Fresh Inspiration!

FRESH INSPIRATION!

 Katherine Morling

Rafa Perez

URUSULA COMMANDEUR 

Lindsay Feuer



Kris Kuksi

Multiples, Installation and Architectural

Annabeth Rosen from FoodForThought on Vimeo.


SATORU HOSHINO

SATORU HOSHINO

RON KLEIN

RON KLEIN

SADASHI INUZUKA

Sadashi Inuzuka Wendy Walgate

Wendy Walgate Eva Kwong Heather Mae Erickson Anna Beth Rosen

Reading Assignments:
Neil Forrest: Detached Ornament/Engaged Architectonics

Neil Forrest

Doug Herren

http://www.dougherren.com/Site/Home.html

Ken Vavrek

http://www.kenvavrek.com/index.html

Bill Daley

http://williamdaley.net/index.html



http://www.jeannequinnstudio.com/

Antoni Gaudi / Sagrada Familia



Dirk Stashke



Kathy Butterly



Justin Novak



Nicholas Kripal



Sadashi Inuzuka

Terri Saulin Frock @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Terri Saulin Frock: The Garden of Forking Paths

October 4 – October 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 2013, 6pm -10pm

PHILADELPHIA, PA-

Tiger Strikes Asteroid welcomes you to our October exhibition, The Garden of Forking Paths. The show features the work of TSA member Terri Saulin Frock.  This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery. Please join us for the Opening Reception Friday October 4, 2013, 6-10pm

“The Garden of Forking Paths is an incomplete, but not false, image of the universe as Ts’ui Pên conceived it. In contrast to Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform, absolute time. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us. In the present one, which a favorable fate has granted me, you have arrived at my house; in another, while crossing the garden, you found me dead; in still another, I utter these same words, but I am a mistake, a ghost.”

- Jorge Luis Borges

Saulin Frock considers The Garden of Forking Paths a chapter in an endeavor that has been developing over the past ten years.  As drawings and objects accumulate, they function as “visual counterpoint," layering information to produce an imagined time-lapse view/code of a world. The vocabulary of forms is culled from a variety of sources such as maps of her urban garden, home renovation, travels abroad, the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, and Glenn Gould's "Goldberg Variations: The Well Tempered Clavier."

Terri Saulin Frock received her MFA from the University of the Arts and her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Currently, she is teaching the course "Critical Discourse" at Moore College of Art & Design, and a variety of ceramics and sculpture classes in the BFA & Young Artist’s Workshop programs. Additionally, Terri Saulin Frock also teaches Pre-school classes to children at Society Hill Synagogue.

Terri Saulin Frock: The Garden of Forking Paths

October 4 – October 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 2013, 6pm -10pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid

319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

http://philadelphia.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/

* Partial funding for this exhibition has come from a Faculty Development Grant from Moore College of Art and Design.

Many Thanks!

* This show is dedicated to the loving memory and history of friendship Terri shared with Deborah Ann Deery.

Thank you Deborah for your constant and generous positive energy, support and brilliant light that shines in all you have touched.

Project 3: One Part Clay

ONE PART CLAY

http://www.curatedobject.us/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/april_biener_detail_2.jpg

Reading Assignments:

1. Susan Beiner's Synthetic Reality, Glen R. Brown, 2009
2. Ceramics Pluralism, Glen R. Brown, 2009
3.One Part Clay, Garth Clark

Be prepared to discuss one or more of the artists presented by examining the extra media provided with the slide shows.

Adelaide Paul

John Byrd

Chad Curtis
http://chaddcurtis.com/

Richard Cleaver
http://www.richardcleaverartist.com/index.htm

Michael Lucero

Sumi Maeshima 
http://sumimaeshima.com/




Tim Berg & Rebecca Meyers 
http://www.deanproject.com/tim-berg_rebekah-myers.html

Rain Harris 
http://rainharris.com/home.html
 

Welcome to Projects in Clay : Fall 2013

Hello All,

Welcome to Projects in Clay, Fall 2013. Our class syllabus can be found here. The course information can also be found on Moodle. Please be sure to sign up for a free Ceramics Journal at http://ceramicartsdaily.org/ We will refer to this journal from time to time and you must be a member to access some of the materials. We will begin the semester with the first two projects. 

