by Elsa Mora | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog, Ceramic
Over 40 years, Bodil Manz has perfected her ceramic art, with her wafer-thin, transparent cylinders as one of the high-water marks. The cylinders have been cast and are of white, translucent porcelain that is so thin that the outer and inner decoration merge to form a...
by Elsa Mora | Aug 7, 2018 | Blog, Ceramic
“Talk to younger artists and they’re all crazy about Alice Mackler,” said Mackler’s dealer Kerry Schuss. An emerging artist in her 80s, Alice Mackler was born in New York in 1931 (currently 87). She worked as an office manager in the city for several years and...
by Elsa Mora | Aug 1, 2018 | Blog, Ceramic
Beatriz Trepat makes small and medium-sized sculptures in sandstone and porcelain. “It is a slow and painstaking work where matter takes power over the hand. The plasticity of the Earth suggests a living tissue such as the skin or bark that would cover beings of...
by Elsa Mora | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Ceramic
Mari Anari is a ceramics and glass student at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm,...
by Elsa Mora | Jul 24, 2018 | Blog, Ceramic
Francesca DiMattio’s works offer trace visions of architecture and figures, but without a legible sense of space or narrative. The manipulated imagery references a wide range of sources, including Renaissance and Gothic architecture, classical sculpture, lace and...
by Elsa Mora | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Ceramic
Takuro Kuwata makes ‘dysfunctional’ yet oddly elegant clay objects. Leaving much to chance, the surfaces are thickly glazed to literally explode when baked in the kiln. Kuwata’s goal is to “create joyful and fun works, by making the most use of the...
