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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Fiona Tunnicliffe

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Fiona Tunnicliffe is an artist specializing in creating captivating animal-inspired ceramic pieces. 

Now a resident of Putaruru, New Zeland, Tunnicliffe has a Diploma of Ceramic Arts through Otago Polytechnic.

She takes the familiar forms of animals and blends them with objects and textiles, resulting in creatures that are both whimsical and peculiar.

Tunnicliffe begins by sketching out her ideas, then hand-building the sculptures from clay.

Once the sculptures are fired, she adds details using a variety of techniques, including painting, glazing, and mixed media.

The result is a menagerie of creatures that are both playful and thought-provoking.

Each sculpture radiates its unique personality, enriched by meticulous application of textures and patterns, and relief work.

The properties that cause clay to warp and crack in response to heat make it her favorite medium to work with.

More of Fiona Tunnicliffe’s wonderful pottery can be found at https://www.facebook.com/fionatunnicliffepottery.. and https://www.visualflood.com/post/the-whimsical-peculiar-animal-ceramic-sculptures-of-fiona-tunnicliffe..

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Salavat Fidai

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Salavat Fidai is a world-renowned Russian artist of micro-sculpture and a pioneer in the field of graphite miniature art.

Fidai was born and raised in a small village at the foot of the Ural Mountains in Russia, growing up in a family of teachers who taught art at school.

The delicate process requires a good understanding of how much pressure the lead can withstand, but even then mistakes are inevitable.

Starting with carpenter and art pencils containing thick leads, Fidai uses an X-ACTO knife to carve miniature renderings of hands, buildings, and various characters from pop culture.

Where the world sees a simple tool, Fidai transforms the pencil into a rare piece of art.

His process is an elite fusion of patience, steady-hand precision, and a deep understanding of carbon’s structural limits.

By turning the humble lead into intricate, microscopic museum-quality masterpieces, he challenges the very limits of physical capability.

Fidai’s process is an elite fusion of patience, steady-hand precision, and a deep understanding of carbon’s structural limits.

Each work is more than a sculpture; it is a testament to the artist’s pursuit of grace and perfection.​ ​This is a unique and very interesting form

More of Salavat Fidai’s amazing carvings can be found at https://www.instagram.com/salavat.fidai/ and .https://www.salavatfidai.art/.

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Robin and Julia Rogers

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Robin and Julia Rogers met in a small hot glass studio in Western Montana in 2001 at a glass shop called Cloud Cap Glass.

Robin Rogers holds a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, 1998, and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 2008.

Julia Rogers holds a BFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 2008, and a MFA from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2010.In their bodies of work, every step of the process, from conception to installation, is completed by both artists.Ideas, techniques, and an array of materials are melded together to manifest their combined surreal vision into anthropomorphic explorations.Robin and Julia are enlivened by the inherent qualities of molten glass; its luminosity, viscosity, and seductive flow. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates blown and sculpted glass with other materials such as metal, wood, and fur.Collaboratively, the duo meld their ideas into sculpture, installation and performance.

More of the work of Julia and Robin Rogers can be found at http://www.robinandjulia.com/ and http://nomadicglass.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Paul Villinski

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Paul Villinski (born 1960) is an American sculptor best known for his large-scale installations of individual butterflies made from aluminum cans found on the streets on New York City.He briefly attended Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and graduated with a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

With a lifelong concern for environmental issues, Villinski’s work frequently re-purposes discarded materials, effecting surprising and poetic transformations.An avid pilot of gliders and single-engine airplanes, metaphors of flight and soaring often appear in his work.As an artist, Villinski coaxes clouds of aluminum butterflies into a lyrical orbit.His primary muse has taken the form of butterflies rendered in multiples as they swirl across walls or carefully organize into shapes.

More of Paul Villinski’s creative art can be found at http://paulvillinski.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Adolfo Wildt

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Adolfo Wildt (1868 – 1931) emerged as one of the most influential and distinctive sculptors of the early 20th century.Born into a family of limited means, at the age of twelve Wildt was apprenticed to Giuseppe Grandi (1843-1894) in Milan, the leading sculptor of the Scapigliatura movement, before learning the art of marble carving from Federico Villa.The artist is distinguished for his meticulous craftsmanship and innovative approach to form and material.Wildt’s works encapsulate a profound synthesis of symbolism, modernist experimentation, and a deep engagement with Italy’s evolving cultural landscape.His sculptures, characterized by their intense emotional expression, innovative use of materials, and complex iconography continue to resonate within art historical discourse as exemplars of Italian modernism.

