Wayne Potratz
Sculpture
“Sea Turtle with Big Lingham”;
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My art practice is within the tradition and discipline of making images in cast metal. This tradition combines magic, ritual, practice, performance, and art. Research with fire is the play that enables me to master the transformation of materials: the transmutation of space into form and form into space. In molds I make elegant holes and then fill them with liquid metal. By the fire, both the art and the artist are refined, tempered, and transformed. My work derives its inspiration from such diverse interests as canoeing and fishing in the wilderness, Native American culture, Asian culture, and the history of spiritual practice. From my travels in Asia and my life long study of Native American culture comes the knowledge that material and artist are spiritually connected and that the working methodology is in a harmonious relationship to the artistic and conceptual content. This practice has convinced me that making precedes theory and that the process of making significantly informs content and meaning. Thus my research practice includes investigating the various indigenous and historical traditions of metal casting and metalworking. My work in metals has been a fifty-year quest… the more you know, the more there is to know.
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Commissions
Wayne Potratz takes commissions.
Image Gallery
Online Store
“Big Tile with Pictograph”
$100.00
“Broad Bean Turtle”
$1,000.00
“BWCAW Landscape 10”
$1,000.00
“BWCAW Landscape 5 [Star Canoe]”
$2,000.00
“BWCAW Landscape Model”
$350.00
“BWCAW-1”
$150.00
“Five Turtle Trivet”
$500.00
“Flat Trivet with Rocker Turtle”
$200.00
“Gliding”
$2,000.00
“One Turtle Tile”
$75.00
“Quetico Landscape: Yum Yum Portage”
$4,000.00
“Slate Lake Memory”
$2,000.00
“Small Paddler”
$50.00
“Sogata Vessel with Shaman and Canoe”
$5,000.00
“Sogata Vessel: Kawishiwi River Memory”
$5,000.00
“Sogata Vessel: Turtle Lake Memory”
$2,000.00
“Turtle Bowl” On Exhibition
$250.00
“Turtle Stack with Trivet “
$1,600.00
“Two Rock Turtles”
$400.00
“Two Rock Turtles”
$2,500.00
“Upstream” On Exhibition 2022
$5,000.00
“Artery River Memory Paddle”
$2,000.00
“Blue Sogata Kama”
$1,200.00
“BWCAW Landscape: Big Sag Memory”
$2,500.00
“BWCAW Landscape: Paddler on the Myth”
$1,000.00
“BWCAW Landscape: Vision Journey”
$2,000.00
“Cache #3 Series: for Levi Strauss”
$1,000.00
“Cache #3 Series: for Levi Strauss”
$1,000.00
“Class Three Rapids II”,
$500.00
“Fat Turtle with Trivet”
$5,000.00
“Fishing for My Totem”
$2,000.00
“Flat Turtle”
$400.00
“Form for Making Magic”
$500.00
“Granite River Memory”
$4,000.00
“In the Chute” On Exhibition 2022 GM
$5,000.00
“Picto Landscape with Fisher”
$2,000.00
“Shaman Paddler” On Exhibition 2022 D
$3,000.00
“Small Standing Turtle”
$55.00
“Sogata Vessel with Trivet”
$800.00
“Solo at the Top of the World;
$400.00
“Standing Turtle with Lingham”
$200.00
“Tile for Bud [07/24/1944]”
$75.00
“Totem Stack 1”
$1,100.00
“Turtle Bowl with Paddle”
$1,200.00
“Turtle Stack with Trivet 1”
$900.00
“Turtle Trivet with Circle”
$200.00
“Two Turtle Rider Tile”
$75.00
“Upstream” On Exhibition 2022 AP
$4,500.00
“Wilderness Vessel II” [@ Apt]
$4,000.00
”Shaman’s Greetings“
$6,000.00
Big Turtle Suite
$6,000.00
BWCAW-2
$50.00
Small Flat Turtle
Original price was: $60.00.$50.00Current price is: $50.00.
Events & Classes
Class/Workshop
Metal Casting with Recyclable Clay Molds
In this six-week workshop, make bronze sculpture using molding process from West Africa, Meso-America, and Japan. These clay molds are recyclable, reducing the waste from most metal casting methodology.
Mon Oct 21 — Mon Nov 25
6:00pm - 9:00pm
At Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center
$330
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