Meet the Artist
ROBIN GARY
CLAY AND GLASS ARTIST
Artist Statement
I create colorful, rustic functional ware and mixed-media sculpture. Clay, glass, neon, and found objects provide a never-ending toy box of creative fun for my sculptures. New techniques are inspiring for me and the daily choices I make in my studio are to produce a piece out of feeling or out of fun; out of knowledge or out of experiment; out of self or out of someone else’s self; and on it continues. Combining years of experience and artistic pursuit, I seek to draw the viewer into thought, to feel uncomfortable tensions, to question the basis of happier moments, and to weigh mysterious beliefs. And, of course, I always want the viewer to WANT to touch.
Biography
Robin Gary is a clay and glass artist working out of her Bastrop, Texas studio, Creative Kilnworks Clay and Glass Studio (CKCGS). She also works out of the Dougherty Arts Center and Fireseed Clay Art Studios where she makes glazes and fires the kilns. With over 20 years of teaching experience, Robin teaches pottery, sculpture and fused glass techniques at several locations including multi-person classes at the Dougherty Arts Center and The Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria and private lessons, out of her home studio in Bastrop and Fireseed Clay Art Studios in Austin.
Robin shows her work locally and nationally including New York, Florida, Maryland, Virginia and Texas. She fell in love with all things clay late in high school and at UCLA where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. She has been a professional sculptor and potter since the early 1990s. While living in the Washington D.C. area, her focus was on figurative abstract neon and clay sculptures.In north Texas she started teaching ceramics and fused glass techniques in community settings. She continues to teach in community settings today in Austin, Texas.
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