Daniel Johnston (NC, b. 1971), White Outdoor Pillar

Circa 2019, wood fired local clay with a white glaze, stamped "STUDIO 9," likely a piece (or a prototype) fired for the artists large site specific landscape installation at the North Carolina Museum of Art Installation 1–183, featuring 175 ceramic cylinders. 38 x 17 x 17 in. Daniel Johnston apprenticed in the Leach-Cardew-Hewitt school of pottery making. After his four-year apprenticeship with Mark Hewitt, he spent time in the village of Phon Bok, Thailand, where he worked with Thai potters producing large utilitarian jars. Daniel's practice is informed by Southeast Asian methods of coil building, combined with traditional North Carolina clay and glaze practices. Johnston has established his pottery studio and kiln in Seagrove, North Carolina, where he relies on the special particle sizes and properties of the native Mitchfield clay. He strives to allow every part of the process to have its own space and independence: “My philosophy,” Daniel says, “is that you have to work with the kiln...the pot, the slips, and the glazes. And the fire. You have to understand all these things. I’m not practicing chemistry, you know. I’m practicing art.“ Johnston is featured in museum collections at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, and North Carolina Pottery Center. He has lectured and taught workshops at the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival, Penland School of Craft, and St. Ives Ceramics. Scattered firing anomalies as made; base with some chips.

Estimate:£188.8

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