Form meets function in Catherine Satterlee’s hand-crafted pieces. Her geometrical vases are one-of-a-kind. Colorful ornaments and inlays are embedded onto their surfaces. The pictorial legacy that guides her current work in ceramics can be credited to her background as a painter. Her rich and disparate influences include subway air vents, Allan McCollum’s installation, Plaster Surrogates, a utility cover in a Tokyo street, etc. She returns from trips with countless pictures of surfaces, all of which contribute to the forms and designs that inspire her creations. Satterlee's production process is deliberately long because she employs techniques that can only be used in work made by hand. This practice has an element of surprise and favors the unexpected thereby exposing voluntary or involuntary distortions to the medium. By playing with glazed or rough surfaces, she draws out the stoneware's raw essence and texture. For this collection, the gallery has selected pieces decorated with floral, geometric and abstract patterns.

Catherine Satterlee is an American artist who lives and works in Washington. She was introduced to ceramics at Bennington College in the late 1960s by artist Stanley Rosen. Her multidisciplinary professional and artistic career lies between contemporary art, design, graphic design and painting. Catherine Satterlee has been in charge of exhibitions for renowned museum institutions: the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington. After working ceramics intermittently for a long time, she decided in 2015 to devote herself entirely to this medium. Since then, she has participated in numerous exhibitions and won several prizes. In the spring of 2021, she wrote the article "Japan In Mind" for Pottery Making Illustrated magazine.