Furimsky, Erin

I create ceramic sculptures that are swelled, carved, and painted meticulously at each stage. I extract and reconstruct elements of functional domestic forms, at one time referencing, at another abstracting their familiar roles within our culture. My investigation encompasses not only the aesthetic qualities of familiar objects, but also their symbolic functions within our lives.  I investigate where these two realms overlap and what happens when the decorative  aspect becomes the function.

2002  Ceramics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1997  BFA, Ceramics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

2003-presnt   Adjunct Faculty - Beginning too Advanced Ceramics, Heartland Community College, Normal, IL

Exhibitions:

2007

—“Subversive Surface”, Kent State University Galleries, Kent, OH

 —“37^th Annual Ceramic Exhibition”, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI

—“The New Domestic: Ceramics at The Ohio State University”, Louisville, LA

—“Contemporary Ceramics: A The Dairy Barn Invitational”, The Dairy Barn Cultural Art Center, Athens, OH

2006      

—SOFA Chicago with the Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

—“On The Surface”, Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL

—“Sculpture Invitational”, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT

—“Erin Furimsky/Tyler Lotz: Two Views”, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL

—“Vitamin C: It’s Good for You”, Cinema Gallery, Champaign, IL

2005

—“Contemporary Ceramics; Grand Opening Exhibition”, Harvey/ Meadows Gallery,

Aspen Highlands, CO

—“Diverse Domain – Contemporary North American Ceramic Art”, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Publications and Catalogs:

—2007     Contemporary Ceramics by Stephanie Lanter, Upfront section of Ceramics Monthly, February, p.24

—2006 Image Transfer on Clay by Paul Andrew Wandless, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., p.39 ,50

Emerging Artist 2006, Ceramics Monthly featured article, May, p. 37

Sculptor Erin Furimsky Breaths Life Into Ordinary Forms, American Concierge Magazine,

Summer 2006, AmPride Communications, Inc., p.36

—2005 Diverse Domain – Contemporary North American Ceramic Art

   Catalog of NCECA Show ,Taipei County Yingge Ceramic Museum, SDV Taiwan Co., Ltd.

 Erin Furimsky and Tyler Lotz, Upfront section of Ceramics Monthly, June/July/August, p.20

Honors and Awards:

2006       NCECA Emerging Artist

Third Place in 20”X20”x20” National Compact Competition

By working with porcelain clay, glass, and rubber, I explore objects that relate to the organic systems of the body and natural world. These sculptural works are smooth, bulbous and rhythmical in form, reflecting the physical attributes of both humans and microorganisms. Theses objects interrelate, sometimes appearing punctured or about to burst, while others are coupled, actively engaging in some kind of interactive process. Suggestive of containment, gestation, passage and protrusion, I consider the seductive perplexity of human physicality through these objects. Intrigued with the flesh that spans from the interior to the exterior of the body’s orifices, I explore this tactile transition from a dryer protective layer to a wet slippery lining inside the body. The dynamic function of our multilayered epidermis informs this contrast of naked porcelain with the bulging flesh-like rubber. Referencing cross-section anatomy, I am interested in how both skin functions to hold the inner body in place, as well as its wondrous malleability to stretch from the internal outward, accommodating extra fat, muscle, and fetus. As it resembles such membrane and internal organs, my work parallels skin, bones, and body fluids that make up our common, yet mysterious interior compositions.

Marquis, Andrea

I understand my work as a modern memento mori, relating to touch and temporality. I came to my present work through the figure, attracted to forms that are full and ripe.  It is at this fleeting stage of growth that I find beauty.  It is in understanding the convex volume of my own form that I continue to explore a broader concept of growth.

My exploration of growth has evolved into my recent work of abstract landscapes.  I am interested in concepts of "Landscape", which imply perception, cultivation and possession.  The connection of the figure and landscape are paramount in this work; questioning the world we locate ourselves within visually and viscerally.

I build porcelain forms whose hard lines and soft planes are geometric and sensual, elegant and animated, architectural and organic. Rich layered surfaces and the effects of salt firing are used to visually enhance and soften an active form. I want my work to be a part of daily life by participating in the rituals of preparing and eating food. To promote interaction I create pottery that is comfortable and encourages discovery through use. Through the awakening of personal association and connection to a piece I hope to enrich the life of the user.

 

 

 

 

Flanery  Donna

 

  MFA；    from The University of Montana, Missoula. 

2007-Present   Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT.  Artist in Residence.

                           Permanent Collection. Herrett Museum of Arts and Culture, Twin Falls, ID.

Selected Exhibitions:

 

2007   Artists of NCC, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN.

 

            Summer Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT.

 

2005  The Clay Studio of Missoula Annual Invitational Exhibition, Missoula, MT.

 

Stoke!  Regional Juried Woodfire Exhibition, Jean B. King Gallery, Twin Falls, ID.

 

2004      Starving Sculpture and Ceramics. The University of Montana, Missoula.

 

Flanery  Donna

I enjoy when my pots appeal to children, and I want to share an appreciation of cartoons and mark making with them.  Ideologically, this silly approach to the serious business of my own artwork is of great value to me.  I hope to infect others with a similar playful irreverence.

