http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/arts/design/ken-price-sculptor-who-helped-elevate-ceramics-dies-at-77.html?_r=1
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/arts/design/ken-price-sculptor-who-helped-elevate-ceramics-dies-at-77.html?_r=1
Jerry Saltz Remembers the Sculptor Ken Price, 1935-2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
More on Synesthesia....
A conversation with George Crumb
Vox Balaenae (1971), Part I, by George Crumb
Project #4 : 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
Richard Cleaver
Press
Michael Lucero
Sumi Maeshima
Tim Berg & Rebekah Meyers
Rain Harris
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
| Adelaide Paul |
John Byrd
Chad Curtis
| Chad Curtis |
Richard Cleaver
Press
Michael Lucero
| Michael Lucero |
Sumi Maeshima
| Sumi Maeshima |
Tim Berg & Rebekah Meyers
Rain Harris
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Matt Frock is launching his new book on "Kickstarter!" ONLY 20 DAYS LEFT TO HELP FUND THIS PROJECT!!!
Hello Friends, Family & Colleagues,
After four years of rewarding hard work, Matt Frock (my awesome husband) has written and illustrated Love Squared, a lovingly crafted work of fiction told in words and pictures for ages nine to ninety.
He is trying to raise the initial costs of running a first edition printing through "Kickstarter." Please consider visiting the link & supporting this wonderful project through your pledge/purchase of a signed, first edition copy of the book, or consider some of the other pledge options including original art works offered as rewards for your gracious support.
There are only 20 days left to fund this project!!!
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES CLOSE MARCH 3rd!
Please check out Matt's Kickstarter book launch HERE!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465549001/love-squared-first-edition
WHAT IS KICKSTARTER???
Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields.
A new form of commerce and patronage. This is not about investment or lending. Project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, they offer products and experiences that are unique to each project.
All or nothing funding. On Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs out or no money changes hands. Why? It protects everyone involved. Creators aren’t expected to develop their project without necessary funds, and it allows anyone to test concepts without risk.
Each and every project is the independent creation of someone like you. Projects are big and small, serious and whimsical, traditional and experimental. They’re inspiring, entertaining and unbelievably diverse. We hope you agree... Welcome to Kickstarter!
VALENTINES DAY IS ALMOST HERE!
What could possibly be a better gift than a book about falling in Love & saving the world! Supporting a great project on Kickstarter is heartwarming. A good deed, indeed! For a generous & loving pledge of 25$, you will receive a copy of “Love Squared” signed with a message from the author. (my awesome husband Matt Frock)
Can you buy multiple books?
Hecks yes!
Just add $20 to any pledge for an extra book!
Happy Love Day!!!
(Feel Free to share the Love2 with friends!)
Thank you so much for your consideration!
xx
- Terri
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Project # 3: Figurative / Hybrid
KUKULI VELARDE
Reading:
Jack Thompson: The Well of Myth, Glenn R. Brown
Below, please find some artists that we will examine and discuss in class.
Please re-visit the slide shows as you continue to work on your projects. Click on the links provided. These will direct you to several video biographies, articles and artist statements that are required viewing/reading for class discussion and development of your individual projects.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Project # 2 Synesthesia
Glenn Gould- Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould-Truck Stop-sub ITA
Gould meets McLaren
Read this!
Visual Music @ The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Real Rhapsody in Blue by Anne Underwood.
Ron Nagle
Check out: Pacific Standard Time
Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos part one from Ken Stevens on Vimeo.
There have been some truly pivotal moments in L.A. art history. Some of the groundbreaking achievements were in ceramics, it’s often noted. The biggest move, to my mind, was when John Mason and Peter Voulkos rented a studio on the corner of Glendale Blvd. and Baxter Street in 1957. The first things they made were large-scale sculpture. They adapted industrial technology, and had a huge kiln built that could match their ambitions: “I could stand upright in [the kiln] and a number of friends could stand upright in it also,” Mason has recalled.
Mason’s first sculptures, made in that Glendale Blvd. studio, were vertical, closed forms, with a shape that resembled a spear. Then, over the next few years, he made several huge steps forward, moving into uncharted territory with the medium of fired clay. Mason began to make massive rough-hewn walls; he soon broke into a kind of totemic verticality. Eventually, he built huge cross forms and solid, mysterious geometric shapes.
