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Folk inspired, one of kind, hand made art with a side of sorcery

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Ana Seixas (@anaseixassantos) * Instagram photos and videos

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Could these ceramic pieces get any cuter? When I see these I am filled with joy, how do they make you feel?

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Ana Seixas (@anaseixassantos) * Instagram photos and videos

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42K Followers, 1,061 Following, 2,229 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Ana Seixas (@anaseixassantos)

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Louise Ferchaud (@louise_ferchaud) * Instagram photos and videos

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This ceramic artist has a super unexpected drawing style featured on their ceramic pieces!

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Louise Ferchaud (@louise_ferchaud) * Instagram photos and videos

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19K Followers, 2,671 Following, 635 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Louise Ferchaud (@louise_ferchaud)

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Adam Russell and Kelly Lever make some beautiful large ceramic vessels. They have some amazing videos on instagram of them working!

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Key West’s leading Art Gallery. Functional Pottery and Fine Art at the center of Old Town Key West’s gallery district. We specialize in modern ceramic design, coastal decor and the award winning artwork of Adam Russell and Kelly Lever. A true Key West original, handmade in Key West.

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This Vermont potter has some super fun work. He focuses on making functional pieces that play around with shape and open have simple colorful patterns. Recently he noticed Anthropology, the clothing company, replicated one of his pieces without permission. It’s unfortunately something that can happen in the art world and is worth discussing.

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My home and studio are located in Waterbury, Vermont. I live here with my wife Georgia and with our two sons Fletcher and Weston.

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Madeleine Boucher is a local Pittsburgh artist! She is a wood fire potter which means her firing process looks a bit different from ours. Her and her partner own Mad Kat Studios in Elizabeth, PA. They often hold all sort of artsy events worth checking out if you’re in the area!

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The landscape and palette of Earth's natural resources and wonders directly influences my work and its essence decorates the surface of my pots. By choosing to fire my work in an atmosphere enhanced by wood or soda, I am able to strive toward an aesthetic that reflects the environment around me. I believe it is important to take small moments devoted to clarity and thought; focusing on form allows me to translate this idea.

While making, my thoughts are centered on how the kiln will interact and communicate with my work. I correlate how humans connect to one another, and think similarly about how each curve of my pots will be affected by the flame path and movement. This body of work is riddled with soft and undulating angles in pursuit to bring a different and unique conversation to each face of the pot.

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The landscape and palette of Earth's natural resources and wonders directly influences my work and its essence decorates the surface of my pots. By choosing to fire my work in an atmosphere enhanced by wood or soda, I am able to strive toward an aesthetic that reflects the environment around me.

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In this video Shechet shares some really interesting ideas about art and specifically ceramics. She highlights the processes involved with large scale ceramics.

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Arlene Shechet is curious about the obscured origins of industrial objects, folding clues about production processes into her handcrafted ceramic sculptures. With their hollow interiors often hidden from view, Shechet's sturdy clay vessels disguise their true nature through dazzling surface effects and the illusion of solidity.

For her exhibition Meissen Recast at the RISD Museum in Providence, Shechet juxtaposes her reproductions of original Meissen factory molds made during a residency at the Meissen Manufactory in Germany next to the original Meissen porcelain dating back to the 18th century, revealing the usually hidden industrial roots of those objects.

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Arlene Shechet employs an experimental approach to ceramic sculpture-she tests the limits of gravity, color, and texture by pushing against the boundary of classical techniques, sometimes fusing her kiln-fired creations with complex plinths formed of wood, steel, and concrete. Variously sensual, humorous, and elegant, her clay-based vessels evoke the tension between control and chaos, beauty and ugliness, perfection and imperfection. Considering herself an installation artist who happens to make objects, Shechet focuses intently on ensuring that the display, sight lines, and relationships of the objects in her exhibitions change with every view while maintaining formal equilibrium.

"Because it has no character, I can make anything. It's just there to be invented."

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Woodman took ceramics in a completely new direction.

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Theatre of the Domestic: A Betty Woodman Interview

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One of my favorite artists, Stern makes the scary not so scary with her artwork.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018 Everyone's Invited, Portland, OR

2018 After Party, Park Life, San Francisco, CA

2018 Chums, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

2017 Stardust, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Swimming, Breakfast Culture Club, Santa Barbara, CA

2015 Sharks, Alchemy Bottle Shop, Oakland, CA

2014 Animal Planet, Tribu Cafe, Oakland, CA
2014 Floaters 2, Alchemy Bottle Shop, Oakland, CA
2014 Floaters, Local 123, Berkeley, CA
2013 Stern Kammer, College Ave Galleries, Oakland, CA
2013 Neighbors, Halmoni, Oakland, CA
2011 Jaminals, A2 Cafe, Oakland, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2018 Urns, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Brink, Antler Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2017 Here for the Right Reasons, New York, NY

