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A Jody Folwell redware sgraffito vase
1 May 2020, 10:00 PDT
Los AngelesSold for US$765 inc. premium
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Jody Folwell
Santa Clara Pueblo, (b. 1942), an ovoid redware pottery vase with a slightly canted neck, decorated all-over with irregular bands of X-form shapes on a partially hachured ground overlaid with a striated-effect rubbed finish.
height 13 1/2in, width 10 1/4in
height 13 1/2in, width 10 1/4in
Footnotes
Jody Folwell is the daughter of potter Rose Naranjo (1915-2005), and has been celebrated for her ingenuity and creative experimentation throughout her career. As early as the 1970s, Folwell was adding visual depth to her vessels by layering carved textures and occasionally painting her pieces with acrylics. In Charles S. King's Spoken through Clay: The Eric S. Dobkin Collection (Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2017), Folwell briefly describes some of her thought processes and influences: "For the asymmetrical shape, I early on thought about how everything was so symmetrical in the Indian world. How far can I go to make a change? It was a little tiny change of not having everything so symmetrical. Once that became a part of Pueblo Tradition, I went on to something else... I started thinking about how one needed to do a repetition of a background so it brought everything together with a design on the outside. I started thinking about what would work as a repetitive kind of design... and I was looking at the huge cross that was right over the altar at one of the Catholic churches and I started playing around with that. All I did was turn it sideways, and then you have the X's."