Size: 16"H
Tall Vase, multicolored with black, light & dark brown.

Baer, an artist and educator for more than 20 years, forms his pieces on a potter's wheel using porcelain. Each piece he creates is slowly worked to achieve a sense of balance, grace and fluidity.

After a firing in the kiln, each vessel is carefully studied and its distinctive character is further enriched through the application of multiple layers of glaze, which add depth, richness and subtlety of surface texture and color.

Through the medium of clay, Baer creates vessels that evoke what is elemental and timeless. Simple, subtle, yet richly complex, they invite us to quiet ourselves and look more fully. The openness, secrecy, and emptiness of the interior space is balanced, shaped, and held by its whole.

Artist's Statement
As an artist I use the power of elemental forms to open us to a deeper sense of internal space, contemplation, and wonder.

Baer's work has been exhibited at galleries in New York City, Boston, and Lenox Massachusetts.

Working as an artist and educator for more than twenty years, he has taught ceramics at Hampshire College and he has received a Doctorate of Education from the University of Massachusetts.

Baer's ceramics are in public collections, including the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum in Springfield and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. He loves visitors and his studio is open most days-- call first- 413-527-1131