The Main Gallery is excited to announce their annual Mainly Clay show, which opens February 15^th and runs through March 18^th.  This year the gallery’s three-dimensional artists, Pixie Couch, Doris Fischer-Colbrie, Stephanie Harper, Nina Koepcke, Andrea Rosenman, Vicki Wilkerson, Susan Wolf and Susan Yamaguchi have come together to bring you exciting new work. Andrea Rosenman, a fiber artist and Stephanie Harper, a glass artist add a touch of something different than clay, thus “mainly” clay!  The gallery, located at 1018 Main Street in Redwood City, will host a reception with the artists on Saturday, February 18^th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Here is a small sampling of what you will find from the galleries three-dimensional artists for the Mainly Clay show:

“For amusement I have been playing with animals in utilitarian ware and in wall pieces. Some have taken the form of cake testers and others appear on platters. Birds populate wall pieces. All aim to delight,” states Doris Fischer-Colbrie.  In addition, Doris’s constant exploration of surface treatment of vase forms continues.

By pressing clay bits onto cardboard boxes she uses for molds, Pixie Couch says she makes “boxes from boxes.”  After making two of the same box, the pieces are joined together to make a closed box form. A hole in the top and feet are added and “voila” they become small vases, making wonderfully unique gifts.

Couch is also continuing her wall angel series, stretching out clay for wings, and incorporating the human face into the pieces.  Couch exclaims, “I have a new lovely white matte glaze that I’m using for my functional bowls, cups and plates. It gives the brushwork decoration a soft, pastel quality.”

Although Susan Wolf doesn’t think of it as a theme, most of the work she presents for this show has to do with butterflies. The Rain Forest Exhibit at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco inspired Wolf and “she knew she needed to do something with butterflies.”  Wolf goes on to say that when she makes butterflies out of clay, “they are far more earthbound than I had hoped, but then, clay is about as far away from butterfly wings as one can get. I’m getting some of the colors that I want, and at the moment I am trying to finish a set of teapots with butterflies, that, I am hoping, will convey some of the lightness!”

Nina Koepcke has several themes and sources of inspirations for The Mainly Clay Show; Nursery Rhymes, word play on themes and titles, combining earlier work with new elements to refocus the meaning of the original pieces, and combining found objects with clay images.  These lively playful pieces will add that “bit of whimsy and joy” to help remind us to never stop “playing”.

Don’t miss seeing a sampling of some of the Peninsula’s best three-dimensional art at The Main Gallery!