by Carole Epp | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Common/Opposites Apr 30-Jun 19 2011 Les Manning
RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 7 PM
FREE ADMISSION
Common/Opposites presents the most recent works in clay by Les Manning, the internationally recognized ceramist based in Medicine Hat, Alberta. For the past several decades, Manning has elegantly rendered the topographical forms of the Rockies in laminated and shaped clay vessels. In these new sculptures, Manning uses his firm grounding in the land and landscape around us to create ceramic works that vault beyond, into a realm where our recognition of everyday things jostles and collides with metaphor, revealing the rich and contradictory poetry of our ordinary world.
Les Manning is the Senior Artist in Residence at the Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics in Medicine Hat, Alberta. His work has been shown around the world, most recently in Scotland, the Netherlands, Latvia, the United States, Greece and China, and is held in private, corporate and public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Les Manning was the Director of the Ceramic Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts for 20 years, and has contributed to ceramics world-wide as a teacher, lecturer, conference and symposium participant and organizer, as well as Vice President of the International Academy of Ceramics, founding member and Vice-President of the Alberta Craft Council and first President of Canadian Craft Council.
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by Carole Epp | Apr 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Neufeld, from Osler Saskatchewan, is ex military and a former firefighter. He works with concepts of masculine identity, currently in the form of ceramic transformations of engines and transmissions.
Taking a typically male pre-occupation with muscle cars, he replicates these components in ceramic. Finished like fine china, these sculptures take a grease monkey’s love of car parts and transform them into something precious. Placed on teacarts or chaises longue, these are made the object of attention the equivalent of a prized tea service or reclining nude.
Show runs: April 15, 2011 – July 3 2011 at Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George.725 Civic Plaza
Prince George, BC, V2L 5T1
Canada
by Carole Epp | Apr 11, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
“Aurora”
“Oilcan Tanks”. The cans are wheel thrown and are decorated with underglaze. The treads are made up of wood and metal.
The concept was derived from a government funded operation called “Militainment”. Which is the government funding going to diverse areas of media popularize war in a more entertaining fashion. It began with the Regan administration and “Star Wars” in the mid east.
“Old Fashioned”
The idea then grew into a more tangible questioning of our ancestors, the birth of capitalism, and the wholeness of American ideals.
Please visit Antonio’s website at evaristoart.com
by Carole Epp | Apr 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
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