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<h3 style="font-size: 22pt; font-weight: 300; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: 2px; margin-bottom: 14px;">Judy Jackson</h3>
<p style="font-size: 14px;">For Judy Jackson, her one true material was, and remains, stoneware. “I started with stoneware and never detoured,” she says. “I liked its durability, I liked the other work I saw that was stoneware, I liked the high-fire glazes available to me. I wanted to know that my work would survive chipping and cracking and could be microwavable and oven proof. When designing, I have always been driven by function — stoneware worked for me.”</p>
< p style="font-size: 14px;">Jackson’s practice spreads between her home studio in Litchfield, Connecticut, and Tribeca Potters, which, despite its name, is now based across the East River in Long Island City, Queens. The two environments have shaped her practice in unique ways. She and a colleague founded the collective 30 years ago in the Lower East Side; a crosstown move provided them with their name and second location. “In a group studio, you’re used to modifying your supply needs, adapting your firing schedule, and rethinking your glaze requirements,” she says. “That said, while we can’t do raku firing or luster glazes or firing to cone 10, we can do virtually anything we set our minds to — sometimes collaborations, most times our own work.” </p>
< p style="font-size: 14px;">Meanwhile, in Connecticut, Jackson can fully embrace the natural world that informs aspects of her work — like its organic shapes and subdued finishes. “I am always acknowledging the balance of the natural world … when it comes to form, nature rules,” she says. “The Arts and Crafts movement claimed my attention for the matte finishes of its ceramics, which mirror the matte colors of nature — there are very few glossy colors in nature!”</p>
< p style="font-size: 14px;">DECEMBER 1, 2023 </p>
< p style="font-size: 14px;">It is with bittersweet emotions that we announce Judy's retirement to her Litchfield County studio. </p>
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