Works of Tim Rowan Exhibition "Continuity"

Thank you for coming to Tim Rowan's exhibition " Continuity ".
The show was a great success, we are glad to have this opportunity to showcase Tim Rowan's recent works.
We still have many pieces  from the exhibition, please stop by when you are around.

TOMORROW 6pm-8pm Tim Rowan "Continuity" 10/3-10/5

We are pleased to announce that Sara Japanese Pottery will present the seventh in a series of event to celebrate our 25th years anniversary.
The artist, Tim Rowan, who’s stalwart designs inspired by natural clay and rock, says,

“I start with a particular shape, usually derived from some industrial relic. Then I begin working. A connection develops with the material and process and, at the best of times, I am no longer directing but responding to some sort of inner feeling or drive. In a sense it then is a spiritual practice and the material and process become irrelevant. The forms could be anything but they resonate a certain power that gives the work strength.”

 –Tim Rowan

The event is Tim Rowan’s first solo exhibition at Sara Japanese Pottery. We present his newest works to you with great pleasure and excitement.
Please join us for our artist reception TOMORROW from 6pm until 8pm.

* Open Hour *
October 3rd, Fri.  10 am - 8 pm   Artist Reception  6pm - 8pm
October 4th, Sat. 12 pm - 6 pm
October 5th, Sun. 12 pm - 6 pm

Tim Rowan was born in 1967 in New York City and grew up in Connecticut along the shore of Long Island Sound.  His art education began during college, receiving a BFA from The State University of New York at New Paltz before journeying to Japan for 2 years to apprentice with ceramic artist Ryuichi Kakurezaki. Upon his return he worked briefly in studios in Massachusetts and New York before receiving his MFA from The Pennsylvania State University. 


He established his kiln and studio deep in the woods of the Hudson Valley in 2000, where he lives with his wife and son. He has worked as an artist-in-residence at several studios, including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, and the Fuping Ceramic Art Village, Shaanxi Provence, China. His works are are seen internationally in solo and group exhibitions and in museum collections, including the Currier Art Museum in Manchester, NH, and the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton, MA. Most recently, Tim was awarded the prestigious Janet Mansfield Ceramic Award from the International Ceramic Magazine Editors Association, 2013.  

 

Tim Rowan Exhibition "Continuity " 10/3 -10/5

Tim Rowan
- Continuity -
October 3^rd Fri.  – October 5^th Sun.
Artist Reception October 3^rd Fri. 6pm-8pm

We are pleased to announce that Sara Japanese Pottery will present the seventh in a series of event to celebrate our 25th years anniversary.
The artist, Tim Rowan, who’s stalwart designs inspired by natural clay and rock, says,

“I start with a particular shape, usually derived from some industrial relic. Then I begin working. A connection develops with the material and process and, at the best of times, I am no longer directing but responding to some sort of inner feeling or drive. In a sense it then is a spiritual practice and the material and process become irrelevant. The forms could be anything but they resonate a certain power that gives the work strength.”

 –Tim Rowan

The event is Tim Rowan’s first solo exhibition at Sara Japanese Pottery. We present his newest works to you with great pleasure and excitement.

* Open Hour *
October 3rd, Fri.  10 am - 8 pm   Artist Reception  6pm - 8pm
October 4th, Sat. 12 pm - 6 pm
October 5th, Sun. 12 pm - 6 pm

 Tim Rowan was born in 1967 in New York City and grew up in Connecticut along the shore of Long Island Sound.  His art education began during college, receiving a BFA from The State University of New York at New Paltz before journeying to Japan for 2 years to apprentice with ceramic artist Ryuichi Kakurezaki. Upon his return he worked briefly in studios in Massachusetts and New York before receiving his MFA from The Pennsylvania State University.  

He established his kiln and studio deep in the woods of the Hudson Valley in 2000, where he lives with his wife and son. He has worked as an artist-in-residence at several studios, including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, and the Fuping Ceramic Art Village, Shaanxi Provence, China. His works are are seen internationally in solo and group exhibitions and in museum collections, including the Currier Art Museum in Manchester, NH, and the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton, MA. Most recently, Tim was awarded the prestigious Janet Mansfield Ceramic Award from the International Ceramic Magazine Editors Association, 2013.
 

New Arrivals : Sculpture with Natural Stone by Tim Rowan

Naoki visited Tim Rowan's studio in Stone Ridge last week and brought his works.
His studio is located by the water reservoir, used to be a blue-stone pit.
The sculptures that we are featuring in this mail are made with blue stone from his property. Cracks remind us hatching eggs, these happened to come out naturally during the process of drying and firing.
We have more of his works, please come and take a look.

