Aptos, CA
Details
- Dimensions
- 18ʺW × 15.5ʺD × 26ʺH
- Period
- 2020s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Stoneware
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Orange
- Condition Notes
- Mint Condition, Original Hand-Made, and Hand-Painted Condition, Unaltered Mint Condition, Original Hand-Made, and Hand-Painted Condition, Unaltered less
- Description
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This fantastic and colorful pot with its’ distorted body and twisted handles has a playful name that is typical of …
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This fantastic and colorful pot with its’ distorted body and twisted handles has a playful name that is typical of Mattie, he likes to play with words sometimes. Thrown with high-fire stoneware on his potter's wheel and then manipulated when it is still wet he distorts. the body. It has a texture produced with his custom patterned rollers and is painted with low-fire underglazes for its bright colors. It is signed on the bottom.
This is a very multi-colored piece with shades of oranges, reds, yellows, purples, blues, greens, with a black and white checkerboard pattern.
Mattie’s General Bio:
Working in his magnificent and expansive garden studio in the Santa Cruz CA redwood Mountains Mattie Leeds has a strong innovative and complex style that incorporates serious spiritualism with a witty sense of humor. His work is in museums and private collections internationally and is extensively exhibited.
With a multidisciplinary approach, he is constantly experimenting with the mix of abstract modernism and his formal studies in ancient Asian artistic traditions defining his powerful and colorful individual style.
Coordinating with the mountain microclimate Mattie generally throws pots in the winter and paints in the summer. Each work consists of multiple layers of application. Beginning at the potter's wheel this master potter builds monumental vessels of stoneware up to 8’ high as well as fine diminutive utilitarian porcelain pieces.
Employing his varied innovative techniques some phases could be embossing a texture achieved with custom patterned rollers or applying raised cartouches and novelties, totem lids, and undulating handles. Sometimes there are distorted manipulations of dynamic pops and punctures in the walls of the pot at the early wet stage. The larger pieces can take days to dry thoroughly and then they might be high-fired in his giant walk-in kiln or in his huge salt-fire kiln. This may be followed by lower temperature firings to achieve the intense color and texture in the layers of underglazes depicting provocative and animated imagery of man and beast as well as abundant patterning using his fluid brush painting style and deconstructed modernism to express his limitless creative imagination. less
Aptos, CA
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