Weekly posts created to expose students to artists or anything interesting going on in the art world.
Painting has changed the lives of these people in an Iraq refugee camp. They transformed an old prison into a community by painting murals all over the walls. Watch the video below for the brief story. Read the article above for a more in-depth look.
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/580622215412623/
Follow the Black Rabbit – Beth Cavener’s Website
From her About Page:
“Primitive animal instincts lurk in our own depths, waiting for the chance to slide past a conscious moment. The sculptures I create focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal and human forms. On the surface, these figures are simply feral and domestic individuals suspended in a moment of tension. Beneath the surface, they embody the consequences of human fear, apathy, aggression, and misunderstanding.
“Both human and animal interactions show patterns of intricate, subliminal gestures that betray intent and motivation.
The things we leave unsaid are far more important than the words spoken out-loud to one another. I have learned to read meaning in the subtler signs; a look, the way one holds one’s hands, the incline of the head, and the slightest unconscious gesture. I rely on animal body language in my work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, transforming the animal subjects into human psychological portraits.
“I want to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. Entangled in their own internal and external struggles, the figures express frustration for the human tendency towards cruelty and lack of understanding. Something conscious and knowing is captured in their gestures and expressions. An invitation and a rebuke.”
Like Knows Like – Documentary Video about her process.
Beth Cavener – Sculptor from Bas Berkhout on Vimeo.
Stack and slam wire wedging allows a potter to produce perfectly uniform clay in a very short time. It allows the mixing of clays of different moisture content or clays of different colors with ease.
My plans are to make a slam wedging table for home and for school use so it can be quickly done. It can also be done with a wire tool and a porous surface.
A quirky & fun look into Ayumi Horie’s studio practice. She uses porcelain to create bowls, plates, and a match striker and applies decals to pottery. Great surprise at around 3 minutes (wait for it….). She talks about the importance of touch in a visually stimulated world of touch screens. As I was watching, I kept thinking, “YES! YES YES! THIS is why I work with clay!” I hope you like it, too.
I love the way this Massachusetts artist uses the softness of the clay while it’s still wet so that it still remains looking soft once it is finished and glazed.
Jae Yong Kim, DONUT RUSH, opened November 13, 6-8pm at Lyons Wier Gallery 542 West 24th Street, NYC 10011
He was “born in South Korea in 1973 and at the age of three moved to Kuwait when his father was relocated as a regional director there of a construction company and lived with his family in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for a total of five years. He spent most of his adolescence and youth in Seoul, South Korea, until he graduated high school and went alone to the United States in 1994 to pursue a university degree.”
Here is a list of some ceramic artists I found while surfing Pinterest. Feel free to use them in your Artist of the Week blog posts.
Adam Field
Hsinchuen Lin
Mike Dodd
Ann Van Hoey
Hsin-Yi Huang
Pilar Wiley
Jun Kaneko
Wendy Hoare
Alyson Cook
Peter Christian Johnson
Penelope Withers
Mel Griffin
Renee Brown
Katharine Morling
Warren MacKenzie
Margaret Kinkeade
Rachel Boxnhoim
Beatrice Wood
Mark Peters
Gail Kendall
Chris Staley
Kate Malone
Lesley D McKenzie
Diana Fayt
Gary Jackson
Fenella Elms
Ah Leon
Terri Kern
Terry Hogan
Marge Margulies
Ryota Aoki
Joanna Mozdzen
Laura McNamara
Karen Karnes
