Jeff Oestreich   1      2      3      -      PRINTER VERSION

>> sure that when he started his series of gallery vessels for example, many potters may have felt that he had "sold out" and succumbed to the marketplace and that his use of oxidation was a betrayal of his Leachian roots. And when he left that period behind collectors of his gallery vessels were probably dismayed at his return to domestic work and may have wondered if he was regressing artistically. Oestreich, however, has always been more concerned with his own vision than with what others thought and that coupled with his prodigious output of work is more than enough to make him an important figure in American ceramic art. His intuition and the manner in which he steadfastly follows it, make his art what it is. One can plainly see in his work his struggle to realize his own vision and no amount of intellectual theorizing will get us any closer to understanding this personal struggle than looking at the work itself. He is his work and in his work we see his life, full of restlessness, passion and the joy of discovery.
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