NOW: Color & Clay -- A Duet / Ceramics, Joan Libby Hawk, Paintings, Jana Millstone
Meet the Artist
Handmade Contemporary Ceramics
Whether creating handmade stoneware, white porcelain or Japanese raku pottery, I approach each pieces as a distinct and individual character.
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.
Just the Facts...
ART and DESIGN: Exhibiting 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 -- 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.