CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS & PAINTINGS: Color, Texture, Character
Meet the Artist
Handmade Contemporary Ceramics and Paintings
Whether creating handmade stoneware, white porcelain or Japanese raku pottery, I approach each piece as a distinct and individual character. My paintings, whether acrylic, oil, watercolor, cold wax or collage, embrace materials that advance my vision.
My Journey
In 2017 I opened my Sarasota studio, returning to art after a career in New York City directing communications at NGOs, government and the United Nations promoting women's human rights and empowerment. LIBBY HAWK ART MAKER online gallery/shop , showcasing my contemporary ceramics and paintings opened March 1, 2021 timed to Women's History Month with 20% March online sales benefitting the Gulf Coast Chapter UN Women, USA.
Just the Facts...
ART and DESIGN: Recognized with 2021 Halo Arts Project Fellowship, exhibit at Art Uptown Gallery, 1367 Main Street, Sarasota, FL 34238. Member, Women's Contemporary Artists (WCA), Sarasota. MFA, City University, NY. Studied, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford; Bangkok Museum, Art Students League, NYC. Teach: Suncoast Technical College, Sarasota.
Color & Clay -- Duet, February 2021
This time in the real world. Joan Libby Hawk Ceramics and Jana Millstone Paintings: we expanded and scaled up the collaboration at Art Uptown, Main Street, Sarasota.
Color & Clay -- A Duet, May 2020
Joan Libby Hawk Ceramics and Jana Millstone Paintings -- together we created a unique collaborative exhibit that celebrates color, light and form. "We welcomed working together in a kind of jazz duet riffing off the play of light, negative space, transparent color." The installation provides a natural context that echoes how people actually live with multiple forms of art.
Vision / 20:20, Solo Show, February 2020
I've recently connected to painting, thriving in its contrast to handmade ceramics and the dialog that results. My approach in contemporary paintings, like my contemporary pottery, ranges widely, driven by inquiry and discovery. A definitive place may become an organized energy of color and brushwork and a non-existent state may be rendered with utmost clarity.