He did this by developing innovative ways of working, including pushing clay onto a huge easel to make wall reliefs, and compacting the material around a wooden armature to make the vertical sculptures. By 1959 he would use just the weight, gravity and plasticity of the raw clay to build a major work, which will be shown in the main exhibit at the Getty, “Crosscurrents”: the Blue Wall.
“It wasn’t until I started to work on the floor that I began to just cut and slam clay down on the floor and then take pieces or parts of slabs and add them to make a more linear organic form. One of the first was the Blue Wall, which was over twenty feet long and eight or nine feet across,” Mason has recalled.
Gould meets McLaren
Read this!
Visual Music @ The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Real Rhapsody in Blue by Anne Underwood.
Ron Nagle
Check out: Pacific Standard Time
Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos part one from Ken Stevens on Vimeo.
Frank Lloyd’s blog (From: Frank Lloyd Gallery)
How the Blue Wall Was Built
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There have been some truly pivotal moments in L.A. art history. Some of the groundbreaking achievements were in ceramics, it’s often noted. The biggest move, to my mind, was when John Mason and Peter Voulkos rented a studio on the corner of Glendale Blvd. and Baxter Street in 1957. The first things they made were large-scale sculpture. They adapted industrial technology, and had a huge kiln built that could match their ambitions: “I could stand upright in [the kiln] and a number of friends could stand upright in it also,” Mason has recalled.
Mason’s first sculptures, made in that Glendale Blvd. studio, were vertical, closed forms, with a shape that resembled a spear. Then, over the next few years, he made several huge steps forward, moving into uncharted territory with the medium of fired clay. Mason began to make massive rough-hewn walls; he soon broke into a kind of totemic verticality. Eventually, he built huge cross forms and solid, mysterious geometric shapes.
He did this by developing innovative ways of working, including pushing clay onto a huge easel to make wall reliefs, and compacting the material around a wooden armature to make the vertical sculptures. By 1959 he would use just the weight, gravity and plasticity of the raw clay to build a major work, which will be shown in the main exhibit at the Getty, “Crosscurrents”: the Blue Wall.
“It wasn’t until I started to work on the floor that I began to just cut and slam clay down on the floor and then take pieces or parts of slabs and add them to make a more linear organic form. One of the first was the Blue Wall, which was over twenty feet long and eight or nine feet across,” Mason has recalled.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Matthew Sepielli: Cathedral @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid / Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6pm‐10pm
Matthew Sepielli: Cathedral
PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce its February 2012 exhibition, “Cathedral”, a project by Matthew Sepielli.
Though conceived as a cohesive project, the exhibit will have two distinctive parts; ten carved white paintings made of plaster on linen in the main gallery and a film in the gallery’s closet space.
“Cathedral” draws its inspiration from many different sources. Thoughts of sitting in a quiet church in the evening, watching the sun set in the winter and memories of walking in the woods late at night are all moments that are a part of its creation.
In addition, two different writers and their works have played an enormous role in the conception of the exhibit: Raymond Carver and his short story, “Cathedral” and Jun’ichirō Tanizaki and his essay, “In Praise of Shadows”.
The paintings in the show will be hung high on the walls to reference cathedral windows. Along with this, the works in the show will only be lit by daylight, the indirect light of the building’s hallway and a small lamp on the gallery’s desk. Those who attend the gallery during daylight hours will see the works in more light; those who attend during evening hours or the opening will see the works in dimmer light.
In the gallery’s closet space will be a short film made by the artist.
Matthew Sepielli is an artist living in Philadelphia and a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid.
Matthew Sepielli: Cathedral
February 3 - 26, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, February 3, 6pm-10pm
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment
Tiger Strikes Asteroid is an artist-run and artist-curated exhibition space located at 319A North 11th Street, home to Vox Populi, Marginal Utility, Grizzly Grizzly, and Napoleon. Our goal is to connect the Philadelphia art scene to the global art community by showing the work of emerging artists from Philadelphia and other cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
319A North 11th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107
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