August 2013 - Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

Gallery Cruising – Ceramic Art

August 30, 2013

Brancusi’s “Bird in Space” sculpture, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1939

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Looking at ceramic art online is sometimes deceptive because the pieces are generally photographed on a plain background and the dimensionality can’t easily be ascertained to get an idea of the the actual size. Even when you know the dimensions it’s still a challenge to conceptualize. Depending on the image editing, the texture can also be difficult to judge. Visiting a gallery has a distinct advantage in this regard. The upside with galleries online is you get to scope places that you might never get to see.

Pottery and ceramics are a good fit with galleries because they are generally compact and are usually not dependant on walls for display and can be featured in narrow spaces. The pottery shapes respond favourably to good lighting , and can be highlighted to enhance their styles and colours. I’ve assembled some images from various galleries.

Emile Gallé glass vases, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy

Urs Fischer – MoCA

Urchin Bonnechance Basket – Laura Donefer

2009 – Duane Reed Gallery

Sasha Wardell ceramic vessels

Ceramic Art London fair, presented by the Craft Potters Association (CPA),

photo: Mark Lawrence

British Museum Great Court

Susan Hails – Ceramic Gallery V & A

( Pinchpots )

Gillian Lowndes V&A-Ceramic Gallery

( Pinchpots )

Stoneware Jar inlaid celadon

National Natural History Museum of the Smithsonian Institute

Standing Figure of an Ibis

Photo © Joan Ann Lansberry

Brooklyn Museum

‘Sleepy-Head’ sculpture – Peter Fitzgerald

Sculpt Gallery

Michael Lucero Teapot

Represented by Donna Schneier Fine Arts, SOFA expo

Mycenaean pottery

( ClairH Flickr )

The Existential Void – Grayson Perry

Victoria Miro Gallery

via Pinchpots

pASHion -ash-glazed ceramics from the anagama of Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry, India

Adil Writer

Performative Objects – Christyl Boger and Anne Drew Potter

Purdue University Galleries

Richard Notkin teapot from the 1980’s, and behind it, a Philip Cornelius teapot.

V&A-Ceramic Gallery

( Pinchpots )

Open Arms – Jane Burton

CFA Gallery

Gunhild Aaberg Contemporary Ceramic

Ann Linnemann Studio Gallery, Denmark

Ceramic wall sculpture – Steve Allen

SFMOMA Artists Gallery – Wondrous Strange – A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities.

San Fransisco via artbusiness.com

Michael Dennis – States of Being

Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver,

Matt Wedel

LA Louver Gallery- USA

M. Pineteaux Limoges enamelled vase.

Height 12″ ( Antique Place )

Louvre – salle des caryatides

Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Hunt. Goddess of the Untamed Wilderness & Beasts

Louvre

Korean Kang Hyo Lee – Mindy Solomon gallery

“TEXTILE 07 #10” – Giles Bettison

Jane Sauer Gallery

‘Diva’ – Jane Burton

CFA Gallery

Contemporary Fine Arts – California

Israel petals – Susannah Israel

Pence Gallery

Jude Jelfs – ‘Odalisque’

Sculpt Gallery

‘Figures Walking’ – Artery Gallery

Garden Sculpture ‘Big-Yawn’ – Peter Fitzgerald

Unique stoneware suitable for outdoor sitting – Sculpt Gallery

Happenings at Vineyard art galleries

Heather Whiteside Urban Art – Knoxville

Henrique Oliveira 2011

Bololo, 2011, Smithsonian Museum of African Art.

Henrique Oliveira uses old plywood, fencing and PVC as his medium. Recycled from dumpsters and landfills from his home city, São Paulo, Oliveira shapes plywood around PVC forms.

