Ceramics

Charlie Pfitzer is a master potter who creates functional ceramics that are thrown or slab built. Pfitzer then uses the surface of the pottery to experiment with abstract compositions: "I treat the surface in much the same manner as I do my watercolors," says Pfitzer. He uses between five to ten different glazes that are dipped, poured, brushed or sprayed. The overlapping glazes combine with gravity as they melt to create visual surface textures. "I use transparent and opaque along with contrasting glazes that merge and overlap to blend and give the surface the illusion of depth and movement," says Pfitzer as he moves around the studio adding another layer of glaze to several pieces: "Many of the pieces are glazed more than once and re-fired to add to and refine the composition and colors." 

Pfitzer's process creates pieces where the surface appears to glow with extraordinary combinations of color and textures that float and flow together to draw you into his unique visual world of functional art.

Painting

"DURING MY CAREER, I SPENT MANY HOURS TRAVELING, WHERE I OBSERVED THE PANORAMIC BEAUTY OF OUR COUNTRY. THE VIEWS OF LANDSCAPES AND BUILDINGS HAS INFLUENCED MY APPROACH TO THE WAY MY ABSTRACT PAINTINGS COME TOGETHER."

Résumé

Solo Exhibitions

LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1990

Treasures, Natchez, MS 1988

LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1987

LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA  1986

LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1984

Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN 1979

McClung Museum, Knoxville, TN 1979

Claxton Art Education Gallery, Knoxville, TN 1976 & 1978

Group Shows

10"x 10", LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1993

Front Gallery, Stockton, CA 1993

Front Gallery, Stockton, CA 1992

Group Show Ill, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1988

Group Show II, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1987

Group Show, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1985

American Scene Exhibition, Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN 1984

UTK Graduate Show, McClung Museum 1978

UTK Graduate Show, Gallery II 1977 & 1978

Reviews

New Orleans Art Review, Judith Bonner Nov/Dec 1990

Times Picayune New Orleans, Roger Green 11/90

Times Picayune New Orleans, Roger Green 9/87

Times Picayune New Orleans, Roger Green 11/86

Education

MFA Watercolor 1979 University of Tennessee at Knoxville

BS Art Education 1975 University of Tennessee at Knoxville