2016 Cannon Ball, Breakfast Culture Club, Santa Barbara, CA

2016 WOOF, Carlos Queso Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Fresh StArt, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2015 Recent Ruins, Either Way: Nuisance Alley, Los Angeles, CA
2015 ZOO, Thrive Gallery, Matrinborough, New Zealand
2014 Unbreakable, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2014 Fresh StArt, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Recent Ruins, Jericommons Park, San Francisco, CA
2013 Summer Pop-Up Shop, Ogaard, Oakland, CA
2013 Aldea Home, San Francisco, CA
2013 CCA Ceramics, Rockridge Library, Oakland, CA
2013 Into a Billion Pieces, Classic Cars West, Oakland, CA
2013 Airing, North Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012 Winter Salon, Local 123, Berkeley, CA
2012 What's Wrong With Candyland?, Alter Space Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
2012 The Dying Salon, California College of the Arts, San Francisco,
CA
2011 Copy Paste Print, South Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011 UnCommon Knowledge, Oliver Art Center, Oakland
2011 Art Show 2, 2515Regent, Berkeley, CA
2011 Self Portrait, North Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 Art Show, 2515Regent, Berkeley, CA
2010 First Year Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

FILM

2013 The Birthday Boys Season 1, Model Maker
2013 Where is our Water?, Claymation Artist

PUBLICATIONS

2012 Come Find Out, Issue 4
2013 Come Find Out, Issue 7

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2018 Everyone's Invited, Portland, OR 2018 After Party, Park Life, San Francisco, CA 2018 Chums, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2017 Stardust, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Swimming, Breakfast Culture Club, Santa Barbara, CA 2015 Sharks, Alchemy Bottle Shop, Oakland, CA 2014 Animal Planet, Tribu Cafe, Oakland,

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Illustrative ceramic works.

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Artist Statement
En Iwamura's current research investigates how he can influence and alter the experience of viewers who occupy space with his installation artworks. When Iwamura describes the space and scale in his works, he references the Japanese philosophy of Ma. Ma implies meanings of distance, moment, space, relationship, and more. People constantly read and measure different Ma between themselves, and finding the proper or comfortable Ma between people or places can provide a specific relationship at a given moment. Through his work, Iwamura intend to create such an encounter with site-responsive installations, and provide through entering the space, an opportunity for viewers to recognize Ma themselves.

Biography
En Iwamura was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1988. Under the influence of both parents who are painter, he grew up in artistic environment. After graduate the BFA in craft at the Kanazawa collage of Art and Craft, he began to be interested in international Art world. he considers that the ceramic has the potential of being one of the international languages, which can cross the different cultures, people and countries.

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EN IWAMURA - contemporary ceramics artist from japan

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Artist Statement En Iwamura's current research investigates how he can influence and alter the experience of viewers who occupy space with his installation artworks. When Iwamura describes the space and scale in his works, he references the Japanese philosophy of Ma. Ma implies meanings of distance, moment, space, relationship, and more.

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Mesmerizing.

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...SO COOL! Check out the funky texture of Rochefort's work.

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Bulging hunks of glaze and smooth, speckled drips flow from Brian Rochefort 's chunky ceramic sculptures. The Los Angeles-based artist continues his signature abstract style in a newer series of paint cans and oozing vessels, many of which resemble the crusty remnants of volcanic eruptions. Rochefort builds each piece from a combination of clay, glaze, and glass fragments through multiple rounds of firing in the kiln. The final assemblages are literally overflowing with speckles, gloopy lumps, and delicately cracked patches all layered in a kaleidoscope of color and texture.

In a note to Colossal, the artist describes his process as multi-faceted with a diverse array of influences that range from visual to intellectual and historical. The most important, though, are from travel and experiences outside of his studio or gallery spaces. "My work is generated from numerous trips to remote areas in Latin America and Africa such as the Bolivian Amazon, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. I think of myself as an authentic abstract artist and place importance behind the criticality of experiencing these environments in person," he says.

Rochefort's sculptures are on view at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles through June 26, and you can follow his drippy works on Instagram.

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Technicolor Chunks and Drips Trickle Down Textured Ceramic Vessels Sculpted by Brian Rochefort

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Bulging hunks of glaze and smooth, speckled drips flow from Brian Rochefort's chunky ceramic sculptures. The Los Angeles-based artist continues his signature abstract style in a newer series of paint cans and oozing vessels, many of which resemble the crusty remnants of volcanic eruptions. Rochefort

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Check out this collection of awesome artworks!

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30 Artists Taking Pottery To The Next Level

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This Vermont based stoneware artist creates super cool sculptures, including robots!

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John Brickels's artist website and online portfolio.