Gallery of BC Ceramics www.galleryofbcceramics.com Representing the best of BC Ceramics Gallery Manager Sharon Cohen galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com 604.669.3606 || Hours 10 a.m.to 6 p.m. | Gallery Assistants Carita Ho, Karen Lew, Linda Lewis, Kate Metten, Dave Carlin Roxanne Gagnon, Sasha Krieger, Gala Vlasic staff@bcpotters.com | Gallery Volunteers Maggi Kneer, Sheila Morissette, Elizabeth Claridge, Jinny Whitehead, Celia Rice-Jones | The Gallery of BC Ceramics is a Zallery by potters for potters. i The Gallery coordinates and curates several exhibitions a year. @ Every month we showcase an artist, usually someone just starting his or her career. & We also sell the work of more than 100 artists in the retail shop. Artists must apply to be juried; there are three deadlines annually. To download and print a Gallery Jury Application, click here. “ For information on Gallery ad Policy, click here. POTTERS our COLUMBIA a 2011 Featured Artists ‘The Featured Artist slot affords a non-juried artist the opportunity to sell work in the gallery for a month-long period. All Guild members are eligible to apply, and may show work other than the mugs and tiles to which non-juried potters are usually restricted. Please apply (include images of your work) directly to the gallery manager at galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com. ‘The following artists will be featured beginning on the 15th of the month listed: ¢ February: Shannon Merritt * March: Trezlie Brooks ¢ April: Kelly Austin * May: Ann Rusch * June: Molly Magid * July: Laurie Embree * August: Don Jung * September: Danny Kostyshin * October: Rona Hatherall September's featured artist Danny Kostyshin: ] have been working with clay since the late 1960s, despite the trials and tribulations of setting up studios over these many years, and having them disappear from under me as buildings change owners and/or are demolished. It is very difficult to work in the medium of clay without access to kilns, studio space etc., as an urban potter. Now I am a member of the Burnaby Potter’s Guild where I work and have access to a gas kiln. My works in the Featured Artist spot are examples of slab built boxes. The textures on some are from wallpaper samples rolled onto the fresh clay slabs. They are all hand- assembled and the rim is cut into the leather hard clay for a tight fit on the lid. In 1988, HIV/AIDS was still a taboo topic. ‘The general election of 1988 contained a real lack of safe sex discussion. I created Political Condom Boxes for the candidates running in that election. I also created a condom box for George and Barbra Bush. I recently created a condom box for the Pope, as he has declared that it is okay to use condoms. George and Barbra Bush’s Condom Box, by Danny Kostyshin. By 1999, I really wanted to capture the approaching millennium change over. I created a series of large porcelain thrown plates that, when dated and signed, would say something about that specific few hours in which the piece was made. I invited well- known artists to come and work on one of the freshly thrown plates. Artists included Sally Michener, Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov, Wayne Baerwaldt, Francesco Conz and Attila Lukacs. This 30-plate Millennium Plate Project, can be viewed online here. As I have matured, my work has gone in many directions, sometimes hand building with slabs, sometimes throwing functional ware, even coils and pinch pots. My work in- volves the love and use of the handmade in our daily life routines, as it relates to eating, drinking, food presentation, and functional art. 2011 Gallery Exhibitions MAY: Spottery A non-juried members’ show featuring work with a dot or spot motif. On till May 29. JUNE: First Serve Emily Carr graduates, Kelly Austin, Darcy Greiner, Emma Walter and others begin their conversation with the ceramic community in Vancouver and the art world in general. JULY: Celebrate the Bowl A non-juried members’ show featuring bowls in support of Project Empty Bowl. SEPTEMBER: Classic Forms Revisited Works by Mary Fox. A new interpretation of classic vase and amphora forms that have inspired Mary's ceramics. NOVEMBER: Wide Open A juried show of small works by members of the Alberta Potters Association, this exhibition is one-half of an exchange with the Potters Guild of BC. eee Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - September 2011