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  • Mata Ortiz:A Portfolio of Photographs / Fotografías

Photographs by Ana Livingston Paddock except where noted (fotos por Ana Livingston Paddock excepto donde se indica).


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Figure 1.

Entering the village of Juan Mata Ortiz as a late summer rain approaches overhead. 2011.

Entrada al pueblo de Juan Mata Ortiz cuando se acerca la lluvia al final del verano. 2011.

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Figure 2.

Three pots by Lila Silveira Sandoval. 2013.

Tres ollas de Lila Silveira Sandoval. 2013.

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Diego Valles, in his early thirties, holds his own as a true clay artist. Here he is giving a pottery demonstration at the Andrea Fisher Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Examples of his fine work can be seen in the foreground. 2016.

Diego Valles, con poco más de treinta años, ocupa un lugar importante como un verdadero artista del barro. Aquí está dando una demostración de cerámica en la Galería Andrea Fisher de Santa Fe, Nuevo México. En primer plano se aprecian algunos ejemplos de su delicado trabajo. 2016.

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Figure 4.

This is the studio of Félix Ortiz as he left it when he died in 2005. His two daughters are heartbroken that their father never received the recognition he felt he deserved for being the primary pioneer in the early development of the contemporary pottery movement in Mata Ortiz. 2014

Este es el taller de Félix Ortiz como lo dejó cuando murió en 2005. Sus dos hijas se sienten desconsoladas porque su padre nunca recibió el reconocimiento que él sentía que merecía por ser el pionero principal en el desarrollo temprano del movimiento de la cerámica contemporánea en Mata Ortiz. 2014.

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Figure 5.

The daughters of Felix Ortiz, Raquel (L) and Maricela (R), holding the last two pots their father made. Seated is Félix Ortiz’s uncle Jesús Ortiz. 2014.

Las hijas de Félix Ortiz, Raquel (izq.) y Maricela (der.) y con las últimas dos ollas hechas por su padre. Sentado está Jesús Ortiz, tío de Félix Ortiz. 2014.

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Figure 6.

Ana Livingston Paddock interviewing potter Rogelio Silveira, 69 years old, about his recollection on how the pottery movement first began in Mata Ortiz. 2013. Photo by Carlotta Boettcher.

Ana Livingston Paddock entrevistando al alfarero Rogelio Silveira de 69 años de edad con respecto a sus recuerdos de la forma en que empezó el movimiento de la alfarería en Mata Ortiz. 2013. Foto por Carlotta Boettcher.

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Figure 7.

Genovevo Sandoval’s great-grandson, potter Diego Valles Jr., is tracing his family tree in the gravel. In 2010 Diego Valles Jr. received the Mexican National Youth Award for Arts, the highest honor awarded to a young living artist. Beneath the pile of cottonwood bark (background) Diego is employing the traditional and classic techniques to fire a pot. 2013. Photo by Carlotta Boettcher.

El alfarero Diego Valles Jr., bisnieto de Genovevo Sandoval, trazando su árbol genealógico en la grava. En 2010 Diego Valles Jr. recibió el Premio Nacional de Arte de la Juventud de México, la maxima distinción otorgada en vida a un artista joven. Por debajo de la pila de corteza de alamo (al fondo) Diego está empleando las técnicas tradicionales y clásicas para quemar una olla. 2013. Foto por Carlotta Boettcher.

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Figure 8.

Gregorio Ortiz and his wife, Manuela Pérez, in an undated family image recently rescued from a trash pile in the family barnyard. Gregorio Ortiz was Rogelio Silveira’s grandfather and Félix Ortiz’s great-uncle, making Rogelio and Félix second cousins. They, along with Félix’s brother-in-law Salbador (Chava) Ortiz, have consistently claimed to have been...

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