Morikami Jin, Kenichi Nagakura exhibited by the TAI Gallery of Santa Fe

SOFA New York – 2012

Egyptian Hippo- Brooklyn Museum

lPhotos-©-Joan-Ann-Landsberry

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Contemporary Spanish Ceramic Arts

August 21, 2013

You only have to look at architecture of Spain to see how bold and adventurous the Spanish are with their avant garde, abstract and evolving post modern styles. Their passion, impulsiveness and spiritual instincts lend itself to having a natural flair for unique contemporary designs. The likes of Picasso and Gaudi laid down deep foundations for the artists to expand upon and in Spain it is embraced as being culturally enriching and essential for the soul of the nation.
Their ceramics and pottery are blessed with the same flair and creativity. Here is a collection of Spanish ceramicists that have contributed to their contemporary aesthetics.

Carme Collell

‘Sinking Blue’ – Carme Collell 1998

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Carme was born in Barcelona in 1951. While studying a Master in Art and Education at New York University, she was introduced to ceramics by Lydia Buzis. . In 1979-80 she went on to study at the ceramics workshop of Josep Collell in Montevideo, Uruguay, along with taking drawing and painting classes with Guillermo Fernandez. It was here she developed the technique of applying an oiled and burnished slip, single fired at 1080C.

Her work is represented in major collections in Spain and abroad, including: Museum Chateauroux in France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Garth Clark Gallery in New York.

‘Untitled’, 2003 – Carme Collell

Burnished clay with slips.

Ceramic Sculpture – ‘Dwelling’ by Carme Collell

2010

Carme Collell ‘Fish Piece-2′

1997

‘Floating in Blue’ – Carme Collell

2012

‘Into the Blue’ – Carme Collell

2010

Carme Collell – ‘Rosa cúbica roja’ (2002)

‘Untitled’ 1988

Carme Collell

More Carme Collell here – http://www.terracroma.net

Josep Collell

Josep Collell

Miguel Molet

Miguel Molet uses thorough treatment of his clays with polishing during the development of the piece or terra sigellata in preparing his pre-fired pots, a technique which has been revived by contempoary ceramicists, from ancient procedures dating back to 600 BC in Greece. He further finishes his pieces with smoking techniques, either naked Raku, carbonation in a closed oven, or simple smoked paper, wood, and other fuels.

website – www.miguelmolet.com

‘Bipolares’ – Miguel Molet

‘Contenedores 1’ – MiguelMolet

‘Contenedores 3’ – Miguel Molet

‘Huellas 3’ – Miguel Molet

‘Huevo 2’ – Miguel Molet

Miguel Molet

‘Plato Peces 2’ – Miguel Molet

‘Griegos 1’ – Miguel Molet

‘Mural 01’ – Miguel Molet

‘Queso’ – Miguel Molet

Miguel Molet sculpture – ‘qla Rotary series’ 2009

‘Angeles 22’ – Miguel Molet

‘Anatomía-de-la-forma’

Miguel Molet

‘Cons 22’ – Miguel Molet

‘Batientes’ ceramic sculpture – Miguel Molet

Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

‘Human Flowers – fingers’ – Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

‘Human Flowers—nails’ – Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

‘Construcciones-5’ – Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

‘Dummies’ – Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

‘Energizing’ – Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

Stoneware 1260c

‘Swarm of Mosquitoes’ – Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

stoneware plate

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Ceramic sculptures -Jordi Marcet / Rosa vila D’abadal

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Angeles Velaquez modernist tea set

“Tree and Earth” – Diego Ecija, 2007
Tribute to the Alcora pottery tradition. The tree, referring to pottery, rooted in the earth, and it thrives. From the first branches arise Potters hands working the clay and decorating around the brush works.

