"Colored Clay," an exhibit of multi-colored porcelain vessels created by local artists Linda Greenberg and Diane Marimow, will open Friday, June 14 at The Clay Studio, 49 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia. The show, which will continue through July 6, will begin with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m., on the fourteenth.
Greenberg, of Melrose Park, and Mardimow, who lives in Bala Cynwyd, have been working together for the past twelve years.Greenberg creates on the potter's wheel; Marsimow handbuilds her pieces.
Both artists, however, color their clay with stains and metal oxides and carbonates; and both also use a Japanese technique called neriage, in which two or more colored porcelain clays are mixed or layered.
But despite this similarity in materials and approach, the two women achieve strikingly dissimilar results.
Linda Greenberg is on the faculty of the Abington Art Center. Her work is currently featured in "Soup, Soup Beautiful Soup," an exhibit of ceramic tureens; the exhibit, organized by the Campbell Museum in Camden, is on a two-year nine-city tour of the United States and Canada.
Diane Marimow, also a faculty member at the Abington Art Center, has exhibited in numerous area craft shows, including those presented at the Center, the Clay Studio, and the University City Arts League.
The work of both artists is also represented in the "American Clay Artists: Philadelphia '85" exhibition; that show continues at the Port of History Museum through June 9.