Sculpture with Blue Stone
W 12" x D5"1/2 x H 8"

Sculpture with Blue Stone
W 11" x D3" x H 4"1/2

 

Sculpture with Blue Stone
W 12"1/2 x D4" x H 5"1/2

Sculptural Box by Tim Rowan

For Tim and Shumpei's show, "Exchanging Fire," last December right after the snowstorm I made my way up to Tim's studio, in Woodbridge, New York.  It must be somewhere around 15 years ago when Sara first began showing Tim's artwork.  But even so, this was the first time since then that I went to his studio.  About two hours from New York City, driving on paved roads and then onto dirt roads, after a while we arrived at Tim's studio.
The studio is well organized and surrounding the kiln are all of his tools.  Whichever one you pick up, in an instant you can sense what an exceptional artist he is.
“ I no longer use a wheel because a wheel ends up restricting the form.”
Words that left an impression on me.  
 
Now then, this box.
Tim's artwork may be representative of the surface texture from a Bizen-style anagama firing, but the moment you glance at this piece your mood drifts to different place.
"Has this piece even been fired yet?"  I asked.
"It was fired in an electric kiln, and then polished." Tim answered.
To which I responded, "What?  I've never seen something like this!"
Whether or not I typically touch a fired surface, in the world of pottery that I am accustomed to I was stunned by this instance.  Cutting out a large mass of clay that was kneaded and compressed by nature alone, he took great caution to cut the shape of the box.  After firing it in an electric kiln, carefully applying the polish, whites, browns, and grays became more prominent in color and pattern on the surface.
 
Tim is not a potter.  It is more accurate to call him a sculptor.

* size : W 5" x D 4"1/2 x H 8"1/2


Tim と Shumpeiのショー " Exchanging Fire"を開催するにあたって、
WoodridgeのTimの工房を訪れたのは、去年の１２月の雪が降った後の事だった。
Timの作品をSaraで扱いはじめて、かれこれ１５年にもなるだろうか。
それなのに、その時が初めての訪問であった。New Yorkから約２時間、舗装された道路から、土の道へ入ってしばらく行くと彼のスタジオに到着した。
とても良く整理されたスタジオ、窯の周り、並べられた道具、どれをとっても一目で彼が素晴らしい作家である事を思わせる。
「もう轆轤は使わないよ。轆轤を使うと形が限定されてしまうから。」
印象的な言葉だった。

さて、この箱。
Timの作品は、備前的穴窯のサーフェイスが代表的であるが、この作品は一目見たときから違ったムードを漂わせていた。
「これはまだ焼いてないの？」私の問いかけに、
「電気窯で焼いてポリッシュしたのさ。」Timは答えた。
「えっ！こんなの見た事無いよ！」
普通、焼成されたサーフェイスは触らないのが陶芸の世界の常識だと思っていた私にはショックすら感じる事件だった。
自然の力で練り込まれた土のかたまりを切り出して来て、大事に箱形に切って、電気釜で焼いた後、丁寧にポリッシュしたため、白、茶色、グレーなどの模様がよりハッキリ表面に現れている。
Timは、陶芸家ではなく彫刻家なのであると改めて認識した。

Tea Cup Collections

As everyone knows, we are having really cold icy winter these days.
We need the time to break and to escape from the cold winter.
Here are our selections for your tea time, let's beat the cold and enjoy the rest of winter!

Face Cut Tea Cups
Hanako Nakazato

Scored Cup
Hanako Nakazato

Tea Cups
Jack Troy

Squared Cups
Malcolm Wright

Tall Cup
Shumpei Yamaki

Short Tea Cup
Shumpei Yamaki

Painted Cup
Kazu Oba

Shinogi Cup
Kazu Oba

Shinogi Cup
Kazu Oba

Face Cut Cup
Kazu Oba

Sculptural Cup
Tim Rowan

Sculptural Cup
Tim Rowan

Sculpture with Natural Stone by Tim Rowan

This is one of the works from the last exhibition, Tim Rowan's sculpture.
He wrapped the clay around the natural stone and  made a firing.
It came out with dynamic crack and exploded forms which happened naturally in the kiln, the contrast of texture showed up beautifully.
Please come and take a look, we have many of  his works now.

* size : W 11" x D 8"1/2 x H 6"1/2

Thank you for coming to Tim & Shumpei's Exhibition

We thank you so much for coming to our exhibition -Exchanging Fire- for the first series of 25th anniversary event.
As always, it is so wonderful to have this opportunity with their beautiful and powerful works with great artists.
Tim and Shumpei's works are still here, please stop by and take a look,  you will be impressed by their works.