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Youngblood, Christopher – Black Jar with Five Hummingbirds and Flowers
5"w x 5.25"h
$ 4,000.00
Christopher Youngblood creates intricately carved vessels that reflect a perfect balance of matte and polished surfaces with intricately carved designs. This jar has a round body and a turned-out rim. The neck and base are carved with wind and cloud designs in the negative space. The body of the jar has five hummingbirds carved into the clay. Take a closer look as their wings are rounded out like melon ribs! Each bird is detailed in its carving and stone polished to a high shine. Next to the birds are flowers with five carved petals and each is fully polished. There is an exceptional amount of work on this jar in terms of the number of carved areas and that each section is individually stone polished! The piece was traditionally fired to a glassy black coloration. It is signed on the bottom, ‘Chris Youngblood”. Chris has won “Best of Pottery” at Santa Fe Indian Market and “Best of Pottery” at Gallup Ceremonials. He was featured in the book, Spoken Through Clay, and continues to be one of the leading young potters working today.
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Christopher Youngblood creates intricately carved vessels that reflect a perfect balance of matte and polished surfaces with intricately carved designs. This jar has a round body and a turned-out rim. The neck and base are carved with wind and cloud designs in the negative space. The body of the jar has five hummingbirds carved into the clay. Take a closer look as their wings are rounded out like melon ribs! Each bird is detailed in its carving and stone polished to a high shine. Next to the birds are flowers with five carved petals and each is fully polished. There is an exceptional amount of work on this jar in terms of the number of carved areas and that each section is individually stone polished! The piece was traditionally fired to a glassy black coloration. It is signed on the bottom, ‘Chris Youngblood”. Chris has won “Best of Pottery” at Santa Fe Indian Market and “Best of Pottery” at Gallup Ceremonials. He was featured in the book, Spoken Through Clay, and continues to be one of the leading young potters working today.
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Youngblood, Christopher (b. 1989)
Chris Youngblood
Chris Youngblood is Margaret Tafoya's great-grandson and Nancy Youngblood's son. His mother, Nancy, taught him to make pottery. He won the "Best of Class - Youth Award" at Santa Fe Indian Market and the prestigious "Best of Pottery" in 2014. In the 2010 Native People's Magazine, he was featured as one of the "Generation Next Emerging Potters" and recently featured in Native Art Magazine in 2016 as one of the "Three Potters Under 30" to watch. In addition, his "Best of Pottery" jar was featured in the book "Spoken Through Clay."
Chris Youngblood says that he focuses on each piece, taking the time to work on the shape and stone polish the surface to a high shine, often polishing it several times to get it right. Chris comes to the clay focused on expanding his illustrious family's technical and artistic boundaries. His manipulation of the clay surface through his technically inspired imagery expands the art in new directions.