Ceramics @rachelhand-blog - Tumblr Blog

"All About Eggs" Stephanie Osser

Stephanie Osser

Stephanie Osser focuses of the positive things of this world. Her piece, "All About Eggs," displays the process of birds hatching out of their eggs along with their future in a hen house. The white and blue contrast displays the pure beauty of this stage in life. The style resembles the typical cobalt and white china images. Looking throughout Osser's work, i did not like most of her work, but this piece stood out to me and something different and uncharacteristic of her work.

Pigeon Toe Ceramics

#Pigeontoeceramics

I really enjoyed the aesthetics of the functional ware from Pigeon Toe Ceramics. This Portland Company, hand makes all of their functional ware. They look perfect and as if they were made in a factory. "Each piece is an attempt to redefine a new age of homegrown, grassroots aesthetics." Lisa Jones the creator of Pigeon Toe Ceramics left her jobs as a graphic designer and video installations to become a ceramist. She formed her company "with a vision to design uniquely beautiful objects that incorporate a touch of history in every piece. The sort of history that can be valued, but not bought. Treasured, but not replicated."

Pottery Flame Throwing by Bill Powell

Slip Casting

Emilie Voirin

While looking up contemporary ceramic pieces i came across Emilie Voirin who is is a French artist that made these "Bun Boxes," using real and synthetic hair. They are whips, tiny trinket boxes and shaving brushes. I found these objects humorous and interesting. Luckily you can buy them on her design website. These boxes and brushes are very unusual and interesting.

Emilie Voirin "Bun Boxes" and "Almost Usual Hair Objects"

Lydia Thompson

Sculptor Lydia Thompson, a professor of ceramics at Virginia Commonwealth University, reflects on the history and African American associations with cotton bolls. Her piece Bloodline represents her ancestor's history relating to cotton bolls involving migration, slavery, imperialism, and class exploitation. Glen R. Brown wrote the article, "Lydia Thomphson: Promises," saying "The delicacy of the two-dimensional forms in these works serves as an important supplement to Thompson’s ceramic renditions of cotton, which capture the shape and volume of the bolls but, naturally, convey little of their lightness." This is what drew me to her piece, at first I did not know what they shapes were until I did some researched. I loved the delicate look and detail of the cotton bolls paired with the rough red backgrounds. This inspires me to become more personal with my pieces and see how they reflect my life and heritage.

#Lydia thompson #Bloodline

Lydia Thompson, Bloodline

#Lydia thompson

Nina Jun

Nina Jun is a Korean born, Los Angeles based artist that plays with our ideas of reality, through our positive knowledge of certain objects. “Her work challenges our concepts of comfort, levity, and gravity. Through these pieces, she hopes to expand views about roles that the ceramic material plays in the contemporary art world.” I find the play between reality and art very amusing. It is an interesting concept of to challenge our perspective of reality and art, whether it is actually what it looks like or something fake. Such as purse made out of ceramic that are made to look like leather purses. Or even plastic foods.

#nina jun #ceramic balloons

Nina Jun, Ceramic Balloons

#nina jun

Raku firing

I unintentionally found this video. At first i was search for saggar firing techniques, then i decided to just look up videos on youtube of something to do with ceramics. Then the first video I opened turned out to a video of raku firing. i really enjoy the affects that rake and saggar firings have upon clay. I can not wait for the sag gar firing.

Sierra Ceramics. Raku firing

Andrew Beaumont

Andrew Beaumont is a British artist who found a way to combine clay and wood. He built these vase pieces as a modern twist of a simply gramophone in order to amplify an iPod or iPhone. Although these pieces do not seem to be functional they truly are. I love the way the wood looks as if it was molded around the porcelain especially his Trapped Bear pieces. I do not know how someone can form wood around porcelain like he does.

#Andrew Beaumont

Andrew Beaumont

#Andrew Beaumont

Ashraf Hanna

Ashraf Hanna was born in El Minia, Egypt. He grew up around pottery, but was not introduced to actually working with it until he met his wife. She was a sculpture and taught him how to handbuild pots. He became fascinated with clay and soon went on a trip and learned about pit firing. He went back home and start experimenting with different firings. His Raku fired handbuilt pots are amazing. I cannot believe that they are handbuilt. They do not seem as thought they could hold the weight of clay as if they were supposed to be thrown. I love the detail and the sublet raku effects. His other pots looks extremely smooth and i love the fact that they do not necessarily look like they are made from clay.

#Ashraf hanna

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

Ceramics