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Colorado-based artist Susan Blake creates vessels that blend painting and ceramics.

Instead of glazing her clay forms, Blake paints them with acrylic and enamel, layering geometric patterns onto hand-built shapes that bend, slump, and defy symmetry. For her, the vessels symbolize feelings of containment, and their rhythmic patterns evoke transcendent escape—viewing them as ‘personal artifacts’.

Works by Susan Blake are available to view in Denver and Marfa, as well as on RULE Gallery’s Artsy profile.

‘Bandeau’
2025
Acrylic on ceramic
12x6 inches

As we enter the final week of Signal and Return, we’re spending time with Joe Clower’s unique visual language. This piece has long been a favorite among the gallery team.

Clower’s watercolors often juxtapose familiar references, instruments, architecture, and landscapes in unexpected arrangements, causing the images to exist somewhere between plan and proposition.

Joe Clower (1937–2024) was part of a circle of Colorado artists whose work was influenced by structure, pattern, and ongoing artistic exchange, from Boulder’s Armory Group to the Criss-Cross artist co-operative. This history of friendship and shared inquiry also runs through El Disco, the collaborative project Clower formed with Steve Thomsen and Tennyson Woodbridge in 1987, which is also currently on view in the adjacent gallery.

On view through May 23 at RULE Marfa.

Joe Clower
Untitled
1992
watercolor on paper
30 × 22.5 inches
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