Madola

Wall Panel – Samuel Bayarri/Rafaela pare

‘Sponge’ – Penelope Vallejo

‘Winter Light’, monumental dish ( 59cm ) – Jose Antonio Sarmiento

2004

Jose Antonio Sarmiento – ‘Rain’

Dones18.-Teresa Gironés

www.teresagirones.es

Esther Galarza

Xohan Viqueira

( alafiasamuelrafaela.blogspot.com.au )

Joan Carrillo

Luis Rodriguez abstract teapot

Mia Llauder

Raku Pumpkin–Maria Gelabert

Maria-Gelabert

Rafaela Pareja

Sculpture done in chamotada white – Rafaela Pareja

Rafaela Pareja

Catalan ceramicist Teresa Gironès

Mid-Century modernist incised red clay vessel signed Strandquert

Mª Teresa Capeta

Monasterio de Santa Cristin

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Pottery Arts Video

August 9, 2013

Three videos are presented here on ceramic artists, all contemporary, with different styles and approaches

Bobby Jaber

Bobby Jaber, a porcelain artist with a BS in the Sciences and a Masters of Fine Arts, has been a high school chemistry and physics teacher for more than 25 years. In his evolving Octahedral Porcelain Process, Jaber effortlessly combines elements from both the sciences and the arts. Seven years in its evolution, this approach to sculpting spherical porcelain vessels focuses on combining the exactitude of measurement, the mathematics of the sphere and exercises in geometry with the unique aesthetics of embedded design. The embedded geometric design patterns of these unique porcelain vessels embody many of Buckminster Fuller’s elaborations of synergetics, a geometric system based on his attempts to understand “Nature’s Design.”

This short documentary has been produced by Bobby’s nephew Dave Altizer.

PORCELAINIA from Dave Altizer on Vimeo.

” As a sculptor of porcelain using neriage as a technique, the challenge for me is to express as accurately as possible, an idea whose perfection exists only in the mind. “ .. Bobby Jaber

Miletas – Bobby Jaber

This piece is named for the birthplace of Thales (640-546 BC), a teacher of Pythagoras and the first Greek mathematician to unify geometry and mathematics with astronomy.

Niels Bohr – Bobby Jaber

( Quantum Series )

Bobby Jaber – Ceramic Vessel

Planck – Bobby Jaber

Porcelain Vessel – Bobby Jaber

Bobby Jaber

Three videos are presented here on ceramic artists, all contemporary, with different styles and approaches. – Large Archigh fired, matt finish, great rhombicocidodecahedron

Bobby Jaber

Three videos are presented here on ceramic artists, all contemporary, with different styles and approaches. – Bobby Jaber

Geometrica 06 – High fired, polished finish, truncated tetrahedron

Bobby Jaber

Abstract 05 – bisque fired, matt finish, dodecahedron.

Bobby Jaber

Archaea – Bobby Jaber

Bobby Jaber

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David and Margaret Frith

David and Margaret have been creating pottery together for fifty years. Hard work and commitment underlie this unique partnership. Their pots are firmly located in the contemporary but express the legacy of diverse traditions. Margaret produces delicate forms with painted or carved motifs in porcelain and David works on a larger scale with high fired stoneware.

50 Years of Brookhouse Pottery: 27 July – 8 September 2013 Ruthin Craft Center, Denbighshire UK

David and Margaret Frith opening at Ruthin Craft Center 2013 from Steve Tootell on Vimeo.

Woodfired Platter – D.Frith

David Frith

( Montpellier Gallery )

Multi faceted bottle glazed in dense black tenmoku glaze.- David Frith

( oakwood ceramics )

Large bottle in grey stoneware body, covered in reddish brown metallic glaze, tessha. Neck covered in celadon glaze. – 1984

Margaret and David Frith

( Aberystwyth Uni Collection )

Ginger Jar – David Frith

Oakwood ceramics

Frith’s Brookhouse Pottery

Squared Ginger Jar by David Frith

Vase – Margaret Frith

David Frith teabowl

( aa gallery )

Margaret Frith ceramic vessel

( Ruthin craft centre )

Large plate vine leaf decoration – David Frith

( Aberystwyth Uni Collection )

Teabowl by Margaret Frith

( Bowie Gallery )

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Diana Fayt

Moving to San Francisco in the early nineties, Diana made her way as a server in restaurants while cultivating her artistic vision. It was in one of theses restaurants she met businesswoman Maggie Nugent of Synergy Designs, a ceramics wholesale outfit. Diana began designing for Synergy shortly thereafter. Her tenure with Synergy sent her back to Hungary, a factory in Hodmezovasarhely (Beavertown) where the Diana Fayt collection was produced. The work was imported and sold in the U.S from 1998 until 2002.

