harlan have won numerous major "Best of Pottery" awards for their pottery at the Heard Indian Fair, Autry Museum Indian Fair, and Santa Fe Indian Market. They are also featured in books such as "Talking with the Clay," and their work can be found in museums nationwide. They are definitely among the leading younger potters working today!