.His development as a sculptor was deeply influenced by Italy’s rich artistic heritage, as well as by the burgeoning movements of Symbolism and Art Nouveau that swept across Europe at the turn of the century.Wildt’s career spanned a transformative era, from the late 19th century through the tumultuous interwar period, during which he established himself as a master of allegorical and expressive sculpture.

More of Adolfo Wildt’s marvelous sculptures can be found at https://www.thelondonlist.com/culture/adolfo-wildt.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Maria Innocentia Hummel 

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Maria Innocentia Hummel was born on May 21, 1909 in the city Massing located in southern Bavaria.She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where she developed a style that was a fusion of traditional German painting with modern European and American influences.In the 1930s, Hummel began creating illustrations for children’s books, which quickly gained her a following.In 1934, Hummel joined the Convent of Siessen in southern Germany, where she became a nun and continued to paint and draw in her spare time. It was Hummel’s work for the publishing house Ars Sacra that would make her a household name.In the 1930s, Sacra began publishing a series of postcards featuring Hummel’s illustrations that depicted children engaged in everyday activities.

Her postcards became hugely popular in Germany and were soon exported across Europe and America.

Hummel’s images were delicate and detailed, and her characters had a cherubic quality that captured the innocence and simplicity of childhood.Because of their widespread appeal, Hummel’s illustrations were eventually adapted into figurines, ornaments, and other collectibles, making her one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century.More of M. I. Hummel’s historic creations can be found at http://mihummel.org/

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Peter Max

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Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein -1937) is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his work.

After immigrating to the United States in 1953, Max continued his artistic pursuits by enrolling at the Art Students League in New York City.

Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art.

Max’s diverse cultural experiences, ranging from his Jewish heritage to his exposure to Chinese and Buddhist art, laid the foundation for his unique artistic vision. 

An instant media sensation when he made his debut in the 1960s as the go-to artist for the leading rock bands in the heyday of the Woodstock era, Max’s career became ever more public over the decades.

Max’s journey as an artist reflects a lifelong dedication to pushing artistic boundaries and capturing the essence of the ever-evolving cultural landscape.

Through his vibrant paintings and iconic artwork, he has created a visual language that transcends time and continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

More of Peter Max‘s extraordinary artwork can be found at https://petermax.com//

 

 

 

 

             

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Sir Grayson Perry

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Sir Grayson Perry (- 1960) is an English artist known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, dissecting British prejudices, fashions and foibles.

Perry graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic with a BA in fine arts in 1982.

Perry is renowned for his eccentric and politically charged artworks.

There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as Claire, his female alter ego, and Alan Measles, his childhood teddy bear, often appear.In his work Perry reflects upon his upbringing as a boy, his stepfather’s anger and the absence of proper guidance about male conduct.Perry’s urns are rendered with an incomprehensible master-craft: their surfaces richly textured from designs marked into the clay, followed by intricately complicated glazing and photo-transfer techniques.A master of the incongruous juxtaposition, Perry scrawls savage satirical messages alongside sentiments of nostalgia for lost innocence.More of Grayson Perry’s unique vases can be found at https://www.artsy.net/artist/grayson-perryson-perry

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Beate Kuhn

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Beate Kuhn (1927–2015) was German ceramicist who created sculptural objects from wheel-thrown elements and glazed stoneware.Over the course of a more than a 60-year career, Kuhn created profound and extraordinarily well-crafted ceramic objects, beginning with functional ceramics, moving to sculpted vessels, and then to sculpture itself.Kuhn learned to throw on the potter’s wheel at the Werkkunstschule (School of Applied Arts) Wiesbaden, then furthered her ceramic education at the Werkkunstschule Darmstadt, where she perfected techniques for mixing and applying clay slips, engobes, and glazes.At the intersection of Modernist painting, sculpture, and studio pottery, Kuhn found creative resonance for her practice.

The beautiful and sublime aspects of nature were another muse as she channeled brilliant assemblages of parts: seed pods, succulents, exoskeletons, fungi, and shells.Throughout her career, Kuhn skillfully played with contrasts in her artworks: shiny and matte, light and dark, convex and concave, stillness and movement, individual and collective, birth, death, and decay.        Her free sculptures were created from single hand-thrown and cut elements, which she assembled into a whole.She transferred this style principle of stringing together geometrical bodies to her designs of large-scale ceramic fountains.More of Beate Kuhn’s amazing sculptures can be found at https://carnegieart.org/exhibition/beate-kuhn/ and Ceramics Monthly.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Lisa Agababian

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Lisa Agababian, born and raised in New York City, is mostly a self-taught ceramic artist currently creating purposeful art in Tucson, AZ.Although Agababian’s journey with clay was shelved for several years as she gained her formal education in mathematics & computer science, she managed to get back to her passion when she moved to Tucson in 1989.Agababian creates unique, one-of-a-kind, ceramic heart wall sculptures.All of her hearts are designed, hand-built, and painted with low fire colorful glazes, crystal glazes, under-glazes, metallic/luster overgrazes, and anything else she can embellish a piece with to add to the depth, beauty, and uniqueness desiring to be expressed.Low fire earthenware clay is Agababian’s favorite medium to work with, because, as the artist says,  clay not only feels good, but it is a most friendly and forgiving medium to work with before the first firing.Her work is wonderfully three dimensional, her added flair highlighting depth and detail to her vibrant hearts.

