Textured Oil Can

Dehmie Demlow

Midrange ceramics, red clay, glazes, stained terra sigillata, washes, rubber, and wire stoppers.

13 in H x 7 in x 2 in

Dehmie Dehmlow's Textured Oil Can is a functional work of art guaranteed to turn your next dinner party into an exhibition. With its generous handle and dramatically elongated spout, even a simple pour of olive oil becomes a moment of performance.

Both playful and beautifully tactile, Textured Oil Can transforms an everyday ritual into something memorable-an object made to be admired, handled, used, and shared.

Artist Statement

My work is empowered by intuition and imagination and is based in storytelling. I build sculptures and pottery using a strong compositional and formal sensibility as my guide. My practice as an interdisciplinary artist making modular sculpture engages in thought processes that deploy forms of reclamation. My assemblages act as declarations of value as the discarded and salvaged materials, and objects I collect, are used to create and construct an imagined, collaborative, whole composed of desperate parts. Similarly, I make my pots as wholistic compositions that playfully navigate and push the parameters of existing as vessels or pottery. At each layer in the process I give a piece what I feel it needs, and that series of decisions accumulate into a composition, telling that pot's story. With a focus on slab building and layered surfaces, I create depth in my work through texture and color. My work becomes animated and joyful through the compilation of saturated and muted colors, abstraction, crisp and hazy lines, and exaggerations like an extra loopy handle that seems unnecessary while so vital. Excess becomes just right, quietly there becomes vast, and silly becomes beautiful.

Artist Biography

Dehmie Dehmlow grew up in Denver, Colorado. While primarily making pottery, she maintains a versatile practice in ceramics, sculpture, textiles and other mixed medias, telling stories using layers of texture, color and text. She has been teaching ceramics and sculpture since 2019. In addition to ceramics, Dehmie's background is in caregiving for elderly and adults with disabilities. She earned her BA in Ceramics and Pre-Medical Sciences from Colorado State University. Dehmie was a ceramics intern at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado before she was selected as the 2019 Salad Days Artist in Residence at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. Dehmie then completed a Post-Baccalaureate program at Louisiana State University. She received her MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022 and then completed a ceramics residency at Pratt Munson in Utica, New York. After Utica, Dehmie was the Ceramic Artist in Residence at Lawrence Arts Center in Kansas for a year. Dehmie moved to Philadelphia, PA in the summer of 2025 where she is a resident and teaches ceramics classes at The Clay Studio. Dehmie enjoys being outside with her dog, Hadlee, and observing the world and people around her. Her work is shown and sold in galleries

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