Jennifer Forsberg

Another does of surrealist ceramic art from Swedish artist Jennifer Forsberg. My favorite image here is of the ladders... I don't know why, I just dig ladders.

(images via artist's website)

Off Subject: Dan Flavin

Freakin' awesome. I learned about Flavin from watching PBS's Art21 series. (If you aren't already familiar with this series, I highly recommend it.)  These pieces are incredible. I love how such a distilled combination of light and color and space can still evoke such powerful feelings. Just incredible.

(images via the Tate, Pacific Standard, Grammar Police, Asymptotia, David Byrne, and axmk.com)

Margaret O'Rorke

Because the current sculpture I'm working on is about light... And I'm a sucker for light in sculpture. But seriously, O'Rorke is seriously talented. The second up from the bottom is particularly stunning.

(images via artist's own website)

Kate MacDowell

Many of you are probably already familiar with Kate MacDowell. She is a pretty incredible artist. I was inspired to share some of her work not only because I absolutely love it but also because I've been coming across her work in the larger art world. MacDowell is crossing over much like Beth Cavener Stichter and I feel like this happens all too rarely for ceramic artists.  Anyway, I just wanted to throw a little high five out there for this artist. ;)

(images via accessCeramics)

Off Subject: Barry Underwood

Barry Underwood's work has been popping up everywhere for me... eaning on all the blogs I read... and his work is incredible magical.  I think I am especially drawn to it because many of the scenes he manipulates look fantastically similar to familiar locations from my life- the California coastline, the Redwood rain forests,  the alpine lakes of Sierra Nevada.  These images enact all the impossible imaginings I had as a child (and still have) for these places so dear to my heart.

Just gorgeous.

(images via Induro, DG Design Network, Gold Collar Worker, 5000k, and Pix Feed LA)

Loren Kaplan

Aren't these lighting fixtures gorgeous? Kaplan and her husband, Anthony Shapiro, also make beautiful pottery in their studio in Johannesburg. Their website has even more photos.

(images via Amoeba Concepts and artist's own website)

Stillwell 2009: An annual jurried exhibition of student work

 

 

 

So the Stillwell is the annual juried art show at SFSU. I didn't submit anything this year because I was unaware of the show until a week or two before the submission deadline. Definitely not enough time to get any work together to submit. And after the apartment fire the March before last, I don't have any work that I am confident in sharing with people. Enough said... there were some cool pieces overall. A couple paintings I really liked, a couple sculptures that were really interesting, and our grad student Shenny Cruces had a couple pieces too (pictured).  And I looooooove her work.  Love, love, love, love.  So I took pictures to share with you. Neato, huh?

Backa Carin Ivarsdotter

Whew! These sculptures from Backa Carin Ivarsdotter are stunners... Wouldn't you agree?

(images via accessCeramics)

My 100th Post!!!

Congratulations to me!... and everyone reading. ;) Here's to hoping these past 100 posts keep multiplying like rabbits!

From top to bottom artists are:

Non-Fiction Design Collective

Scott Radke

Beth Cavener Stichter

Monica Van Den Dool

Lisa Clague

Sarah Zehr

Kelly Connole

Ginger Markley

and

Anne Drew Potter

(images via many different sources)

Ilena Finocchi

Images of Finocchi's bottles have been haunting my mind for years. Somehow during that slideshow I forgot to jot down the names I wanted to remember. At last, I found her again! Yay.

(images via artist's own website)

Off Subject: Kirsten Hassenfeld

Holy shit. This is paper.

P.S. A great interview with the RISD alumna is available in the archives of First Person Artist.

(images via the Bellwether Gallery)