Alexander Phillips

 Birthplace

 Youngstown, Ohio

 Education

 B.S. Westminster College

 M.D. North Eastern Ohio University College of Medicine

 Selected Exhibitions

 Joyce Petter Gallery, Douglas, Michigan

 Butler Art Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

 Juried Exhibitions

 First Place, Chicago Medical Society – Physicians Competition

 Best of Show, Oak Park Art League 2003

 Artist Statement

 I began the art of throwing pottery on the potter’s wheel in 1976.  I have relished the technical challenge of pushing the clay to its limits to create large, buoyant thin walled pieces.  The form serves as the canvas for a very unique copper matt raku glaze.  The raku firing process is performed outside with a liquid propane fired kiln.  The pieces while red hot are the pulled from the kiln and placed in a bed of sand and covered with combustible materials.  This process causes the glaze to react in the hot oxygen depleted environment.  This reaction causes the formation of colors all over the piece, which are captured as the piece cools down.  Each piece is unique in form and appearance.