GAYLE FICHTINGER
QUICK FACTSYears As An Artist
30 years Main Clay Body Terracotta Primary Clay Building Methods Handbuilding & carving Favorite Studio Tool Kitchen paring knife found buried in the kiln yard when in graduate school in Arizona Clay Wishes or Dreams To have excellent exhibitions and representation |
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Gayle Fichtinger’s ceramic sculpture is the outcome of intensive nature study in New England and her sabbatical travel to China researching scholars stones and Yixing ceramics. Through her work she responds to her natural forested environment. Working in terracotta or red stoneware clay, she sculpts natural objects from observation. Carving and mark-making define surface pattern and textures. The clay is fired without glaze to preserve the color and integrity of the material and be closer to its natural state. Her work is meant for contemplation.
ARTIST BIO
Gayle Fichtinger is an artist based in New London, New Hampshire. She is a former professor of foundation studies at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia from 2006-2020 and foundations coordinator and faculty at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire from 2000-2006. Fichtinger holds a MFA in ceramics from Arizona State University in Tempe and a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her works are included in numerous private collections as well as the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, Danforth Museum of Art, Erie Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, the Czech Ceramic Design Agency, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. Articles and reviews of her work have been published in Garland Magazine, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and The Boston Globe. Her work is featured in Marvin Sweet’s book, The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar published by the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing,
CONTACT INFO
Visit Gayle's website https://www.gaylefichtingerartist.com. Contact her at by email at [email protected].