Carol Gentithes (Seagrove, NC), Large Pottery Goat

Contemporary, hand-built ceramic, painted head and transfer decorated body featuring natural elements and human caricatures, and gilt luster bell to neck, signed to underside.

22 x 13 x 16 in.

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

At Johnston and Gentithes Studios Fred and Carol work together to process their own regional wild clays and fire them in electric, gas & wood kilns. The work is hand built and wheel thrown and the surfaces include salt & ash glazes, shinos, celadons, alkaline, underglazes, slips, and ceramic decals.

Carol's quixotic sculptures can be seen in vivid color. Abstracting from mythology, literature and life’s observations, the subject matter ranges anywhere from pictorial witticisms to political commentaries. They collaborate through their keen sense of the pottery vernacular and the historical canon of art and culture. Their vessel collaborations are an amalgamation of surrealistic and atmospheric surfaces which come from the wood firing process and the reconfiguration & distortion of commercial ceramic decals. (Artist biography courtesy of Potter's Market at the Mint Museum)

Good estate condition.

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