Artwork > Abby Huntoon

Abby Huntoon, Intersect, ceramic wall sculpture, sawyer street studios, woman potter, deer isle maine
Ceramic wall sculpture
15.5x9.25"
2023
Abby Huntoon, pudgy, ceramic wall sculpture, sawyer street studios, woman potter, deer isle maine
Ceramic wall sculpture
10x7.5"
2023
Abby Huntoon, Bend, ceramic wall sculpture, sawyer street studios, woman potter, deer isle maine
Ceramic wall sculpture
14x7"
2023
Abby Huntoon, Dimples, ceramic wall sculpture, sawyer street studios, woman potter, deer isle maine
Ceramic wall sculpture
15.25x5.25"
2023
Abby Huntoon, Divided, ceramic wall sculpture, sawyer street studios, woman potter, deer isle maine
Ceramic wall sculpture
23.5x1.75"
2023
Abby Huntoon, Upended, ceramic wall sculpture, sawyer street studios, woman potter, deer isle maine
Ceramic wall sculpture
23.5x1.5"
2023

I have been working in clay for fifty years. I was a self-taught functional potter until I attended graduate school at Boston University’s Program in Artisanry and graduated in 1985. I moved to Maine and for twelve years pursued creating moderate to large scale sculpture with architectural references. During this period I completed and installed five large murals across Maine as part of the state’s Percent for Art program. After many years of embracing form as the focus of my work, I became attracted to the graceful curves and the surface possibilities of the open book whose pages can depict thoughts on relationships, personal quandaries, and travel reveries. I then moved on to spend several years focused on an ongoing interest, the contrasts within one piece. In this series, lively, free-spirited, twisting coils are compressed within the confines of a static, rigid form. In most cases the form is a vessel – a container that cannot contain.

Currently, my interest has settled on working with a very simple form and exploring how many modifications can be made while basing all-new shapes on this form. I have found it continuously interesting what can be expressed by bending, severing, and bloating this one form. With the simplicity of the final forms, I have been able to experiment with the subtle complexity of surface coloring. The range of size has stayed within the longest dimensions of 10” to 22”.