Past Exhibits
Dow Redcorn's solo exhibit features clay used as a canvas for landscapes.
Invited clay artists express their concepts of house, home, shelter, nesting and dwelling places.
Andrew Massey's Steampunk pottery at the intersection of industry and clay.
Shawn O'Connor paints with fire on his smooth-as-silk wood fired pottery.
Over 50 flower vases, tulipiers, ichebana vessels, and flower-bricks created by ceramists from across the country
Martha Grover porcelain ceramics in exquisitely elegant forms.
This holiday, MudFire studio artists invite you to shop the imaginative, handmade creations of over 100 artists. Buy-Handmade/Buy-Local!
Tom Spleth creates one of a kind sculptural forms in slip-cast porcelain.
Top-notch studio pottery from Asheville curated by Kyle Carpenter
Hopkins carves and textures porcelain vessels to manipulate translucency.
Nicholas Bivins creates strikingly modern functional studio pottery.
Ryan Greenheck makes exquisite functional pottery that is calmly and perfectly refined.
A group show of pottery & sculpture featuring fiends, feathered flyers, dreamstuff, and more.
Kathy King creates narrative pottery with humor and pop-culture insight.
Ronan Peterson's functional pottery has surfaces inspired by a comic book reinterpretation of forest wonders in ceramics.
Mary Briggs creates nostalgic folk pottery with pastoral landscape paintings.
Molly Hatch creates elegantly-illustrated functional works in porcelain.
MudFire welcomes 20 sculptors and potters for our first color-themed exhibit.
Heather Knight's contemporary ceramic works are featured in this solo exhibition of organic tableware and porcelain wall art at MudFire Gallery in Atlanta, Decatur GA
Liz Zlot Summerfield's artwork is petite, precious, colorful, with a nod to functionality, and a collectability factor of over 2.4 Billion.
Kyle Carpenter makes his annual pilgrimage to MudFire Gallery with a large showing of new works. Always evolving, always Kyle, always a great show.
Shadow May's work gets bigger and better this year. And we mean bigger, more massive, and well just plain meatier. Did we mention the crazy-inventive new forms? And ask about his wood-fired challenge.
Megan Daloz brings a big show of craftily layered illustrations. From simple cups with buzzing bees to a handsome minotaur on a serving bowls stack, she's got a little something for everyone.
This holiday, MudFire studio artists invite you to shop the imaginative, handmade creations of over 100 artists. Buy-Handmade/Buy-Local!
MudFire is very pleased to present the works of Cynthia Bringle, Kyle Carpenter, Becky and Steve Lloyd, Courtney Martin and Keith Phillips.
Luba Sharapan uses saturated liner glazes, thick slips, text and imagery via decals, silhouettes, and hints of platinum and gold lusters in her modern-Victorian work.
Featuring some of the top studio potters working in porcelain today, the exhibit is a sheer visual force, with its saturated colors and varied surfaces.
A landmark exhibition highlighting fifteen of the country's most established and talented studio potters.
This multi-artist exhibit features ceramic artwork created without a potters wheel, and freed from the aesthetic confines of the round.
Using fluid and undisciplined slips and glazes, Joey Sheehan’s pots are what he defines as controlled chaos.
Kyle Carpenter adapts watercolor methods to ceramic materials to grace the works with painstaking illustrations and elegant, rhythmic brushwork.
Ryan McKerley joins MudFire resident artists Erik Haagensen and Luba Sharapan in filling the gallery with studio pottery noteworthy for lively surface compositions.
The bold substantiality of Shadow May’s forms is balanced by a subdued and subtle glaze palette. Like the artist, the work is strong, earthy, and captivating.
Over 100 studio potters and clay sculptors take part in our annual Holiday extravaganza. Support your local potter!
Five artist show curated by and including Kyle Carpenter along with Jennifer Hoolihan, John Britt, Karen Newgard and Lindsay Rogers.
MudFire Gallery hoss a large exhibition of our favorite and most useful drinking vessels, featuring work by over 60 studio potters from all over the United States.
Draw+Decal presents the work of thirteen contemporary clay artists known for their use of imagery and narrative illustrative techniques on vessel forms.
The ultra-talented women potters of the San Francisco Bay Area create works influenced by the unique urban experience of a singular American city.
