This January 2015 FHSU hosted a workshop with Beth Cavener, an artist that I have had a serious art crush on since first seeing her work years ago. That piece, titles A Rush of Blood to the Head is still tremendously influential to my work and aspiration as an artist. It can be viewed here: http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/gallery/a-rush-of-blood-to-the-head-2/ …
Category Archives: Sculpture
Tang Dynasty Tomb Guardians
China’s Tang Dynasty (618ce to 907ce) is among the greatest periods for art making in the world. The relative peace enjoyed by the people and its outward looking and accepting culture where art was highly valued, created the perfect environment for experimentation and growth by artists. China hosted flourishing trade along the silk road, that …
Jun Kaneko and the Multi-Discipline Approach
For the final article of the Ceramic Art and Perception assignment for this semester, I’ve chosen an article by Nancy M. Servis featuring a moment in Jun Kaneko’s career in which he was exhibiting at the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Fransisco and had also designed set, costumes and props for a production of Mozart’s …
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Judy Onofrio
This piece titled “Flux” by Judy Onofrio is featured in a review of her work in Ceramics Art and Perception issue 92. The work is composed of ceramic forms and found objects, primarily bone, that the artist collects and cleans for this purpose. The assemblages are then unified by paint surfaces that accentuate the feeling …
Ceramics as Theater and the Necessity of Video
Either by question or comment, people are often curious about the blending of ceramic and video that is at the heart of the Foxy-Wolff collaboration. Partly, it is a simple matter of blending Gabe’s and my skill sets, this is just what would naturally come about from a collaboration of a ceramist and a film …
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International Top 10: Grayson Perry
It is difficult to know where to begin in writing about Grayson Perry. He is such a complex and multi faceted artist, for one, ceramic is only a part of what he does, though it does seems to be his primary medium. But also that his work can not be discussed with out discussing him …
International Top 10: Keith Harrison
I have been thinking over which artist I wanted to add to my International Top 10 for a few days now. Then today I was included in a conversation that helped make up my mind. The discussion was about the intentional breaking of a work by Ai Weiwei , whom I featured in my last …
International Top 10: Alexandria Engelfriet
The second artist in my personal international top 10 is Alexandra Engelfriet. I have a very strong personal connection to the work of this artist that relates to the way I discovered her. Almost two years ago I divorced a man who was not only marriage partner but a ceramist and a collaborator. The first …
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