Lithograph, screenprint and rubber stamp on Somerset paper, 2013. 600x800 mm; 23 5/8x31 1/2 inches. Edition of 100. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on the certificate of authenticity. Published by Whitechapel Gallery, London.
For the group show Spirit of Utopia at the Whitechapel Gallery, July - September 2013, Theaster Gates created a studio for making pottery, training apprentices, and investigating skill, teaching, and craft. Bitch, I Made this Pot is a wryly emblematic commentary by Gates on the subject of artistic authorship. This work obliquely references the longtime use by American collectors and scholars of the name, "Dave the Slave" for the 19th-century African American potter David Drake.
