t is not often that
a ceramics site comes along that is nicely designed and features good work too.
Andy Goldschmidts
site is such a one. The simply designed pages do not constitute html or java
overkill, making them difficult to download or impossible to view, as is sometimes
the case. Rather, the simple structure will allow just about any browser to
be able to read the page.
Goldschmidt says of his work, that it is intent on "finding connections between times and places, between peoples and cultures, and in the timeless metaphors of the vessel and sculpture as the embodiment of man." His sculptural vessels reflect historic designs, the traditional pueblo traditions of the south west of North America. Interesting that another artist -- Michael Lucero, comes from a similar background.
The sculptural work is more geometric, with complex surface designs. The stone-like Two Equals One displays intersecting pathways reminiscent of the art of several aboriginal cultures. Perhaps it is the interconnectedness of the people and the land that is being expressed here. A contrast to this is the more stark geometric prism-4D, which has contrasting angular surfaces. The sky-like decoration on some of these surfaces seem like a window into another realm, perhaps that of a lost Eden.
Andy Goldschmidt was born in Buenos Aires, and now works in California and New Mexico. He also restores ethnographic ceramics.
