NCECA Day 4, Sacramento

 

THB and DB purchase two pieces today

Laura Dirksen: Edgar Surprise Lux Tempo

 Chase Travaille: Shard Amphora No 8 (made from shards at Archie Bray)

Breakfast from Starbucks, consumed in room, $14

First stop: FE Gallery

Takuro Shibata

Another first for THB: there are QR codes on the attribution card and THB gives it a try

Back to "regular" pics

The tour heads back to college

On campus

Weather: cool in morning, warming up during day to high 60s

THB and DB met Scott at the TR Il Fornaio party. He lives on big property on Cobb (about 2 hours drive north / west from Sac State), runs a ceramics studio/kiln/residency and teaches 2 days a week

Examples of Scott's work, pressing clay into wood and removing wood

Another Sac State gallery

Jack Ogden, this painting is more like Bomb Squad

This is unique: an Arneson without Arneson

Early Bob Brady

Clayton Bailey (RR and AR now have Clayton's work)

The best show of the week!

THB and DB bought this piece

Nick Kabalas: Dick Bush

Noah Green (ceramic?)

Laura Jenels

THB is having a hard time connecting with Kate so cannot complete purchase (not handled by the NCECA staff at the gallery show)

DB gets a cup of tea at student coffee place

Patty and Andre are the curators of the student show, top quality. All done over Zoom and they live near each other in LA.

Another great show!

Lauren Mabry. THB and DB own two pieces (one a large, heavy sewer pipe) and think the new work is a bit overwrought (a long word for goopy)

Catered lunch for St Patty's day

Shoojin Choi

Lauren Kalman: another ceramics biter!

Brooke Cashion

House of Sharon and Paul Dauer Collection: a gorgeous collection of ceramics. Overall, the house is "quiet," especially when compared to the funk movement places we've seen

Goro

Masamichi

Early Bob Brady

Annabeth Rosen

Unusual Jun Kaneko: double plates

All chickens, all the time. Small show at the Hyatt Regency

Loovre (courtesy of EW)

Dinner in the room with EW and JW: flat breads, black bean hummus and veggies/chips from room service ($60) and our guests supply white wine and even clear the plates!