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Jeff Sugarman

Contemporary Raku-Fired Ceramics
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April 2022 21" Platter
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Medium Crackle Vase with Gold Lip 12x8
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Crawl Vase with Black Galaxy Neck 12x8 - SOLD
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Sm Vase w Thin Floral Stripe 10x4
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Sm Flask with Red Floral Neck 8x5x3
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Sm Vase with Thick Red Floral Stripe 10x4 - SOLD
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Tall Vase with Red Floral Stripe 14x7 - SOLD
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Tall Vase with Green Floral neck and Gold Stripe 15x8 - SOLD
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Medium Crackle Vase 10x8 - SOLD
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21" Raku Fired Platter w/ Green Flower SOLD
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21" Raku Fired Platter w/Blue Flower - SOLD
Large raku fired and painted ceramic platter
Deep Platter with Blue and Red Flowers and Gold Center Dot 17"x3" SOLD
Squat raku fired flask with gold center
Flask with Gilded Center Opening 8"x5" SOLD
Tall raku fired flask with gold center
Flask with Gold Dotted Offset Opening 9"x5" - SOLD
Raku fired ceramic platter with painted rim and center
Large Flat Platter with Black Flower Center and Red Rim 21" SOLD
Raku fired vase with painted top and gilded rim
Vase with Red and BLue Flowers on Flared Neck 11"x7" SOLD
Wide vase with blue flowers and gold top
Wide vase with blue flowers and gold lip 10"x9" SOLD
Raku fired vase with painted flowers
MId-Shouldered Vase with Long Neck and Red and Blue Flowers 17"x8" SOLD
Raku fired platter with gilded edge and painted flowers
Platter with red and green flowers 20" SOLD
Raku fired platter with gilded edge and painted center
Bowl with red flower center and gold edge 17"x4" SOLD
I love the tactile sense of throwing on the wheel and the meditative state that comes with making ceramics.  My ceramic pieces are wheel thrown and sometimes embellished with hand built elements.  The glaze firing process that I use is a modified form of Raku, an ancient Japanese process developed over 500 years ago and used in Japanese tea ceremony. The word Raku has many translations, such as enjoyment, freedom and contentment.
-Jeff Sugarman

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​ I studied ceramics with Jeff Margolin at UC Berkeley from 1982-1986 and have shown my work in San Francisco, Petaluma, Seattle and San Diego.


My ceramic pieces are wheel thrown and sometimes embellished with hand built elements.  The glaze firing process that I use is a modified form of Raku, an ancient Japanese process developed over 500 years ago and used in Japanese tea ceremony.  The pieces are fired to about 1700 degrees and removed from the kiln glowing hot which causes tiny fissures in the surface glaze.  The pieces are then placed in a chamber with combustible materials (such as leaves and saw dust) which ignite spontaneously by exposure to the hot ceramic.  The carbon released from this reduction process blackens the white clay body and fills the fissures in the clear glaze producing a beautifully random crackle pattern.  The careful and exacting construction of the forms contrast with the unpredictability of the outcome of the firing process.  Every single work is unique and yet unified by over 500 years of history in the making.
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    • Craig Nelson Paintings
    • William Crosby Abstract Landscapes
    • Leo E. Osborne Sculpture and Paintings
      • Leo E. Osborne Wood Burl Sculpture
      • Leo E. Osborne Acrylusion on Gold Leaf Paintings
      • Leo E. Osborne Limited Edition Bronze
    • Claire McArdle Figurative Sculpture
    • Jennifer Spencer Paintings
    • Langford Barksdale Abstracts
    • David Imlay Paintings
    • Bernie Weston Paintings
    • Joan Dumouchel Paintings
    • Anna Nelson Paintings
    • Ana Carolina Pesce Imlay Mixed Media
    • Michael Cone Photographs
    • Danae Bennett Miller Sculpture
    • Mitch S. Billis Bronzes
    • Steve Reinmuth Sculpture
    • James Rivington Pyne Sculpture
    • Jeff Sugarman Contemporary Ceramics
    • Custom Jewelry Designs by Glade Sarbach Davis
    • Nancy Linkin
    • Sidney Soriano
    • Salatino-Gandolfo Art Glass
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