emerging artist: Alex Zablocki

by | Aug 24, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Alex Zablocki was born in Denver
Colorado and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and is currently a
ceramic artist residing in Fort Collins, Colorado.  He received his BFA from Finlandia University and also
studied ceramic design in Kuopio Finland. 
He spent two years working and studying as a Post-Baccalaureate student
at both the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Colorado State University. He
has shown work both nationally and internationally.
I build pieces using the vernacular of pottery to talk about
process, celebrating all the qualities, which exploit my participation in the
making.  I throw and alter
cylinders while dividing and dissecting certain areas with the use of lines.  These lines then create seams, which
accentuate subtle aspects within the forms. I am constantly engaged by the
manipulation of clay to create works that are both functionally sound and
aesthetically pleasing.  My work
exhibits a variety of subtle changes in the direction of form to create
luscious and full shapes, which directly talks about their ability to contain,
display, and disperse.   I
find wood and soda firing to be the most appropriate means of firing my
work.  These processes allow for
the activation of surface that compliments the way in which I work with clay.

Fueled by Wood – closing June 14th

by | Jun 7, 2013 | Uncategorized

Top L to R: John Dix, Jack Troy, Judith Duff
Bottom center: Nick Schwartz

 

JOHN DIX, JACK TROY,  NICK SCHWARTZ and JUDITH DUFF
 

* This Monday, June 10 – 13 join me, Sandy Simon, for a symposium on “Women Working in Clay”
along with other women clay artists: Stacy Snyder, Cheryl Ann Thomas, Adrian Arleo, Charity Davis-Woodard  held in Roanoke, VA at Hollins College Cost: $395 contact by email for more infomation, [email protected]  or phone: 540.362.6021 space is still available but hurry

TRAX: New Work by Warren MacKenzie available online today
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