Gillian Parke and Ronan Peterson share an almost obsessive interest in building texture and layers of surface treatment to convey content on vessel forms
This exhibition features decorative and figurative works by nationally prominent American potters whose craftsmanship is helping to define the landscape of contemporary American ceramics.
Over 100 new salt-fired functional works with brushwork and illustrations by Kyle Carpenter, the urban potter.
Live pottery demonstrations, studio open house, and exhibit of new work by Marissa Hudson, Erik Haagensen and Luba Sharapan. Just in time for Valentines Day.
Our biggest and most diverse show of the year, just in time for the holidays. Recipients of handmade craft also receive an appreciation for the where, when, how and who their gift was made by
This year for Asheville in Atlanta, curator Kyle Carpenter exhibits his works alongside Asheville artists Penny Waters-Clark, Ken Sedberry and Jon Keenan.
Abstract and figurative sculpture featuring Jorie Berman, Naomi Dalglish, Mary Fischer, Erik Haagensen, Asia Mathis and Holden McCurry.
All of the work in the CLAY-TL exhibit is created in Atlanta and transported no further than 30 miles from its place of origin.
An invitational exhibit featuring fine craft by American potters whose work has shaped the landscape of contemporary ceramics.
Celebrating the role of Line and Color in surface design featuring Julia Galloway, Annette Gates, Courtney Murphy, Diana Fayt, Jay Jensen, and others.
Kyle unveils a stunning new direction in his brushwork, with detailed illustrations that complement his elegant mark makings.
Kiln opening sale in conjunction with the RAD Studio Cruise, exhibit features work by Erik Haagensen, Luba Sharapan, and Clay Fetish Pottery
MudFire Gallery proudly presents the mother of all pottery shows, featuring work of over 100 potters and clay artists from Atlanta and the Southeast.
This year for Asheville in Atlanta, curator Kyle Carpenter exhibits his work alongside Akira Satake, Emily Reason and William Baker.
MudFire Gallery welcomes Jorie Berman, Cheri Wranosky, and Crisha Yantis in an exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculpture.
Both Becca Floyd and Dr. Christopher Greenman reflect influences of the "Great Tradition" of Bernard Leach and the Asian aesthetic of Shoji Hamada.
A seven-artist invitational exhibit featuring diminuitive sculptural and functional works in clay
The exhibit highlights Vernon’s accomplished versatility, with a broad range of form and finish that work together to capture and inspire life's quiet moments
Presenting the work of over 75 artists juried and invited from around the country, the show features jars, boxes and containers with lids.
Nine artist featuring pottery with polka dot decorations. (Did you know polka dots’ fashionable rise was timed with that of polka music? Now you do.)
Blending traditional techniques and a contemporary design sensibility, Kyle Carpenter routinely generates an impressive body of new work
Eichelberger creates precision-crafted functional artworks with a refined modernist edge. His work ranges from modernist tableware to massive display pieces.
For the holidays this year, skip the mall, support your local artists, and give gifts that are affordably priced and utterly unique. And don't miss the party!
This year for Asheville in Atlanta, Kyle Carpenter exhibits his works alongside those of Mark Peters, Joy Tanner, and Maria Andrade Troya
The combination of shino, colored glaze and porcelain creates a luxuriously colored surface reminiscent of Rothko's earthier color field paintings.
Fantasy, spirituality, and childhood magic tie together this collection of sculpture, fish, and functional pottery.
His first solo show in Atlanta, Niel will present over one hundred pieces of handsome functional and decorative pottery, all executed flawlessly in his singular style.
Curated by Christine Bentley this show highlights the talents of Athens studio potters Brooke Cassady, Carter Gillies and David Morgan.
Kyle Carpenter remains true to the signature vocabulary, finishes, and design sensibility that made him one of MudFire's most popular artists.
Our third gallery exhibit and sale of dainty, gorgeous, eccentric, frightening, sublime and otherwise wickedly-cool teapots
MudFire Gallery welcomes Conner Mckissack, Masayuki Sasaki, and Liz Zlot Summerfield in an exhibition of modernist pottery with clean lines and tight styling
A group show of fine craft by the four resident potters of the landfill-gas-fueled EnergyXChange in North Carolina - LeAnne Ash, Amber Bewernitz, David Eichelberger, and Emily Reason.