More of Lisa Agababian’s wonderful ceramic hearts can be found at https://fuchsiadesigns.com.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Kazimir Malevich

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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a painter and art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the Avant-garde Suprematist movement.

Malevich, who was born to parents of Polish origin, studied drawing in Kyiv and then attended the Stroganov School in Moscow and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.Malevich was the founder of the artistic and philosophical school of Suprematism, and his ideas about forms and meaning in art would eventually constitute the theoretical underpinnings of non-objective, or abstract, art.He worked in a variety of styles, but his most important and famous works concentrated on the exploration of pure geometric forms (squares, triangles, and circles) and their relationships to each other and within the pictorial space.Because of his contacts in the West, Malevich was able to transmit his ideas about painting to his fellow artists in Europe and the United States, thus profoundly influencing the evolution of modern art.Malevich worked in a variety of styles, but he is mostly known for his contribution to the formation of a true Russian avant-garde post-World War I through his own unique philosophy of perception and painting, which he termed Suprematism.He invented this term because, ultimately, he believed that art should transcend subject matter — the truth of shape and color should reign ‘supreme’ over the image or narrative.The term suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon “the supremacy of pure artistic feeling” rather than on the figurative depiction of real-life subjects.More radical than the Cubists or Futurists, at the same time that his Suprematist compositions proclaimed that paintings were composed of flat, abstract areas of paint, they also served up powerful and multi-layered symbols and mystical feelings of time and space.More of  Malevich’s wonderful abstract paintings can be found at Kazimi https://kazimir-malevich.org/,

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jeremy Anderson

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Jeremy Anderson is a New York City based ceramic artist and designer known for his sculptural approach to lighting, furniture, and object-making.Anderson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has been working with clay for over 25 years.From the beginning of his work with ceramics, the act of creating has served Anderson as a conduit to tap into childlike play: the process of throwing, assembling, and painting built around meditative make-believe.His work explores form, texture, and surface, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, including natural landscapes, architecture, and the raw, elemental qualities of materials.

Anderson creates the pieces by throwing the cylindrical components, before cutting, stacking and blending them. The mesmerizing patterns and textural quality of the porcelain and stoneware vessels are a result of a meticulous process. Blending traditional wheel-throwing, hand-building, and casting techniques, Anderson creates pieces that challenge the boundaries between function and sculpture.“People use the surface of a vessel to tell a story,” Anderson adds.“For me, these are more like characters. It was really about dressing them up. They take on individual personalities.”More of Jeremy Anderson’s unique creations can be found at https://www.jeremy-anderson.com/ and https://galleryfumi.com/artists/jeremy-anderson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Zemer Peled

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Ceramic artist Zemer Peled was born and raised in Israel. She earned her MA at the Royal College  of Art (UK).Her sculptures and installations consist of thousands of hand-crafted porcelain shards: a technique that yields a texture both delicate and severe.The arrangements are a spellbinding combination of colors, texture, and forms that have an otherworldly appeal. Peled’s forms are complexly ordered from the inside out, often bulging or spilling over with textures both delicate and severe.Her ceramic fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form, offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality.The forms are never static; the visual dance of sharp ceramic parts conveys a sense of constant movement.The process behind the installation is perilous: the artist adds the hooked porcelain fragments one by one, pushing the material to its limit to create a precarious yet sustained environment, manifesting the idea of musical notes sustained in time and space.As the installation grows more complex, the work is continuously in danger of collapsing from the weight of its own individual pieces.

