2025

Wall mounted weathered amusement park featuring Skeeball, Dodgems, Ferris wheel, to name a few. There are 9 sections each 20" wide. I was told I might be able to show the entire park if there is available wall space.

In a dream landscape the jaguar prowls through the jungle

Matt Becker creates handbuilt ceramics that are volatile, vibrant, and visually delicious. He thinks of his construction process as investigative play living on the edge of camp and chaos, and always is trying to interpret meaning, purpose, and empathy out of a world increasingly bent towards oversaturation, repression, and disaffection.

For 50-plus years, what has interested me and pulled me onward is making: my hands on the clay, investigating things for which I have no name. A rich vein, whose possibilities I feel privileged to mine.

These large carved wall tiles that are monumental in size and scale. I flattened the carved surface by using a matte glaze. I intended them to look like a sheet of metal. These pieces are been hung off the wall to show the raw edge and highlights its visual weight.

Susan Arnott is a ceramic artist in Cambridge, MA, who draws inspiration from colors, patterns and marks in natural and built environments. Using slabs, slips, underglazes and mark-making tools, she creates hand-built, functional vessels that suggest patina, residue, imprints left behind.

"Mom... what should I do?" I'd ask growing up, like all children do. As a busy single mother, she had a constant response: "Draw kids playing at the beach." I'd scoff and find another amusement. Today, I hope to honor her and finally draw kids playing at the beach.

Though I worked from a live model, I diverged into creating a narrative by placing the figure on a bed of lily pads and adding a frog at which the figure is wistfully contemplating.

I am currently creating my own kind of mythological creatures, a blend of toad and frog that incorporate human faces and gestures. Experimentation has been my style, humor my trademark, and the human condition my guide. My inspiration comes from my own mind, my family, and life's daily surprises.