Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery

Gallery Address and Phone

• 115 S. Adams Street, Spokane, WA 99201 - 509-863-9904

• Trackside Gallery and Studios are usually Open Wed - Fri. 11:00 - 5:00, but please CALL OR TEXT US to confirm.

• Shop online: https://trackside-studio.square.site/

Trackside would like to thank all our patrons for any continued support you can provide us.

June 6 - 27, 2025 - “Many” J. Casey Doyle

Opening Receptions: First Friday, June 6, 5 - 8 pm, Saturday, June 7, noon - 4 pm.

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BIO

J. Casey Doyle is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Idaho. He received his MFA with an emphasis in Sculpture from The Ohio State University in 2007 where he was a University Fellow. He holds a BFA with emphases in Sculpture and Metals & Jewelry and a BA with emphasis in Spanish from New Mexico State University. He is the recipient of two Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowships. He exhibits his work both nationally and internationally. His art combines interests in craft, sculpture, metals & jewelry, video, gender and the concept of play.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Utilizing sculptural strategies, a strong dedication to craft and work ethic, humor, and popular culture, I maintain a hybrid practice that explores sculpture, craft, and moving image. As an advocate for gay rights, equality, and myself, I create sociopolitical works that question our relationship to gender roles/stereotypes and sexuality. Each of these works begins with a question to society and myself. I create works that explore the ambiguity of materials, scale, and color, and employ repetition as a form of meditation. I am interested in material limitations, the gendering of materials and processes, and the debunking of craft vs. fine art. I use video as a method of recording intimate performance, my process as a maker of objects, and objects in motion.

August 1 - 30, 2025 - “Annual Studio Sale”

Opening Receptions: First Friday, August 1, 5 - 8 pm, Saturday, August 2, noon - 4 pm.

Everything in studio marked down 10% with many featured items marked down as much as 50%.

September, 5 - 30, 2025 - “Dot to Dash” An Invitational exhibit of mid to low range ceramics featuring rendered surfaces in abstract to representational.

• Israel Davis - Ada, MI,

• Dehmie Dehmlow - Lawrence, KS,

• Nancy Gardner - Forest Park, IL,

• Dennis Meiners - Portland, OR,

• Taylor Sijan - Netcong, NJ,

Opening Receptions: First Friday, September 5, 5 - 8 pm, Saturday, September 6, noon - 4 pm.

Israel “Izzy” Davis is an artist who lives and works in Grand Rapids, MI.

Davis has presented more than 50 technical workshops and lectures nationally and internationally and has taught several summer intensives, including courses at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist's Residency, Saugatuck, MI, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, and Ceramica Artistic Prospettiva, Trieste, Italy.

He has exhibited work in more than 100 exhibitions including venues such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, the Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, and the American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Paloma, CA.

Izzy has participated in numerous artist residencies including a project residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk, Netherlands. There he spent three weeks in their FabLab focusing on CAM/CAD fabrication to produce molds for pressure-casting ceramic paper airplanes in porcelain. Izzy's most recent residency was at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT where he created work for his current "Devil-May-Care" series.

Izzy sees himself as a lifelong learner. His interests reflect an innate desire to be active, practice, and progress in a creative and productive lifestyle. Investigating art and teaching are catalysts toward that end.

Dehmie Dehmlow grew up in Denver, Colorado, currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas

She makes pottery and mixed media modular sculptures that tell stories using layers of color and texture, found materials, ceramics, and other fabricated objects. She loves to teach ceramics and sculpture. In addition to artistic work, Dehmie’s background is in caregiving for elderly and adults with disabilities. She earned her BA in Ceramics and Pre-Medical Sciences from Colorado State University. Dehmie was a ceramics intern at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado before she was selected as the 2019 Salad Days Artist in Residence at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. Dehmie then completed a Post-Baccalaureate program at Louisiana State University. She received her MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After her MFA Dehmie was selected as the 2022-2023 Artist in Residence at PrattMunson Art Institute in Utica, New York. She is currently the ceramic artist in residence at Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS. Dehmie enjoys being outside with her dog, Hadlee, and observing the world and people around her."

