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Throwing a curveball on a potter's wheel: Mother Earth's feminine forms at the Torpedo Factory Art Center's Scope Gallery

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Forms and figures have become distinctly feminine, shedding angles for curves, foliage for flowers and massive bulk for graceful linear sensibilities.

A knockout of a vase reflects bursts of crystalline light in porcelain. A dishy dish with earthy embossing emphasizes linear waves of design. Forms are flared, divas and lookers with commanding presence. Colors are ethereal, soft seafoam, or jewelike with glassy emerald.

Sculptures show feminine bonds with substantive forms and dynamic gesture. Crackled raku baby polar bears follow their mother. Stalwart sisters stand together, hair whipped back by the wind.

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Whether a wild woman, mother nature or playful pixie, artists have created dancing silhouettes, floral servers and iridescent glazed baskets with natural handles. Vines wind around earthy forms, gravity-defying overhead handles stretch above teapot tops with sculpted knobs.

Gone are bier steins, ginormous brown crockery and manly-handled pots. Fierce ikebana vases and thrilling teapots are ruling the runway. Hourglass forms, spiraled knobs and lace embossing are in. Flowing glazes are the new hue. Smooth tapering and delicate edges are the trendy silhouettes of today.

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Clay artists have used feminine wiles, creating allure that attracts the everyone's better half.

Scope Gallery's Ceramic Guild show runs April 28 to June 1 and is in conjunction with the Art League Gallery's "Art and Feminism" show; hours are Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Thursdays open until 9 p.m. The gallery is located at 105 North Union Street, ground floor Studio 19, Alexandria, VA. 22314. For further information, call Scope Gallery at703-548-6288 or visit www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/scope and https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ceramic-Guild-at-Scope-Gallery/601730229868218

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