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Andy G oldschmidt

“Connections”. Andy G oldschmidt. By: Susana Chan Shum Aug. 30, 2008 10 th Art. Introduction. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948.

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Andy G oldschmidt

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  1. “Connections” AndyGoldschmidt By: Susana Chan Shum Aug. 30, 2008 10th Art

  2. Introduction • Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948. • In 1973, he apprenticed with ceramic artist, Leo Tavella, for four years, before earning a degree in electronic engineering from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. (Leo Tavella is a well known Argentine ceramic artist) • Since 1976, he has been living in Los Angeles, California and in both Abiquiu and Corrales, New Mexico. • A restorer of ethnographic ceramics. • He became interested in the preservation and restoration of ethnographic ceramics because of the exploration of what other potters have done through the ages. • Since living in the southwestern US, he’s been specializing in the restoration of American Indian pottery, Pre-Columbian, African, and Asian ceramic antiquities, either prehistoric, historic, and contemporary. • His parents were art collectors, very interested in contemporary art and encouraged art appreciation. “Clay is really my love. I love that tactile sensation of it. I love the process and the feel of the clay. It’s quiet, relaxing, it’s silent…it fits my personality. I’m sort of a reclusive, quiet person, and clay sort of fits it.”

  3. Profile • The designs of his crafts are a link with the past and a continuation into the present of ancient Southwestern motifs found in pottery, weaving, basketry, and petro glyphs. • His general inspiration comes from finding connections between time and places, people and cultures, and in the timeless metaphors of the vessel and sculpture as the embodiment of man. • His ceramics costs range from $900 - $1200. • He also stated how it influenced him and what techniques he used to create it. “My earthenware vessels are finely crafted, coiled and burnished. More recently I have also been making more spontaneous stoneware sculptures intent on expressing human feelings and emotions in an abstract context. I find great pleasure in the challenge of giving the clay in my hands expressions of permanence, love, birth, growth, wonder and discovery.“ • Overall, his artwork is mainly about spiritualism, unity, and peace. He also conveyed many of natures sources, feelings, signs of tranquility, and religious artifacts. "...Other Goldschmidt decorative elements resemble Navajo weavings, an intriguing cross-relationship between two ancient crafts" Karen Mathieson, The Seattle Times "The elegant running spirals of Goldschmidt's vase have not been executed so successfully since the Cucuteni assemblage of the Late Neolithic in the Ukraine Dr. LeRoy McDermott, Professor of Art History, Central Missouri State University

  4. Vessels The vessels are built by the ancient method of coiling and pinching, a process by which a thick coil of clay is added to the walls and pinched into the shape and thinness desired. The clay is then left to dry - enough to support the next coil before the process is repeated. When the vessel is completed, the walls are painted with colored clay, then burnished and fired. Touch Burnished Clay 35" x. 10" x 10“ Coyote Burnished Clay 29" x 18" x 10" Desert Song Burnished Clay 30" x 15" x 8" Windscape Burnished Clay 25" x 12" x 9"

  5. Sculpture Two Equals One Stoneware 33" x 18" x 11" Spire Stoneware 22" x 12" x 9" Prism Stoneware 30" x 16" x 16"

  6. Plaques The Dance of LoveStoneware, gold leaf 18" x 16" ShieldEarthenware 16" x 18" DreamscapeEarthenware 16" x 16" SummerEarthenware 16" x 18"

  7. Menorahs These menorahs are about 7" high, 13"-18" wide and 2" deep. They are made from purposely stressed stoneware to give them the feel of antiquities.

  8. Exhibitions Publications 2002 "Andy Goldschmidt: sculptural vessels" - Steve Elmore Indian Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM2002 "Feats of Clay XV" - Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation, Lincoln, CA2001 "Thirteenth Annual Fine Arts Exhibition" - Old San Isidro Church, Corrales, NM.1997 Put A Lid On It , Frog Hollow, Vermont States Craft Center, Manchester, VT 1997 Objects of the Spirit II, Contemporary Jewish Ceremonial Art , Off The Wall Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1995 Winter's Work , Ventana Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1993 National Ceramic Invitational , Sylvia Ullman American Crafts, Cleveland, OH 1993 New Mexico '93 , Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1991-1992-1994-1996 Fine Arts in Corrales , Old San Isidro Church, Corrales, NM 1991 Ten Artists Working in Three Dimensions , Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA 1991-1995 Magnifico , Albuquerque Festival of the Arts, Albuquerque, NM 1991 Greater Midwest International VI , Central Missouri University Art Gallery, Warrensburg, MO 1991 Common Ground: Diverse Expressions in Clay , Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, NC 1990 New works , Contemporary Southwest Galleries, Santa Fe, NM and La Jolla, CA 1989 Contemporary Southwest Pots , Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA 1988 Contemporary Artists of the Southwest , Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK 1987 Clay in '87 , University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM 1986 Mastery in Contemporary Pottery , Santa Monica, CA September 1997, Albuquerque Journal , Article September 1997, Sandoval Arts , Cover Artist March 1995, Corrales Comment, Feature Article September 1991, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Article October 1990, Southwest Art Magazine , Article

  9. Sketches Footprints in The Sand Andy’s vessels, especially the one called Touch, inspired me to do a pot with footprints. The spirals and the curls make the impression of sand. This pot represents the sense of adventure and traveling. This would be a coil construction because it will give this pot the texture it was intended to.

  10. Bond The idea of unity and love inspired me to do this pot. I made this a slab construction because each side represents different kinds of people in different places, but there hands are still intertwined with each other. The plaque, Dance of Love motivated me to do something as joyous and universal.

  11. Bibliography • Http://home.earthlink.net/~agoldschmidt/publicat.html • http://home.earthlink.net/~agoldschmidt/index.html

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