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Rendered in her signature style, this figurative piece by Ahrong Kim is a delight to behold. The sculpture features a girl in an elaborate costume that combines fashion with the natural world - tropical leaves and vibrant blooms. The figure balances an argyle teddy bear on her head, looking up and to the left with a defiant gaze. Subtle touches of gold luster can be found throughout the work, adding a material preciousness to an already precocious sculpture.

Kim's technical skill and emotional power are on full display with Prologue. Each element of the sculpture is rendered brilliantly and relates to a facet of the artists' psychological state as she grapples with life in her new chosen home in the US and works through complex relationships in her life. Viewers are invited to examine how the artists' emotions are on display and, in the process, feel more in touch with their humanity.

A Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 2013 to 2015, Ahrong Kim earned her BFA in ceramics from Kon Kuk University in Korea in 2008. After completing her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2013, Kim received the Mima Weissman Award at the Ceramics Program, office for the Arts at Harvard. Her work has been shown in major exhibitions and she has won many prizes at art fairs around the US and internationally. Through her work, Kim aims to express emotions through a varied range of psychological states, utilizing colors and figurative form to tell a complex story.

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There's nothing like a splash of yellow to brighten a room and your spirits. This stunning wall-hanging sculpture by internationally known artist Susan Beiner showcases her love of natural forms in a monochromatic assemblage. Each carefully constructed piece of flora is attached to a circular base, creating a bouquet that will never fade. Some of the forms mirror familiar blooms while others explore shapes created from the artist's imagination. The opulent style of Beiner's work stems from her interest in 18th century European porcelains, which she translates into three-dimensional forms. This sculpture can be appreciated as Beiner's contemporary take on the ebullient rococo forms found in places like the French royal palaces of Marie Antoinette.

A Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 2005 to 2006, Susan Beiner is a ceramic artist and professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Her sculptural installations expose concern about the effects on the fragile ecosystem of humans, animals, and plants. Her objective is to create an ecological balance between the conflict that has arisen between nature and culture.

Beiner has exhibited nationally and internationally, has received numerous awards and residencies and her work is included in diverse and prestigious collections such as The Yixing Ceramics Museum, China, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Korea, Princessehof Keramiek Museum, Netherlands, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, and the Long Beach Museum of Art, CA to name a few.

She was named Joan R. Lincoln Endowed Professor in Ceramics in 2017. This professorship was created by the Lincoln family in honor of Joan Lincoln's lifelong passion for making, collecting, and supporting ceramic arts.

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Starting Bid - $750

This lidded jar is an excellent example of Brad Johnson's artistic output. A master of soda firing, Johnson is beloved for his skill throwing large vessels and evocative floral surface decoration. This beautiful celedon sculptural jar would look perfect in any style of home. For a special occasion its new owner could remove the lid and fill it with a showpiece floral arrangement.

About the subject matter of his surface drawings, Johnson says, "Larger pieces offered the benefit of a broader surface and more freedom to develop my surface designs. I enjoy seeing crocuses and daffodils pushing up through the thaw. My studio is surrounded by the tangle of organic symmetry as plants twist and turn over one another and groups of trees work as one to maximize the sun's life giving rays. There is a balance and a rhythm in these things that I find inspirational and humbly try to capture in my carvings. Sometimes these images are bold and clearly visible, while other times I will bury these carvings deep within the surface. As the curious viewer gravitates towards a particular form, the pattern reveals itself, like the hidden depths of a tidepool."

A frequent exhibitor and a Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 1998 to 2003, Brad Johnson is a functional potter living just outside of Philadelphia where he has built his studio and kilns. Johnson's works illustrate his attention to surface even before he adds carvings to the piece. These inscriptions are inspired by the artist's life and surroundings: some tell a story, while others lean more towards the abstract like a dream or a memory.

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Starting Bid - $3,500

During her 105 years of life, Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) remained intensely dedicated to the arts and participated in some of the most important moments of 20th century American art - from her relationship with Marcel Duchamp to her apprenticeship with ceramicists Gertrud and Otto Natzler. An icon in the annals of art history, Wood's rebellious and nonconformist spirit has inspired generations of artists.

This delightful gold bowl features four simple figures that hug and support the form. The lustrous gold glaze is a signature of Wood's style. Metallic salts are drawn to the surface of the glaze during firing by starving the kiln of oxygen, resulting in an almost burnished surface with an irregular shine that catches the eye and plays with the light.

In 1917, Wood founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City alongside the French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché. These magazines were two of the earliest manifestations of the Dada art movement in the United States, granting Wood the title of the "Mama of Dada." Don't miss your chance to own a work by this incredible artist and take home a piece of American art history.

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Starting Bid - $2,500

One of the most virtuosic artists using glaze as a sculptural medium, Lauren Mabry is also a distinguished alumna of the Resident Artist Program and a staple of the Philadelphia art community. Mabry's bold use of color, juxtaposition of patterns, and investigations into the transitional state of objects is on full display with this piece. The multicolored structure features a rainbow of graphic lines and dots along with more organic shapes that splatter, run, and expand. Inside the structure black and white ooze down, gathering and pooling at the base of the work. A truly unique and exciting piece that is bound to draw envious eyes.

Mabry's ceramic forms engage with Modernist histories of abstraction - she notes Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hoffman as inspirations - as well as transforming the field of ceramics through their painterly focus. A master of glaze techniques, Mabry's works are constructed with these fluid materials in mind. Each form articulates pathways for color that reinforce clay's engagement with the earth and its gravitational pull.

A former Resident Artist and teacher at The Clay Studio from 2012 to 2015, Lauren Mabry is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. She received her BFA in ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute in 2007 and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012. She has also studied abroad in Kecskemét, Hungary at the International Ceramics Studio. Her most recent residency was at The Archie Bray Foundation For Ceramic Arts (summer '12). Mabry has work in permanent collections at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS) and The Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE). Her exhibitions include The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, and many more.

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