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Allan Buitekant
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ARTIST STATEMENT: I began pottery as a whim back
in 1954. It was fun, and I did it to please myself while I
built a career as an art director in advertising. Life is
always surprising. I was working in the most creative
agency in the world -- called Doyle, Dane, Bernbach. As
I grew in this phenomenally creative environment, I
learned how to approach an advertising problem from a
fresh direction. This learned skill I adapted to my
ceramics, and I began a process of discovery in two
separate worlds.
Throughout my career, which led to executive creative
positions, I continued with pottery. Evenings and
weekends were either spent in the studio or at a
school. These circumstances exposed me to Byron
Temple at the 92nd Street YMCA, Jolyn Hofstead at the
Brooklyn Museum Art School, Parsons School of
Design and the famous Greenwich House with Jim
Crumrine.
From the beginning I explored form and how I could
utilize it in minimal fashion to create useful pieces.
Every so often sculpture would creep in. In advertising I
won too many awards to count including a Bronze Lion
from the Cannes Film Festival. My pottery is in private
collections and sold from coast to coast in galleries
and stores that are devoted to design and to those who
appreciate useful objects with a specific design
orientation. I still have much to learn, and that's
pleasing since what is life for anyway?
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