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Thomas A. Hoadley

Biography to Display: 

1949Born North Adams, Massachusetts

EDUCATION

1970Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

1971BA Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

1977MS Ceramics, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

1974Apprentice to Malcolm Wright, Marlboro, Vermont

BIOGRAPHY

 

Thomas Hoadley creates porcelain sculptural objects using the Japanese technique, Nerikomi. Hoadley’s forms reference functional vessels but are, instead, non-functional, sculptural objects.

Nerikomi is a process in which porcelain slabs, colored with stains or oxides, are stacked, folded, pressed into logs, sliced, arranged and pressed into vessel forms. The resulting vessels are thin walled and translucent. 

Public Collections

Public Collections to Display: 

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Tajimi City, Japan 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa

White House Collection, Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas

Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Bibliography

Bibliography to Display: 

Daniels, Diana L., and Martha Drexler Lynn. The Vase and Beyond, The Sidney Swidler Collection of the Contemporary Vessel. Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2010.

Frith, Donald E. Moldmaking for Ceramics. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co, 1985.

Herman, Lloyd E. American Porcelain, New Expressions in an Ancient Art. Forest Grove, OR: Timber Press, 1981.

_______________. Art That Works. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Hoadley, Thomas. “Colored Clay section Pattern and Color.” The Studio Potter, December 1994.

Hopper, Robin. Making Marks, Discovering The Ceramic Surface. Iola, WI: Kraus Publications, 2004.

Hunt, Bill.  21st Century Ceramics. Westerville, OH: The American Ceramic Society, 2003.

Lane, Peter. Ceramic Form, Design and Decoration. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1988.

_________. Contemporary Porcelain. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1995.

_________, ed. Contemporary Studio Porcelain, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 

Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today. San Francisco, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Chronicle Books, 1990.

McCready, Karen, and Jan Axel. Porcelain, Traditions and New Visions. New York, NY: Watson Guptil, 1981.

Monroe, Michael. The White House Collection of American Crafts. New York, NY: Abrams, 1995.

Ostermann, Matthias. The Ceramic Surface. London, England: A&C Black, 2002.

Pearson, Katherine. American Crafts: A Sourcebook for the Home. New York, NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1983.

Perryman, Jane. Naked Clay, Ceramics Without Glaze. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

“Portfolio.” American Craft, August/September, 1984.

Waller, Jane. Colour in Clay. Ramsbury, England: Crowood Press Ltd., 1998.

Whyman, Caroline. The Complete Potter: Porcelain. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Zakin, Richard. Ceramics, Mastering the Craft, 2nd ed. Iola, WI: Kraus Publications, 2001.

 

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Source: Artist

Website(s):

thomashoadley.com

 

Typical Marks
Nerikomi Bowl
Date: 1993
Materials: Colored Clay, Nerikomi, Porcelain
Method: Slab-Built (Unglazed, wetsanded to reveal colored clay and texture.)
Surface Technique: Unglazed
The White House Collection Clinton Library, Little Rock, AK
Photo: John Bigelow Taylor
The White House Collection Clinton Library, Little Rock, AK
Small Arabesque #TH1038
Form: Bowl
Materials: Colored Clay, Nerikomi, Porcelain
Method: Slab-Built (Unglazed, wetsanded to reveal colored clay and texture.)
Surface Technique: Unglazed
Photo: Artist
Photo: Artist
Bowl
Materials: Colored Clay, Nerikomi
Method: Hand-Built
Photo: Courtesy Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers

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