Visions In Clay 2023
Upcoming Events
Gallery Reception
August 31 • 5:00 – 7:00 p.m..
Horton Art Gallery (Shima 144)
Virtual Reception
Saturday, September 9, 2023 • 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Event Recording
Gallery Exhibition Hours
Monday – Thursday • 11 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Friday • 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Saturday, September 9, 2023 • 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
The Horton Art Gallery presents the 14th Annual Visions In Clay Exhibition, August 28 – September 21, 2023. Admission to the Gallery exhibition and reception is free and open to the public.
This year’s exhibit features 55 works by 46 artists from around the country, including five Delta College Alumni students: Abraham Alvarez, Bonny Barker, Samantha Holcomb, Zoe Nelson, and Melodie Sidhu. We are all so very proud of our Delta art students - Go Mustangs!
Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Professor of Ceramics and Product Design at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, was this year’s guest juror who selected the artwork and awards for the exhibition. The awards were given for a body of work in three award categories (Best of Show $800, 2nd Place $600, 3rd Place $400) sponsored by the Horton Gallery Foundation, and the San Joaquin Potters Guild presents a $300 Founders Award each year, also selected by the juror. There is a fifth award for $800 funded by San Joaquin Delta College for a Regional Artist-in Residence selected by Ceramics Professor Shenny Cruces. The Regional Artist will present a ceramic art demonstration and artist talk to the ceramics and sculpture students. The awards will be announced at the Opening Reception on Thursday, August 31st.
The artwork in the exhibition and show awards selected by the juror was based on creativity, quality of execution, unique content and form, as well as technical skill. Sculptural forms and exquisitely decorative functional works make up the body of the exhibition.
Visions In Clay was founded by the San Joaquin Potters Guild in 2002 through 2007, and turned over to the Horton Gallery in 2010 to continue presenting the ceramics-based exhibition. Visions In Clay is the largest exhibition of ceramic works in the San Joaquin Valley.
Visions In Clay Awards
Bonny Barker, Best of Show
Joe Schumacher, 2nd Place
Suhn Lee, 3rd Place
Lois Harbaugh, San Joaquin Potters Guild Founders Award
Ianna Nova Frisby, Regional Artist-In Residence Award
Exhibiting Artists:
(Click on photo/name for more information and details.)
To purchase artwork, please contact the Gallery: jan.marlese@deltacollege.edu
I am a ceramic sculptor living on the Big Island of Hawaii. I primarily work with porcelain and my work is primarily...
Through coil building methods I use the clay medium as a form of meditation. As if I am passing mala beads through my...
His artwork uses ornamentation and narrative as artistic allies in the creation of VOCOs (Vessel Oriented Ceramic...
Barker uses hand building techniques to construct large scale animals from coils and slabs, sculpting in fine details...
I use my own history of trauma, abuse, and disability to create objects that are at once culturally recognizable and...
The investigative properties of the Mechanical Movements series are focused upon the mechanical objects or artifacts...
The unknown, uncertain and unexplained are the driving forces behind my creative process. Primarily made from wheel...
I make sculptures of prehistoric animals that represent the wonder to be found in natural history. I am intrigued by...
I am drawn to the human figure due to its familiarity and accessibility. Clay, as an immediate and responsive medium,...
“I am representing ideas culminated from my observations about our dependency on raw materials that shape technological...
Incorporating his love of comic books and science fiction, Eaton creates ceramic sculptures that are humorous, thought-...
My work is a collection of self-portraits that surmise past moments, feelings and memories from my childhood....
Time Transfixed is an homage to Rene Magritte’s painting of a locomotive blasting out of a fireplace. It was created...
HandWork, the recently developed series by Sandy Frank, focuses on the variety of expressions found in hand gestures....
Perhaps the pandemic had something to do with it. I’ve noticed clay is going mainstream in a way not seen since Demi...
My first image of One Nest, as a starving fledgling and human infant nested together, formed upon hearing of the Yemen...
My work references personal history while maintaining a universal visual language. I think the world can be...
The two plates of “Figuring Out Ceramics” literally took a decade plus to make: low-fire drawing and underglaze...
Making objects with my hands gives me immense pleasure. I have always been fascinated by fabrication, building and...
I have always been a creative person and tend to show my love by making art for friends and family. I love to work with...
Santa Clara-based artist Pancho Jiménez explores the elusiveness of dreams and memory. Joining together molded forms,...
Reinvention and transformation of a physical and spiritual nature motivate me.
An act of connecting to construct a...
Bryan Hiveley & Judith Berk King Collaboration
In this body of work, form and surface are combined to meld...
"I approach the composition of my work with spontaneity and immediacy, discovering the form during the process of...
I work in clay which is very elemental stuff: earth, fire, air, sometimes water, and it is an epic, journey. What I...
Her work examines time, psychology, repetition, and the tension between our inner and outer worlds. Her practice is...
We belong to millenniums of mark makers, builders and curious creators.
Or, we are part of some grand simulation -...
I am a figurative artist, focusing on people, animals, emotions, simple truths and states of mind as my themes....
My work is a contemplation on material, process, and object metaphors that juxtaposes the medium of clay with reclaimed...
My work is an exploration of the intersection between painting and ceramics. When I paint, I burn, cut and sew my...
Zoe Nelson completed their undergrad in Spring 2022 with a BFA in Ceramics at CSU Sacramento where they explored...
I have been immensely inspired by the character of President Zelenskyy. He is a courageous, passionate leader who has...
Humans are not my artistic focus. Truth be told, I'm not feeling very charitable towards my species right now, but if I...
“I have directed my consuming interest in the native peoples of the Americas into my own personal art expression. I...
In my work I subjectively consider human physiology and psychology while objectively analyzing our connection/...
The inspiration for “Bob’s Bait Shop” and “20 miles north of here” comes from my experiences growing up in northern...
I am very honored to be selected for this exhibition. My work is inspired by looking at nature. I believe that by...
I am a lifelong Iowan and a 1987 graduate of the University of Iowa. My interest in art began during my childhood, when...
My ceramics practice is an exploration of form and design. It also serves as a reflection of my cultural heritage....
I'm exploring constructed open forms in ceramic. Precarious experimentation and inventing the process as I go motivate...
My main medium is clay with which I use a variety of hand building techniques. Slabs are sheets of rolled or ponded...
I’ve always wanted to be a ballerina and out of that dream came my most recent series of “Angel Dreams” in clay (Raku...
Sarah Zeigler and Matthew Skelly have been creating ceramic art together since 2021. While both produce work...
My ceramic practice is a material investigation guided by process. I create iterative systems of production that...