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Featured Artist: Tom Friedman
Tom Friedman is a Newton potter who combines his love of simplicity, repetition and nature in different forms from teapots to Japanese cups to vases to platters. His current work (“Flat Forms and Nature”) touches on the serendipity offered by the wide variety of organic tools offered from the clay arts.
Working in brown and white stoneware, he has built his canvases for the current exhibit from platters of different shapes, sizes and thicknesses. He has decorated somewhat freely like an abstract painter with slips of different dark hues. His drawings, when they mature under the great orange and yellow flame of the blazing kiln, begin to form for the imagination. Some renderings- the duck and the mountain- are clear to the observer, while others require the observer to look harder and deeper for the shape of a forest or a rocky beach. It is the trick of the mind and eye that allows the observer to contemplate what it might be or what it is.
To aid the mind in focus and decision on shape and meaning, the platters find balance with subtle backgrounds from blue-ish blacks to strong sandy whites to deep forest greens. This exhibit is not meant to be taken literally, but to become a provocation for daily joy and relish of the possibilities.
For more information about potter Tom Friedman, please go to his Facebook page.
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