[...] "Hosted by Florida Atlantic University and Boca Raton Museum of Art, Laureys is among several leading national and international ceramic artists and including King Houndekpinkou, Mindy Solomon and major George Ohr collectors Marty and Estelle Shack, invited by guest curator Garth Clark with Mark Del Vecchio to present, field questions and discuss the iconoclastic Ohr’s work within a contemporary context
Like the Mad Potter of Biloxi, few artists have radicalized vessel form like Anne Marie Laureys. Her pieces have a spontaneous, unplanned quality, but in reality she takes her time to find the shape of each vessel, remolding and refolding the clay over and over again—they are pure form. And, again like Ohr’s “babies,” no two works are alike, each is an individual soul." [...]
