John Gill
Chutney Bowl
John Gill is a ceramic artist, as well as a professor at Alfred University since 1984. He is known for creating abstracted teapots and pots that contain modernist geometric forms and bold colors.
During his undergraduate studies, Gill became enamored with the history of pottery, especially that of ancient China and Persia. Mastering the technical aspects of these traditions, he began to develop his signature style, incorporating the forms of both urban and natural landscapes, such as the shapes of pitched roofs, soaring smokestacks, and boulders lining a mighty river. Gill brings a painterly touch to his ceramic renderings of these forms, citing painters Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, and Giorgio Morandi as major influences, and referring to his own works as “endless paintings.”
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