Benjamin Eberle

BIOGRAPHY

Ben Eberle is a ceramic artist living in western, Massachusetts, making wood-soda fired pots at his home studio. The past 25yrs in clay have taken him from Skidmore College where he earned a BA in English, to an apprenticeship with Toshiko Takaezu, and then an MFA at San Jose State University. He has worked and taught at an array of community clay studios all over the northeast, and showed his work locally, regionally, and nationally for over a decade. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

The pots that give me the most satisfaction are the ones that still look soft after they're fired. My shaping technique is organically intuitive. I never make the same pot twice, which is part of my constant fascination. Over the last few years, the surfaces from my wood-soda kiln have jived with the asymmetric lines, patterns, and surface movements on my pots. To me, the spontaneity of the firing goes hand in hand with my expressionist mark making and open-ended answers to otherwise straightforward pottery questions.

Instagram : @bqeberle