 

 

 

Claudia Fitch

Education

1979 M.F.A. Painting, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1975 B.F.A. Painting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 

Exhibitions

2007   （SOLO）Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle (also 2002, 2001, 1998, 1996)

2006        Helicon, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading PA,

2005   A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating the Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum, WA;              

 Landscape: Theme and Variation, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University,

Collections

Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA

City of Seattle Collection

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

Seattle Art Museum

Fitch  Claudia

My work in sculpture and drawing playfully re-invents icons familiar in pop culture and art history.  I draw upon everyday conventions of ornament – for example architectural ornament, ceramic figurines, brick patterning - and how they may be perceived and interpreted in any number of ways, consciously and subconsciously within the larger context of urban life.  

Through creating shifts in context, scale, material and form, my work seeks to displace the familiar with the unfamiliar, and to find a potentially marvelous and idiosyncratic integrity between expected social form and hidden visceral emotion.

 

 

Christina A. West

Education

 2006   MFA, Ceramic Sculpture, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred  University, Alfred, NY

2003     BFA, Painting, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI 

2007-08      Teaching  at, the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Exhibitions

2007     Renegade Clay: Five Views from the West, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Fellowship Exhibition, The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

Ceramics…On The Edge, UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum, Dallas, TX

The Northwest Figurative Sculpture Exhibition, Turman-Larison Contemporary,

            Helena, MT

2006     The Figure, Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO

Alfred on 25^th, J. Cacciola Gallery, Chelsea, NY

Reviews/ Publications

"Clay Gone Wild," by Lilia Menconi, Phoenix New Times, June 14, 2007

“Renegade Clay,” Upfront, Ceramics Monthly, Aug./Sept. 2007, p.26-28

“The Strangely Familiar,” by Casey Ruble, The Archie Bray Foundation Fellowship Catalogue, 2007

Public Collections

Schein-Joseph International Museum of Art at Alfred University, Gloryhole Collection

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX

Wright State University, Dayton, OH

Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI

Awards

2007     New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship recipient

2006     Lilian Fellowship, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

First Place, The Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition

2004      Third Place, National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo, TX

Education

• BFA  from Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
• MFA  from Texas Tech University

Exhibitions—Past 3 years

• 3 Nationally juried shows (100 Teapots 2-Baltimore (2004); Ceramic Sculpture National Juried Exhibition-Nichols State University (2007); Clay on the Wall- (2008)
• 3 Internationally Juried shows (Feats of Clay-Lincoln Arts, Sacramento (2007); Combined Talents-Florida State University, Tallahassee (2007); Orton Cone Box-Baker University (2006)

Publications

• 2005- “Teapots, Makers & Collectors”
• Lark Books—500 Tiles  (comes out in Spring 2008)

The way I view the animals somehow just similar to see ourselves, relationships between you and me, the excitement combines with moment of the blues, only thing that seems different is animal can’t talk as man, but it doesn’t mean animals unable to communicate, yet as man. How and why? Not form the map of zoology nor biology, as an artist, my work is concerning what happened to us through the animal world. Fragile birds with stone like dull-witted dog, I see it as wood to a mountain, helpless and happiness. Other work remains same, but it was one narrowed-down white elephant with the extremely big blooming flower on his body, ceramic material beautifully presents this ambiguity.

 

 

 

Minkyu Lee

Academic Background

Present  M.F.A Candidate, School for American Crafts(ceramics), Rochester Institute of Technology

2006  M.F.A.(ceramics), Faculty of Craft and Design, Graduate School, Seoul Nat’l University

2002  B.F.A.(ceramics), Department of Crafts, College of Fine Arts, Seoul Nat’l University

 

Exhibitions

2006   25^th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Australia

   Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award, Australia

2005   4^th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea

        28^th ‘TO’ Exhibition, Han Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 Raglan Gallery & Cultural Centre, Cooma, Australia

 

Teaching Experience

2004~2006 Part-time instructor, Department of Craft Design, Myungji-College, Seoul, Korea

 

 

Lee, Min Kyu

I believe that all objects are made out of, or can be divided into collective cubes.  I can see hidden dots of repetitive cubes on every single object, and I assume that those invisible cubes are the actual nature and structure of the object.  I endeavor to visualize this invisibility keeping geometric precision.

McConnell Mathew

University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. MFA

Valdosta State University. Valdosta, GA. BFA.

Instructor. Clayspace at the Erie Art Museum. Erie, PA.

Exhibitions>>

Bolder Clay. Vertigo Artspace. Denver, CO. 2007

Amazing Clay 3. Staunton Augusta Art Center. Staunton, VA. 2006

Jersey Shore Clay National. MT Burton Gallery. Surf City, NJ. 2006

83rd Annual Spring Show. Erie Art Museum. Erie, PA. 2006 Juror Award

Publications>>

The Essential Guide to Moldmaking, Andrew Martin. Lark Books, 2007. 3 images.

The Gallery image, page 61. Clay Times, May/June issue, 2006

McConnell, Mathew

In many ways, contemporary existence can be defined by the encapsulation of its citizens in a culture of material goods. Yet, despite the fact that consumers spend a lifetime navigating a world of manufactured items, the average consumer rarely considers the systems dictating the design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of those items. In my work, I attempt to assimilate forms ubiquitous in a global market and place them into an alternate context that will change the viewer to reconsider their relationship to a world dominated by these systems.