Twin handled footed vase – Alice Federico
Alice Federico adheres to forms that tend to abandon pure symmetry and are slightly askew, while maintaining the grandeur of tall and stately classical shapes. Large and playful handles, extended lips, unpredictable folds and cascading ribbon handles add to the character of her pottery art. Her coarse surface textures and faded glazes manifest the allure of an artifact from antiquity weathered by time. Merging the appearance of functional and sculptural with the innate gracefulness of the traditional pottery forms elevates the charm of her pottery art. She indulges a sense of playfulness that was instilled in her by her first teacher, Rita Marlier, to create expressive, whimsical, animated pieces which are pulled, twisted and wrapped into curious shapes. Sculptural in emphasis, but still posing a relationship to the vessel, the pot form.
Historical pots have always had an influence on her work, including Chinese Sung ware, Greek vases, and Italian folk work. It comes as no surprise to learn that she trained as a historian at Hollins University (1967), before doing her MFA in ceramics from East Carolina University (1977), as well as a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute (1983). Sometimes she uses anagama Japanese-style wood-fired kilns in Montana for her flamboyant pottery wares.
I’ve added some pottery from Linda Hoffhines as she also creates forms that ooze character and have spontaneous, colourful shapes and bold textures that project attitude, whimsy and humor.
Alice Federico
Alice Federico, footed planter
Large ribbon handled vessel – Alice Federico
height 13.5 inches
Three slender and tall ceramic vases – Alice Federico
Alice Federico hand painted vase
Alice Federico–classical styled vessel with crackle glaze and long handles
Alice Federico – off-white vase with elegant handles
Footed ceramic vessel with asymmetrical handles – – Alice Federico
Alice Federico
Skewed vase – – Alice Federico
Alice Federico – bulbous vase with long neck
Tall ceramic vase with ribbon handles – Alice Federico
Height 17.5 inches – 1st Dibs
Celadon green vase — Alice Federico
Alice Federico footed vessel
Alice Federico tall vase with large flat handles
Alice Federico — tall vase with abstract textural surface
Alice Federico ceramic vessel
Lucie Rie inspired baluster vase – Alice Federico
Alice Federico red vase with coarse texture
Alice Hohenberg Federico, vase, 2010
The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum
Footed bulbous vase with large handle – Alice Federico
2009
Asymmetrical vase – Alice Federico
2014
Tall slender vase with sinuous handles – Alice Federico
2015 Work 20.5 inches
Classical form vase — Alice Federico
Alice Federico
Asymmetrical wide lipped vase – Alice Federico
Wide lipped baluster vase – Alice Federico
Alice Federice website
Linda Hoffhines
Linda Hoffhines, uses the vessel “as a starting point,” she says, “but most of them end up intentionally unusable. I`ll start off with a regular pot, then I can`t resist putting a bunch of glazed shards in it.” “From Minoan to Italian pottery, through the eons, I’ve always liked the idea of making pottery and then decorating it a lot more than you have to.”* Hoffhines, obtained a master’s of fine arts in ceramics at Ohio State University
Linda Hoffhines — tall lime green ewer
Linda Hoffhines flat mosaic with vase shape, encrusted with glazed shards
Linda Hoffhines blue teapot
Bright red ceramic teapot by Linda Hoffhine
Linda Hoffhine
3 asymmetrical vases — Linda Hoffhine
Linda Hoffhine
Linda Hoffhine painting
Linda Hoffhines yellow crowned teapot
Linda Hoffhine pink teapot
Linda Hoffhines vase and teapot
Linda Hoffhines watercolour painting
Red triangle teapot – Linda Hoffhines
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Spiral vase – Linda Hoffhines
*Chicago Tribune