Project Descriptions :

PROJECT #1:  INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECT : (Semester Long) 

As mandated by the department, each student must complete an individual research project for every course. You will be provided with a variety of artists from which you can choose on the blog. You are also required to explore other artists works on your own. Students will choose three artists. (The artists don’t all necessarily have to be visual artists) This choice should be given great consideration, because not only will you be spending a great deal of time with these artists in the course of your research, but because you will also be expected to tie some aspect of these artist’s working methods (directly or indirectly) to at least one of the pieces you will produce for this class over the course of the semester. It is extremely important that you take the time right away to begin your search. Be sure you locate three artists who you really find provoke an emotional response from you. Do your research in earnest. Delve deeply into forming a real and unique critical understanding of the relevance of the work to your own current understanding, taste and interests. Remember that these are the issues on which you should concentrate. This is not to be a report, in which you will relay a condensed biography, a series of facts or an amalgam of writings by art critics and historians. The nature of the assignment is to achieve a personal, critical dialog with the artist and the work. This is a semester-long project, and the quality and depth of your work should reflect this time frame.

The specific requirements of this research assignment are:

a.) A short (minimum of 2 pages) written paper/essay. 

b.) A Power Point (or other digital-based projection program) presentation of not less than 10, and not more than 25 images to your subject. 

c.) Towards the end of the semester, each student will be required to give a brief presentation (10 to 15 minutes) about their subject.

PROJECT #2 : CUPS

Students will design a series of 4-8 cups.

Think about: 

What kind of cups are there? Is the cup's design specific to it's function. Is there a specific liquid it is designed to hold. Does it have a handle / is the handle made of clay? Is the cup functional at all?

Reading Assignment:

The Provocative Cup, David G. Wright, Ceramics Monthly 45 95-6 D '97 

Go here to see David's work: DavidGaryWright.com

Links to Visit Ceramics Art Daily:

Circular Logic: How to Explore Shapes for Handbuilding

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/pottery-making-techniques/handbuilding-techniques/circular-logic-how-to-explore-shapes-for-handbuilding/

Handle Making Video: Can You Handle It? Great Techniques for Textured Handles

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/pottery-making-techniques/handbuilding-techniques/video-of-the-week-can-you-handle-it-great-techniques-for-textured-handles/

Handbuilding Video: How to Make a Textured Tripod Pot with Soft Slabs

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/pottery-making-techniques/handbuilding-techniques/handbuilding-video-how-to-make-a-textured-tripod-pot-with-soft-slabs/

Handbuilding Video: Making a Tidy Slab-Built Tumbler with Slip Decoration

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/pottery-making-techniques/handbuilding-techniques/handbuilding-video-making-a-tidy-slab-built-tumbler-with-slip-decoration/

Kathy ButterlyKathy Butterly is the winner of the 2012 Smithsonian American Art Museum's 10th Contemporary Artist Award. The biennial honor recognizes artists younger than 50 who have produced a significant body of work. Other awards include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2011), the Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2009), the Ellen P. Speyer Award from the National Academy of Art in New York City (2006), and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (2009). Butterly earned a BFA at Moore College of Art & Design in 1986 and an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1990.

In this interview for the ICA Boston exhibition Figuring Color, Kathy Butterly talks about how most of her forms are arrived from a simple plaster mold of a pint glass. She also talks about how she views herself as a three-dimensional painter. http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/figuring_color/

Some images of Kathy Butterly's work can be found at Tibor de Nagy.

Stay tuned for the "CUPS SLIDESHOW!!!" coming soon.........

Keith Brymer Jones