Harris - Cies Art Gallery of Walker Valley, NY. Lets solve this ceramic mystery!
Throwing this little blog out into the world in hopes we might be able to crowdsource more info about these incredibly cool 80s/90s era fine artists! Background: Me, child of the 80s and 90s, caught a typical 'midlife nostalgia wave'. Started pecking around for pieces of home décor in that '80s Style' we all know. This was back when you could still get an original Patrick Nagel canvas for under $20K. My, how times (and trends) change! What once was insufferably out of fashion is now, apparently, in hot demand. Stumbled into this great husband/wife team of Barbara Harris and Sandy Cies, two artisans based out of Walker Valley, NY who seemed to be most prolific in the 1980s/90s and whose artistic style is very much reflective of the era's popular aesthetic. Overall, there's really no meaningful info on the web about them (and right now, prices of their stuff on ebay reflects this) but they definitely deserve to be better researched and I know I'm not the o...