Sequoia Miller
Everything Sequoia Miller makes is wheel thrown, one at a time-all of his square and rectangular pots began their lives as round, wheel thrown pots. Some undergo no alteration, others are altered mildly, while still others are cut apart and reassembled entirely. Sequoia sees pots as exploring the tensions between a rural or folk ideal with a contemporary or urban experience. He is a child of both New York City and Maine. He loves both mingei and Malevich. His studies in art history inform his work as much as old Japanese pots.
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Sequoia Miller at MudFire
Gallery group show American Masters Biennial, June 2010
Gallery group show Mug*Shots, August 2009
Gallery group show Teapots A-Go-Go 2, April 2004
Sequoia Miller Artist Bio
Sequoia Miller is a native of Manhattan raised in Maine. Upon earning a BA from Brandeis University in Russian & Art History, Sequoia began his pursuit of becoming a potter. Sequoia's ceramics education unfolded over a series of workshops with his favorite contemporary potters at Penland, Haystack and other craft schools in the mid-90s.
Sequoia relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1995 and set up a small pottery shop in an abandoned boat shack. He has been a full-time studio potter since 1998. Sequoia exhibits and sells his work at select galleries nationally, and has been featured in Ceramics Monthly, The Studio Potter, Clay Times, as well as in several books on ceramics. Sequoia also teaches workshops at craft centers nationally.
Sequoia Miller Artist Statement
Potters are amphibian: we glide between the ocean of art and the dry land of mere real things. I navigate the currents of art to explore aesthetic and philosophical questions not connected to everyday life. I walk the land of mere real things to explore issues of utility and material living. Every day in the studio my goal is to keep these two forces in balance, in my work and in my person.
