Donald Rietz is a ceramic artist who has evolved through the influences of artist that are major contributors to the minds of ceramic art today.  Reitz, just by looking at his work, has been influenced by Peter Voulkos, Toshiko Takaezu, Paul Soldner to name a few.  His work has always combined the vessel, often in an abstract form, with the sculptural ideas of the minimalist and abstract.  One of those macho 50’s men scale was always involved not for aesthetic reasons but egotistic.  Reitz in not given the recognition he deserves for keeping the clay movement going when many others have said it is dead.