More of Zemer Peled’s amazing sculptures can be found at https://www.zemerpeled.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Felicity Aylieff

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Felicity Aylieff has an established reputation as a maker of large-scale, sculptural ceramics.Her large-scale works, all hand-thrown and hand painted, are a towering testament to the centuries-old traditions which established Jingdezhen as the “Porcelain Capital” of the world.Born in Edlesborough, Bedfordshire, in 1954, Aylieff studied at Bath Academy of Art, gaining a first-class Honors degree in ceramics and textiles, followed by a teaching postgraduate year at Goldsmiths College in  1978.An ‘incredibly liberating’ artist residency in Jingdezhen, China, the historic home of Chinese porcelain production, saw the beginning of a series of monumental pots, the largest of which stands five meters (16 feet) high.Aylieff works at the ‘big ware’ factory — a family business which specializes in making large-scale pots up to three meters in height.It takes three throwers working in tandem to throw a big pot, and then, under her instruction, a team of ‘master throwers’ finishes her designs for monumental forms.Aylieff decorates in detail with fencai colored enamels, painting abstract marks in cobalt pigment with huge Chinese calligraphy brushes. Fencai is an over-glaze enamel technique that dates back to the 18th century used to decorate with color and pattern, porcelain pots made at the Imperial Kilns of Jingdezhen but painted at the Palace workshops in Beijing .Her work shows her passion for material and process through its use of color, pattern, and historically informed decorative techniques.More of Felicity Aylieff’s amazing ceramics can be found at https://www.felicityaylieff.com/  and https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/felicity-aylieff/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Janna van Hasselt

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Janna van Hasselt is a ceramic sculptor, born in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1980 and now resides in Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand.She earned a BFA (printmaking) from Ilam School of Fine Arts, Ōtautahi Christchurch (2004) and, as a recipient of a Fullbright Award an MFA (visual art) from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (2014).van Hasselt’s work is characterized by a pleasure in materials and a strong sense of spontaneity, playfulness and humor.The artist works with media ranging from printed and dyed fabric to puff pigment, ceramics, hot glue and inflatables.Her works often have a feeling of controlled chaos; knots, tubes, folds and stacks are van Hasselt’s forms of choice as she experiments with the tension, stress and gravity of each object made or represented.She also explores the idea of architectural failure, questioning how far her structures can be pushed before they collapse.

“I find inspiration in the everyday; the minutiae of life as a parent,” Van Hasselt shares.“My works are created manipulating clay and slip using varied actions present in basic life tasks – kneading, rolling, stretching, extruding, slicing, stacking, piercing, plaiting and highlighting.”More of Janna van Hasselt’s unique and fun art can be found at https://www.janna.co.nz/ and https://www.seedgallery.co.nz/collections/janna-van-hasselt-sculpture.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Malene Hartmann Rasmussen

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 Danish artist Malene Hartmann Rasmussen works with figurative narrative sculpture and installation, creating work from individual hand-modelled ceramics and found objects.Graduating with an MA from Royal College of Art in 2011, she also studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in Denmark.Rasmussen is part of a vanguard of artists who choose not to define themselves by discipline or craft but instead blur the boundaries between Applied Art, Design and Fine Art, with exceptional handcraftsmanship at its core.The artist works with mixed media sculpture, making and arranging multiple components into complex narrative tableaux of visual excess.Rasmussen’s ornate ceramics may initially appear excessively sweet, but upon closer inspection reveal themselves as impossible and absurd objects, imbued with the artist’s own dark narrative.A recurring theme in her work is the forest and the mythological creatures that lurk in the dark woods. She weaves together notions of memories, daydreams and childhood nostalgia into a fairy-tale of her own making.“Folklore relating to Scandinavia is a great inspiration and something I have grown up with during my childhood and adolescence in my native Denmark,” says Malene Hartmann Rasmussen.“I want my work to look like a very skilled child could have made it, clumsy and elaborate at the same time. Initially the viewer may, mistakenly, be drawn to my figures thinking them to be toys; however closer examination reveals their rather darker narrative.”

More of Malene Hartmann Rasmussen’s remarkable artwork can be found at https://www.malenehartmannrasmussen.com/ and https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/malene-hartmann-rasmussen-ceramics/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Clara Holt

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Clara Holt is a ceramic artist from Milan, Italy, specializing in illustrated tiles, wheel-thrown pots, and and ceramic projects.

Holt’s work focuses on storytelling, the ongoing impulse to tell and convey stories, characters, and experiences.

Each piece tells its own story, illustrated with a drawing inspired by places, mythology or childhood stories.

