Posey Bacopoulos

Visions In Clay 2022

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Biography: 

Posey Bacopoulos is a studio potter working in New York City.

She studied ceramics at several craft schools including Penland School of Craft and Anderson Ranch. She also was a post bac student for a semester at the University of Florida in Gainesville

Her work has been shown in numerous national juried and invitational exhibitions. She has won awards in the Strictly Functional Pottery National and the International Orton Cone Box Show.  The work has been published in several books including The Best of Pottery 2, The Art of Contemporary American Pottery, 100 Artists 1000 Cups and several Lark 500 Books. Her work and process has also been published in other books and articles in ceramic magazines.

She has taught numerous workshops on both thrown and altered forms and majolica decoration at such places as Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Penland School of Crafts and many community craft organizations. She enjoys both making and teaching.

Artist Statement

 This Paisley Oval Box combines thrown, altered and hand-built sections. These sections are made separately on the wheel and then assembled. I enjoy altering the thrown form and working in this manner because it allows me to make pots of differing forms and shapes.

The majolica decoration is a contemporary approach to the majolica of the Italian Renaissance. The majolica glaze is very smooth and white, which makes a good surface for decorating. The various colors are applied with a brush to the glazed majolica surface to create the active patterns and decorations. The floral motifs on my pots are patterns rather than actual representations that serve to divide the space in interesting ways. I use the gold decals as a contrast to my painterly surfaces. The pots are then fired to cone 04 in an electric kiln. A third firing is used to apply the gold decals which adds another layer of excitement to the pot.

I love to make pots and I love to decorate.  I combine these two loves in my work. 

 


Paisley Oval Box
Majolica on Terra Cotta, Electric Fired to cone 04, Decals fired in a second firing to cone 017
8” x 7” x 5”
2022
$250