Getty Museum, LA

I was in LA over the weekend for the Craft in America opening. I was able to go to the Getty museum where I found amazing architecture, tranquilizing landscape, some old Sevres Pots, and some Chinese pots which had been acquired by the French and guilt with gold handles.

new work

I am currently exploring the decorative potential of forms using a 19th century English tea set design which I call "delicate". The prototypes were carved from plaster and moulds were made by hand allowing me to have access to these forms in a workable state. This means that I have the ability to assemble them in various ways using the separate components or combining them into one piece.
I have also created "Slant Cups" which are a sculptural yet functional cup set. Slant Cups add a sense of sculpture to the functional set, leaving the owner with the final say in the arrangement.

the product

so i was reading...

"...The past two decades have seen a breakdown in the traditional pairing of material and technology. ... a product designer might be working with textiles or ceramics in a way that would have been outside his domain a few years ago. A furniture designer might be focusing on the sounds his chairs make, and ceramicist might be using algorithms and not a potters wheel to generate new forms. The way in which objects come into being is no longer a linear path. A great many different currents can motivate an objects final manifestation.
Products become increasingly complex on a different levels and often the challenge is making them simple again. Sometimes the challenge is in distilling the actual function from the object: what we 'need' is to hear music, not earphones. At other times it is our physical existence that dictates an actual tactile object whose weight and temperature we can feel in our hand. Ceramics and ceramic products are part of this discourse." -Dov Gancharow

Here are some of the pictures.


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NCECA Phoenix

I just returned from NCECA in Phoenix, Arizona, a beautiful city surrounded by mountains. I met lots great people including Claire Twomy, Andrew Martin, Josh Dewese, Andy Brayman, Christie Brown, Gail Heidel, and others. The trip overall was AMAZING! So much great work at all the galleries. I have here pictures from the Archie Bray opening, The NCECA Biennial show including the regular exhibit of Ceramic Research Center where it was being held, the Santa Fe Clay show, and the exhibition space in the convention center. The artists in the exhibition space were all performance pieces which carried on over the four days of the conference so the space was in a constant evolution as the work came together. I was fortunate to be able to volunteer with one of the artists Gail Hiedel who's work was an arrangement of prefabricated terracotta sewage pipes. The work was a commentary on urban expnasion in the city of Phoenix. It was great to have had that opportunity.

The first two are William Daley. He is an artist my professors suggested I look at during my midterm critique. The pots and drawings are nice I would like to see them in person. The other is a giant bull by the designer Jonathan Adler.

These are images of the artist Pieter Stockmans. I can see a recent shift in my work, or at least my interest, toward modernism, simplicity, form, replication. These are the things that excite me.

I want to make some stuff based on 50's sci-fi, specifically UFO shapes!

A post-craft approach to ceramic art by artist Marek Cecula. www.marekcecula.com