In Tandem Gallery specializes in exceptional, functional, handmade ceramic art and studio pottery.
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These sooo reminds me of dripping frosting on a totally delicious bunt-cake. Don’t you just want to just put them to your mouth and know how they feel (and just imagine that they’re sweet as sugar?). I sure do. Well these precious pieces are by Indianapolis artist Noelle Hoover who accentuates her flowing white glazes with these great free form lines w/ radiating shading. They’re drawn with underglaze pencils and often refired a few times to create exactly the look she’s after. Stunning and super functional - just what I’d like in my Holiday stocking…
Our good friend Barry Rhodes stopped by this past week to drop off some of his newest work. It’s wonderful to see when an artist morphs and evolves yet retains all the qualities that made you fall in love with their work in the first place. He’s gotten a bit looser, a bit more subtle, with a more ‘atmospheric’ feel to his pieces 🥰. YET, there’s till the great patterning and that tactile quality that I just can’t resist handling…
So, take a gander at what I’m talking about and you won’t be disappointed.
No other way to put it - Bede is a Ceramics Icon! If you love wood-fired work; Bede is a master at it… Low-fired electric w/ gorgeous imagery; Bede does it in spades. There’s just no one way to explain what he does, at least for me. But he certainly says it wonderfully:
“I am on friendly terms with wood kilns and electric kilns, high fire and low fire. No matter the technique it really only holds merit if it leads to “good” pots, and for me good pots are not defined by a technique but most often by a healthy balance of energy/wildness and restraint/firmness.
I have always thought pots are a lot like people.”
Just Amazing!
Ok. I need everything that Kansas ceramicist Carol Long makes… but that peacock inspired lidded dish in the middle?? I can’t take my eye’s off of it. Everything about Carol’s work makes the ‘over the top’ phrase seem like an understatement - and it just warms my art-loving clay-adoring heart…I mean, COME ON! Her super-highly-decorated, Art Nouveau creations are just so very fanciful and dripping with color and organic to the max. And those embellishments on every square inch -superb!!
So peruse through and allow these gems to overtake your senses. You’ll thank me (and Carol Long) for it.
There is no way to express just how much I need to see something beautiful right now… and Taylor Sijan’s work hits that mark soooo spot on. Our very first show with Taylor was in 2019 when she was still a college student; but she had such an amazingly strong body of work that was incredibly high in quality that I was in complete awe of (honestly!)- and it sold out immediately… and her work has just kept evolving and getting even more lush in design and her glazing has softened and her colorations are even more cohesive, and I could go on and on and on.
So, thank you Taylor. My heart and soul really needed to be around your glorious pieces right now….And it’s helped immensely.
Recently, a dear dear friend/ceramics collector/philanthropist/and the most lovely human being you could ever know; out of the blue, sent us numerous boxes of work from her collection. She asked that we sell the pieces she sent and donate all the proceeds to our Bakersville non-profit to help w/ rebuilding our small and devastated town. Not only was this a huge delightful surprise but the pieces she sent were just FABULOUS! Just look at that Michael Simon tumbler, and that Mike Jabbur teapot!! And from the bottom of our hearts - thank you, you’re the absolute BEST💋!! So, please check out online this sweet show and as always - thank you for your support…
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Val Schnaufer has such an amazing sense of design - combining natural elements to manipulated elements that she uses as a framing device; highlighting those small beautiful things we don’t normally consider. That’s how I see her jewelry - slightly austere and oh so precious. Plus, there is an endless amount of variations in every piece. Here’s a soda fired choker she recently made... A good friend and a super talented artist. 💋Enjoy!
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My wife Silvia and I have only been in the gallery business for just over five years now (plus two more years spent managing Crimson Laurel Gallery). It wasn’t something either of us had a background in or even considered when thinking about a career or starting a business, but like many things that happen in life, it just happened. (…)
