I’ve written a book and I’m so grateful to my friends and to Latah Books for their support and belief in my writing. Cracked Pot chronicles my relationship with clay, words, deep loss, and grinding through some tough years. What pulled me through was the making of art and my community of friends and artists. I’m excited to share this story with you. Available for preorder. See link in my bio. Here is the cover to Cracked Pot.
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Book jacket copy:
When Vince Montague’s wife perishes in a tragic car accident, he is plunged into a world of grief. After weeks of loneliness and despair, he begins to explore his wife’s pottery studio in the wild hills of Northern California, teaching himself to mix clay, throw a pot, fire a kiln, trim and glaze. Just as his grief is ebbing and his future in clay is looking bright, a wildfire advances upon his studio and threatens to destroy everything he has created.
Cracked Pot is a singular book: a story of love lost and the labyrinthine path through grief; a meditation on the craft of pottery and its power to inspire and restore; a rumination on the life of a writer and the refuge of words; an examination of how generational family trauma can shape an artist. Montague’s haunting memoir is a kaleidoscopic and redemptive reading experience, one that serves to remind its readers about the cracks and the light.
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Thank you all for the reception at Hugomento last weekend for my solo show, Intrusive Thoughts. Thank you Hugo Lai for this opportunity to share my work.
Show is open through September 2nd.
h u g o m e n t o
795 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Intrusive Thoughts
Working towards this show over the past year even though I didn’t have a show. I make up shows and deadlines for myself and hope I can figure it out later. I’m indebted to my friends and family for their support. Thank you Hugo for making it all look so good.
Opening Saturday August 5th 2-5pm. I’m talking about the show around 3pm. I might read a few of the bottle poems.
Hugomento is excited to present Intrusive Thoughts, a solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures by California artist Vince Montague, on view now through September 2.
Making art and writing poetry is an intrusive-thinking area in Montague’s studio practice, a place of risk and freedom, an opportunity for him to welcome ideas and images into his atelier, to make sense of them if he can. Montague creates sculptures and writes poems out of his own obsessions, his own worries, his own doubts, traumas and encroaching preoccupations.
H u g o m e n t o
795 22nd Street,
San Francisco, CA 94107
info@hugomento.com
+14155057609
Hours:
Wed - Fri, 1-6 pm
Sat - Sun, 1-5 pm
and by appointment
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Hugomento is pleased to present Intrusive Thoughts, a solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures by California artist Vince Montague.
August 5 - September 2, 2023
Opening Reception:
August 5, 2-5 pm; Artist Talk at 3 pm
Making art and writing poetry is an intrusive-thinking area in Montague’s studio practice, a place of risk and freedom, an opportunity for him to welcome ideas and images into his atelier, to make sense of them if he can. Montague creates sculptures and writes poems out of his own obsessions, his own worries, his own doubts, traumas and encroaching preoccupations.
Intrusive thoughts bombard one another, all fascinations crowding inside Montague’s mind eventually to merge into art in different forms.
Hugomento is pleased to present Intrusive Thoughts, a solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures by California artist Vince Montague.
August 5 - September 2, 2023
Opening Reception:
August 5, 2-5 pm; Artist Talk at 3 pm
Making art and writing poetry is an intrusive-thinking area in Montague’s studio practice, a place of risk and freedom, an opportunity for him to welcome ideas and images into his atelier, to make sense of them if he can. Montague creates sculptures and writes poems out of his own obsessions, his own worries, his own doubts, traumas and encroaching preoccupations.
Intrusive thoughts bombard one another, all fascinations crowding inside Montague’s mind eventually to merge into art in different forms.
Vince Montague: Intrusive Thoughts | Opening Reception + Artist Talk - Saturday August 5, 2-5 pm
Hugomento ·
795 22nd Street
·
San Francisco, CA 94107
· USA
ACGA Clay & Glass Festival
July 15-16, 2023
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto CA
Artist: Vince Montague, Booth 95
Thank you Rob at The Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino, CA.
