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Contemporary clay sculpture is perhaps the most diverse range of sculpture in existence, perhaps because clay has been used to make art objects longer than any other material. In Contemporary Clay Sculpture: Modern Ceramic Sculpture as Narrative, Object, and Decor, we present four artists who approach clay with different messages through diverse techniques: Scott Ziegler’s highly detailed ceramic sculptures with intricate glazing details; Stephanie Marie Roos’ expressive and complex stories of connection; Lydia Thompson’s slip cast and handbuilt ceramic wall art; and Magda Gluszek working from a small maquette to a large, highly decorated ceramic figure. Whether you're investigating large or small scale forms, discovering new designs or techniques for your own ceramic art, or just want some new sculpture ideas to add to your repertoire, Contemporary Clay Sculpture provides an excellent resource.
Included in this free PDF are the following articles:
Scott Ziegler’s Highly Detailed Ceramic Sculptures
by Julie Murphy
Scott Ziegler is an artist and teacher who understands the value of patience and concentration. His highly detailed ceramic sculptures are at times playful and at other times quite disturbing. Through his use of ceramic stains and clay slips he transforms clay into ceramic objects that seem not of this world.
Stephanie Marie Roos’ Restless Surfaces
by Kira Gutowski
Emotive stoneware figures are the means through which Stephanie Marie Roos expresses complex stories of connection. Plus, Stephanie shares her painterly and graphical processes for decorating her sculptures.
The Ceramic Wall Art of Lydia Thompson
by Glen Brown
Lydia Thompson’s message is for us to see opposites around us in her work: purity and corruption, beauty and evil, attractiveness and repugnance. Through her use of white slip forms and handbuilt earthenware holders, she uses opposing techniques that contrast light and dark, earthenware and porcelain in her ceramic wall sculptures.
The Ceramic Art Sculptures of Magda Gluszek
by Magda Gluszek
Madga’s clay sculptures investigate ideas about consumption, self-preservation, and societal behaviors versus animalistic impulses. Her ceramic technique is to build a form out of solid clay then hollow out the inside. Her use of epoxy resins and acrylic paints allow her a great deal of flexibility for communicating through clay.
Download the free guide right now, and become a better ceramic artist tomorrow. That’s our promise to you from Ceramic Arts Network!
Best regards,
Jennifer Poellot Harnetty Editor, Ceramic Arts Network
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Contemporary clay sculpture is perhaps the most diverse range of sculpture in existence, perhaps because clay has been used to make art objects longer than any other material. In Contemporary Clay Sculpture: Modern Ceramic Sculpture as Narrative, Object, and Decor, we present four artists who approach clay with different messages through diverse techniques: Scott Ziegler’s highly detailed ceramic sculptures with intricate glazing details; Stephanie Marie Roos’ expressive and complex stories of connection; Lydia Thompson’s slip cast and handbuilt ceramic wall art; and Magda Gluszek working from a small maquette to a large, highly decorated ceramic figure. Whether you're investigating large or small scale forms, discovering new designs or techniques for your own ceramic art, or just want some new sculpture ideas to add to your repertoire, Contemporary Clay Sculpture provides an excellent resource.
Included in this free PDF are the following articles:
Scott Ziegler’s Highly Detailed Ceramic Sculptures
by Julie Murphy
Scott Ziegler is an artist and teacher who understands the value of patience and concentration. His highly detailed ceramic sculptures are at times playful and at other times quite disturbing. Through his use of ceramic stains and clay slips he transforms clay into ceramic objects that seem not of this world.
Stephanie Marie Roos’ Restless Surfaces
by Kira Gutowski
Emotive stoneware figures are the means through which Stephanie Marie Roos expresses complex stories of connection. Plus, Stephanie shares her painterly and graphical processes for decorating her sculptures.
The Ceramic Wall Art of Lydia Thompson
by Glen Brown
Lydia Thompson’s message is for us to see opposites around us in her work: purity and corruption, beauty and evil, attractiveness and repugnance. Through her use of white slip forms and handbuilt earthenware holders, she uses opposing techniques that contrast light and dark, earthenware and porcelain in her ceramic wall sculptures.
The Ceramic Art Sculptures of Magda Gluszek
by Magda Gluszek
Madga’s clay sculptures investigate ideas about consumption, self-preservation, and societal behaviors versus animalistic impulses. Her ceramic technique is to build a form out of solid clay then hollow out the inside. Her use of epoxy resins and acrylic paints allow her a great deal of flexibility for communicating through clay.
Download the free guide right now, and become a better ceramic artist tomorrow. That’s our promise to you from Ceramic Arts Network!
Best regards,
Jennifer Poellot Harnetty
Editor, Ceramic Arts Network