This year participating artists include the professional ceramicists that MudFire represents year 'round, complemented with the work of our studio members and staff
Curated by Kyle Carpenter this exhibit also features work by Asheville artists John Arsenault, Michael Kline, and Kristin Schoonover.
Jennifer Martin celebrates distortion, disfigurement, and alterations, reversing the negative connotations of these words by creating works that are sensuous and rhythmic.
This multi-artist exhibit features gorgeous raku and saggar fired clay vessels by Jerry Maschinot and Susan and Jim Whalen of Paradox Pottery.
Kathy Triplett's sculptural wall tiles are mysterious and enticing with undeniable visual power, taking advantage of the full sculptural potential of clay.
Gay Smith is well known for her distinctively fluted, faceted and soda fired functional pottery. Some of her pots can tango.
The revolutionary women of "Girl Power" take their clay seriously and break down pre-conceptions of what well-behaved clay should be.
Kyle Carpenter’s exhibit of elegantly decorated salt fired pottery marks the opening of MudFire Gallery in its grand new space in Decatur, Georgia.
Over 50 MudFire potters present a wide variety of fine little things - reminding all of us what really matters this holiday season.
Just in time for holiday entertaining in style... multi-artist invitational exhibit of large platters, bowls and other serving dishes.
This year's exhibit includes the work of Matt Jones, Linda McFarling, Shane Mickey, Liz Sparks, Mark Tomczak, and Kyle Carpenter
A solo exhibit of traditional wood-fired pottery by North Carolina studio artist Mark Peters.
A group show featuring Bill Buckner, Eloise Hally, and Margaret Patterson. Three good friends and their wonderful pots.
A second solo exhibit by Atlanta raku master Jerry Maschinot at MudFire Gallery. A wonderous exhibit of lusterously glazed raku vessels
A solo exhibit by Jan Lee features stunning vases, bottles and bowls decorated by fire. Collection feature naked raku, pit fired and saggar surfaces
A juried and invitational exhibit of hundreds of teapots by prominent artists from around the country. A diverse sculptural and functional extravaganza for teapot collectors.
MudFire Gallery welcomes the members of the Georgia Clay Council, a local guild for the clay artists and potters of Georgia. This large group show, features work from dozens of participating artists
A juried exhibit featuring unique handmade gift items created by over fifty contributing local artists. Original gifts made with craftsmanship worthy of giving.
Eight works each by ten Atlanta clay artists including Carol Brull, Sandy Culp, Jennifer Martin, Deanna Ranlett, Stacey Stanhope, Tim Sullivan, and others
The solo show includes large vases, platters, jars, bowls, mugs, casseroles, sake sets, teapots, and other functional pottery with magnificent finishes, lush with texture, shimmer, and variation.
This invitational exhibit includes six of Western North Carolina’s finest potters: Kyle Carpenter, Josh Copus, Becca Floyd, Kate Goetz, Amelia Stamps, and Sam Wilson
Celebrating the purity, simplicity, and power of line in both decoration and form, the overall aesthetic for the show is a clean, tight, geometric modernism frequently tempered with Asian influences.
The show is organized into four series of objects: stacked form vases, bottles, platters, and cups. And includes a fifth mystery series that Jennifer will not reveal or discuss prior to the opening reception.
In a marked change from the laborious and more painterly surfaces, this solo show features simple new forms - mainly vases and lidded jars - finished with a new range of luster glazes under development since 2001
A multi-artist, invitational exhibit that celebrates the limitless personal expression offered by clay work constrained by structural imperatives. Fifty invited artist join MudFire in a collectible teapot extravaganza.
A first solo exhibit for Asheville studio potter Kyle Carpenter. This show features elegantly decorated salt-fired functional pottery with marks of distinction, just a hint of things to come for Carpenter.
A solo show for Kyle Carpenter’s salt fired functional vessels imbued with balance, adorned with elegant markings; tied together by his particular sense of rhythm.
Candleholders and vessels for containing, displaying and admiring flame are alighting at MudFire Gallery this month. MudFire’s first group holiday show features over a dozen studio potters
Deanna Ranlett’s distinctive, architectural sculptures present the viewer with a study in form and line, enhanced with unusual color, sparkling glazes, and deliberate hidden areas of the piece
A first solo show for Vernon Smith and a maiden voyage for MudFire Gallery. Beautiful ash-glazed and atmospheric-fired pottery graces the exhibit room with a quiet elegance and firm a presence.