Victor Spinski was my Professor, mentor and dear friend. This exhibition includes works of some of his former students and I’m thrilled to have one of my pieces in the exhibition.

Victor Spinski (1940 - 2013) was a leading figure in the avant-garde ceramics movement of the 1960s and 70s. Throughout his career, Spinski experimented with many different materials, forms and techniques, becoming most well-known for his trompe l'oeil clay sculptures. Spinski balanced exquisite craftsmanship with his sharp wit and conceptual rigor, infusing his sculptures with stories, pranks and wordplay,. Mundane objects became extraordinary through their articulation in clay requiring viewers to question their assumptions about clay and the reality of what lay before them.