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jacquline hurlbert: it’s crazy out there

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Sometimes I happen upon something in an artist statement that does as much for me as the art. When I read the first line of ceramic artist Jacquline Hurlbert’s artist statement I felt instantly at home.

“It’s crazy out there. So I retreat to my inside world. The one where I can breathe and calm myself. Clay serves as the vehicle for my meditation; it speaks without words. Everything that I feel is automatically transferred to the clay through my hands. This is my voice, not heard but seen.”

Dwellers

I Am Many

Thought Directs Energy

This too:

“Oversized feet symbolize the strength to stand alone in the face of opposition. An admirable concept to believe in but not always an easy one to live by. I’m not just talking about the “big” issues of the day either, I’m talking about the decisions we make on a daily basis that define who we are and what we believe in.”

Ego’s Guilded Cage

Surrender

Jacquline Hurlbert’s website

Read the rest of Hurlbert’s artist statement here.

jeremy maxwell wintrebert: blown glass vessels

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While recovering from a near-fatal car accident that left him hospitalized for months, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert began reading about glass art and glass blowing. Once recovered, the Paris-based artist studied with master glass artists in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Czech Republic and Venice. After more than a decade honing his craft, Wintrebert is preparing for his first solo show in the UK at Vessel Gallery, May 9 – June 30, 2012.

In addition to selling his vessels, I think he could also sell prints of the detail photos. Yes?

Big

Big, detail

 

 

 

From the Spirit Fruit Series

 

“I create pieces I like that have a contrast with a space. The result seems to call up a feeling of “nature” in these often very geometrical, minimalist spaces.” Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert

The short video clip below is a fascinating glimpse of the man and the artist.

Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert’s website

Vessel Gallery

Read more about the artist and his Spirit Fruit series here

 

 

kate anderson, kate anderson, kate anderson

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While researching fiber artist Kate Anderson I came across several other artists from around the world who share the name Kate Anderson. Today’s post features three of them.

One name. Three artists. Three distinctly different voices. Enjoy.

{Click on each artist’s name to jump to their website}

 

Kate Anderson – Fiber Artist

 

O’Keeffe Brush Teapot, knotted waxed linen

O’Keeffe Brush Teapot, back


Jim Dine Teapot, knotted waxed linen, stainless steel, aluminum

“Making sculptural art forms by utilizing the repetitive basketry technique called knotting forms the basis of my work regarding content and the blurred edges where art and craft meet.

High-art/low-art references come into play by utilizing the teapot, a common craft object, as my sculptural archetype juxtaposed with images appropriated from the world of “high art”.

Quotation, allusion, abstraction, and art/craft references all play a part as the knotting process simultaneously creates both structure and image.”

 

Kate Anderson – Mosaics

 

 

Where Shadows Go

The Myth of Place

Kate Anderson, glass mosaic artist

“The medium of mosaic allows me to interpret themes beyond the purely decorative. I see the contradiction in mosaic – that of its being solid, fixed, and yet containing such an urge to movement in design as sympathetic to the language of symbols which I explore.

Symbols survive through cultural changes, but the movement of time adds layers to their meaning.

I aim to produce work that stimulates the imagination and is thought provoking.

Work for exhibition takes me from the illustrative to the semi-abstract. Ideas are constantly excavated and reassembled.”

 

Kate Anderson – Illustrator/Animator

 

Village

Still images from the animation “Displacement Song”


You can view all of the award winning artist’s animation shorts on her website.

leslie b. grigsby’s seed bead sculpture

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As Winterthur’s Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Leslie B. Grigsby is responsible for the museum’s collection of almost 20,000 objects. Grigsby’s love of art history spills over as inspiration for her own beadwork sculpture, though the inspiration doesn’t stop there – she also credits nature, science and science fiction as inspiration for her sculptures.

Teapot: If You Drink Any More Tea, You’ll Turn Into a Fish!
wood, glass and wooden beads, thread
Design and beadwork, Leslie B. Grigsby
Woodwork/assembly assistance, Lindsay Grigsby

Earth: The Root of All Good glass beads, wood, thread
Design and beadwork, Leslie B. Grigsby. Woodturning, Lindsay Grigsby

“From earliest childhood, sitting around the dinner table discussing Astronomy and the other sciences with my family, I have seen Outer Space as the illustration of how there are no limits to possibilities.”

Rocket Ship 1: The Sky’s No Limit
glass beads, thread, wood, rock crystal
Design and beadwork, Leslie B. Grigsby. Woodworking/assembly, Lindsay Grigsby

Raygun

The artist with her Helmet Series

The artist’s husband often creates wooden cores that she meticulously stitches the seed beads over – a labor intensive journey that yields mind boggling results.

Leslie B. Grigsby’s website

Work in progress pictures here

 

 

marina dempster’s yarn painting and beaded sculptures

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I still get a thrill watching Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz click her heels together in those iconic ruby red slippers, whispering “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.” I can’t help but wonder where she might have gone if she were wearing a pair of Marina Dempster’s yarn painted shoes instead of the ruby slippers. I have no doubt they have the power to transport you to a magical place.

Ebullient
found shoe, bees’ wax/pine resin, glass seed beads, feathers

 

Voracious
found shoe, bees’ wax/pine resin, glass seed beads, threads, vintage false teeth

A Good Print
vintage shoes, bees’ wax/pine resin, glass seed beads, guilded thorns, silk threads

 

Ebullient
found shoes, bees’ wax/pine resin, glass seed beads, feathers

Dempster’s contemporary spin on the ancient Columbian Huichol art of yarn painting is mesmerizing. She takes found shoes, uses bees’ wax and pine-resin to form a new ‘skin’ over the shoe and then embeds the wax/resin skin with yarn or beads. And though shoes are a main focus for the Toronto based artist, she also adorns mannequin legs, glove molds, shoe lasts and other objects.

Self Portrait

Shoe Clips

“My current series draws from a fascination with the idea of shoes being an extension of the body through which we transmit information to the brain about the terrain over which we travel. The confounding high-heel, while being everything that pinches, elevates us in inches, and inevitably makes us more sensitive to the ground we walk on.”

Marina Dempster’s website

Interview with the artist here