Hubert Candelario #090208

$2,000.00

4” high by 4” wide

WOW! What a fantastic design and form…Hubert worked SO hard creating this new shape. It is spectacular. Hubert and I laugh about the fact that some people think it is the shape of an ice cream cone…however, he feels it is more like an ocean sea shell. When you hold it, it is so lightweight – to him it FEELS like a shell. What is astonishing to me is the numerous ridged six sided layers of clay on the slanted ribs. As he says, “Like my spirals. It is a never-ending design” The orange micaceous clay glistens. When you look down from above you see an actual star pattern that Hubert has carved. This is his first time doing that pattern, and it is great!

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Hubert Candelario

Hubert Candelario was born on November 2, 1965. Historically, San Felipe was never active as a pottery center. The San Felipe residents obtained their pottery in trade from neighbors, most often from the Zia pueblo. Hubert began making pottery at the age of nineteen. He graduated from the Phoenix Institute of Technology with an associate’s degree in architectural design and drafting.

His first love was, and still is, the micaceous clay found at Nambe and Picuris. It is with this clay that he now slips his dramatic “swirl” and “holey” pots. For the bodies of his pots he uses local red clay. He then completes the design with a slip of micaceous clay to help create this fabulous color and texture. His pots are totally hand made. The mica radiates and glistens and the end results are so eye catching. Hubert has won numerous awards. His work was prominently displayed at the “Changing Hands” exhibit and catalog from the American Craft Museum in New York City. We are so pleased to have sold one of his large swirl melon jars to the Denver Art Museum for their permanent collection.

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