Robert Snyder – Percolator
$3,500.00
Percolator – Porcelain, 12″ x 9.25″ x 5.5″, $3,500., Wheel-thrown and hand-built porcelain, fired to cone 5 then luster fired with silver luster.
About the Artist
Artist StatementI started life as a painter, mentored by Ilya Bolotowsky, Robert Dash, Wilhem deKoonig and Alphonso Ossorio.  As I was working on my Master’s degree, my closest friends were potters. They encouraged me to get on the wheel. So it started. I work primarily in porcelain. For many years I was strictly a wheel-throwing potter. The pandemic opened me to avenues that never existed for me. Now hand-building is part of all wheel-thrown pieces. I use real world objects as inspiration and create them to an eclectic and eccentric vision. Cultural insights and 30 years as an advertising Creative Director, have me always working on new concepts, new artistic strategies, opening new areas to explore. I believe pottery is the bond between the earth, art, and utility and serves as our emotional connection to our environment. The surface decoration is a blank canvas to capture an idea, convey a feeling, add a tactile element, accentuate a prominent pattern or shape. |
Artist BiographyI started life as a painter. I was mentored by Ilya Bolotowsky and Ibram Lassaw. I worked with notables such as Willem de Koonig, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Alphonso Ossorio and Larry Rivers. I worked as curator at The Parrish Museum in Southampton, The Guild Hall Museum in Easthampton, The Metropolitan Museum/Queens Museum and lectured at the Cloisters. And worked closely with Victor D’Amico on projects for the MOMA. I started making pottery during my Master’s degree in painting at Pratt Institute. But it’s hard to make a living as an artist so I became an advertising Executive Creative Director/Art Director and film director. I ran several agencies, served on their Board of Directors, owned my own agency. and managed healthy profits for my clients. I was an adjunct professor at The Art Institute of Phoenix, CMO at Arizona Clay Association and board member of the American Advertising Federation. |
