So I'm happy to announce that I am the new Studio Technician at Greenwich House Pottery. I'm thrilled to be a part of an institution that has had such a profound impact on the field of ceramics for over 100 years! Awesome work related activities so far include helping Steven Young Lee install his solo show at the Jane Hartsook Gallery which will be up until May 9th. Also I get to take a workshop with him tomorrow!
I will be exhibiting this piece at the 14th Annual Tokyo-New York Ceramic Friendship Competition at the Nippon Gallery at 145 West 57th Street here in New York City.
The jurors include Mr. David McFadden, Chief Curator, Museum of Arts & Design and Mr.
Shinichi Doi, former conservator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art among others.
The reception is today April 12th from 6-8PM. The show will be up until the 17th.
I'm really excited by this new body of work. The wall hangings, the pots and the sketch bookare starting to come together. All of these pieces were made using wooden drop molds. I made the molds whenI was still at Alfred for a series of platters I was working on at the time. The forms are meant to reference shields and ideas of heraldry. I made four platters with those molds and for some reason just never took it any further despite looking back on them as some of my favorite work from college.
I never let go of the molds and now three years later I'm back at it, using them to make some wall hangings. UltimatelyI will display them together as a sortcoat of arms. I think as soon as I can start throwing on the wheel again I might try making some tureens with these forms. Here are some low quality cell phone pictures of green ware and works on paper to hold you over untilI have some finished work.
WALL HANGINGS- GREENWARE: PORCELAIN, SLIP, UNDERGLAZE, WAX RESIST, DROP MOLDS AND SPRIG MOLDS
EXPERIENCED SOME MAJOR CRACKING WITH THE SPRIG MOLDING. I'VE BEEN APPLYING WAX TO THE AND DRYING THEM SLOWER
I know I need to be better about updating this blog of mine. The truth is that I've been wrapped up in a whole mess of stuff outside of the studio. I've been occupying myself with artist statements, letters of interest, recommendation letters, lots of coffee, antiquated submission guidelines from places that have yet to undergo the Slide Room Revolution, some rejection and more anxious anticipation. I'm excited for artist in residence application season to end no matter what the out come may be. Either I will have a temporary position somewhere facilitating my studio practice as part of a community or I will just have to go out an create opportunities for myself.
Also a few weeks ago I ended up bruising a rib and injured a muscle in my shoulder trying to break up a bar fight. Turns out I'm a little smaller than I remembered. Subsequently I've been on painkillers for most of the week and just getting back into the studio the other day. Fortunately I've been working on some wall pieces and had thrown the part before hurting myself.
It looks like I'll be mainly hand building for a while and I'm totally
down with that. In the meantime I've been on a Champion Jack Dupree
binge, in particularly his collaborations with King Curtis. Check out
Aretha Franklin in the front row at the beginning of the video! King
Curtis was her band leader the year before this show and you can here
them together on Aretha's Live at Filmore West album. I've also been sketch-booking super hard and doing some India Ink painting on news print in my apartment and that's always a good thing.
It looks like I'll be mainly hand building for a while and I'm totally
down with that. In the meantime I've been on a Champion Jack Dupree
binge, in particularly his collaborations with King Curtis. Check out
Aretha Franklin in the front row at the beginning of the video! King
Curtis was her band leader the year before this show and you can here
them together on Aretha's Live at Filmore West album. I've also been sketch-booking super hard and doing some India Ink painting on news print in my apartment and that's always a good thing.
