David Joy (20th / 21st Century) American, Ceramic. Name on the back. Joy studied stoneware glazes and ceramic firing at Framingham College. David Joy is known for Sculpture. Born and raised in Boston, David Joy was trained as an undergraduate at Framingham State College in stoneware glazes and raku firing. He went on to earn an MA in ceramics at the University of New Mexico in the late 1970's. After spending six years in Albuquerque, during which he explored high temperature saggar firing using an array of organic materials, he returned to the East Coast. He currently serves as art department chair and teaches ceramics at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia. Joy has been exhibiting simple, vessel-like forms since the early 1980's. The simplicity of the ceramics is counterbalanced by the complexity of their surface designs, which, rather than iconographic symbols, are lines and traces abstracted from nature. The organic beauty of Joy's geometrical forms, predominantly orbs and double-walled bowls colored in soft, earthen hues, suggest a variety of historical associations, but are by no means simply primitive or archaeological. Overall Size: 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. #4553 Location S