Collection
Their sculptures are primarily slab constructed, made with stoneware or porcelain. The form and surfaces work together, like paintings or drawings on 3D forms, imagery is an integral part of every object. Each embrace their own way of mark-making, resulting in a work that is individualized and identifiable with the artisitic personality of the maker, in both sculpture and pottery.
black house
lost on land — boats
Functional pots
towers
Bottles
House and chimney
Bone box
Jars
vases
bone structures
Monuments
Fragment pots
lost on land — pots
Incised pots
Current Exhibitions
Finding the Authentic Self, a national invitational at the Sabes JCC in Minneapolis
February 17 — March 31, 2019
Taupe Gallery in North Wilkesboro
About
© photo by Stephanie Berbec
Roy and Barbara Strassberg are ceramic artists who live in Davidson, NC. After decades of teaching, they retired in 2013 and now work in their studio at home. Working in their studio became an everyday experience and continues to make retirement productive and satisfying. The journey began years ago, in the ceramic studio of the art department at SUCO Oswego where they met in 1970 and married in 1971. Roy’s career evolved from student, to instructor to academic administrator as art department chair at three state universities, before he finally left academia and retired in 2013 — Oswego, NY to Ann Arbor, MI to Memphis, TN to Mankato, MN to Charlotte and Boone, NC — 43 years in university art departments. Barbara started teaching as an adjunct faculty in 1988 and continued until 2013.
Artist Statement — R. Strassberg
Selected Exhibitions List — R. Strassberg
Artist Statement — B. Strassberg
Selected Exhibitions List — B. Strassberg