Drawing on her background as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and clayer, her surfaces are alive with strange and exotic stories, part folklore and part personal narrative. Diana has continued to produce her own enigmatic, one of a kind work.

Diana Fayt • Ceramic Artist from aliengirl on Vimeo.

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Diana Fayt – Precipitation Place Setting

Funghi & feather platter – Diana Fayt

Cylinder Vases – Diana Fayt

Painted stones – Diana Fayt

Water Lily Bowl – Diana Fayt

Chartreuse, ice blue interior, white water lily.

Flowers vases – Diana Fayt

Diana Fayt ( on left ) at a joshua tree.

Spring-Summer collection – Diana Fayt

Blue Zsuzsi Vases – Diana Fayt

Large Poppy Bowl

Bee – Diana Fayt

Black eyed susan and black bird – large oval plate

Diana Fayt

Ceramic canteen – Diana Fayt

Diana Fayt – Red Canteen

Diana Fayt – orange plate with blackbird

Spider cups

Three goose neck vases

Small bowl stack

Diana’s website http://www.dianafayt.com/

Patricia Baitler – Uraguay

Patricia Baitler

Patricia Baitler 418px-329px-Patricia Baitler Galería Patricia Baitler

Patricia Baitler 475px-322px-Untitled-1 Patricia Baitler 421px-628px-Untitled-9

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Two Glaze Combination Technique with Lisa Bare Culp

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French ceramic excellence – Rene Buthaud, Jean Mayodon

August 1, 2013

Jean Mayodon bowl decorated with a frieze of medallions depicting naked dancers, alternating with clusters of grapes. ( millon & associes )

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Rene Buthaud and Jean Mayodon were born seven years apart during the formative years of Art Nouveau around the turn of the 19th century. Rene Buthaud studied painting and engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux from 1903 to 1907 and then went to Pairs to study at the École des Beaux-Arts until 1913. Jean Mayodon had no formal training but lived in a community of artists in Serves and was influenced, especially in the classical styles, by artists he had met such as Henri Cros, Claude Monet, Isadora Duncan, Rodin and Bourdelle. Before he began his career producing ceramics in 1912 he spent 2 years in London doing antique restoration. He later went on to assume the artistic leadership of the Manufacture of Sèvre in 1941, after having been its artistic counsellor in 1934.
After serving in WWI in 1918,, Rene Buthaud, with the encouragement of his colleagues in Bordeaux, the painters Jean Dupas and René Bissiere, took up decorative ceramics. His early naturalistic, vegetal styles eventually gave way to more Art Deco geometric designs along with the introduction of primitive and classical themes and nude figures. These were stylistically adapted to the shape of his vases with a modernist touch. He favoured the female form and his pieces were populated with mythological goddesses, idealized female figures and stylized Odalisques, sometimes in narrative scenes. Ancient Greek, Persian and Oriental styles were utilised.

Similarly, Jean Mayodon developed decorative styles with figurative illustrations of exquisite quality and the vivid movement he infused in his ceramic works invoked the traditions of ancient antiquity using Centaurs, Sirens, Mermen, Mermaids and Goddesses and stylized animals as subject matter.

Enamelled vase on a round base, Centaurs and Neo Classical figures – Jean Mayodon

( Southeby’s )

Persian style vase with iriddization – Jean Mayodon

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Both Buthaud and Mayodon were highly innovative with their glazing techniques including their wide use of craquelure glazes. In 1934 Rene Buthaud began to further develop the use of craquelure glaze, referring to it as ” peau de serpant z” for its snakeskin like appearance. Jean Mayodon favoured a gold crackling and achieved vibrant colours with low temperature firing using metal oxides fired up to 6 times, reglazing with each firing. Deep saffrons, tourquoise and jade greens and rich reds were developed.

