Dina Angel-Wing

Dina Angel-Wing, the well known Bay Area ceramic artist has been working on a series of whimsical verbal-visual puns based on her delight in tea. Her new series of raku fired tea pots express a verve for the tongue-in-cheek as her Tea-V teapot shaped like a large letter "V' illustrates.

Her Ice-T-teapot is a more literal stack of ice cubes in mostly blue glaze, her pedagogue T-cher teapot is shaped like, well a chair, a fair stretch of the imagination. The Tea -Shoe is like a tissue box with a shoe. These art pieces will stump guests from a formal tea party to an art opening. The are and Iced-Tea breaker for everyone.

For the more conservative, Angel-Wing, her real name by the way, has a Carry Out teapot, a T-can teapot, and a T-bag teapot. Back to that name, no its not from the sixties, her maiden name was Angel and she married local commercial photographer Frank Wing.

Dina's interest in teapots comes from a fascination with tea as social ritual in both Western and Eastern cultures. Her earlier work takes the essence of a functional vessel for tea into the artistic realm of teapot as a conceptual form and then she goes beyond that into its purely sculptural possibilties.

Balancing the body of the pot with spout, lid and handle, she began a series of teapots which use black bamboo as a dynamic counterpooint to her grey crackle glaze. Natural bamboo handles take on elevated heights & graceful curves as she bends them into fanciful arches. Note some of the Classic shaped Teapots.

To inquire about this artist, please call 212-695-4074.

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