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GAYLE FICHTINGER

QUICK FACTS

Years 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

​The current ceramic sculpture by Gayle Fichtinger is informed by the micro/macro worlds found in New England forests and Chinese scholar stones. She collects mossy tree stump pieces, assembles them into landscapes on clay bases then sculpts these models in realistic detail. Surfaces become fields of texture through mark making and the terracotta clay is fired without glaze for its color and to be closer to its natural state. In the gallery space she sets up landscape environments using sculptural groupings. Her work is meant for contemplation.

ARTIST BIO

Ceramic sculptor Gayle Fichtinger is a Professor of Foundation Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia. She holds an M.F.A. in ceramics from Arizona State University in Tempe and a B.S. 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 Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and The Boston Globe. Her work has recently been included in Marvin Sweet’s book, The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar published by the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China, 2006.

CONTACT INFO

Visit Gayle's blog at https://blog.scad.edu/gfichtin. Contact her at by email at gaylefichtinger@gmail.com.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2020
    • SIp: A Ceramic Cup Show 2019 >
      • Sip 2019 opening reception
      • Sip 2019 closing reception
    • Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2018 >
      • Opening Night
      • Closing Night
    • SIP 2017 >
      • SIP 2017 Opening Night
      • Sip 2017 Closing night
    • SIP: A Ceramic Cup Show 2016 >
      • OPENING NIGHT
      • CLOSING RECEPTION
    • Savannah Clay 2019
    • SAVANNAH CLAY 2015
  • Artists
    • Eliot Joanna Angell
    • Lesley Anton
    • Lisa Bradley
    • Jessica Broad
    • Eric Clark
    • Mitzi Davis
    • Gayle Fichtinger
    • John Jensen
    • Heather Knight
    • Jillian Luse
    • Colette Oliver
    • Yves Paquette
    • David Peterson
    • Stephanie Sanders
    • Rebecca Sipper
    • Austin Smith
    • Trang Vu
    • Nancy Waterhouse
  • RESOURCES
    • SHIPPING CUPS FOR SIP
    • Interviews
    • Articles
    • Calendar
    • Learn
    • ARTIST ESSENTIALS