| Jeanne Otis | ||
| Birth Date: January 13, 1940 |
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| Death Date: March 29, 2019 Artist Gallery |
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| Jeanne Otis received her BA from DePaul University, Indiana, BFA in Ceramics and Painting from Denison University, Ohio and an MFA in ceramics from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. At Ohio State, she pursued both functional ceramics and funky works in porcelain (like “Big Billy”). From there, she was hired by Arizona State University to teach ceramics while researching the technology of ceramic colorants, publishing her extensive research concerning colored clays for all to use through Ceramics Monthly magazine. She has since retired from Arizona State to pursue her own ceramic interests. In many respects, Otis assembled what she learned as a painter in her early schooling and career with what she researched and developed through ceramic experiment, through most of her career using combinations of large tiles as painterly surfaces for colored clays:
Otis talks about her work:
“My work is a continuous dialogue with color, especially the quality of color that is unique to ceramic materials. The works themselves have evolved from visual ideas I pursued as a painter early in my career. Over the years, their conception has become more architectural, relying on the interplay of actual and illusory depth with the rich nuances of light, shadow and transparency."
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