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Featured Project: Clearing
Leah Raintree
Before Clearing, 2.2, 2020 4 ½ x 9”, iris ash, wood ash glaze, Virginia clay soil on porcelain. Image courtesy of the artist
Featured Project Artist Leah Raintree approached Powerhouse Arts in 2020 to formulate a glaze and fire works for Clearing, a series of ceramic drawings using found materials from Raintree’s childhood home on a small farm in rural Virginia.

Our Ceramic team collaborated with the artist to formulate and test four glazes using ash materials as well as red clay soil from the farm, firing 32 tablets - each a testing ground for experiments that could be carried forward into larger works. Following the experimentation, 14 pieces were selected as final works and included in the artist’s solo show, the landscape is not still, at Reynolds Gallery in New York City in early 2020.

The materials used in the works are connected to cyclical rituals associated with working with the land, including clearing gardens and fields between seasons. Working with iris ash, wood ash glaze, and Virginia clay soil, the works are meditations on these seasonal patterns and the transition from winter to spring.

See more of Raintree’s work on her website.

Clearing, 2.2, 2020, 4 ½ x 9”, iris ash, wood ash glaze, Virginia clay soil on porcelain.
Image courtesy of the artist
Project Duration
December 2019 – February 2020
Project Team
Biata Roytburd, Director of Ceramic
Jaleh Fazel, Ceramic Artist
Processes
—Research & Development
—Firing
—Glaze Formulation
Materials & Services: Ceramic
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