Welcome to Urban Mud-An Art Gallery and Studios with Ceramic Classes art gallery and ceramic studios
A Contemporary Gallery and Artist run Studio with Ceramic Classes in Denver, Colorado art gallery art gallery and ceramic studios
Current Show in the gallery
CURRENT SHOW IS THE MEMBERS SHOW
Martha Danials work is still available at the gallery. .
We are accepting memberships to our ceramic studio.
THE MEMBERS ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING FROM MONTH TO MONTH.
We will be starting a new members show starting in September 2021.
Please check back for opening recption dates and times
We are accepting memberships to our ceramic studio.
Martha Danials work is still available at the gallery. .
We are accepting memberships to our ceramic studio.
MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES:
-24 HOUR ACSESS TO THE STUDIO
-USE OF ALL THE EQUIPMENT WHICH INCLUDES SLAB ROLLER, GLAZES, TOOLS, WHEELS FOR THROWING.
-ALL FIRINGS
-SHOWING WORK IN THE GALLERY AND OR THE HALLWAY RETAIL SPACE.
-COLLABORATIONS AND CONTINUED LEARNING THROUGH WORKING WITH OTHER TALENTED ARTISTS.
ALL OF THIS FOR $250. A month
Martha Danials work is still available at the gallery. .
Martha Danials work is still available at the gallery. .
Gallery hours are by appointment only and most Saturdays from 12-5pm
Most of the work has been sold but I have 5 very nice pieces left.
Now is the time to collect this very iconic Artists work.
George and I drove Martha's work back from Desert Hot Springs California.
Great stay with friends the trip through desert and snowy mountains, was beautiful and scary.
Martha's show is scheduled to open Friday July 24th from 6-9pm
Detail Large Open Vessel from Title: Ribs and guts.
Hand-built, fired, glazed, painted, lacquered clay.
Made From individual hollow, irregular clay tubes that were curved and then fired.
Tubes were made by forming clay around a broom handle, then sliding it off.
After bisque firing, individual pieces were glazed fired with maiolica base glaze.
Then assembled with epoxy into the vessel form. It was then painted with acrylics and coated with clear lacquer. Cone 04 clay and glaze. Completed 2019
Gallery hours are by appointment only and most Saturdays from 12-5pm
Gallery hours are by appointment only and most Saturdays from 12-5pm
Gallery hours are by appointment only and most Saturdays from 12-5pm
Open studio hours vary so please call with questions concerning classes.
Martha Daniels July 24th Through September
Gallery hours are by appointment only and most Saturdays from 12-5pm
Martha Daniels July 24th Through September
THE PLEASURES OF SURFACE IN UNSETTLED TIMES
During these times of racial and other inequalities, injustice, economic hardship for many, and plague, the severe problems that underlie the United State have been exposed clearly.
As an artist, my work is not politically motivated.
I will never create a Guernica or a Banksy-like mural.
But I can speak out and give a portion of proceeds from this exhibition
to help assist those who are fighting for effective change.
In my work, I try to include and express the greater qualities of the human experience,
so that we do not forget our vision.
My contribution to the arts is to create beauty, solace, and emotional enrichment.
Transformative beauty in its various forms is sometimes difficult,
but it adds dimension to life.
The medium of ceramic sculpture, which I have pursued for over 40 years,
has allowed me an endless vista to explore these qualities.
Surface, form, content, and innovative structure developed over time.
I have added auto-body lacquers, with interference paint and films and other media,
to the expressive repertoire of the ceramic surface.
Glaze may now be underlying, but it has been transformed into something else that
still seems to work upon the ceramic surface.
This surface gives the eye and the mind play, and suggests something that transcends the object.
The art in this exhibition has been selected from a body of work created by me over a number of years. It represents some of the various approaches and experiments that I pursued and continue to pursue. My website, martha-daniels-ceramic-art.com, also shows
larger-scale and other work.
I hope you will enjoy the show and that it leads you to reflect upon the qualities and actions that connect us all in our humanity.
Thank you.
Martha Daniels
