Christine  McHorse

CLARK + DELVECCHIO
Renowned ceramic arts historians, critics and dealers Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio, newly relocated to Santa Fe, will showcase acclaimed Navajo potter Christine McHorse, who successfully combines the techniques and materials of traditional pottery with contemporary non-traditional forms and firing methods. She uses micaceous clay taken from the mountains near Taos to hand-build her sculptural vessels using the coil method, sometimes adding appliqué designs. www.garthclark.com

Thomas Hucker

WILLIAM ZIMMER GALLERY
William Zimmer Gallery, Mendocino, CA will bring contemporary furniture that blurs the boundaries of sculpture and design by Thomas Hucker.  To his artistry, Hucker brings a rare mastery of two distinct disciplines: Asian aesthetics with intensive study at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and the Urasenke School of Tea Ceremony in Boston along with solid technical training at the Domus Academy in Italy, under a fifth generation German cabinetmaker. www.williamzimmergallery.com

	Hans Coper

GALERIE BESSON
The venerable Galerie Besson, London, will present modernist ceramics by Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, widely regarded as the most seminal British potters of the 20th century. Refugees from Nazism, both have been honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with major retrospective exhibitions. www.galeriebesson.co.uk

Lino Tagliapietra

HOLSTEN GALLERIES
Holsten Galleries, Stockbridge, MA will present the two most acclaimed masters of glass art in the world, Lino Tagliapietra and Dale Chihuly. Tagliapietra, master of Muranese intaglio and the abstract vessel form, taught Chihuly ancient Venetian glass-blowing techniques (a closely guarded secret until the 70’s), which he took in his own expressionist direction; to this day, Chihuly calls him Maestro.  www.holstengalleries.com

	Mimura Chikuho

TAI GALLERY
TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, will spotlight young Japanese bamboo artist, Mimura Chikuho, quickly gaining renown for his rustic, sculptural vessels forms.  Mimura will attend the Fair and present on-going artist presentations of his plaiting, which marries functional form with technical excellence, as well as demonstrate basic splitting and preparation of bamboo. www.taigallery.com

Olga de Amaral

BELLAS ARTES GALLERY
Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe will present works by seminal modernist sculptor, Ruth Duckworth and Columbian textile artist, Olga de Amaral. Duckworth emerged from the hybrid world of international modernism and is widely acknowledged for affirming clay as a viable medium for sculpture. de Amaral isinternationally renowned for her painterly, shimmering gold and silver leafed wall hangings. www.bellasartesgallery.com

	Lucio Bubacco

LITVAK GALLERY
Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel will present the compelling, erotically surreal glass art of Venetian artist Lucio Bubacco, master of the historic “lume” glass technique, who draws from Greek, Roman and Byzantine classic art as well as medieval and renaissance theater and La Commedia dell’Arte for inspiration. www.litvak.com

Silvia Levenson

BULLSEYE GALLERY
Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, will present the darkly humorous and subtle sculpture of Silvia Levenson, whose kiln-cast glass art is metaphoric of the fragile, bourgeois family. Levenson fled the dictatorships in Argentina in the late 70s and early 80s and now lives in Italy. She says, “Sometimes households become a pressure cooker.” www.bullseyegallery.com

	Jan Hopkins

JANE SAUER GALLERY
Jane Sauer Gallery of Santa Fe will present new work by Jan Hopkins, acclaimed for her virtuoso use of organic materials such as the ones used in Child’s Play: silver dollar pods, weathered hydrangea pedals, yellow cedar bark, waxed linen and paper.  Sauer says,"This piece is about creativity, with quotes like: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up," by Pablo Picasso. www.jsauergallery.com

Bertil Vallien
Richard Marquis

HELLER GALLERY
Heller Gallery, New York will present mystical sand cast glass sculptures by Swedish artist Bertil Vallien, who works in a number of techniques and often adds gold leaf and other non-glass materials to the finished piece. His signature flying men, mysterious heads, imps and other fanciful creatures play with concepts of space and time. www.hellergallery.com  

ELLIOTT BROWN GALLERY
Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA will present classical Venetian glass techniques mixed with conceptual object art by Richard Marquis, who combines zanfirico cane work in bold colors and charmingly subversive humor. No less than Lino Tagliapietra himself dubs Richard the “King of Murrine,” (a technique fusing small pieces of colored glass, dating from the 16th century). www.elliottbrowngallery.com  

	Dan Dailey

LEO KAPLAN MODERN
Leo Kaplan Modern, New York will present a focus show by Dan Dailey, well-known for his complex sculpture and lighting fixtures that combine varying techniques and materials, including blown glass and metalwork, with acid-polished, sandblasted or patinated details; and Linda MacNeil, acclaimed studio jeweler working in glass and metal, who is married to Dan. www.lkmodern.com

William Hunter
Mirjam Hiller

DEL MANO GALLERY
del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles will present the elegant wood vessel forms of William Hunter, perhaps the most celebrated artist working in wood, whose 35-year retrospective is now traveling US museums. Renowned for his intricately fluted baskets, spiraled vertical forms, and tangled helixes from exotic woods, Hunter has recently moved into larger, free-form sculpture. www.delmano.com

CHARON KRANSEN ARTS
Charon Kransen Arts, New York, specialist in Euro art jewelry, will present brooches by celebrated German jeweler Mirjam Hiller.  Like much of the jewelry at SOFA fairs, Hiller’s is sculptural and better described as art objects. “Sometimes they are loud, sometimes quite subtle. Sometimes they are dazzlingly colorful, sometimes colorless; sometimes they are everything at once,” says Hiller.  www.charonkransenarts.com