by Carole Epp | May 27, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
These images are from her MFA thesis show from earlier in April
Artist statement
I am intrigued by the way shifting light in a room affects how one perceives objects in the home;
reflections and shadows cause relationships to appear between two (or more) surfaces and the
spaces in between. My intent is to illustrate and bring permanence to these fleeting moments, while
sharing with the viewer the experience of witnessing an entrancing phenomenon: light affecting
familiar spaces and objects in the home.
The forms and surfaces I create arise out of these observations. Empty and often overlooked areas
between functional and decorative objects are transformed into architectural ceramic forms and
arranged into still lifes; juxtaposing each form with adjacent, brightly colored surfaces that coat each
plane with a film of reflected light. Drawings become a record of the light and shadows that force the
eye to shift constantly, causing static objects to appear to wiggle. It is this constant movement, this lack of clarity, and this distortion, which drives my studio explorations and reveals how I perceive and create relationships between the objects in the lived space.
by Carole Epp | May 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Join
us in celebration of our second-year fellowship artists Jeff Campana,
Alanna DeRocchi, Sean O’Connell and Jonathan Read. The Windgate Fellows
will finish their residency at the Bray this fall.
Opening Reception this Thursday, May 30, 6–8 pm
Can’t make it in person? View the exhibition at our Online Sales Gallery beginning Thursday, May 30.
The
Windgate Fellowships were established in 2012 thanks to a generous
two-year grant given to the Bray by the Windgate Charitable Foundation
in support of artist fellowships, scholarships and studio costs. Each
fellowship awards $5,000 to a long-term resident artist, with additional
funds provided to cover the Bray’s studio costs for each resident.
archiebrayfoundation | 2915 Country Club Ave, Helena, MT 59602 | 406/443-3502 | www.archiebray.org
by Carole Epp | May 26, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Jamie received her MFA in Ceramics at the University of Kansas in Spring of 2012. She received her BFA in Studio Art with and emphasis in Ceramics in 2008 at the University of Central Missouri. Her most recent work addresses the fragility of the human spirit in the midst of illness and loss in relation to her family’s history with cancer.
Jamie has shown work both locally and nationally including, shows at First Street Gallery in New York; the Clay Studio of Missoula in Missoula, MT; and at the National Student Juried Exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle, WA; in conjunction with the 2012 National Council on the Education for the Ceramics Arts Conference.
The focus and significance of my work lies in the state of the human condition, the delicacy and fragility of the human construct in an emotional and physical sense. My experience is that of being part of an extended family that has endured a history of cancer and high mortality rate. As I have become more aware of my family’s history with illness through the examination of my memories, I have also become wary of the future and empathetic of the past. I often find myself attributing to others, my own unwanted thoughts and emotions in relation to cancer. This projection of my anxieties onto others acts as cancer does in metastasis, spreading from one location to another. My work is an examination and reflection of the memories, emotions, and anxieties caused by my family’s history with cancer with an emphasis on the relationship between human biology and human emotion.
www.jamiembates.com
by Carole Epp | May 25, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Artist’s Statement
Swirling gases surround the molten forms,
moving through and around them, seeking escape. The tumbling trapped
gases enter forcefully, slowing to ignite and escape the oxygen deprived
atmosphere. Fire and air combine to birth new formations of stone from
ancient eroded particles. Open forms with clean lines are indicative of
my work. Stoneware and Porcelain, once great rock formations now
decomposed, are reborn into complex forms with clean lines and
atmospheric glazing.
Negative space is considered in conjunction with positive to form both
functional and sculptural vessels. Lao Tsu says, “Shape clay into a
vessel. It is the space inside that makes it useful. Cut doors and
windows for a room. It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore
profit comes from what is there. Usefulness from what is not there.” The
truth lies within our selves, within our art, inside our bodily
vessels. We look inside to discover our true nature. When we bring forth
our emptiness and make it useful, we share our souls in the everyday.
My artistic goal is to bring the viewer to find meaning in presence and
absence, creating an appreciation of both the form that is there and the
space that remains open.
by Carole Epp | May 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Top L to R: Judith Duff, Jack Troy, John Dix, Nick Schwartz
Bottom L to R: Judith Duff, Nick Schwartz
“FUELED by WOOD”
Through June 14, 2013
JOHN DIX, JUDITH DUFF, NICK SCHWARTZ and JACK TROY
Click HERE to view works from the show
TRAX GALLERY 1812 5th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
Wednesday – Sunday 12 – 5:30
