New Works! 2014/2015

Figures

Ceramic Shrine inspired by a piece from the 13th Century

"Miss Indecision 2015"

Blood Clay

"Eve" and "Leaning Boy"

Blood Clay/Stoneware Raku

"Picasso Ladies"

Blood Clay/Stoneware Sculpture

The Jovial Donkey

Blood Clay

 

Sculpture

Dubuffet Inspired 

Stoneware

City Series

"Metropolis"

Stoneware/Metallic Glazes

Cloud/Cathedral Series

Stoneware

Underglazes

City-Inspired Sculpture

New Works/Renegade Arts

Renegade Craft Fair!

Mid-Century Modern Style Inspired planters

Blood Clay

Orange/Yellow Wonderglazes

Planters Inspired by Architectural Elements

Stoneware

Raku Firing

Raku Fieldtrip!

"Industry" Series

Stoneware

Raku

Coaster Show

Cobalt Studios

June 15th, 2014

"City in a Coaster" Series #'s 1, 2, 3

Pen and Pencil Desk Sets!

 

Cobalt Studios

Collaboration Show

May 16th, 2014

Work collaboration between Mieke Zuiderweg and Jackie Orozco

Stairway Studios

Spring Show

May 3, 2014

Poetry Projection

Cobalt Studios

March 29th, 2014

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Waldorf Holiday Fair

 December 17th, 2013

"White City" Series

 

"Copper City" Series

"Dystopia" Series 2012

  

New work at the Ravenswood Art Walk Oct 5/6

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New work at Gallery 19's Art, Objects & Politics!

Gallery 19 presents Art, Objects & Politics, opening on Friday October 11th from 6:30-10pm.

Chicago Artists Month Article:

"Gallery 19 will explore the intersection between sculptural objects, art and politics by featuring two Pilsen artists Eric J Garcia is a political cartoonist what just recently was awarded the prestigious Kohler residency and Doug Britt Reyes an emerging ceramic artist who work explores modernist ideas in the ceramic medium."

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Statement:

 This "Industry" inspired series of ceramic sculpture is driven by the lingering factory landscapes of the Midwest’s Industrial Revolution. These giants serve as crumbling monuments to America’s former productivity.

Process:

Each factory is put through the Raku process. Taking the bisqueware structures, then heating them to a smoldering 2,000 degrees creates the perfect condition for extreme surface tension. In its heated state the red-hot silica that is the glaze is subjected to blasts of cold water. Cracks shoot down the surfaces, obtaining black pigmentation after being placed  in cans of burning newspaper. The process itself is reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution’s workers handling tongs and smelting equipment, moving the lifeblood of the Midwest through its paces. The crackled and aged-looking surfaces of the work serves as a reminder of the industry’s fading relevance in the face of cheap steel and goods production taking place in China and other low-wage counties.