Collaboration work

Last semester in graduate school we took upon an idea to exchange work with the other grad students in our class, and have those students finish the work.  This image represents one of those pieces that was part of the original three I originally made and exchanged with those graduate students that chose my work to finish.  This piece was chosen by Gratia Brown and she ended up finishing the surface. I think she really did an interesting look on my form.  When I asked her what we should title the piece she came up with the title of "Doll House Artifact".  I think it fits, and really enjoyed the exchange between the other graduate students in class.  I have one more to still photograph out of the three, but I should be doing that this week, and then I'll post that image as well.

New work from Last semester

Well summer is officially here and I've been working on some new work and finishing up some work from last semester.  The first two pictures are from one of the pieces, that I did as a collaboration with another grad student, in ceramics at Edinboro.  I created the sculpture using terra cotta and Deric Ence included the textured work around the end.  He originally glazed the work, but I found the glaze to be too dark, so I sandblasted it down and added a cone 6 red glaze to one end and then finished it up with cold glazes and additional sandblasting where I felt it was needed.  The second piece pictured is a piece in which I was was exploring the form and reclaimed clay.  The glazes applied are cone 6 and cone 06, in an oxidation firing (electric kiln).  I fired this piece twice for glaze fire and once for bisque, using a stoneware clay body. 

Dropped off work for "Supersize"

At the gates of AnnMarie Garden.  The gates where created by Peter King and Marni Jaime, Stonehaus Pottery, Pensacola, Florida.  1995, Ceramic.

Jean Arp

Minoru Nizuma

Antonio Tobias Mendez

Jules Olitski

Gerhard Marcks

Well I've been working in the studio most nights, and had to take a trip to Solomons, Maryland to drop off work for the upcoming show.  I've only been to Maryland once before when I attended NCECA in Baltimore, and truly enjoyed southern Maryland.  I recommend the crab cakes...they are the best!  I took some pictures of some of the art work at AnnMarie Sculpture Garden, hope you enjoy them.

Supersize: Bigger is Better? @ Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center

"Excess", slip-cast porcelain, wood, straw, 2010

I recently found out that a new piece of mine was accepted into a national exhibition at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, In association with the Smithsonian Institution, in Solomons, Maryland.  The exhibition, "Supersize:  Bigger is Better?", is an all media exhibition with works to be displayed both indoors and outdoors this summer.  The Jurors for the exhibition this year were Nancy Davis, Curator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution and James F. Langley, Curator of Exhibitions, Calvert Marine Museum. Pictured is the piece that was accepted into the show;  "Excess".  The show runs from June 10-August 21, 2011. Posted here is a link to Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center for further information http://www.annmariegarden.org/annmarie2/node/581 , or this link will take you to the main page of the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center.   http://www.annmariegarden.org/

88th Annual Spring Show at the Erie Art Museum

Travis Winters, graduate student in ceramics, enjoying some conversation during the opening.

Bronze sculpture by Jason Thompson, graduate student in the sculpture department at Edinboro.

This is the piece of mine that sold;  "Genetic Manipulation"

I thought this was a pretty cool piece at the show.  

I really enjoyed the use of mixed media in this piece.

Patron (artist?), Eric Thayer (exhibiting artist), and Mike Angelotti, viewing Mike's installation.

Ceramic work by Gratia Brown, graduate student in ceramics at Edinboro.

One of my pieces in the show, "Lost".

Last weekend was the opening of the 88th Spring Show at the Erie Art Museum.  The Juror this year was Mark Newport, who is the resident artist at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Fibers.  There was a good number of artists representing Edinboro University at the show, in a number of different media.   I entered the show and was fortunate enough to have two pieces chosen for the show.  I ended up selling one of the pieces at the opening and felt the show had a really good variety of work.  If you get a chance to stop by the Erie Art Museum, it will definitely be worth it.  The show runs from April 16-June 26, 2011.  The press release is listed at this site if anyone is interested.  http://www.pr.com/press-release/311949

Slip-casting under way

I've been working on slip-casting the parts and then assembling them together to create the larger forms and have definitely been able to tell a difference between the weight of the two processes.   I've decided to show the thickness of the walls of the forms that I am creating so the viewer may be able to get a perception of what I am talking about.  I also decided to include some photos showing how I set up the different molds needed during this casting.

Investigating surface through similar forms

I know I've been working on molds, but that's not the only thing on the list of many things that still needs to be done.  Here is a picture of a form that I've created, and how I have approached the surface with one of my repetitious designs.  I decided to carve in low-relief using modeling tools by hand.  It's not done yet, but you can see the difference already.