Donald Reitz
(1929 - 2014)
Abstract Charger, 1981
salt-glazed stoneware
inscribed underside: Reitz
“Making pots isn’t about making pots. What making pots is about is your self – it is a way of life. About the way you think, about the way your mind is; it’s about what has affected you all your life.”
Don Reitz’s work is characterized by a tension between his respect for classical form and a brash, impetuous approach to working with clay. Trained to make classically thrown and delicately glazed pots, over time his work would assume a muscular anarchy. No longer content to rely on the wheel alone, he pushed, pulled and prodded mountains of clay into abstract vessels incised with markings essential and personal to the artist himself.
height 2 1/2 x diameter 11 1/2 in. (6.35 x 29.21 cm.)
The Barbara and Ed Okun Collection

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