Judi Aronson

 

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 I was born in Budapest, Hungary, a country that has rich traditions in ceramics. I began my love affair with ceramics 50 years ago, the minute my hands touched clay. I have studied ceramics at the Brooklyn Museum, at Greenwich House Pottery, and at Parsons School of Design, till I opened my own ceramic studio in Brooklyn with two other potters in the late 70’s. 

After a 34 year hiatus from ceramics, I went back to pursuing my love of creating ceramics 10 years ago. I currently  work between two ceramic studios, one  in Brooklyn and one in West Palm Beach. 

My work has been on display at the Brooklyn Museum, at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Highland Beach Library in Florida, at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg,  New York and at the Brooklyn  Women’s Exchange in Brooklyn. This summer, a ceramic raku wall hanging was selected to be in a juried show, called “Smoke and Mirrors “in Sullivan county, New York.

My pottery is quite diverse….from functional pieces to contemporary ceramic sculptures. I especially love the organic process of making raku pottery and many of my pieces are examples of Raku. I love collecting seaweed, feathers, moss and other organic artifacts that I use with my sagger and horsehair pottery. You never know the results that you’re going to get when doing Raku. And that factor of surprise when you pull your Raku pottery out of the fire is simply exhilarating.