The “Artful Collection” exhibit features 2 guest artists and 43 member artists.
Ann Testa and John Toki are our guest artists. Members’ artworks include paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and wearable art.
The exhibit is curated by ADAS Blackhawk Gallery Show Committee, Pete DeFao, Debby Koonce, and Kerima Swain.
Exhibit Dates: December 5, 2014 through February 15, 2015
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday 10AM-8 PM and Sunday 11AM-6 PM. Holiday hours: December 24-closes at 5pm; December 25-closed; December 31-closes at 5pm; January 1-closed.
Reception: Saturday, December 6, 2014 from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Wine, Hors d’oeuvre and jazz music will be provided. Free to the public.
Our Guest Artists:
Ann Testa
Ann Testa lives in Orinda, and works out of her studio in Berkeley, California. She has been active in ceramics continuously since 1976.
Ann does functional work in addition to the non-functional raku featured on this website. She first studied ceramics at the University of California at Davis and has continued with many ceramics classes since. She was a founding co-owner of the Davis Clayworks in Davis, California, and an active member of the Artists’ Collaborative in Sacramento. While living on the east coast from 1988-94 she was a juried member of the Kiln Club’s Scope Gallery and the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. Currently, she is a member of the Berkeley Potters Guild (Berkeley).
Ann is an exhibiting member of the Association of Clay & Glass Artists of California and served on the Board of Directors of the Potters Council. Her work is exhibited in a number of galleries in northern California, including the Pence Gallery (Davis), Valley Art Gallery (Walnut Creek), and Klein Gallery (Lafayette).
John Toki
Born in the Bay Area into a family that savored the rich Japanese tradition of ceramics, John Toki has worked in clay for over 35 years. A respected studio artist and adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in Oakland, Toki is also the president and owner of Leslie Ceramic Supply Company in Berkeley, which his parents founded fifty years ago, and the co-author of several notable books on ceramic sculpture.
Toki speaks about the satisfaction of working with clay: “It can be used for large-scale works, as well as more intimate pieces, with equal success. You can apply color by painting, glazing or mixing it into the clay. It’s a quiet activity that you can manipulate with only your hands, you don’t need tools really. You can use it for representational works, as well as abstraction. And I really like the physical presence of clay.”
Toki’s large-scale sculptures in clay and porcelain possess a timeless quality, inspired from forms found in nature (mountains, water, snow, sky) and suggest archaeological elements, yet they have a unique freshness in their technical complexity and resulting visual appeal. His work has been shown in the US, the Netherlands and Japan. He has completed public commissions and installations in Richmond, Berkeley, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, and Cincinnati.
Member artists:
Akio Aochi, Dana Beebe, Claudia Bossert, Phyllis Brady, Paul Cotter, Barbara Davies, Don DeRoeck, Peter DeFao, Bobbi Garrop, Lynn Glenn, Beryl Glen-Reiland, Gene Gracey, Greg Gutbezahl, Kathie Hackler, Debby Koonce, Roseann Krane, Tom Lemmer, Andrea Markus, Cory Marshall, Claudette McDermott, Elena Morris, Trent Nahas, Wendy Oliver, Julia O’Reilly, Lin Padden, Harika Piccone, George Rammell, Vicky Richardson, Michael Rizza, George Robertson, Joanne Robinson, Betty Rothaus, Goldie Schnitzer, Pat Smith, Greg Starnes, Mary Claire Stotler, Doug Stout, Kerima Swain, Radha Syed, Jill Tishman, Tony Michael Vecchio, Norma Webb, Charles White.
IMAGE GALLERY
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