About the Artist

Daniel Potter began creating sculpture and puppeteering at the tender age of eight,  and continued with these and with theatre while at the Putney School,  Harvard College (AB, 1968), the l’Ecole des Beaux Arts, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M. Architecture 1973).

Dan’s primary areas of artistic creation are welded or plasma cut metal sculpture, assemblage sculpture in various media, and painting.  Recently, his show at the Hoxie Gallery in Rhode Island, “Pieces for Peace”, exhibited  100 sculptures assembled from detritus of all sorts, and 60 paintings in water, oil, collage. His show at the Hygienic last fall with three other artists, Eva Leong, and Gus and Janvier Miller,  was designed and hung by Marya Ursin.  He is currently showing in Westerly, Noank, and at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at UConn Avery Point in Groton, CT. Dan is also a potter; he exhibits and sells his pottery in Connecticut and New York.

In 1976, he co-founded the Mystic Paper Beasts, a travelling mask theatre company,  for which he builds and paints masks, and performs pieces written and directed by Marya Ursin.  Currently, Dan is co-Director of the Mystic Paper Beasts.  The Beasts have performed in about 700 venues, and have been commissioned to create new theatrical works for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Yale Art  Gallery, RISD Museum of Art,  Yale Museum of British Art,  the Cambridge River Festival, NYC Downtown Halloween Parade, and the Mystic Aquarium, among others. Dan and Marya imagined, designed, and built the the Dragon’s Egg, a light filled hexagonal space that serves dancers, actors, musicians, writers.