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BY DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
Ceramic artist, Noriko Bluheron Hoge, will mount her second exhibition at the Middle Street Gallery April 30. The opening reception will be Sunday, May 2 from 2-6 p.m.
Ms. Hoge’s individualistic work reflects several influences: she was born, reared and educated in Japan; she admires the ancient art of the Southwestern U.S. natives; and she studies birds and other wildlife.
Although most of her thrown stoneware pieces are designed for use, tea pots, plates, covered jars, vases, they are also pictorial and sculptural so that they would be prized as highly decorative images, unlikely to be stored in a closet.
Some of Noriko’s recent ambitious pieces combine in bas-relief human faces, birds, animals and even reptiles. One images they might illustrate a fairy tale. Glazed in part with appropriate colors, some of the images with human faces are baleful with round, staring eyes. Although her combinations of creatures are unexpected, they are naturalistically portrayed, and the animals are always unmistakable.
While most of Noriko’s pots are decorated, she also enjoys making primarily abstract designs that have the strengths of traditional Japanese ceramics. But her experience and training in pottery, however, has been entirely in the U.S. after she came here in 1990.
I find her most inspired works to be those that picture
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