monday morning eye candy: “Beauty and Natural Forces: Part II” by Sarah McNutt

by | Aug 18, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 “Beauty and Natural Forces: Part II” by Sarah McNutt
Year: 2014
Location: Solana Beach
San Diego, CA
Materials: Unfired mold clay
Measurements 3′ x 1′ x 5′ feet

Second
work of a pair of sister pieces exploring the fleeting and controlling
nature of the idea of beauty when subjected to natural forces. This work
was handbuilt at San Diego State University, from unfiredable junk
clay, and allowed to disintegrate over a few hours in the ocean. It is
subjected to sun, waves, salt, and sand leading to it’s ultimate
destruction.

 

 

guest post: ” show us your influences” with Linda Fahey

by | Aug 15, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday


I have innumerable
influences — as a kind of “natural curator” — I am constantly looking
at massive amounts of work across all media. I find both whole lines of
work/aesthetics from various artists usually drive my attention, but I
also am in a constant state of gleaning bits and pieces from a variety
of sources, textiles, wood, design, architecture.  
Gertrud Vasegaard

Gertrud Vasegaard — this bowl is one that is always in my memory — one of my all time favourite pieces.

Clifford Still – Richard Diebenkorn – Helen Frankenthaler –
they are all enormously influential to me – certainly separately, but as a representative range of abstract expressionists – I think of them often.

Clifford Still
Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler

George Nakashima


George Nakashima — he married old and new in a modern elegant beautiful way — another mid-century giant. He was also ahead of his time in how he used materials to achieve a balance between the constructed and the natural “edge”.

Linda Fahey

My work is almost entirely hand built. I enjoy so much the construct of
building pieces up in sections. I work with porcelain and black
mountain clays. I’m an illustrator by training, so much of my work is
about working out the relationship of decoration/form and how they marry
well.

yondershop.com

@yonderlindafahey

monday morning eye candy: Brian Rochefort

by | Aug 11, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 

The following via his website:

Rochefort’s sculptures are provisioned by the artist as ‘Gloops’. They
are interpretive, mis-formed, and flawlessly amassed hollow ceramic.
Each piece profiles an affective relationship to the emasculated
characterization of infantile attachment to object. Typically, a teddy
bear, robust at core, falls short of true charity with arms truncated
and squat. In these sculptures, Rochefort’s idea pairs the masculine
iconography of automotive paint with the symbolic gifting of toy for
love.

Brian Rochefort is a Los Angeles based mixed media sculptor working in
ceramic and automotive paint. Born and raised in Rhode Island he
attended the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a BFA in Ceramics.
He was the recipient of the Lillian Fellowship as an artist in
residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic arts from
2007-2009.

For more information regarding CV and/or artist statement
contact:

Brian Rochefort
[email protected]


www.brianrochefort.net

oh and he makes these drool worth cups too!