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LOGAN WANNAMAKER
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Colorado native Logan Wannamaker is a ceramics artist, father, and avid outdoorsman based in Taos, New Mexico.
Wannamaker moved from Colorado to Taos in 2006 to help create a ceramics community. This included a summer workshop program, two residencies, ongoing classes, and a variety of firing possibilities. In 2014 he handed over Taos Clay in order to pursue making pots full time. Taos Clay helped him draw in ceramic artists from all over the world and has been the majority of his education and background in ceramics. It takes a community to fire many of the kilns he's built around Taos, and Taos Clay has been a vital part of keeping the ceramics community aware of the trends of contemporary ceramics.
Wannamaker shows his work out of his own gallery located on the road to the ski valley in Taos, and in hotels, galleries, boutiques and restaurants throughout the United States.
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The majority of my work is influenced by where I live. The high mountain desert of New Mexico inspires my color palette, forms, and the structures of my vessels. I am constantly trying to incorporate native materials. I work atmospherically. Instead of glazing my work, I fire with wood, salt, and soda to mark the work in a more natural aesthetic. I believe less is more and I am constantly trying to showcase the inherent beauty in the object, based upon its composition, weight, and balance.
I am inspired by the subtle tones and formations that one takes for granted. I am trying to gather all these elements and balance them into my own canvas - a three dimensional object. In this, someone can enjoy the natural landscape from inside their home as they would through a window. In a sense I have tried to take what is beautiful outside and embody it into an object that belongs inside. When someone looks at my work, I want them to make direct relationships to the formations of the land and tones of the sky and metallic rocks lying just outside their front door.
2024
11” x 9.75” x 4”
Locally harvested clay, wood fired
$1,100
2024
10” x 10” x 10”
Porcelain with slips, wood fired
$1,400
2024
13” x 13” x 11”
Locally harvested clay, wood fired
$1,900
2024
17” x 17” x 5”
Locally harvested clay, wood fired
$2,560
2024
12” x 12” x 18”
Locally harvested clay, wood fired
$3,680
2024
17” x 17” x 16”
Locally harvested clay with inclusions, wood fired
$4,300
2024
18.5” x 17.5” x 14.5”
Porcelain with slips and locks rock inclusions, wood fired
$5,120
8 Boat
2024
31” x 2.5” x 7.5”
Porcelain with slips
$4,160
EXHIBITIONS AT FOLKLORE
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A story about place. Featuring new work by visiting multimedia artist Sean W. Spellman and Taos-based ceramics artist Logan Wannamaker. At the crossroads of time and environment. Place can be as ephemeral as memory, or rooted like native clay. Two artists explore their relationship to New Mexico - one with the spontaneous lens of a traveller seeking refuge, a place to ground for a moment. The other with the context of home and history, digging into the past in order to realize place in the present.
March 13 – April 28, 2025