About the Artist
Doug Rochelle came to New York in 2001 from Kansas City and got a job as a waiter, working nights. Doug joined the LaMano Pottery Studio in August 2001. After work, and inspired by what he calls “the madness and mayhem of working the graveyard shift… where fights, barf, homeless and drunks cyclone the edge” Doug would decompress at the studio by creating his haunting ceramic images until the wee hours of the morning.

As he describes his process: “I smash two 25 pound blocks of clay together, then I draw, dig, scoop and poke. The sculptures take about one month to create and four to eight months to dry. The faces/heads are then bisque fired in the kiln, glazed and then high fired. Hopefully they survive…”

His imagery, which began when he was 13, with doodles over the Yellow Pages while on the phone with his girlfriend, has continued to develop and grow. “I did try all the isms — Abstract Expressionism, Impressionism, Fauvism, and Surrealism, but I was always drawn back to the doodle figure/head. I like sculpting heads. They are made of abstract shapes yet easily recognizable. The masks also express my search for the truth which, in theory, can be better seen by looking at something from different points of view.”

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Artists-in-(New!)Residence

Group Show: March 8–April 30
Reception: Friday, March 23, 6–8pm

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For more info visit: HighLineStudios.org

Please note that the start dates for all classes were moved by one or two weeks. Check the classes page for details. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we wanted to make sure everything was in order before classes got underway.

Thanks to everyone who has been helping with setting up the new space! It’s a lot of work, but we know it’s going to be worth it.

Snowmen by Richard Stauffacher

Friday, December 9th from 6-9pm
110 West 26th Street

Thanks to everyone who made the first party in our new space so much fun!

Then one day, this past Spring, a nice space just two doors down had a “For Rent” sign. We rushed to see it and that got us started again. We asked the broker to show us some comparable spaces and did the big spread sheet with all the pluses and minuses of each place we saw. We finally came to one that fit a lot of our criteria-with lots of space, about 2.5 times what we have now. Plus, when we walked into that storefront, we saw a huge cord hanging from the ceiling with a tag on it that said “220V 3 phase”-just what we wanted for a new big kiln. It was a sign! This was it.

Our new address will be 110 West 26th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues. It was a totally raw space when we leased it, but has been under renovation for the past month and we are expecting it to be done really soon!

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Friday, October 14th from 6-9pm

Thanks to everyone who helped make this year’s Oktoberfest such a success!

You can see photos from the event on Flickr.