Lindsay Rogers
Lindsay Rogers’ pottery commands the respect and love one feels for objects worn by time. As the daughter of antique dealers Lindsay grew up with a distinct admiration of the history she saw in the objects that surrounded her. Every table, every plate, was visibly affected by what had come before. Distinct in of them were the notches, dents and scratches of wonderful meals, terrible falls, and hundreds of hands. Her current work, created with brown stoneware clay on a manually operated treadle wheel, is informed by this meaning and history.
Lindsay Rogers at MudFire
Gallery group show Asheville in Atlanta, October 2009
Lindsay Rogers Artist Bio
I began my formal artistic training at Sarah Lawrence College as a printmaker. After graduation in 2001 I moved to New Haven Connecticut where I took my first pottery class. It was there that I met my teacher Louise Harter who quickly became a mentor, good friend and a continual motivating source for creating pottery. In 2005 I was offered a residency position in Natchez, Mississippi. For two years I worked with potter Conner Burns in the Natchez Clay teaching studio. I currently work out of my own studio as a resident artist at the EnergyXchange in Burnsville, North Carolina. My work is fired in the methane fueled kiln at my studio and in wood kilns within my community.
Lindsay Rogers Artist Statement
As the daughter of former antique dealers I grew up with a distinct admiration of the history I saw in many of the objects that surrounded me. Each table, each plate, each garden tool was visibly affected by what had come before me. Heavy in each of them were the stories (and promise) of wonderful meals, terrible falls and hundreds and hundreds of hands. As a child I used these things, made my marks, and went on without them. There is an excitement I feel in creating something new from the earth that harbors this potential. Upon completion, I would like my pottery to possess the respect I feel for all of the old objects I have come in contact with, as well as the excitement I feel for the new and growing. I hope that each piece that I create can stand alone as a little ceramic snapshot of the way I interact with the world.