Holt carefully incises shallow cuts out of the smooth surface of a glazed pot, revealing the outlines of figures, animals, plants, and landscapes.Some pieces are decorated with the sgraffito technique, applying a layer of colored slips to leather hard pottery and then scratch off parts of the layer to create contrasting images, patterns and texture and reveal the clay color underneath.Other pieces are handmade and bisque fired, then decorated using oxides and pigments which are glazed and refired again to make them water safe and food safe.More of Clara Holt’s amazing pottery can be found at https://claraholt.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Andriy and Olesya Voznicki

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Ukrainian artists Andriy and Olesya Voznicki create voluminous ceramic vessels and sculptures.Forced to recently flee their home in Ukraine and relocate to the Netherlands, the Voznickis began to create ceramic pieces using locally-sourced materials. Based in Amsterdam, the duo draw inspiration from natural phenomena like the changing seasons, patinas and aging, and elements like fire or earth.Their focus is heavily on experiments combining ceramics with wood and coal.The pieces mirror the shapes and textures of boulders or lava rock, suggesting both beauty and resiliency and influenced by a concept called bionic design, which mimics characteristics and adaptations in nature.The hallmark of these creations lies in their texture, roughness, cracks, and irregularities, embodying a deep appreciation for the natural process of expression.The anomalies that emerge during creation are welcomed, imbuing the work with a unique charm, untamed beauty, and singular character. Rather than increasing production volumes, we aim to make each product as individual as possible.More of Andriy and Olesya Voznicki’s wonderfully unique sculptures can be found at https://naturaceramica.com/ and Homo Faber. 

 

 

 

Saturday Evening Art Gallery — Kitty Shepherd

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Kitty Shepherd (1960-) is an internationally recognized British studio potter and ceramic artist known for her bold use of color with slip (liquid clay mixture that has been tinted with metal oxides to create vibrant colors).

 

Her studios located in Granada, Spain, Shepherd describes the natural world and popular iconography in a way that is totally unique in the ceramic discipline. 

Fueled by a global culture, Shepherd is increasingly focused on the tracking down of things and on the attachment of emotions to these objects.

 

Within her discipline she has become a collector of all kinds of objects and material.

Her ideas come to life in her work to form interesting connections between familiar iconic images.

The result is a form of art as play, involving the reframing of objects within a world of attention and manipulation of context; a context standing in a metaphorical relation to the world of everyday life. 

“I believe that many of the objects we are attracted to today have been with us all of our lives,” Shepherd shares.

“I continually ask myself what are my favorite things and also the following questions: Why these objects? What power do they hold for me? What meaning? What memories do they conjure up? What emotions? And most importantly, what stories do I tell myself about them and through them?”

 

More of Kitty Shepherd’s delightful  and beautiful ceramics can be found at https://www.studioslipware.com/ceramics/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Michael Boroniec

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Michael Boroniec (b. 1983) is an American sculptor who resides and works in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.Boroniec received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 with a concentration in ceramic material.

What began with teapots and a single spiral has evolved into a series of vases that vary in form, degree of expansion, and number of coils.

Each vessel is wheel thrown then deconstructed.This process reveals aspects of the vase that most rarely encounter. Within the walls, maker’s marks become evident and contribute to the texture.The resultant ribbon effect, reminiscent of a wheel trimming, lends fragility, elegance, and motion to a medium generally perceived as hard and heavy.“Art is not just an object or a concept,” Boroniec explains.“It is a conversation between a being, an idea, a spectator and a creator, as if it were a universal language that we all speak.”More of Michael Boroniec’s unique pottery can be found at https://mboroniec.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Philip Kupferschmidt

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Philip Kupferschmidt is a ceramic artist based out of San Bernardino county, California.

Kupferschmidt received an MFA in ceramics and BFA in creative photography from California State University, Fullerton.His ceramics are formed by hand on the wheel, and while following a general series of themes, no two pieces are identical, nor surface exactly alike.Kupferschmidt is interested in exploring unique approaches decorative and functional ceramics through design, color and glaze experimentation.The defining moment of his ceramics journey was seeing the potential in a glaze that preserved the intense colors and textures he sought, making endless iterations and perfecting the glazing technique through experimentation.Because no two pieces are identical, no surface alike, his art is in the approach of creation —communicating degrees of confidence, playfulness and satisfaction.More of Philip Kupferschmidt‘s amazing ceramics can be found at    https://www.philipkupferschmidt.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Kaori Kurihara

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Japanese artist Kaori Kurihara sculpts fanciful ceramic sculptures of lusciously textured exotic fruits and vegetation, both real and imagined.Born in Osaka, Japan. Kurihana graduated from Seika University of Kyoto with a degree in Fine Arts specializing in Artistic Ceramics.Following graduation, she garnered additional experience studying jewelry-making in France, where she learned the technique of enameling which she now uses to accessorize her sculptures. 

Kurihara’s exquisite pieces are heavily inspired by the plant world, especially the shapes and natural geometric repetition of forms in nature, which lend themselves to captivating motifs while also allowing for infinite diversity.She incorporates delicate botanical details with eccentric forms, melding realism with fiction.

