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Gerry Eskin Studios

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COLORADO
PO Box 4105 
Aspen CO 81612 
IOWA
1047 Woodlawn
Iowa City IA  52245 
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CLAUDE (1994-2006)

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Gerry Eskin Studio


Gerry suffered a bad turn of events when he underwent heart bypass surgery early in 2010, just before a major show at the FIGGE art museum in Davenport IA.  He has been in one hospital or other ever since.  We hope to see him convalescing at home soon.  

Follow this link to find some good memories of his FIGGE show.



Gerry, while still in the ICU, had another show following the FIGGE.

Mark Lyman of SOFA (Sculptural Objects Functional Art)  invited Gerry to exhibit at SOFA CHICAGO 2010, Navy Pier, in November 2010. 
See:    http://www.sofaexpo.com/chicago/2010/lectures.htm?tab=1

You can send good vibes to Gerry via his wife Sandie : SANDRESKIN@AOL.COM




























Bio of Gerry Eskin

BiographyGerry Eskin is a studio potter who maintains studios in Iowa City, Iowa and Aspen, Colorado. He works primarily in clay, doing both functional and sculptural forms. In recent years he has also been working in digital imaging, returning to photography after a long period of inactivity. 

Dr. Eskin is an adjunct professor of art and art history at the University of Iowa. His work is included in major collections, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design (formerly the American Craft Museum),  Longhouse  Reserve, the Mint Museum and the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

He has served as chairman of the advisory board of National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, a board member of the American Craft Museum, and member of the advisory board of the University of  Iowa Museum of Art.

He is a founder and former director  of  Information Resources, Inc., one of the world's leading providers of marketing information and related software.

Before pursuing the arts full time Dr. Eskin taught Marketing and Marketing Research at Stanford University and the University of Iowa.
 
 


 
 

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Artist's Statement

Artists StatementMy work in clay recently has been of a sculptural form, but my first love is still functional ware. I do high-fired stoneware which I try to keep simple and pure and not too decorative. Many people say my work has an Asian flavor. I collect antiquities and do admit to being partial to forms and glazes of the Song period in China and the Edo period in Japan.

Lately I have been working on three different sculptural forms having historical references.  The first of these I call Spirit Houses.spirit house These are inspired by ossuaries (boxes for the reburial of human bones), which date from the Cholcolithic period (4500-3300 B. C.) in the Middle East. My objects are similar to the originals in size, shape and their house-like character. The originals also had fronts with faces with mouth-like opening. The faces were usually painted rather than sculptural. While the originals were made of a very low-fire terra cotta, my versions are high-fired in wood kilns for from three to five days. I also do a form I call a Shamen Urn and a large sarcophagus type form which I simply label a Vessel.
 
 

I also make large hand-built wall hanging platters. Large Platter (modern)The surface designs are informed by patterns found on pots and shards in my collections. They are mostly remains from the Mimbres and Anasazi cultures dating back about a thousand years in the South Western U.S. I suspect these were not the first uses of the patterns. I have enlarged the original small patterns for effect.


Photography is an early interest that that I have returned to. The development of digital imaging has caught my fancy. It is so much broader than earlier forms of photography. My subject matter though is quite conventional. I am still trying to record objects, places and events, the same goals I had some 50 years ago when I worked as a photo journalist in Washington, D. C.  
 

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