I was extremely honored to have one of my Iron Teapots included in a special exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s brand new de Young Museum. The teapot show is part of a fabulous exhibition, The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, up through the beginning of January ‘08 (see de Young website for full details). I attended the opening (my first visit back to my long-lost homeland) and it was an INCREDIBLE show - and I’m not just saying that because my work was in it! Jason Walker’s piece blew my mind, as did Sergei Isupov’s (both represented by Leslie Ferrin Gallery, my dream gallery) and many others. There were 75 teapots in all, a virtual who’s who of contemporary American ceramics. A gorgeous color catalog is available - you can even buy it on-line for $29.95 and it is WELL worth the money…here’s the link for that. THANK YOU, Sandy, for making this all possible!!
The opening weekend was full of events for the artists and collectors, and many parties were held in Sandy Besser’s honor…we had tons of fun. Despite being shooed away by museum guards, my friend Whitney snapped this pic of me in front of my teapot!
November 15, 2007
My Teapot’s Debut at the De Young Museum!
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Comment by Kristen Kieffer — December 3, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
I visited the de Young today (with a friend of mine who is a modern art fan, which I can’t really claim to be…), and we stumbled into the teapot collection. Really amazing stuff. By far my favorite exhibit in the de Young. (in fact I liked it enough, it inspired me to google “de young teapot”, and I ended up here
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I definitely remember liking yours a lot. There were plenty there that were weirder (much, much weirder!), and I do like weird. But yours is one that, for one thing, I’d actually be happy to use as for serving tea. Very nice job.
Comment by rob — December 9, 2007 @ 4:53 am
Great work! Where can I see more of it?
Rob
Comment by Robert Lawarre — December 18, 2007 @ 8:30 pm
Hi!
Nice work, i was going through tea pot websight as i am in search of some teapots . you have done a nice work.
Martis
Comment by martis — March 5, 2008 @ 2:30 am
It is nice to see your tea pot is such a great collection, and the dress is quite stupendous as well- right down the alley of my black and white sensibilities.
Comment by Andrew Martin — April 19, 2008 @ 5:38 am