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Harvey Sadow
Jupiter, FL and Paducah, KY
Clay Artist
Contemporary Artist


About the Artist

Harvey Sadow is the Director of the Paducah School of Art. His ceramic works are exhibited worldwide and represented in numerous public collections including Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Everson Museum, International Museum of Ceramic Art, Yingge International Ceramics Museum in Taiwan and The White House Collection of American Crafts. Among his awards and honors are a Florida Artists Fellowship and a Presidential Citation. He earned his MFA from the University of Iowa and has taught and conducted lectures and workshops across the U.S., Asia and Australia. Sadow maintains studios in Paducah, KY and Jupiter, FL.

Websites

http://americanart.si.edu
This site includes a biography, artist statement, questions and answers, video and audio clips.

http://www.artistsguilds.com

Experience the Exhibit


 
Left to Right
Liang's Garden Series - 15, 2005
Multiple flash-fired clay and glaze
12.5" x 12.5" x 9"

Liang's Garden Series - 16, 2005
Multiple raku-fired clay and glaze
12" x 12" x 8"

Photo by Luis Quiles

What is mastery to Sadow?
“What it means to me is being in possession of a body of knowledge and a set of skills that allows one to actualize what one visualizes without compromise. It indicates that one has developed a high degree of control and or knowledge, which allows one to manipulate his/her medium with extreme confidence. One thing I have always liked about flash firing (raku), is that I can orchestrate a set of probabilities, but the ultimate surrender of control allows the pot the opportunity to be better than the potter. That is as close as I can come to understanding the concept of grace. Grace might be just as important to me as mastery.”

“I would like my legacy to be that I was an honest man, a good husband and father, that I lived a full and richly textured life.”

 

 
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