by Carole Epp | Jun 15, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
It was the honest
labor of hands that first drew Carly to clay. To that end, her work deals
with the aesthetic elevation of the everyday, of tasks, creatures and objects
alike, and the relationships that exist between them.
Growing up in “Oil Country” Alberta, Carly has been a fascinated since childhood
in how the things around her work, and an appreciation for the beauty in that.
She considers herself a “Mixed Media Sculptor with a sold clay base”, she is currently workout out of Calgary, AB.
by Carole Epp | Jun 9, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
My objective is to encourage appreciation for the interconnectivity I
see in beings and life processes. I am very interested in ethical
reasoning and perplexed by human activity, or inactivity, and how this
correlates to the rest of life. When creating work, I allow my pieces to
encompass my own emotions. I hope to spark feelings of compassion,
sympathy, and joy and to trigger a feeling of intimacy. I have a hopeful
attitude about the future and I want to share this with my audience.
As
a ceramic artist, I am influenced by the natural world. I appreciate
the material’s transformation from water, air and fire, as it reminds me
of my own connection with the earth. My childhood memories of working
with clay are still influential today as I maintain a playful attitude
with my work, both physically and conceptually.
by Carole Epp | Jun 6, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
From August 12 till August 25, 2013 Daugavpils Mark
Rothko Art Centre in cooperation with association “Daugavpils Clay Art
Centre” organizes International Ceramic Art Symposium “LANDescape”,
where 20 professional ceramists are invited to collectively create
ceramic fire sculpture ensemble as well as to make individual objects of
contemporary ceramics, drawing inspiration in Latvian nature and
cultural space.
Applications for participation in International Ceramic Art Symposium must be submitted till June 30, 2013.
Contact person:
Valentins Petjko
+37120207533
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 | 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
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