by Carole Epp | Dec 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
From her website:
“Christina Bryer has been working as an artist and designer since 1980. Her background is in jewellery design, then in 1998, she studied ceramics in London.
When she encountered Penrose’s aperiodic tiling, she began incorporating the principles into her porcelain plates. Her work is therefore based on the highest forms of geometry, yet the same patterns are found in unicellular organisms, and a cross-section of a strand of DNA, and has been called the geometry of life. Aperiodicity also describes a slice through 5th dimensional hyper-space – the geometry of the cosmos.”View more incredible work on her website here.
by Carole Epp | Dec 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I received an email this morning regarding the passing of Malcolm Davis. I don’t have many details but wanted to pass along the news for those of you that were close to him or inspired by him and his work. As more details surface I will update.
From the email:
“Malcolm Davis died in the morning of 12/11. He had hip replacement surgery last Thursday, recovered over the weekend…and evidently collasped in PT Mon morning and died instantly.”
His wife has requested no calls for a few days.
The following is from the AKAR website:
“I first touched clay at age 40 and knew immediately that I had been a potter all along. I love to make pots! For me, the joy and the challenge comes from making things that will become an intimate part of the daily lives of others – pots that will be held, eaten from, poured from, sipped from and perhaps even licked from. For me the making of pots is a way to celebrate the mundane rituals of daily life and to make them holy.”
Malcolm Davis has been a full-time studio potter since 1984 when he left his previous life as campus minister. He took his first ceramics class in 1974 and since 1985 has maintained his mountaintop studio in Upshur County, WV. He is internationally recognized for his work with shino-type glazes, specifically for the creation of a unique ultra Carbontrap shino-type formula with a high concentration of soluble soda ash, which encourages the trapping of carbon in the early stages of the firing.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including four grants from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and was a finalist in the 1995 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Visual Artists Fellowships. Other awards include the Purchase Award at the Ceramics Monthly International Competition (1999), First Place in the 1996 Strictly Functional Pottery Show, Feats of Clay XIII and XIV Merit Awards, Orton Purchase Awards in 1994 and 1996, Crosscurrents All Media Award at the Stifel Fine Arts in Wheeling (1990. 1996), WV Juried Exhibition Merit Award in 1996, and Awards for Clay Cup VII and Clay Cup IV.
He has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, the Smithsonian Craft Show and the American Craft Council Craft Shows. He has been an artist-in-residence at Artpark in Lewiston, NY; Baltimore Clayworks; Greenwich House Pottery (NYC); The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Red Star Studios in Kansas City; Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis; Waubonsee Community College in Illinois and the Lee Arts Center in Virginia.
Malcolm’s work is included in collections at the American Crafts Museum; The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY; the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Mobach Collection, Utrecht, Holland; Orton Permanent Collection; Arthur and Lillian Weiss Collection; Bailey Ceramics Collection; Old Church Cultural Center in Demarest, NJ; Highwater Clay Permanent Collection, Asheville, NH; American Art Clay Collection, Indianapolis, IN and the Twentieth Century Collection, Sarah Lawrence College in NY.
He has been featured in over 15 books and publications, he has published articles in American Shino by Lester Richter and Stayin’ Alive by Robin Hopper; and curated an issue of The Studio Potter Magazine on carbon trapping. The December, 2003 issue of The Studio Potter Magazine featured an extensive interview: “Malcolm Davis, Shino Warrior.” His work with carbontrap shinos was recently featured in Ceramica (Spain) and Ceramic Review (England).
Malcolm has taught and lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada, and has conducted Masters’ classes at Penland School of Crafts, Peters Valley Craft Center, Touchstone Center for Crafts, and others. Recent exhibitions include AKAR, Iowa City, Iowa; Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine; Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC; Santa Fe Clay and “Our Cups Runneth Over” at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston.
Malcolm recently curated a national exhibition of work with shino-type glazes, “Endless Variations: Shino Review 2005,” featured at the 2005 NCECA Conference in Baltimore. In 2007 he juried the 15th annual Strictly Functional Pottery National and was one of three presenters at the 20th annual NC Potters’ Conference in Seagrove. He also taught a two-week carbontrap shino workshop at La Meridiana in Tuscany in 2007 and 2008.
Here are a few other links to info and images:
http://www.18handsgallery.com/bios/malcolm.html
http://www.mudfire.com/malcolm-davis-am08.htm
Thank you to Ruby Serben for sharing the news.
by Carole Epp | Dec 12, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Made for Each Other
A show of functional vessels in pairs & sets
February 4 – February 29, 2012
Juried by Adero Kai Willard
Juror’s Biography: An MFA graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Willard’s pottery contains a depth of layers and colors, reminiscent of fabric swatches, tapestries, and nature. She has been a visiting artist at many arts institutions, the most recent being the Chautauqua Institute in NY. After finishing a Salad Days winter residency at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, where she created over 500 plates for Watershed’s annual summer fundraiser, Willard has gone on to exhibit at Crafts Boston in 2010-11, the Smithsonian Craft Show in DC, and the Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, MA.
CALENDAR:
December 15, 2011: Application deadline (must ARRIVE by 5pm this day)
December 22, 2011: Notification begins via email
January 16 – 25, 2012: Work arrives at gallery
February 4, 2012 – 6-8 PM: Opening Reception
February 29, 2012: Exhibition closes
ELIGIBILITY:
• Open to residents of the 50 United States and DC.
• Submitted work produced within the last two years.
• Work must be made primarily of clay and size may not exceed 30 inches in any dimension or 15 pounds in weight.
RULES:
• Artists are invited to submit work that creates, challenges, redefines, or emphasizes the relationship between functional vessel forms in pairs or in sets.
• Applicants may enter 3-5 pairs or sets
• All exhibited work MUST BE FOR SALE.
• Retail price must be under $500/pair or set.
• Specific piece(s) accepted MUST be available for entire exhibition. We will exhibit NO substitute pieces.
• Work will be disqualified if it is not the same piece that was accepted or if it displays poor craftsmanship.
• Work must arrive in time for the opening.
ENTRY FEE:
• $30 for three entries, non-refundable check or money order made payable to Studio 550. Please don’t send cash.
• Applicants may submit up to two more entries for $10 each (i.e. 5 entries for $50, 4 entries for $40)
COMMISSION:
A 35% commission will be collected on all sales.
Visit the website to Download the application form.
Studio 550
P.O. Box 3638
Manchester, NH 03105-3638
For additional information or questions, contact: Monica Leap
Gallery Director
603.759.0466
[email protected]
by Carole Epp | Dec 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is where I’ll be this weekend. My last sale of the holiday season (yippeee!)
To find out more about this cool collective I work with please check out our blog or our facebook page. And here is more info about this weekend’s event. Hope to see you there!
From her website:
