May 23rd: Panel
“Miracle Mud”
“Miracle Mud” is a panel moderated by artist, curator, and active ATOA board member, Jerelyn Hanrahan, featuring contemporary ceramic artists working in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Panelists include: Mario Quilles, Sheryl Zacharia, James Marshall, and Max Lehman.
Moderator: Jerelyn Hanrahan
Jerelyn Hanrahan is an artist, curator, and Professor and Director of AOS Galerie works across cultural platforms. Her focus is on interactive public art, sculpture, ceramics, painting and conceptually based work. She has worked internationally with her curatorial work, which spans historically relevant works of art and contemporary art practice exhibited in museums, public art venues, galleries and art fairs. She completed her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in 2002.
She has been interviewed on three occasions for the PS1 / Museum of Modern Art radio station, and on National Public Radio, the BBC in New York and London, Telli –Bern in Switzerland, Air Canada in Toronto and on Havana T.V. in Cuba. Her work has been favorably reviewed by Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, Newsday, neue bildende kunst, Time Out Magazine, the Village Voice, NYArts, the Brooklyn Rail, Tages Anzeiger, Kunst Bulletin, Art Observer, Adbusters and The Resident, as well as many local newspapers and numerous international publications. Her work has received support from NCR Media Systems, Creative Time Inc., LMCC, Thundergulch, and the Pro-Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland, as well as the Puffin Foundation and support from Switzerland’s Fondation Nestle and Stadt Bern. Her work has been collected in public and private collections internationally. She is currently developing an extensive series of large scaled porcelain figurines and is an active member on the Board of Directors for Artists Talk on Art.
http://jerelynhanrahan.com/ - https://atelieronspringgalerie.com
IG: @jerelynhanrahan, @Atelieronspringgalerie
Jerelyn Hanrahan, Magi. Pearlized Porcelain on Granite Base, 23x12x12”
Jerelyn Hanrahan, Drummer Bunny, Porcelain on Granite Base, 15x6x6”
Jerelyn Hanrahan, Hero, Porcelain on granite base, 18x9x9”
Panelist: Sheryl Zacharia
Sheryl Zacharia was born and raised in the New York area and lived in Manhattan most of her adult life. At Southampton College, she majored in painting but spent many years pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter. She performed in the NYC club circuit for over ten years and is a published songwriter.
Missing her visual arts roots, she began working in clay which started her on a new artistic path. She studied and taught in various Potteries and has exhibited both locally and nationally. Her pieces have been published in magazines and books, and are in various Museum and private collections. Most recently she won an award for a piece in the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts ceramic biennial. She completed an eight month extended residency at The Museum of Arts and Design in NYC.
Though she admittedly considers herself a diehard New Yorker, she recently moved to Santa Fe New Mexico to live out her dream of being a full time artist with a home studio. She looks forward to a different pace where her energy can go into her work and she can enjoy the surrounding beauty and culture that the area has to offer.
IG: @szclay
Sheryl Zacharia, Over The Moon 2020. 21x17.5x5"
Sheryl Zacharia, Sunset Groove, 2020. 22x19.5x5"
Sheryl Zacharia, Mariposa Moderna, 2022. 17.5x16.5x5
Panelist: James Marshall
James Marshall’s education in the ceramic arts began with a pottery apprenticeship in Guatemala while serving in the Peace Corps. For two years he lived and worked with the Quiche, a Mayan First Nation tribe during his service assisting in a pottery cooperative and agriculture. In 1977 he began his studies for an MFA at the Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. John Stevenson and Rudolph Arnheim, author of “Art and Visual Perception”, were his mentors in the research, development and production of his work in sculpture. He graduated with an MFA in 1979.
James’ sculptures and drawings in clay, wood, bronze, copper wire, steel, graphite, and charcoal are included in over 200 public/private collections and museums, nationally and internationally. His work has been widely published in books, magazines, and newspaper articles.
For the past 20 years, James has been Program Head of Ceramics in the School of Art, Design, and Media Arts at Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM. As a teacher, he is committed to expanding the experience of the making of art to everyone. James lives and works in Santa Fe where he maintains two studios.
https://www.jamesmarshallsculpture.com/
IG: @jamesmarshallsculpture
James Marshall, Cyan Lava #351. Glazed ceramic,33x38x7"
James Marshall, Black Graphite #397, 2016. Glazed ceramic, 33x38x7"
Panelist: Max Lehman
Max Lehman was born in Fort Knox Kentucky and grew up in Phoenix Arizona and attended college at Arizona State University in the 1980s, majoring in Intermedia (now Media Arts), with a focus on video and installation. Max’s knowledge of ceramics came by practical experience. While attending ASU, he apprenticed at the F&R Pottery Studio in Cave Creek Arizona Later he went on to work for the Red Horse Clay Company. In 1990 Max relocated to New Mexico and currently lives in Nambé, just north of Santa Fe. The primary focus of his creativity is storytelling, character creation, and imaginary worlds.
His work employs a variety of ceramic construction techniques including slab, extrusion, hand modeling and slip casting. The work is geometric and brightly colored, with imagery influenced by folk art and pre-columbian culture. Max ‘s teaching experience includes the Summer Ceramic Workshop at Otterbein University in Westerville Ohio, Santa Fe Community College, and Santa Fe Clay in New Mexico.
https://www.maxdna.com
IG:@maxdna
Max Lehman, Happily Ever Afterlife. Earthenware, Underglaze, Paint 60”H 15”L 15”W
Max Lehman, Gidget Goes to Saturn. Earthenware, Underglaze, Paint, 36”H 12”L 18”W
Max Lehman, City on the Edge of Forever. Earthenware, Underglaze, Paint and Wire 64”H 20”L 20”W
Panelist: Mario Quilles
Mario Quilles grew up in the Bronx and attended the High School of Industrial Arts in New York City before going on to receive his degree at The Cooper Union School of Art. Post-graduation, Quilles worked as an Art Director in New York’s advertising world, residing in his Soho loft for over 20 years.
In 1985, he moved to Los Angeles to continue his education at Glendale Community College, where he went on to study Ceramic Arts, glaze chemistry, Taki, and low firing techniques. Making his way to Portugal in 1990, Mario paid a visit to an old friend in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has been living there ever since. He currently resides in Las Vegas, where he continues his ceramic artwork practice.
Quilles’ work has been shown in various exhibitions and galleries in Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, N.C., Los Angeles, Kansas City, San Angelo, Texas, San Diego, CA and Santa Fe. His upcoming show will open on September 1st, 2022, at Aurelia Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is also part of the permanent collection of the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Mario Quilles, Light and Shadows. Stoneware, 27x10"
Mario Quilles, Underwater Stories, 20x15", Very Early Ocean Shell, 12x8"