Nathalie Choux
Judit Varga
Greg Payce
David Burnham Smith
Nuala O’Donovan
Sakiyama Takayuki
Tanoue Shinya
Ute Grossman
Beryl Hole
Sally & Neil MacDonell
MORE Ceramic Artists
15th Century
Luca Della Robbia, Italy – relief
Donato di Niccolo Bardi – portrait busts
Donatella, Italy – portrait busts
Andrea del Verrocchio, Italy – portrait busts
16th Century
Chojiro, Japan – tea bowls
Andrea della Robbia, Italy – Madonna and child
Cipriano Piccolpasso, Italy – first glaze book? L’arte della ceramica secondo
Bernard Palissy, France – relief platters, added texture
17th Century
Pierre Chicaneau, France – dutch blue
John Dwight, England – earthenware jugs, busts
David Elers, England – red, functional, raised textures
Sakaida Kakiemon, Japan – classic, colorful glazing on white
Louis Poterat, France – dutch blue
Ri Sampei, Japan – classic vases
18th Century
Johann Friedrich Bottger, Germany – porcelain figures
Franz Anton Bustelli, Germany – porcelain figures
Johann Joachim Kandler, Germany – porcelain figures
Peter Reiniche, Germany – porcelain figures
Josiah Wedgewood, England – greek-like vessels, relief surfaces
19th Century
Charles Avisseau, France – platters and sculptures with detailed textures, natural scenes
Ernest Chaplet, France – earthenware bowls and urns, pitted glaze
Theodorus Colenbrander, Belgium – vessel, intricate glazes
William Frend De Morgan, England – early Arts Deco, William Morris
Albert Dammouse, France – bowls, vivid blues
Theodore Deck, France – early Japanese style
Paul Gauguin, France – bowls with wrapped figures and animals
James Hadley, England – figurines
Ogata Kenzan, Japan – tea bowls, rustic
Ogata Korin, Japan – tea bowls, silk paintings
Arnold Krog, Denmark – watercolor-like surface
Pietro Krohn, Denmark – dutch blue, silk screen?
Berta Nathanielsen, Denmark – porcelain
Alf Wallander, Sweden – vases, sculpted surfaces
Jules-Claude Ziegler, France – vessels, sculpted surfaces
20th Century American
William Grueby – jade pottery
Adelaide Alsop Robineau – vessels, sculpted surfaces (Slab)
George E. Ohr – structured and collapsed wheel pieces (Wheel)
Viktor Schreckengost – blue and black sgraffito
Robert Arneson – whimsical self-portrait busts (BIO)
Rudy Autio – organic forms with figurative painting
Clayton Bailey – “head” jars and whimsical sculptures
Frank Boyden – pit fire/soda ash earthenware
Tom Coleman – altered wheel pieces
Val Cushing – wheel, repeated patterning on surfaces
William Daley – large-scale vessels, geometric
Stephen de Staebler – totemic work
Ruth Duckworth – abstract vessels, porcelain
Mary Frank – figurative works
Ken Ferguson – altered wheel, footed vessels
Viola Frey – colorful large-scale figures
Andrea Gill – cubist vase forms, intricate surfaces
David Gilhooly – whimsical frog sculptures (BIO)
Maurice Grossman – “head” jars, rustic
Maija Grotell – wheel, structured glaze patterning
Vivika and Otto Heino – wheel, pit fire
Tony Hepburn – large-scale abstract sculptures
Wayne Higby – landscape inspired pottery
Richard Hirsch – earthenware, pit fire
Jun Kaneko – monumental portrait busts, abstracted, patterning
Karen Karnes – altered wheel thrown pottery
Susan and Steven Kemenyffy – figurative glaze work
Lucy Lewis – classic Native American pottery
Warren Mackenzie – wheel, soda ash
Maria Martinez – coil, highly burnished, pattern (BIO)
John Mason – abstract, geometric sculptures
Jim Melchert – tiles and masks
Ron Meyers – incised surfaces, rustic
Ron Nagle – abstract, colorful sculptures (BIO)
Otto Natzler – wheel, balanced foot
Dennis Parks – raw glazing and oil firing
Susan Peterson – wheel vessels
Kenneth Price – abstract sculptures, geometric meets organic (BIO)
Don Reitz – altered wheel, primitive
Daniel Rhodes – ancient inspired pottery
Jerry Rothman – Bauhaus/Baroque
Richard Shaw – trompe l’oeil , hyper-realism (BIO)
Kataro Shirayamadani – vases, glaze control, crystalline
Paul Soldner – abstracted, rustic, primitive