The Museum of Decorative Arts in Bordeaux celebrates René Buthaud in its spaces and retains fifty of his works. Both Rene Buthaud and Jean Mayodon are recognized as being influential in the development of the Art Deco style.

Jean Mayodon – Rare Enamelled Ceramic Vase Circa 1935

( 1stDibs – Galerie Plaisance )

Jean Mayodon

Jean Mayodon Earthenware Vase Circa 1935

( 1stDibs – Galerie Plaisance )

Jean Mayodon Earthenware Vase Circa 1935

( 1stDibs – Galerie Plaisance )

Ceramic Cup decorated with antelopes and stylized motifs, covered in enameled dark blue, turquoise and gold. – Jean Mayodon

( millon & associes )

Urn Vase – 1951 Sèvres

( Cannes Encheres )

Persian styled enamel vase with antelopes and classical figures – Jean Mayodon – 1947

( Côme REMY )

Urn Vase with black draped figures on a turquoise mottled background – Jean Mayodon

( Cannes Encheres )

Jean Mayodon Ceramic Vase – 1945

( Cannes Encheres )

Twin handled ceramic ovoid vase with straight neck .

( millon & associes )

Exceptional Jean Mayodon stoneware vase with paunchy body.

( millon & associes )

Vase of polychrome glazed ceramic cone, flared collar and golden discoid foot – 1950

Jean Mayodon

drouot.com

Orange crackled cup decorated with mermaid néoclassqiues – Jean Mayodon

Jean Mayodon gold craquelure vase, naked black classical figures

( Duesseldorfer Auktionshaus )

Vase decorated with turquoise antelope on a dark blue background vermiculé – Jean Mayodon

( Millon & Associes )

Fine earthenware, round body tureen – Jean Mayodon

More frolicking vase nudes from Jean Mayodon – 1940

Rene Buthaud – “Oceania” Vase ca. 1931

( VMFA )

Large elongated ovoid vase with ceramic flat collar decorated with geometric patterns in Flash enamel “snakeskin” .

Signed J.Dorris ( Rene Buthuad )

( Drouot.com )

Rene Buthaud – ‘DIANE AU REPOS’ OU ‘FEMME À LA GAZELLE’ – 1935

( Christies – sold )

Glazed ceramic vase by Rene Buthaud

( drouot.com )

Pair of peau de serpent glazed stoneware vases circa 1935 1940

Rene Buthaud

( Christie’s – sold )

René Buthaud–Monumental lidded vase

http://www.jasonjacques.com

Art Deco globular vessel in a geometric blue and white crackelure glaze – circa 1930

signed J.Doris ( Rene Buthaud )

Goddess with fawn – Rene Buthaud

Crackelure glazed vase Rene Buthaud

Bordeaux Museum Of Decorative Arts

Bulbous shaped vase – Rene Buthaud

( Treadway Toomey )

1920s Vase – Signed by J. Doris ( Rene Buthaud )

Rene Buthaud vase, large shape with sculpted and applied handles, incised nude island women among foliage.

( Treadway Toomey )

Superb glazed ceramic table lamp. By Rene Buthaud, aka J. Doris. French, circa 1930.

( 1stDibs )

Ovoid Vase – Rene Buthaud

Three Thai Dancers Stoneware ovoid vase – Rene Buthaud

( Millon & Associes )

R.Buthaud Vase signed J.Doris – 1930’s

( Christies – sold )

Rene Buthaud

( source – Jasonjacques.com )

Art Deco faience charger with craquelure glaze – Rene Buthaud

( Cheffin’s UK – sold )

Art deco earthenware vase with a “peau de serpent” (snakeskin) glaze by Rene Buthaud.

Signed on the bottom “J. Doris”. At the time he made this vase, Buthaud was under contract with a Parisian gallery and could not offer work under his name to American collectors.

( 1stDibs )