Caught in the Act!

So, I caught Derek throwing on the wheel for the first time since hes been here and I thought you'd all like to see this sublime spectacle! Who Said they would never throw on the wheel?

I dont have a Title

I finished this guy and loaded him in a bisque kiln. I slip trailed this piece with some of my drawn layers. This piece is the first of a deeper investigation of fragmenting the surface and possibly the actual figure in the future.

Natural Appearences

I have recently decided to add stalking to the list of my many hobbies! Here are some photos of my first target that I took as he was standing in the loveland ceramic studio. There's something really creepy about posting them all on a board, but hey, I take my hobbies seriously! ....In reality I have decided to start working from photo reference, and thought I'd let you all know.

Surface exchange

Here are some photos of the Pieces that I finished for the surface exchange project. I never thought something that seemed so ominous could be so much fun!....

Materieal or Craft?

I've been thinking allot about the choice of materieal when making work and how that influences an artists course of study. I look at the sculpture grads and I see them dooing all of these materieal studies, experimenting with the nature of each medium. In ceramics I dont think we do that so much because clay is such a direct and integral part of how we define ourselves. If I had to place a lable on my art practices I would consider myself a sculptor, but I chose a material ie. Clay, and decided to use it to communicate my ideas, based on its properties. I am questioning the logic of the decision to find a material and develop your content through it, vs. experimenting with materials and letting the content come from them. Should one aim to establish content first and then find the appropriate material, or experiment with materials until they find content?

Work in the studio

Its feels like its been ages since I have had the luxury of walking into my studio, sitting down and working on the sculpture in front of me. The structure of this semester more than any other seems to put demand on everything but studio work/making and it has been driving me nuts! I think a big part of it is having GAs that do not directly pertain to our studies, and partly the time intensive nature of the classes I am taking, but in conversation with peers it seems like its not just me. I understand that there is allot more to grad school than making work, but at times like this it seems like time for work is getting a little shafted. I guess I am just wondering what you all think or feel about the structure of our graduate program, and its relation to our studio practice? do you all feel like you have sufficient time to work on art specifically in your concentration?.... Any way I made this post because I finally got a chance to hollow this out.

Time traps aka Lithos

Here are some shots of the photo lithographs that I have been working on this semester. My aim is to bring some of these shapes and lines into the surface of my clay figures. printing is also providing me with an arena to experiment with color combinations that I can apply to my ceramic works.