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Michael Gates

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✌️ taken in Asheville, NC by @g8s_art

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3 months ago

Few more pics from Thursday nights show opening ✌️ taken in Push Skate Shop by @g8s_art

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10 months ago

A few shots from my show opening at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles Saturday night. #thinkspacegallery #thinkspace #losangeles #g8s #ceramicart taken in Thinkspace Projects by @g8s_art

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✌️ taken in Asheville, NC by @g8s_art

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✌️ taken in Asheville, North Carolina by @g8s_art

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I'm stoked to be part of this group show at Cat Eye Creative this month in Decatur! taken in Decatur, Georgia by @g8s_art

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taken in Asheville, NC by @g8s_art

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taken in Asheville, North Carolina by @g8s_art

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They Live! taken in Asheville, NC by @g8s_art

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Drying out a few getting ready for firing at @hartsquare coming up soon! by @g8s_art

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In the 1930s, sculptor Michael Gates’ great-grandfather, Enoch Reinhardt, built a modest, one-story pottery workshop on his family’s farm in North Carolina’s Catawba Valley. Outfitted with a traditional wood-fired kiln, the Reinhardt-Craig House, Kiln, and Pottery Shop was designed to expand the Reinhardt family’s tradition of crafting utilitarian ceramics - a six-generation legacy that began in the mid-1800s and lives on today through Michael’s work.

While Michael draws on influences as varied as esoteric symbolism, futuristic technology, online culture, and surrealists like Dalí and Magritte, his technique is steeped in the traditions of Catawba Valley pottery: wood-firing in subterranean “groundhog” kilns, applying alkaline glazes, and working with hand-dug North Carolina clay. His pieces in Body of Work, ArtsvilleUSA’s fall 2026 exhibition, also pay homage to an iconic regional art form: the face jug.

Link in bio to read the full interview + see Michael's work in our memento mori-themed fall exhibition, "Body of Work."

Follow Michael: @g8s_art

#artexhibition #facejugs #catawbavalley #pottery #northcarolina #sculpture #ceramicart #ashevillearts #southerncraft #handmadecraft by @g8s_art

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Honored to part of the @artsvilleusa online show!! https://www.artsvilleusa.com/body-of-work-exhibition/ taken in Asheville, NC by @g8s_art

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