Susan Thayer
Susan Thayer (born 17 October 1957 in New York, NY) is an American ceramicist known for her intricately painted porcelain teapots.[1] Inspired by her grandmother's china as well as by historical European ceramics, she often combines traditional elements with other more contemporary designs in her work.[2] In order to maintain a high level of detail, Thayer must often fire each individual piece between ten and twenty times.[1] She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Education and career
Thayer graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, in 1982 with a BFA in ceramics.[2] After graduation, she remained in Providence and opened a porcelain production studio, though by 1986 she grew discouraged by "the limits imposed by the demands of production."[3] This discontent led her to begin creating one-of-a-kind pieces,[4] drawing on originality rather than the uniformity of mass production. These pieces are often inspired by traditions such as the ceremony and grandeur of a dinner table in all of its propriety: set with dishes on placemats and with multiple spoons, forks, and knives designated for different courses.[3] In addition to serving as an image of tradition, the dinner table—like the teapot—also suggests the notion of people coming together in a ritualistic setting.[5] In conjunction with this classic imagery, her distinctive teapots are also inspired by change, which she perceives as "both desirable and inevitable."[3] That sense of change manifests itself in her teapots as slight alterations of the original form: the perfect spouts start to lengthen or warp, or surface designs are rendered in glow-in-the-dark paint.[3]
Work
Thayer has stated:[5]
My forms are vessels, their contents stories. All stories are mysteries or they wouldn't be stories. I invite the viewer to freely interpret these scenes, creating a narrative as in a dream. Although no longer functional in the literal sense my teapots retain their association with the participatory event of taking tea. Whether in a social context such as the tête à tête or larger tea party or through the meditative act of taking tea alone, the teapot itself speaks of inclusion.
Thayer's work is fluid in nature and intentionally "imperfect."[6] She does not take on commissions, preferring to follow her own ideas.[6]
Thayer's pieces are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[7][5] the De Young Museum,[8] the Museum of Contemporary Craft,[9] the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,[10] The Racine Art Museum,[11][12] and in the Newark Museum.[13] Her work was shown in 2003 in "The Artful Teapot" at the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art and the Long Beach Museum of Art,[6] and in 1993, Feats of Clay V, at Gladding, McBean & Company in Lincoln, California.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Susan Thayer", Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved on 7 March 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thayer, Susan. "Bulb Flowers - The Process", Ceramics: Art and Perception, 1996.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Thayer, Susan. "Reaching to the Past", Ceramics Monthly, April 1994.
- ↑ Thayer, Susan. "Reaching to the Past", Ceramics Monthly, April 1994
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Greenwich House Pottery and SOFA NYC present SUSAN THAYER: 'China Painting - What You Don't See'", Greenwich House Pottery, 2001.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Susan Thayer – Totally Teapots". The World and I. Vol. 18. January 2003. p. 82 – via EBSCOhost. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ "Susan Thayer". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ↑ "Crystal Ball - Susan Thayer". FAMSF Explore the Art. 2015-05-08. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ↑ "Susan Thayer". PNCA Collections. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ↑ "Teapot: Guarding Eden Teapot". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2016-12-17. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ↑ "Variations on a Theme: Teapots from RAM's Collection". Racine Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ↑ "Magic Mud: Masterworks in Clay from RAM's Collection: February 2 - May 4, 2014" Archived September 30, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Racine Art Museum. Retrieved on 7 March 2017.
- ↑ "Susan Thayer". Newark Museum - Collection. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ↑ Crane, Carolyn. "Feats of Clay", Ceramics Monthly, April 1993.
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