Cups purchased can be picked up or shipped after the exhibition closes on December 8th, 2025.
Red Stoneware, wheel thrown with layered glazes
4"h x 3"d
2025
ARTIST STATEMENT
"I once met a woman who looked like her cat. It was a subtle thing, but there was an unmistakable bond between pet and owner, some collaborative demeanor or design sense.
Potters and their pots are really no different. Over the years of steadily making, marking and firing pots, something distinctively myself has slipped into the process.
It's a sensibility as intangible and basic to me as the way in which I hold the salt shaker when I tilt it to pour, how I turn the pages of a book or how I kick my potter's wheel."
Terry Gess carefully finishes each piece of his pottery with multiple layers of laminated glazes. Much like an inventive musician, Terry Gess favors the challenges and unpredictability of improvisation and exploration in both his forms and surfaces. The prized results are a subtle, expressive collaboration between the potter, the clay, and fire.
CURRENT
1996 - Present Studio Potter, Terry Gess Pottery: Bakersville, NC
EDUCATION
1994 Master of Fine Art Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville: Edwardsville, IL
Major in studio arts with concentration in ceramics
1991 Bachelor of Fine Art Cleveland Institute of Art: Cleveland, OH
Major in ceramics, minor in drawing
