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Artist Statement

I am self-taught as a potter and have been hand-building stoneware pieces to sell since 1976. I work by myself without apprentices or employees. My focus as I work is to create an object which embodies an image that can be a useful tool for understanding.

I like clay because working with a material that undergoes such radical changes, and working in three dimensions helps me to integrate the sensuous and the intellectual.

I often use functional objects as forms for images because they assert the scale of ordinary life. This is where I believe we need art to function.

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  Curtain Vase
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  My White Dress
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  Treat Salt & Pepper
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  Mother
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  Peace Salt & Pepper
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  Sibling
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  Bird Hands Vase
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  Needle
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  Stones, Marbles, Ball Bearings, Seeds

Biography

Marilyn Andrews has been working in clay since the early 1970’s.  Her children were small then and she needed a non-toxic art form that she could practice at home and share with them. By the mid-seventies Marilyn was selling clay work and has been making some or all of her living that way since.

Marilyn was first consciously influenced in her clay work by the clay figures and painted pots from pre-Columbian Mexico and northern South America, which she saw at the Art Institute of Chicago. She was moved by the power and beauty of these pieces. And she was astonished at the connection she felt to artists from so long ago and from such a different culture.

As a clay artist, Marilyn is primarily self-taught. She has learned from reading about art and looking at figure based art from many cultures and times including her contemporaries. Periodically she finds opportunities to work from a live model.

Marilyn Andrews is fascinated by the human impulse to depict ourselves; to translate humanness into stone or clay or film or words. She enjoys making objects that can be used as part of this continual process of reflecting on our identity.

Marilyn Andrews' work has been shown in notable venues for many years, and most recently including: Alainza, Boston, teapots, 2003, 2004, 2005. Ariana, Royal Oak, MI, teapots, 1990-92, 1995, cups, 2003. Baltimore Clayworks and Greenwich House Pottery, Sublime Servers, 2000. Baltimore Clayworks, 100 Teapots, 2001. Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, Small-scale ceramic sculpture, 2007. Gallery Alexander, La Jolla, CA, teapots, 1992-95, 2000-2002. Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, The Vase, 2002. Rockville Art Place, Gaithersburg, Md. The Art of Tea, 2004. Virginia Breier, San Francisco, new work, 1995, teapots,1998, 2002. Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, Salem, OR, Shelters, 2007.