It’s difficult not to become mesmerized by the luscious textures and nuanced tones that grace the surface of her strange and enchanting fruits.“I take inspiration from the plant world with particular attention to forms and their geometric repetition,” Kurihara says.

“Every element of nature seems to repeat itself, but in fact there is an infinite variety of it. I have the deep desire to make concrete the fruits represented in my mind and to be able to contemplate them through my own eyes.”

More of Kaori Kurihara‘s whimsical ceramics can be found at .https://mymodernmet.com/kaori-kurihara-ceramic-sculptures/ and https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/kaori-kurihara-fruit-ceramics/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Stan Bitters

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Stan Bitters (1932-2021) was an American sculptor and ceramic artist known for his unique style of creating large-scale, textured, and sculptural ceramic murals, wall sculptures, and pottery.Bitters graduated from UCLA in 1959 with a BA in painting. He also attended San Diego State University, and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.. In 1958, immediately after college, he was hired to be the principal artist at Hans Sumpf Company in Madera, California, a company known for inventing a special emulsification process for water-proofing adobe bricks.The company’s main product was adobe, but Mr. Sumpf sought the creative potential of clay as a decorative element in homes.Bitters was the first artist at Hans Sumpf, and his creations —  such as the birdhouse, thumb pot, and other ceramic designs — would provide the company a stylistic imprint and creative identity.In 1963 Bitters  left Hans Sumpf and started his own studio after being commissioned by Garret Eckbo to build fountains for the Fulton Mall.As a pioneer of the organic modernist craft movement in the 1960s, Bitters has been producing rough-hewn ceramic birdhouses, planters, pedestals, mural tiles, totems, boulder walls, and fountains for more than half a century.He is an American ceramic sculptor rooted in the abstract expressionism which is  understood as a modality suited for American ceramic art.

“The power of an object comes from its ability to tell you a story.” Bitters reflects.

“Good sculpture makes you listen.”

More of Stan Bitter’s wonderful sculptures can be found at https://www.stanbitters.com/sculptures.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Karen Risby

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Karen Risby is a ceramic artist based in rural Suffolk, England.

Risby obtained her degree in Ceramics at Camberwell College of Art, working and living in South London for many years before moving to Suffolk to set up her new ceramic studio.Her work is an extension of her love of drawing, exploring pattern and line using both brushwork and sgraffito, a process that involves scratching back into the painted surface.Risby takes inspiration from nature, myth and story telling.Birds are a prominent feature of her work, often interweaved with landscapes, people and places.

 Risby’s work is hand built and hand painted using porcelain slip, stains and oxides, she fires her work to stoneware.More of Karen Risby‘s ceramics can be found at https://www.karenrisby.co.uk/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Diana Kersey

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Diana Kersey is a visual artist who works in clay, creating both studio pottery and architectural ceramics.Kersey earned a MFA in ceramics from Washington State University in 1997, and a BFA in drawing from Texas Tech University in 1994.Kersey exclusively works in ceramics, creating everything from small studio pieces to large architectural installations.Her work is instantly recognizable due to the muscular and spontaneous qualities of the clay, which she enhances with colorful and translucent glazes.The birds, insects, fish, and flowers present in her work suggest a primordial narrative, while the underlying decorative grids and motifs capture the relentless energy, complexity, and contradictions that pulse through our contemporary society.

“My making process reflects and informs how I wish to live my life. I spend very little time on regrets or changing my mind,” Kersey shared.“I trust that I make the best decisions I can, relying on the information at hand. So my pots, basically, represent my philosophy about how to live a happy life with no room for regrets.”More of Diana Kersey‘s whimsical ceramics can be found at https://www.dianakersey.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Alessandro Ciffo

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Born in Biella in 1968, Alessandro Ciffo joined the world of design only in 1997.

Self-teaching and self-production are the key words of his artistic journey, which is based on the research of the potentialities of silicone, his one and only medium, the only material capable of fully expressing his emotions.

With an outstanding technical control, mastered through tireless experimentations and endless patience, Ciffo creates artefacts that cannot be easily classified, as they are a crossroads between art and design.

 Usually employed in sealants, adhesives and insulation, a humble material like silicone becomes poetry in his hands.

With an outstanding technical control, mastered through several experimentations and infinite patience, Ciffo creates one-of-a-kind artifacts.

The material, having abandoned the working tool, is transformed into the typical moustache of this tropic silicone.

Every single tile presupposes a precise, repetitive and always the same gesture.

