Collection: Doug Peltzman - Featured Artist

My work is an act of love. I love the challenge of making functional pottery for daily use, every aspect of the process is an opportunity to dig deep. I believe pots can be a powerful conduit for conversation, interaction, and celebration. I approach my forms with comfort, curiosity, playfulness, geometry, history, and intention of use, in mind. My surfaces are a careful arrangement of glaze color, idiosyncratic marks, leaf motifs, horizon lines, circles, and grids. I use these signifiers to emphasize my formal decisions and to shift perceptions about what pottery can be; a profound mechanism to induce pause and delight in the day to day. 

Pottery, by its nature, celebrates the importance of slowing down, sharing meals, and profound understanding. Historically, pots have always told stories, and through use and ritual become weighty markers of time. Well used and well made pots teach us about our shared humanity, and possess the power to transport us and transcend the mundane. Much like life itself, my pottery practice provides a daily sense of joy and wonder and loss. I create utilitarian objects to bring focus to the intimate intersection between art and life.

Bio: 

Doug Peltzman was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. Having a voracious appetite for risk, being a skateboarder and artist, Peltzman has been making pots since 2003 and has been painting and drawing his entire life. After graduating with his MFA from Penn State in 2010, he established a pottery studio in Shokan, NY. Since that time, he has taught workshops throughout the country, was a founding member of Objective Clay (2012-2021), and is one of the principal creators/organizers of the hyper-successful Hudson Valley Pottery Tour. Doug is the father of three superbly talented and cheerful children, a dedicated husband, and a full-time studio potter.

Find Doug’s Artaxis page: https://artaxis.org/artist/doug-peltzman/

Find Doug on Instagram: @dougpeltzman