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About:
Artist Sang Roberson
BA, University
of Mississippi
Sophie Newcomb College (Tulane University)
Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN
Penland School, Penland NC
Whether
hand-built from slabs of clay or formed in molds, Roberson's
terra-cotta containers are labor-intensive. She paints them
with terra sigillata (a fine slip of ball clay, soda ash and
water used instead of a glaze) and burnishes them with a soft
cloth after the bisque firing, then fires them twice more. The
third firing occurs outside, in a nest of hay and sawdust.
Earthy, yet
refine, Roberson's containers have often been compared with
Asian ceramics. Her work similarly proceeds by evolution
rather than revolution and relies on understatement as opposed
to bombast. Roberson acknowledges an early debt to Pueblo
Indian pots, especially the burnished blackware of Maria
Martinez
Her work is
solid and touchable. Though impeccably crafted, her boxes and
vessels are modest and self-contained. One has the impression
that this is an artist who reaches for satisfaction rather
than perfection in her work-and finds it. |
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