Sulphur Bluff, Texas, USA

7.16.2010

Tiny Times

























































Tiny Gallery, Soda/Salt National Exhibit in MT, and a Kiln Build.

The tiny gallery is a traveling tiny exhibit that showed a couple of weeks ago up at Penland. The show featured work by Margaret Couch Cogswell, Mark Boyd, Beth Schaible, Amy Tavern, myself and Daniel Marinelli. Very cool!

Other news, I got a teapot into the Soda/Salt National Juried Exhibit in Montana! Juried by Julia Galloway.

Most of my days are filled now with scratching around in the kiln yard building a "new" kiln at ETSU. YEAH!

5.21.2010

Master Mugs


In celebration of my recent graduation I decided to do a series of mugs honoring the grandfathers and grandmothers of art. There are about 30 mugs that feature famous paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, and photography. I call the series Master Mugs.
















































Artists in these pictures include: Dorothea Lange, Edouard Manet, Georges Seurat, Jacques-Louis David, and Paul Gauguin. This first collection of high art mugs ranges from the Venus of Willendorf to Jasper Johns. I was not interested in "copying" the images completely, some of them are cropped, edited, combined, and altered. The exciting thing to me about this project is that I can pick and choose how I want to show these masterworks...on a coffee mug.