BIOGRAPHY
David has worked and exhibited across US, Europe and Asia. He has been a US/Japan Creative Artists Fellowship recipient, and an NEA/Central and Eastern Europe Visual Arts Fellowship recipient. He has taught at Penland School of Crafts, the Bascom Center for Visual Arts and numerous universities and colleges. His work is included in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Museum (Japan), the Museum of American Ceramic Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Asheville Museum of Art, and the Museum of International Folk Art, among others.
PROCESS
My work is at the intersection of traditional art and contemporary studio pottery. I have been influenced by extensive travel in Europe and Asia and by studying historical and contemporary American pottery in order to create work that is unique to me. Using local clays connects me to the geology and ceramic culture of the area.
Two of the kilns are crossdraft kilns and are approximately 30 feet long and are fired twice a year. Each firing lasts about five days to build up natural ash glazed surfaces on the work. Most of the pottery does not have any applied glaze so the surface markings are entirely the result of the clay and firing.