Monday Morning (err tuesday afternoon ) eye candy

by | Aug 3, 2010 | Uncategorized

Okay so i’m a little bit behind. Forgive me as I’m crashing from the most amazing month ever at Medalta. The residency ended with a bang (literally) and many sad goodbyes as we all went our separate ways, well except for Jeremy Hatch who is left in the studio all by himself to finish his work, hopefully it’s not too lonely.

Sunday morning after no more than 3 hours sleep I took one final swing by the studio to catch a peek at this week’s eye candy – a piece that Brendan Tang had just unloaded from the kiln hours before.


Stunning to say the least.

And then it was time to hit the road and head home to my lovely family. It has been such an amazing month that i’m still trying to digest it all. It really feels like it will be months/years before the inspiration I gained at Medalta will fade. My mommy brain was brought back to life and is still churning with theory talk, new techniques, business ideas and conceptual richness. Needless to say it’s been both lovely and strange to be back home in an all too familiar day to day routine. The studio is once again filled with the crackle of the baby monitor rather than Robin Lambert’s amazing studio mix of music. There is no one to stop by and provide random insight into my work, or to simply make me smile a mile wide with their humor. But it’s not like being home is a bad thing. I need to digest all this information, and more importantly finish all the pieces I started in Medicine Hat. It might be a few weeks before I have images to share with you all of the works completed, but fear not, you’ll get to see them finished.

The studio is in the process of being cleaned, the family cuddles abound, I have a wonderful gift of a new computer to keep up with all my work (killed not one but 2 MAC’s during the residency). Life is good. Friends will be missed, but never forgotten, and the internet as always will bring us together.

To sum up any thoughts on the “Technology” residency…hmmm….I think that it reconfirmed my beliefs that technology is an amazing tool for growth of a practice, of marketing and community building, of sharing and nurturing. I guess I have to declare that I officially remove my luddite label. I am fully and completely in tune with technology and my desire to find better ways of making it work to my, and the larger community’s, advantage has grown. After many chats about this blog with the residency’s artists and staff, I have a renewed energy for building this site into something even greater. What? i’m not totally sure yet. When? As soon as I have some time : )

Great things are a foot, stay tuned.

Flora @ Schaller Gallery

by | Aug 3, 2010 | Uncategorized

Logo w/Snyder and Hargens

Flora
August 1-31, 2010
Kyla Strid-Orchid Bowl Set
Artists Include:
Linda Arbuckle
Kyle Carpenter
Victoria Christen
Naomi Cleary
Adam Field
Ursula Hargens
Molly Hatch
Richard Hensley
Cathi Jefferson
Forrest Lesch Middleton
Brenda Quinn
Phil Rogers
Stacy Snyder
Kyla Strid
Daniel Ricardo Teran
Ann Tubbs

Pick a bouquet

Anthony Schaller
406.425.3114
WEBSITE
Schaller Gallery | 220 Highway 78 | PO Box 1061 | Red Lodge | MT | 59068

Conversation With – Mark Shapiro

by | Aug 3, 2010 | Uncategorized

Studio Potter, Author and editor of “A Chosen Path” The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes

Thursday, August 5
Reception 6:00 -7:00
…Conversation 7:00-8:00

Mark Shapiro will discuss how modern style design is referenced, integrated, and incorporated in his current work in “Bottles and Other Muses” at Ferrin Gallery and the book he edited on the life of Karen Karnes.

Join us for a reception prior to the conversation to hear more about 20/21 Modern Style and Studio Craft, the first in a series of exhibitions and programs in the Berkshires August – October 2010 organized by ART BERKSHIRES. Shapiro’s conversation is the first event in a weekend of related programs taking place August 5-8 in Lenox and Pittsfield.

In Mark Shapiro’s third solo exhibition “Bottles and Other Muses”, Shapiro continues an ongoing exploration of bottle forms with non-narrative, abstract, rhythmic line patterns. Like the artist Sol Lewitt, Shapiro uses the power of line on surface to explore gestural, expressive calligraphic fields of scratched lines that imply music, writing, and history. Unlike Lewitt, his medium is studio ceramics and his color palette is derived from the results of firing with wood fuel. Focusing on the bottle form he stretches the various parts—neck, handles, body—all of which are exaggerated by scale. The larger works range to five feet in height.

Mark Shapiro recently completed a three-year project The Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes, a book of essays and archival materials to accompany her traveling retrospective exhibition. The modernist Karnes (1925– ) made some of the most iconic pottery of the 20th century and continues to work into her eighties. “What’s also fascinating about Karnes,” says Shapiro, “is that her life intersects with many of the most important cultural movements of the postwar period. She helped invent studio ceramics as we know it today.”

Ferrin Gallery

437 North Street
Pittsfield, MA

Open House TONIGHT!!!

by | Jul 29, 2010 | Uncategorized

Don’t spend a minute contemplating it, just jump in the car and come out to the Medalta Open House tonight at 7pm and see in person what everyone here has been working on all month. We’d love to see you there if you can make it.

Medalta International Artists in Residence Program
713 Medalta Avenue SE
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, T1A 3K9
Telephone: (403) 529–1070
Fax: (403) 580–5868 www.medalta.org