Darby Ortolano and Bill Heyduck, Ceramics - ISM Museums and Galleries
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Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
James R. Thompson Center, Suite 2-100
100 W. Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60601
Darby Ortolano and Bill Heyduck, Ceramics
Darby Ortolano and Bill Heyduck will exhibit their work in ceramics at the Illinois Artisans Shop at the James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph Street, Suite 2-200, Chicago, Illinois, March 1 - 31, 2006, 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., Monday - Friday. These Illinois artisans both create ceramic work inspired by nature. Darby Ortolano of Murphysboro, Illinois is inspired by the graceful forms she observes in her garden. Her wheel-thrown bowls develop into nest-like vessels and her dinnerware resembles groupings of flowers. Her vases are an organic compliment to floral bouquets. Ortolano creates her white stoneware vessels by using wheel-throwing, altering and/or hand building techniques. The vessels are covered with colorful glazes and fired in an electric kiln. Ortolano worked in clay on her own for many years before earning a B.F.A. at the Kansas City Art Institute and an M.F.A. at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She taught at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for two years before joining the faculty at John A. Logan College in Carterville. She is excited by the potential for exploration in her current work and is pleased to bring it to Chicago in this exhibit. Bill Heyduck of Charleston is fascinated by birds. In this exhibit he will show a series of vessels embellished with bird beaks, feathers and feet. Heyduck works spontaneously; he draws and plays with shapes, then works with the clay and lets ideas develop. His high fired stoneware pots start as wheel-thrown vessels which are often joined together to make a basic bird shape. He adds slabs of clay to fashion beaks, feathers, and feet. He carves the surface for texture, glazing and then scraping away some areas to expose raw clay before firing. Heyduck earned a B.A. at Millikin University in Decatur and a D.Ed. at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. He was a Professor of Art at Eastern Illinois University from 1966 to 1995, and now creates and shows his ceramics fulltime. The work of Darby Ortolano and Bill Heyduck will be on view and available for purchase at the Illinois Artisans Shop, Chicago throughout the month of March, 2006.
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