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Our Poppy @ Off Center - International ceramic show

6/16/2018

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Currently showing at blue line arts
in the International ceramic exhibit
OFF CENTER

Vicki Gunter's clay sculpture
Our Poppy
Eschscholzia californica 
...In Everything Series


Paper Clay, Underglazes, Stains, glass, Beeswax - 19 X 8.5 – 2017 - $1370
                       SOLD
All living organisms store genetic information using the same molecules — DNA & RNA.
​They are in …In Everything. This genetic code of molecules is evidence of the shared ancestry of all living things. DNA forms a beautiful double helix that looks like a twisted ladder. The stigma in Our Poppy is sculpted into a DNA helix. Inspired by its no-waste complexity, nature is my source & my anchor.
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"Have You Heard Us Yet?"

6/10/2018

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Jeanie Ngo's poem Soft Hands which I interpreted in clay. See all the details of this amazing show @ Abrams Claghorn Gallery
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Soft Hands 

My mother likes to say I have soft hands.
And I reply that I’ve never known hard, manual labor.
We laugh.

We press our hands together in place of our hearts.

I wish she knew the beauty in her hardened mountain palms,
dancing needle and thread fingers,
moon yellowed nails.

She sees her hands.

I see her digging through the rubble of the
My Lai massacre of her hometown.
I see her hands begging for one scoop of plain white rice,
the daily rations on a ship that brought her from
one war torn country to another war torn country.
I see her hunched over a sewing machine at four in the morning,
piecing together tiny sequined outfits for strippers,
trying to cobble together a living.
I see her peeling mangoes, nectarines, clementines,
pomegranates, grapefruits, and always offering
me the sweetest piece.
I see her in front of the altar, praying to every god
that her daughter will have an easier life than hers.

My mother likes to say I have soft hands.

It is because hers have shielded me the best they could
from the pain of warfare, the pain of starvation,
the pain of humanity itself.
My mother likes to say I have soft hands.
And I reply that I’ve never known hard, manual labor.
We laugh.
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Artist’s Talk:
Wednesday June 20, 5 -7 pm

Poetry Evening:
Wednesday June 27, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Featuring Poetry by:
Jeanie Ngo, Claire J. Baker, Lori Lynne Armstrong, Janis Hashe, Vicki Gunter, Becky Bishop White, Sandra Anfang, Kelliane Parker, Tiffany Higgins, and Nicole Rubio.
New & Original Artworks by:
Rena Charles, Julianne Sterling, Hope Armstrong, Hellenmae, Mary Andersen, Ceci Bowman, Carol Jenkins, Kirsten Piroth, Kaitlin McSweeney, Mojgan Saberi, Nour, Vicki Gunter, Suzanne Long, Anna Vaughan, and Leah Tumerman.
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June 05th, 2018

6/5/2018

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Cedar Waxwing
Bombycilla cedrorum
…In Everything Series


I am always thrilled in winter when the Cedar Waxwing flocks arrive for their berry feasts!

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Richmond Art Center
Small Works

Selections by Phil Linhares, 
former Chief Curator
of the Oakland Museum.
June 12 thru Aug. 16, 2018
Reception June 9, 5 - 7 pm


Vicki Gunter - Clay Sculpture © 2017​
Abrams Claghorn Gallery in Albany CA
HAVE YOU HEARD US YET? 
#Me Too #Times Up


Showing: June 5 – 30
Reception: Sat. June 9, 5 – 7 pm

Artist’s Talk: Wed. June 20, 5 -7 pm
Poetry Eve: Wed. June 27, 6:30–8:30 pm


If you like to research...Here's a link to my poem, Menopause. It is being interpreted by visual artists, Anna Vaughan & Carol Jenkins


I, Vicki Gunter and Suzanne Long will be interpreting Jeanie Ngo's powerful Poem Soft Hands. This  detail pic is a sneak peek of my new piece Soft Hands.

I invite you to come to the reception at Abrams Claghorn Gallery and witness the collaborations and first meeting of all 29 women artists. Come celebrate and experience what we have to say!


Vicki Gunter - Clay Sculpture - Soft Hands © 2018​ 

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Humming Aquilegia
...In Everything Series

Two California favorites, Aquilegia formosa (Western Columbine) and Anna's Hummingbird, magnified 7x's their natural size in clay. The Aquilegia's long red petals swell with nectar and the hummingbird slides in its long beak & tongue.
Voila, pollination!

Richmond Art Center
Annual Members' Show

Over 200 artists represented

June 12 thru Aug. 16, 2018
​Reception June 9, 5 - 7 pm



Vicki Gunter - Clay Sculpture © 2017
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