More of Alessandro Ciffo’s unique work can be found at https://www.rossanaorlandi.com/designers/ciffo-alessandro/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — George E. Ohr

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, the so-called “Mad Potter of Biloxi,” was a wild, inventive ceramic artist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but his work was largely misunderstood during his time, and languished in a Mississippi garage.George Edgar Ohr (1857-1918) has been called the first art potter in the United States, and many say the finest.Although active from 1879 until around 1910, it was not until his pottery was rediscovered half a century after his death that Ohr began to enjoy the reputation he felt he deserved.Ohr is considered the most important US ceramic artist for several reasons. First, he was a pioneer of the art pottery movement in the United States.His work challenged the traditional notion that ceramics were purely functional objects, and instead presented them as works of art.Secondly, Ohr was highly experimental, constantly pushing the boundaries of his medium. He was never satisfied with simply replicating existing techniques; instead, he sought to invent new ones.This led to the development of his signature ” coil and pinch” method, which produced uniquely organic and asymmetrical forms.Lastly, Ohr’s work has been highly influential in the field of ceramics. His unique style and approach to clay-making has inspired generations of artists, and his pots are now highly sought-after by collectors.Today, Ohr is recognized as a major pioneer of American ceramics.His work has made a lasting impact on the ceramics community and the art world alike, and has inspired generations of artists working in ceramics to innovate and work with the medium in unique ways.

More of George E. Ohr’s pottery can be found at https://georgeohr.org/george-ohr/, https://mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/george-e-ohr-americas-first-art-potter, and https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-eccentric-mississippi-artist-pioneered-american-ceramics.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Yeesookyung

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Korean artist Yeesookyung received her MFA in Painting, at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1989.The artist creates sculptures by combining discarded shards of porcelain, assembling them to make new forms and fusing them with gold leaf.The resulting works are often organic in shape, resembling soap bubbles or other biomorphic forms.Her series titled “Translated Vase,” was first inspired by the Korean artisan tradition of destroying porcelain works that are not deemed pristine, and she has continued to make the fused pieces since 2001.Intrigued by these tossed aside works and shards, Yeesookyung began saving fragmented tea cups and pots rejected by contemporary masters.The artist collected broken shards from artisans who worked in Korea replicating historical vessels from the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1897) dynasties.Honoring the works’ dismantled states, she traces each crevice in 24-karat gold leaf in the style of Japanese kintsugi, merging the unwanted works together in a way that heightens the beauty of their distress.By ‘translating’ these porcelain elements, Yeesookyung highlights the fragility and imperfections of human existence as well as the inevitable failure of any attempt to construct historic continuity.More of Yeesookyung‘s wonderful creations can be found at https://www.yeesookyung.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/yeesookyung_/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Sandra Apperloo

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Sandra Apperloo is the potter behind The Pottery Parade.

She  creates all her ceramics by hand from her studio located in Utrecht, The Netherlands.Apperloo loves colors and patterns, and has a weak spot for pastel shades.She likes to sculpt tiny eyes and paint weird freckles, and challenges herself to try out new fun things all the time.She rarely creates plans or designs before she starts working on a piece.Apperloo usually decides on the shape when she is building it, finding what feels good at that moment.This is the case for every part of the process: shaping, sculpting, choosing the colors and painting the patterns.It helps her to stay open minded and try out new things, which she believes really important in her work.More of Sandra Apperloo‘s whimsical works can be found at both https://thepotteryparade.com/ and  https://www.instagram.com/thepotteryparade.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Chris Garofalo

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Chris Garofalo grew up in Springfield, Illinois, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana, and has been living in Chicago since 1980. 

Following extensive experience with printmaking and graphic design, Garofalo was introduced to ceramics.The artist creates ceramic sculptures that draw inspiration from plant and animal forms.An avid gardener, Garofalo took quickly to the medium, finding gardening and ceramics very similar, especially in smell (the clay and the dirt) and the condition in which both activities leave her hands.Garofalo’s sculptures blur the distinction between land, sea and air, plant and animal kingdoms.By applying the principle properties of development, and by ignoring genetic, behavioral, environmental, social and mating restrictions, Garofalo creates a re-imagined evolutionary history of forms at once recognizable and unidentifiable.Her work is intricate yet delicate, expressive of earthly forms that could have existed had conditions been different.

More of Chris Garofalo’s amazing ceramics can be found at https://www.chrisgarofalo.com/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Betty Woodman

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Betty Woodman (1930-2018) is internationally recognized as one of the most important ceramic artists working today.
Through her inventive use of color and form and her expert blend of a wide range of influences, Woodman created exuberant and captivating ceramic sculptures.

A leading ceramist whose inventive forms and painterly use of color won her international renown, Woodman began her career making simple functional pottery.During the Pattern and Decoration movement in the ’70s, her career gained the momentum it has had ever since.

