Potters from the Hudson Rivers Potters Group will be featured in an exhibition at Clay Place at Standard gallery in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.  Clay Place at Standard is Standard Ceramic Supply Company’s exhibition space.  Located in the industrial zone of the community of Carnegie, PA, the gallery is founded on a strong tradition of award-winning pottery.  With a new show each month, Clay Place at Standard puts the spotlight on local and national artists.

Hudson River Potters Group Exhibition

  Clay Place at Standard
One Walnut Street, Carnegie, PA  15106
March 9 – 31, 2012

 Opening Reception:
Friday, March 9
6 p.m.- 9 p.m.

Hudson River Potters is an organization encompassing more than 40 potters living and working in New York's Hudson Valley, including Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties. Unified as a compass and diverse as its many points, the Hudson River Potters includes artists whose styles run the gamut from rough to smooth, from controlled to spontaneous, from plain to fancy. More an affinity group than an organization, the Hudson River Potters provides its members with a yeasty atmosphere rich in shared techniques and creative energy.

A Clay Collective For 30 years, Hudson River Potters has been nurturing the creative talents of ceramic artists, whether sculptural or functional.  The Hudson River Potters is a group whose vitality is in its flexibility for grouping and regrouping.  It is an organization whose programs grow out of the interests and immediate needs of its members.  The real strength of the HRP is the tremendous sense of personal involvement of the members with groups, of individual development through associations.

The potter’s task is to guide an inert lump of clay into an object of seemingly effortless beauty.   The process is both exacting and solitary, each step marked by endless experimentation, frequent failure and wholly unexpected results.