Call or Text: 609-713-9897
Email: mtburtongallery@gmail.com
Thank you for supporting the M.T.Burton Gallery for the past 25 years!
Welcome to our online gallery! This is the site to purchase Matt Burton Pottery and art by Marvin Levitt (1925-2024). Upcoming events featuring Matt's pottery and other exciting news will be posted here as well as on the gallery social media platforms. More artists will be added soon.
Matt Burton is the owner and director of the m.t.burton gallery and an independent artist .
Burton earned his BA from Roanoke College and MA and MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University.
Some of Burton’s additional curatorial credits associated with NCECA include: “Mish-Mash”, (Charlotte) “Emergence Theory”, (Charlotte) “Another Mish-Mash”, (Kansas City) “Continuance” (San Diego) “Play Outside: Clay Beyond Interior Space” (Indianapolis), Mish-Mash Redux” (Indianapolis), “The Big Show” (Indianapolis) “Mish-Mash Again” (Baltimore), “Potters of the Mid-Atlantic” (Baltimore) “Veneration” (Phoenix) “Mish-Mash Strikes Back”, (Philadelphia), “Pictures On Pots”, (Philadelphia) “Organitect” (Philadelphia)
Matt's "Open Water" series celebrates life on the Jersey Shore. His landscape narrative series captures different view points of coastal living in the Long Beach Island region. His many different pottery forms depict scenes from a day at the beach, a view of the Barnegat Light Inlet, sunsets over Manahawkin Bay, a glimpse of the wetlands flora and fauna, breaching whales or a glimpse of sea life under the Atlantic ocean.
Matt throws and hand-builds his forms using a white stoneware clay body. When the clay is wet the surfaces are manipulated to create waves, ripples or flowing sand dunes. After bisque fire, skies, clouds and sunsets are brushed on using under glazes. Glazes are brushed, poured, dipped or sprayed then fired to cone 10 (2300º) a reduction atmosphere. Once the pieces are unloaded from the kiln, image transfers are applied to the piece and then fired for a third time in an electric kiln. Many of the images used for the transfers are from pictures that Matt took.
Email: mtburtongallery@gmail.com Phone: 609-713-9897
Heavily textured pottery with an emphasis on glazes and stains cascading down the surface.