Collaborating with important figures in the Pattern and Decoration movement, she began producing colorful, witty — and nonfunctional — vessels decorated with scenes from the Italian Renaissance or slathered with landscape clouds. 
Woodman’s most famous works include her Pillow Pitchers, in which she crafted a vessel out of a bulbous shape pinched at both ends like a pillow. 
Betty Woodman‘s works can be found across the Internet and at such refined places as the Smithsonian and the Frank Lloyd Wright Gallery.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Carol Long

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Born in 1965, Carol Long was raised on a farm in Stafford County Kansas.

.Working from a family farm studio in Kansas, Carol reproduces the beauty of her surrounding environment into her pieces using floral and insect motifs, combined with flowing lines, merging into leaf and  plant details

Pieces are made by a variety of methods such as throwing, slabwork, extrusions, and hand building, along with pulled handles and  attached  multiple pieces that are textured with presses, slip trailing, stains and glazes.

 Her work continues to evolve as she experiments with new ways of expressing the tiny beautiful intrinsic qualities of nature that we often take for granted.

Originally inspired to be an artist by her mother, she has also received inspiration from her three children, which explains the carefree whimsy evident in her pottery.More of Carol Long‘s pottery can be found at http://www.carollongpottery.com/. 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Katerina Kamprani

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 Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani‘s redesigns formerly useful everyday objects in her Uncomfortable series.

 The goal was to re-design useful objects making them uncomfortable but usable and maintain the semiotics of the original item.

Kamprani calls Uncomfortable “a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects,” adding that “it exists in sketches and 3-D visualizations and has no meaningful purpose.”

Kamprani first started the project for no apparent reason other than she wanted to design something, and making things uncomfortable was challenging and amusing to her.

“My project is very carefully designed to annoy — it feeds from the design of each original object and makes a little joke.”

“I am hoping it is not in the list of ‘another badly designed object’ but in the list of extraordinary deliberately badly designed object(s).”

She is an architect and does the work of a rational engineer by day. By night, she is a design enthusiast, interested both in graphic and product design.

More of Katerina Kamprani‘s wonderfully unique art can be found at http://www.kkstudio.gr/#the-uncomfortable.

 

New Galleries Open at the Gallery!!

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As we head into the “Last Vacation Weekend of the Summer”, I want to show off a couple of new Sunday Evening Galleries I’ve added recently.  I have to admit the images are stunning, the artwork remarkable. Please go check them out if you get time!

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Face Off

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Earrings

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Natalya Sots

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Natalya Sots

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 Natalya Sots is an artist originally from Pavlodar, Kazakhstan but has lived in Chicago’s suburb of Schaumburg since 2002.

 

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Natalya got started as an artist in high school when she worked at a ceramics factory where she decorated the dishes before they were glazed and fired.

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Prior to graduation from college, Natalya started working as an art teacher at a private art school in Pavlodar.

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She was given a course in ceramics as the medium to introduce these children to the wonderful world of art, and was asked to develop a program for it.

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She developed her technique and style while working on the program for kids.

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Natalya’s whimsical ways have turned her love of art into a cornicopia of lucious ceramics, bright and intricate.

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From butter dishes to cups and teapots, Natalya Sots colorful creations can be found at http://www.natalyasots.com/

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Dawn Whitehand

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Australian abstract artist Dawn Whitehand starts off her “about” page this way:

I am an Australian artist, making unique mixed media sculptures from clay, found objects and textured materials which are based on organic natural forms.

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I have always thought of myself as a traditionalist when it came to Art — Renoir, Rembrandt, Redlin — those people I can understand.

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I never really paid attention to Abstract Art until I wandered into Dawn’s world.

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Working from my studio on the outskirts of Ballarat at the base of a slumbering volcano, I am very aware of my environment, its constant changing, and its vulnerability. I am also very aware of the current global environmental crisis.

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Within this context my art practice attempts to address these issues by making sculptural artworks that attempt to remind, though subliminally, the viewer of their innate connection to the Earth, and our reliance upon it for survival.

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And I started to understand. A little. That all art doesn’t have to be literal. That trees don’t have to look like trees, and volcanoes didn’t have to look like volcanoes.

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That Art, like Emotions, like Life, is different for everyone. Some just choose to share their unique view through creative arts.

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The thrill of interpretation is the same thrill we take with each breath.  And that there’s always someone willing to share their breath — and view — with you.

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Dawn is a multi-talented spirit. She creates jewelry and pottery and custom-made art sculptures. You can find her art at https://dawnwhitehand.wordpress.com, and contemporary poems, art, and drawings at https://apoemandadrawingaday.wordpress.com/.

Stop by and learn a little bit of Abstract Art for yourself.