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ABOUT RUTH

I took a ceramics class at UC Berkeley and was hooked.

In the middle of the night I woke from a dream, sat up and said “Wait, the garage!” and my studio was born. 

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The urns are finished with stacked beach pebbles. I have admired stacked rocks in nature.

 

Fortuitously found when one is unsure of the way to go, stacked rocks mark a

path in an unfamiliar landscape.

Pieces are available for sale through private appointment and at craft shows

and galleries.

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My work on display with Maddie Leeds' work at rrevv gallery.

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I make my own brass ribs to explore different curvature profiles. My forms are weighted at the bottom, middle, or top; each piece finding a way to hold its center.

 

I have found and become obsessed with the ageless black and white patterning of naked raku. I find the effect graphic and arrestingly beautiful: inky fractured drama embedded in the clay. This atmospheric firing is a collaborative dance with chance; I can control many aspects of the firing process, but never know what the end result will be. 

 

Each piece is one of a kind.

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Galleries 

Objects Art and More Irvington VA 2023

Baltimore Clayworks Baltimore MD 2023

Buxton & Landstreet Gallery Thomas WV 2023

Rrevv Gallery Santa Cruz CA 2021-2022

 

Shows

Baltimore American Craft Council Show, 2023 Baltimore MD 

Crocker Holiday Market, 2022 Sacramento CA

IS183 Art School of the Berkshires

July-September 2022, Stockbridge MA

Say Something:Tactile Voices in Clay  2022, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Schuyler NY

Holiday Market August, December 2021, El Cerrito CA

Blue Line Arts Bazaar 2021, Roseville CA

Black Squirrel Craft Show 2019, Berkeley CA

UC Berkeley Christmas Art Sale, 2018, 2017,

Berkeley CA

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