Nancy (Gardner) is an award winning potter with an extensive exhibition record and with work published in The Best of Pottery 1 and 2, The Ceramic Design Book, The Contemporary Potter (Rockport Publishers). Burt (Isenstein) is a sculptor and college art professor. We have been collaborating on our pottery since our first son was born in 1988. He recently turned 30 and just got married. Wow, how time flies when you are making a lot of pottery!

Dennis Meiners - Portland, OR: "My objective with each piece I make, which I don't think about while I'm working, is to capture the imaginative moment and give my artist-self a chance to respond on the most fundamental level to that moment. What it comes down to is being fully present. Sometimes I think it's not about making ceramic objects at all, but the end of my process occasionally presents me with pieces that I and others like and that might make some ongoing difference in peoples' daily lives."

Taylor Sijan is a full-time studio artist from Catawba Island, Ohio. She earned a BFA in 3-D Arts from Bowling Green State University (2016) and an MFA with ceramics emphasis from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2021). In 2020, Taylor was named one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists. These days, she enjoys traveling to teach techniques to students and has demonstrated at institutions including Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft, Peters Valley School of Craft, Wooten Clayworks, Gasworks NYC, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Touchstone Center for Crafts, Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Snow Farm, and Hudgens Center for Arts and Learning.

When Taylor’s not in her studio, she is usually gardening, hiking, or spending time with her two cats.

Statement:

I craft richly decorated, functional pottery. Each piece is a confluence of things I find beautiful–asymmetrical compositions, evocative colors, botanical imagery, and fine details–expressed within the parameters of objects intended for active participation in someone’s life. 

Balancing comfortable utility and expressive aesthetics is an interesting challenge to navigate because these pots are designed to be used, but paradoxically, decoration is often a signal to someone to not touch. To get people to overcome initial cautiousness, I inspire curiosity through complexity and mystery by selectively hiding and/or highlighting the many techniques I use throughout my process. I begin with throwing, altering, and handbuilding to construct soft forms that are then adorned with layered ornamentation. The surface compositions are a collage of contrasting organic and geometric motifs that are painted, slip trailed, carved, and stamped. By weaving raised and recessed methods of mark-making asymmetrically around the vessels, I cultivate visual and tactile appeal to encourage a viewer’s eyes and hands to roam around the form, into the interior, and underneath.

October, 3 - 31, 2025 - “Annual Trackside Partners Exhibit” Chris Kelsey, Mark Moore & Gina Freuen

Opening Reception: First Friday, October 3, 5 - 8 pm, Saturday, October 4, noon - 4.

November 7- 28, 2025 - “Coasters Benefit”

Benefit opens to public, First Friday, November 7 @ 5 pm and continues through the month of November. Pick up your blank coasters to complete at Trackside and turn them in prior to November 7.

7th Annual Coasters Benefit. This annual benefit has raised over $6500 in donations, $10 at a time, to local non profits including, Meals on Wheels, River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary, Embrace Washington, Light a Lamp and the Spokane Peace and Justice Action League. Regional well known artists, friends and full classrooms of students have created coasters and donated them to this annual event. All coasters sell for $10. each and all funds made from sales go directly to the non profit. Some of the regional artists who have donated their works: Joe Tomlinson, Andrew Parker, Deb Sheldon, Dean Lenz, Lexi Biggs, Baylee Joe Art.

December 5, 2025 to January 9, 2026 - “12th Annual Cup of Joy”

Opening Reception: First Friday, December 5, 5 - 8 pm, Saturday, December 6, noon - 4.

National Invitational, exhibition and sale of over 200 ceramic cups and over 50 artists. This exhibit features ceramic cups in many forms, colors and treatments, some serving as mini sculpture, many times they feel like a small lovely 3D painting and most often they are functional mini-artworks. Each of the invited artists, participating from all 4 corners of the United States,  send up to four cup forms each to exhibit.