Update

I have not disappeared. I have been working in new media lately, and being such a neophyte at it, I have not felt like posting my new work. But soon I believe I will be posting again. I should also have finished photos of the pieces in greenware which are on here, I have finished them but not gotten around to photographing them yet. Anyways I am off to teach Ceramics at Concordia, a University here in Portland where I have been teaching ceramics this year. All is well, expect and update soon.

Newest Piece in Greenware

My Show- Some pics

Wall Sculpts For Show Finished:

My Show Poster!

detail

It's Late- I'm Still Up

Test Tiles For Underglazes

These are all underglazes that I am trying to utilize like watercolor paints, but mostly I think they look muted and muddy. Here's to hoping I find something better.

Unsure, Might be Done

I added a glaze to this, which makes it rich with tone, I love that, I might need to add more color, but I am going to live with it awhile to see what I think.

The Latest Sculpture

The flash bleached it out a bit, but I am not in the mood to set up lighting for one picture.

Two Finished Pieces From Fall Semester

I had a really hard time not having these images turn out yellow. What can I say- I am not a photographer....

Surface Experimentation on Little Brains

Two pedestal pieces- bisqueware from fall semester

Wallhanging Bisqueware Photographed From Fall Semester

If Only My Camera Wasn't Gone

Yes my camera is officially gone. Alas, I wish it weren't - I can't afford to buy another one, now or in the near future.... but my new phone has a camera... so my pics will be off my phone until further notice. Yes these are a bunch of little brains. My style brains- messy ones with little pseudo lesions/barnacles. And I have embedded all sorts of junk into them- staples, kitty litter etc. No idea what will happen cause I don't know the properties or melting points of the additives, but I felt the need for exploration this past Friday because I feel kinda lost in my current direction. But I needed to work. Life has been preventing me from working as much as I like. I believe I am in need of some work-style creative restructuring. So I am trying to ponder that. Trying to work on my ability to work, and my direction.

I can't find my camera -It evaporated in my classroom

I took pics with my phone..... so yes they are bad. Where my camera is, only some bug on the wall knows.....

I Waited to Long to Take these Pics

So the work is dry and you can't see contrast, sorry.... ususally I am good about this. This top one is a piece.... a piece to something else that will most likely hang. What? Who knows?

This piece was a stand up sculpt that went bad. So I turned it into a wall piece, which needs some strange and illustriously gunk to be added into it's caverns in order to be what I am truely envisioning. So we'll see.

Crappy Experimental Pics I am Too Lazy To Retake

So I am trying different things to hang the bead things I made from.

I think I like the string best thus far.

I have also been trying new surfaces, and this is watercolor, and I most certainly like this best of my experimentations.

This is latex. I am going to experiment next by putting things under the latex and adding watercolor onto the surface before I apply the latex.

This is a bad pic yes, but I added acrylic medium to organic plant stuff and laid it on the work, It didn't work out too well. I am gonna try laying in other stuff.

I am trying some new stuff. I have fired most of my work, but added nothing to it, because I have not yet decided exactly what to add to it. I am working on that. Especially since I actually have a show opening on April 11th. It is sooner than I realized.

Sculpt the first week in NOV

I kept adding stuff to it and taking it off. I think I realized it's continuation must be in other materials besides clay, so this is the clay part of this sculpture, simple but apparently the way it wanted to be.

Two New October Sculptures

Fourth Week In September Sculpture

My new sculpture for this week.

I forgot to put this sculpture up once it was finished. These are the only pics I have of it since I sold it to one of my professors at school this summer. I also bought/exchanged for one of her pieces (which is hanging in my studio). She does not have her new work on her website but here is her website: http://www.melanieweaver.com/

Another Work

I am working on elaborating imagery I have already used and maintaining the concept I have already been working on. I am focusing on brain and cell imagery at the moment.

New Studio, New Work

This is a sculpture steming off of my pod-figurative work. I am attempting to experiment in the same vein.

The holes on the left hand side of this are to add strings wich should have small pods on them. They will hang down over and below the sculpture.

This is a sculpture I made at Azusa after have a crit on how I use the figure and overemphsize the characterization of the facial features.

I made this one in Azusa as well. I may sand off a large section of the glazes. I don't know that I like it at all right now, but I'll need to live with it for a little while to see what I might do with it.

I have yet another new studio, and currently I am sleeping in it. Practically everything I own is in this little room. But is it the best studio set up I have ever had. We finished moving in three weeks ago, and I started a new job two weeks ago, so I know I should be proud that I am on top of things and making work... but mostly I am exhausted and feel a behind in everything- not significantly- just enough to stress me out.

My Sister in Her "Studio"

My sister is a metal sculptor who recently started a bussiness called Firebelle Metalworks .... She launched her newest works this weekend at a garden show. She is making beautiful pieces of high-end garden sculpture. She will be at Cracked Pots next month selling her work. Above is a rather funny looking picture of her in the garage-studio. She is really beautiful under all that welding gear. :)

I'm in Portland!

Hello Friends: I have indeed resettled in Portland OR. I have moved in with my dad and my sister, it is the first time we have all lived together in a long long time. It was mildly bumpy at first but we all have been getting along great the past few weeks. We are in a rental house right now, my dad is looking for a property where Alicia and I can have studio space, and finding the right house for the right price is turning out to be very challenging. But I have hope we will find something that suits us. Right now I am in a little bitty room upstairs in our house for a studio space. There is a picture of it above.

I started making an idea where I was going to make pods with emerging flowers and figures, but I made this first one and it just looks too much like a decorative gourd.... now if I was going for a decorative gourd that would be fine, but I wasn't. :)

My Aunt and Uncle visited us from Chicago two weekends ago and we went to the coast on a rainy day. I found lots of great shells for texture (in shops and not on the beach). I then came home and made a bunch of textured slabs, and textured stamps from my shells and rocks. I am trying to cut down on the time it takes me to texture my pieces. I did cut down on some time but this new idea does add a uniformity I am not completely happy with. It did give me a few ideas for some slab pieces though- I have not gotten to those yet.

Below is a pod with a bunch of the textured slabs used to create it. I have a bunch of them currently finished and bisqued. I will finish glazing them tonight, and then I will be putting them together to make a mini corner installation type piece. I will post a photo when it is finished.


Below are textured pod-beads for the installation.

Below is my new old kiln. It is about twenty years old, it is in really good shape for its age- which is not too say it's perfect, the place where you place the cone inside that holds the kiln sitter up broke today. My father and I went to Georgies Ceramic Supply and bought a new one, he is going to have the fun of trying to fix it tomorrow. I have too much to do right now.

Well that is what I am up to at the moment. Soon there will be all kinds of work to put up here. I imagine in August I will be putting up lots more pictures.

Tyndall took pics of my Piece in Stations

This is Station 12: Jesus is Hung on the Cross

Mesa Contemporary Art's Physical Presence

I am in another show- This is the piece that got in. This is a well established Museum- I am pretty happy I made it in this show. The juror is Ann Wolfe, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Nevada Museum of Art.

Piece at Houston:

Here is a picture a friend took of my piece hung in Houston.

I forgot these, These should be the sixth & fourth images in my Portfolio

This is my portfolio- For better or worse