Dancers, Richard Lopez, 2020, Stained porcelain slips stippled onto porcelain tiles, clear satin glaze, 72 x 115 inches.
©2020 Rich Lopez

Sculpture pair – “Ancient Heavens”. Inspired by geodes, egyptian art, and golden geometry, these relational shapes appear to hold depth and portray the vastness of time and space. Lowfire crystalline glazes and gold luster on bisque fired stoneware. Black underglaze on ground surfaces. 19 x 19 x 19 cm. ©2019 Rich Lopez

Functional Sculpture – “Wave” watering can. Sculpted high-fire white stoneware and colored clay veneer. Hollow form. Cone 6 oxidation 46 cm. ©2016 Rich Lopez

Charger, “Places, As seen from Space”. High-fire stoneware colored with metallic oxide stains, clear glaze, Cone 6 oxidation. 34 cm. ©2017 Rich Lopez

Octagonal Vase – Colored slip veneer over high-fire stoneware. Novel veneer creation process. Clear glaze, Cone 6 oxidation. 24 cm. ©2017 Rich Lopez

Clay monoprint – “What A Dream I Had” – Created at the 2019 DCAD Drawing Marathon, Pigmented China clay slip on non-woven paper, (Model’s name unknown). 33cm x 43cm. ©2019 Rich Lopez

“Tropical Sunset”. This relief imagines the amazing mix of colors and textures present during those fleeting few minutes of tropical dusk on a lonely beach. Various glazes & metallic oxides on speckled brown clay, cone 6 oxidation. 24 cm. X 86 cm. ©2018 Rich Lopez

Collaborative Totem – “Down By The Sea”. Inspired by trips to the South Jersey Shore growing up, these totem pieces were created by many hands young & not so young. Acrylic colors on bisque fired white stoneware. 180 cm. ©2014 Rich Lopez & Lynn Hoffmann

Lumascene© Luminaire – “Midsummer Moon”. This novel three-piece stoneware luminaire is lit by a single candle. A glass prism pulls out & projects interior candlelight to produce a silhouette. Cone. 6 oxidation. 21 cm. ©2014 Rich Lopez

Cross-Country collaboration. 120 – 9cm dia. Coasters displayed in arrayed in back-lit Sunflower pattern. Stoneware blanks ‘textured’ by 48 individuals. Concept, glazing, raku firings and lighted installation/ poster by R. Lopez. 1.7 m. x 1.7 m. ©2017 Rich Lopez

“Sassy” Teapot set – Hand-built, textured high-fire stoneware. Copper wash & Spodumene, Cone 10/11 reduction. 23 cm.  ©2018 Rich Lopez

Raku vessel – “Resolute Vase”. Shape inspired by Kevin Snipe’s work, this vase seemingly bends in the wind but remains defiant, it’s dry branches curling back against that force of nature – resolute. Raku glazes on stoneware, painted red, grape vines. 35 cm. ©2019 Rich Lopez

Clay monoprint. Created at the 2019 DCAD Drawing Marathon, Pigmented China clay slip on non-woven paper, (Model’s name unknown). 43cm x 32cm. ©2019 Rich Lopez

Rectangular plate. This cheese plate design was inspired by morning walks along the beaches of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Iron oxide on buff high fire stoneware. Clear glaze. Cone 6 oxidation.   ©2013 Rich Lopez

Metallic oxide colored clay veneer on high-fire stoneware. Clear glaze, Cone-6 oxidation. 37 cm. ©2016 Rich Lopez

Metallic oxide colored clay veneer on high-fire stoneware. Clear glaze, Cone-6 oxidation. 37 cm. ©2016 Rich Lopez

Sculpted alchera. Layered sculpture clays altered with beach sand & metal oxides. Cone-05 bisque. Gold luster, burnished, waxed. 52 cm. ©2018 Rich Lopez

Framed Shapes appear to have escaped!
High-fire stoneware with Celadon glaze/metallic oxides, oiled mahogany frame, altered. 48 x 36 in.
© 2020 Rich Lopez

Extruded high-fire stoneware and colored glaze, 37 x 25 in.
© 2020 Rich Lopez

Low-fire stoneware & colored slips, satin glaze, 61 x 61 in.
© 2020 Rich Lopez

White and colored porcelains, clear glaze, gold luster overglaze. 96 x 96 in. installed.
© 2020 Rich Lopez