Over the past year I have been preparing for a new chapter in my life as an artist/maker. The new project, driven largely by a need to get back into the studio full time, is an unapologetically commercial venture. Interfacing with the growing movement of legalization of weed in the US I am launching a …
Category Archives: ceramic art
Workshop with Beth Cavener
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/ …
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 …
Ai Weiwei and The Art of Destruction
The pottery of Neolithic and Bronze era China have inspired many artists over the centuries since it was first created, but none to such a controversial degree as the work of Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist who has risen to the apex of the international art scene with his thought-provoking social commentaries. …
Gansu Jars of Neolithic China
Neolithic culture is a period that begins worldwide about 8000 bce and is defined by humanities move from hunter-gather culture to settled agriculture centered around small villages. Important innovations and technology of the time were stone tools and the regular manufacture and use of pottery. It is in fact through pots and fired ceramic objects …
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 …
Continue reading “Jun Kaneko and the Multi-Discipline Approach”
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 …
Inventing the Modern World
Rozenburg Haagsche Plateelbakkerij, The Netherlands (The Hague), 1883-1914. Milk Jug, 1900. Glazed porcelain with enamel. 108 x 40.6 x 33.7 cm. Designmuseum, Danmark, Copenhagen, 793. One of the best things about the Ceramics Art and Perception assignment this semester is catching up on events in the ceramic community that I missed. One of these …
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 …
Continue reading “Ceramics as Theater and the Necessity of Video”
Minoan “Snake Goddess” Figurines
The Minoan culture, Lasting from approximately 5000 bp to 3450 bp is commonly thought of as the beginning of the group of cultures commonly referred to as Western Civilization. Located on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean sea, the Minoan culture is known today by the many wonderful artifacts left behind following the cataclysmic …