Mr. Tony Marsh scintillates in a brilliantly eruptive display of ceramic earthenware at Patricia Sweetow Gallery. It is not an explosion which imposes erratica but instead is a wondrously graceful volcanic finish to his dynamic danger in working with the kiln.

Tony Marsh
Neo-Crucible Series
2023
multiple fired assorted clay & glaze materials
24 x 14 x 19 inches.
Courtesy of the artist Tony Marsh and Patricia Sweetow Gallery.
Photography by David Schmitz.

In his flamebrush master strokes, we are given a confidence in the inner mysterious bursts of softening busts of a high artistic expression of creation.

Tony Marsh
Neo Crucible
2023
multiple fired assorted clay & glaze materials
26.5 x 14 x 16 inches.
Courtesy of the artist Tony Marsh and Patricia Sweetow Gallery.
Photography by David Schmitz.

This is the daring when working through a ceramic process: am I being destructive?

Tony Marsh
IceFlo
2023
multiple fired assorted clay & glaze materials. 30.5 x 13 x 13 inches.
Courtesy of the artist Tony Marsh and Patricia Sweetow Gallery.
Photography by David Schmitz.

With Mr. Marsh, we have an affirmation of no which moves us self-evidently toward refining our perspective of eruption without measures of haste. Perhaps in art, like in all immortal works, there is the need to meld for years to experience a higher truth? One which is far removed from the hurries of daily tasks to achieve what higher purpose but to know works like these?

Tony Marsh
Neo Crucible
2023
multiple fired assorted clay & glaze materials
26 x 10 x 9 inches.
Courtesy of the artist Tony Marsh and Patricia Sweetow Gallery.
Photography by David Schmitz.

Inconceivable beauty forms itself with such dexterity, and with subtle color choices, to reflect an originality of perfect measure which can only occur during the highest echelons of artisanry: spontaneous extension. To triumph in these modes of artistic being is the highest representation of good human spirit – that which is certainly in alignment with indestructible goodness: the happy memory of being alive.

Their self-reliance in expression gives us an eclectic display of scale, materiality (or the tactile representation of the ceramics in the experience of the mind), and shape (the configuration of the material at working scale), without desires for the artworks to be accompanied by anything more, e.g. flowers. This is what gives each work a pride in achievement: independence at true beauty.

For more information, please contact the gallery:

Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Phone: 213-265-7471
Email: contact@patriciasweetowgallery.com

Address: 1700 So. Santa Fe Ave. Suite 351
Los Angeles, CA 90021