Sculptural Vessels: Building with Slabs
The sculptural vessels that Olivia Tani makes combine visually distinct, seemingly inflated segments into a unified whole. She shares her … Read More
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You’ll find Jennifer McCurdy’s lighter-than-air, extremely carved work, which tests how thin high-fire porcelain can be and how much of it can be cut away before it collapses in the kiln. Gerit Grimm actually throws the components for her figurative sculpture on the potter’s wheel! Helen Gilmour knits ceramic teapots and then soaks them in paperclay slip and fires them. The result: ceramic sculptures that look delicate, but have the fired strength of porcelain. And Christie Brown sculpts styrofoam models and then press molds her figurative sculptures.
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The sculptural vessels that Olivia Tani makes combine visually distinct, seemingly inflated segments into a unified whole. She shares her … Read More
Explorations of her own cultural hybridity and family history inform Heidi McKenzie’s choice of clays, forms, and surfaces in the … Read More
Through installation work composed of hundreds or thousands of multiples, Samantha Dickie explores how space and time interact, as well … Read More
As a fine arts major, I took a wide range of studio and art history classes, but never took a … Read More
A commitment to craftsmanship, specialty equipment, rigorous materials testing, and detailed preparation converge in the thin-cast porcelain sculptures of Janice … Read More
Mia Llauder and Joan Serra took on an ambitious project to renovate an old farmhouse outside of Barcelona. Now that … Read More
Last year was challenging for many people. Colorado-based artist Rita Vali countered the isolation through a series of socially-distanced outdoor … Read More
The desire for sturdy vessels that look delicate inspired Sandra Torres to make her work using slip-casting techniques. Interest in … Read More
Curated by Mark Del Vecchio, “Shadow” displays ceramic works by five artists that explore the connotations, ambiguity, and possibilities of … Read More
Ceramics is being included by some contemporary jewelers as part of a large and varied palette of different non-precious materials. … Read More