Alex Matisse (MA/NC, b.1984), East Fork Pottery, Large Ovoid Floor Vase

wood-fired alkaline and slip glazed, highly ovoid form with a short neck below a rounded mouth, two wide strap handles applied at the upper shoulder, the body is carved with a long-stem foliate design on both sides. Potter's signature glyph on the handles.
32 x 14 in.
Great-grandson of Henri Mattise, pottery artist Alex Maisse, is the co-founder of East Fork Pottery located in Madison County.

Alex apprenticed in the workshops of North Carolina potters Matt Jones and Mark Hewitt. In their workshops Alex gained an appreciation for the traditions of the Anglo-Oriental school of Leach, Hamada, and Cardew to the folk pottery of the south-eastern United States and many places between.
Alex describes his own work as “a fusion of pre-industrial country traditions in both process and material. It is fired in a large wood burning kiln and made of as many local materials as the chemistry will allow, while still affording me the physical attributes necessary for my aesthetic decisions.”
Private Collection, Virginia
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Good condition.