Artist Media Series
Contemporary
King Galleries - Indian Market 2023
Tammy Garcia
Susan Folwell
Autumn Borts
Les Namingha
Nathan Youngblood
Robert Patricio
Al Qoyawayma
Andrea Vargas
Steve Lucas
Jennifer Tafoya
Arthur Lopez
Historic
$ 600.00
Courtney M. Leonard has been called, “One of the strongest emerging voices in the field of ceramics today“. Her pottery is meticulously crafted to contain historical and cultural references, but also to make the viewer reflect on their own relationship with nature and sustainability. This is one of her dynamic clay “baskets”. She rolls out the coils and then “weaves” the basket. She is inspired by the Shinnecock baskets used for fishing. What makes these so dynamic are first the glazes she creates. The colors are beautiful and the surface often textural. The way the coils are woven actually creates strong clay vessels. The way they are made they can sit on a surface, or much like they are in the fishing villages, they are hung on the wall when not in use. On the wall they create their own beauty in the shadows and reflections! This piece is one of her open baskets and it is a cobalt blue coloration.
Leonard is a member of the Shinnecock Nation, has long been exploring those fraught relationships — between native and non-native people, between native people and their traditional hunting practices, and between all people and the natural balance of the world. The Shinnecocks, whose name means “People of the Stony Shore,” had taught the colonists how to whale when they first arrived on the South Fork. Garth Johnson of the Ceramics Research Center says, “Her art manages to be both poetic and political, and also simultaneously personal and universal”