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Something fishy and dishy on the line in whale of a show
What's washed up and wet is welcome at the Torpedo Factory Art Center's Scope Gallery as underwater uniquities come in porcelain, stoneware
Outfit a beach getaway, liven up the lake house or accessorize a stay-cation as potters offer coastal classics in clay.
Washington Ceramic Guild potters riff on fish, invent invertebrates and give the beach top billing. Functional pottery with tabletop appeal rides the wave of popularity with fish dishes and fathomless servers while decorative statuettes with flowing lines and depths of meaning. What's washed up and wet is welcome in this show of whales, seabirds, seaweed and driftwood.
Clay shows you what's current as crystalline glazed wave-edged bowls echo the shiny grace of sea glass. Swirled textured vases mirror whirl pooled water while wood-fired, natural-surface forms reflects sandy sun-baked shores.
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A splashy catch of sgraffito-etched dishware exposes the striping and shiny scaling of sleek sea swimmers. Freestyling fish encircle wine coolers and platters hand painted with finesse.
Don the flip-flops and come see what will a-pier when artists become unmoored in the oceans of imagination.
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The "Enchantment Under the Sea" Ceramic Guild show at Scope Gallery runs June 27 to July 31, hours are Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Thursdays open until 9 p.m.; closed on Monday, July 4, Independence Day. The gallery is located at 105 North Union Street, ground floor Studio 19, Alexandria, VA. 22314. For further information, call Scope Gallery at 703-548-6288, visit www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/scope, Scopegallery.org and 'Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center' on Facebook; follow @scopegallery on Twitter.
The Ceramic Guild is an organization of over 40 juried Washington D.C. area artists working in the clay medium. Organization members exhibit themed shows every other month at the artist-run cooperative Scope Gallery in Alexandria's Torpedo Factory Art Center. Visit Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center on Facebook and Scopegallery.org; follow @ScopeGallery on Twitter.
Pictured: High-fire stoneware fish tray striped with incised herringbone pattern by Chris Coyle of Glen Dale, Md.; Whirlpool celadon and etched porcelain vases by Elizabeth Greene of Arlington, Va.; Etched sgraffito detailed navy and white flounder platter by Shirley Gromen of Arlington, Va.; High-fire stoneware wave texture koi wine chiller brushpainted with bamboo by Tracie Griffith Tso of Reston, Va. Photo by Guy Zoller; High-fire stoneware tropical fish tray by Linda Bernard of Laurel, Md.