Robert Sperry – “cracked” sgraffito
Toshiko Takaezu – large, bulbous vessels
Robert Turner – altered wheel, rustic
Peter Voulkos – large-scale totems, primitive (BIO)
Patti Warashina – disproportioned figures
Kurt Weiser – vessels with figurative glazing
Marguerite and Frans Wildenhain – soda ash fire
Beatrice Wood – wheel thrown, metallic
Betty Woodman – altered wheel thrown, Matisse-like glazes
Elsbeth Woody – large-scale organic forms
20th Century English
Alison Britton – complex slab work, vessels and pitchers
Alan Caiger-Smith – wheel, free-brushwork glaze
Michael Cardew – pottery, simple glazing
Michael Casson – pottery, simple glazing
Hans Coper – minimalist vessels (Noguchi-like), altered wheel thrown vessels
Jill Crowley – abstracted human forms
Harry Davis – functional pottery
Bernard Leach – pottery, simple glazing (BIO)
David Leach – pottery, fluted sides
Janet Leach – pottery, altered, rustic glazes
Magdalene Odundo – warped vases, high gloss
Lucie Rie – wheel thrown vessels with wide rims and small feet
Mary Rogers – “scrunched” vessels
William Staite Muray – pottery, simple glazing
20th Century European
Josep Llorens Artigas, Spain – pottery, graceful forms
Arne Ase, Norway – intricate surfaces
Mac Chagall, France – painting style on platters and vessels
Antoni Gaudi, Spain – mosaics with architecture
Josep Maria Jujol, Spain – mosaics with architecture
Pierre Caille, Belgium – pottery, tiles, Dada (Miro-like)
Lisa Larson, Sweden – cat pottery
Joan Miro, Spain – painting style on vessels
Pablo Picasso, Spain – altered jugs, with painting style (BIO)
Gilbert Portanier, France – abstract glazing
Georges and Suzanne Ramie, France – 1950s pottery
Georges Rouault, France – painting style on pottery
Axel Salto, Denmark – vessels with rich texture! (BIO)
Lilo Schrammel, Hungary – abstract sculptures, minimal
Alev Siesbye, Denmark – bowls, turquoise glazing
Heidi van Veen-Kiehne, Netherlands – minimalist porcelain
Carlo Zauli, Italy – abstract, organic sculptures
20th Century Japanese
Toyozo Arakawa – rustic tea bowls
Shoji Hamada – tea bowls and vessels (slab)
Toyo Kaneshige – pit fired pottery
Shinobu Kawase – altered pottery, celadon glazes
Kosei Matsui – coil built vessels, glaze patterning
Kimpei Nakamura – abstract sculptures, eccentric
Shiro Otani – coil-wheel combo, large-scale vessels
Kitaoji Rosanjin – tea bowls, rustic fires
Kazuhiko Sato – organic vessels
Muneyoshi Yanagi – rustic pottery
Contemporary Ceramists
Stephen Benwell – vessels and figures with erratic glazes
Emma Clegg – white vessels with added flowers
Jose Drouin – eclectic sculptures and rustic colors
Tammy Garcia – Maria Martinez-ish, but carved
Christine Giffiths – animal pottery
Lisa Larson – simplified animals
Carol Long – vessels, high detail and complexity
Nick Mackman – detailed animal sculptures
Ricky Maldonado – stippled texture (BIO)
Randy O’Brien – bright colors, crackled surfaces
Magdalene Odundo – asymmetrical coil and wheel pottery, matt black glaze (BIO)
Gustavo Perez – vessels, altered and sliced
Susan Phillips – simple, abstract pottery and sculptures
Rimas Visgirda – underglazes, details
FOR CERAMICS CLASSES ONLY:
Beginning the THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, you will find 5 ceramic artists each quarter that inspire you and create 5 blog posts showcasing their work and answering the questions below. Here is a List of Ceramic Artists or you can search on Google or Pinterest for more. Please include all the items listed below in each blog post. These 5 blog posts will be due on Fridays starting the September 16. You may do them all at once or by each due date.
This will count as your sketchbook grades for each 6 week grading period.
Artist Blog Post 1 (<— this would go in the title section of your blog post; see below)
First Quarter:
1 – Sept 16
2 – Sept 23
3 – Sept 30
4 – Oct 7
5 – Oct 14
Second Quarter:
6 – Oct 28
7 – Nov 4
8 – Nov 11
9 – Nov 18
10 – Dec 2
Third Quarter: