new studio project. these are going to hang on the wall. update on this project after nceca.
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spring recap
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- landscape 1. porcelain, flocking, brazing rod, silcone adhesive, wood, paint, luster, glaze. dimensions variable. 2011
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- landscape 1 detail
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- landscape 3. porcelain, flocking, brazing rod, silcone adhesive, wood, paint, luster, glaze. dimensions variable. 2011
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- landscape 2. porcelain, flocking, brazing rod, silcone adhesive, wood, paint, luster, glaze. dimensions variable. 2011
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- sprig. porcelain, flocking, brazing rod, silcone adhesive, luster, glaze. 4 in. x 5 in. x 3 in. 2011
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- sprig detail.
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- creeping crud. porcelain, plaster, tool dip, brazing rod, silicone adhesive, flocking. 7 in. x 9 in. x 7 in. 2011
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- adhere. porcelain, luster, flocking, brazing rod, glaze, silicone adhesive. 6 in. x 8 in. 6 in. 2011
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- adhere detail
spring semester as a post bac at UF was crazy busy. nceca was amazing. it’s summer and i can’t wait for fall!
the hard part.
so it’s almost the end of the semester. this program has been super challenging. when i look back on the last few months i feel like i haven’t gotten much work made, certainly no where near the amounts of productivity i was at during my residency. but after my last crit i felt like what i wasn’t making in quantity i was making in quality. the work is no where near resolved but i feel so great about it. i feel like it’s moving forward and coming closer to the images in my head, i’m so glad!
shmaa shmas shmasssss
notes from the studio.
sorry for the rough pics. they are from my phone. anyway, i’m still plugging away in the studio. the trip to florida, and working quite a bit has been keeping me away more than i would like, but that’s the way it goes. in addition to my regular job i’ve been doing something really fun and educational assisting a local artist. so far we’ve installed a piece at the nceca invitiational and pulled some stuff out of storage, organized and packed up work. it’s a really wonderful experience. i’m learning a lot just seeing how she does things.
i’ve got some aps in the works, and a few deadlines coming up. like every other ceramic artist at the moment, i’m scurrying to finish up aps and wondering what i’ll be doing next fall.
in the studio i’ve been amassing some work, but i’m still really struggling with how to finish it. i haven’t even bisqued any large sculptures yet. i’m waiting for them to get super bone dry, but i’ve been keeping plastic on them for weeks. i’m afraid to keep them uncovered and risk cracking. and since i don’t know exactly how i’ll finish them i need them to be perfectly smooth. ehhhhh, finished work…..sometime….eventually…….:-)
new sculpture in progress….
studio mate e. with her giant math mold……
i should really consider finishing something.
getting a little more work done…
some pics of the previously mentioned work. new sculpture, and new blue wall peices.
the idea with these new pieces is for them to go on the walls. i’m embarking on a kind of challenge, figuring out how i would like to finish these. so i’m looking at everything as a test right now, not knowing if anything will come out well. i did some tests with raw materials, trying to keep the surface and the substance closer to each other, and playing with the color clay is the same idea. trying to avoid putting a layer of surface over the whole thing. i GUESS that soda firing amounts to the same thing, a layer of surface treatment on top of raw clay, but i feel that the interaction of the soda, fire, clay and carbon means it’s more of an extenstion of the clay surface vs. a covering of the clay.
with awesome guidence from g.m. i’m looking at artists and doing some reading in a more studious way then the last few years and right now, form wise, i’m really interested in ron nagle, ken price and especially kathy butterly. of course their surfaces are amazing as well, but i love the forms. BUT they all treat the form so intensely with surface, and there is this idea that they are 3d paintings.
i’m really intrigued by the work i’m seeing both in person in philly (super great art town and gearing up for nceca with a plethora of clay exhibitions) and in research, and trying to figure out what kind of inspiration i can take from all this to push my own work forward. definitely moving along at turle pace right now, but i’m not worried.
