Portrait Bust with Cobalt and White Underglaze
- 2015
- ceramic, glaze
- 25”x13”x8.5”
Portrait Bust with Lavender Hair and Black Base
- 2015
- ceramic, glaze
- 16”x10”x6”
Pink Bust with Torn Arm
- 2010
- ceramic, aqua resin, paint
- 21"x13"x8"
Showing posts with label Visual Symbols Artist Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual Symbols Artist Inspiration. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Elise Siegel, Artist
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Ebitenyefa Baralaye, Artist, United States
Sculptor Ebitenyefa Baralaye’s
Ceramic Vessels
Pay Homage to His Ancestry
“Portraiture can serve as a record for people’s families, dynasties, and cultures,” reflects artist Ebitenyefa Baralaye. Following the racial reckoning of 2020 and the death of his father that same year, the Nigerian-born, Detroit-based sculptor has embraced figuration while contemplating his own identity. Two new bodies of work riff on the 19th-century face jugs created by enslaved people in the American South, particularly the work of David Drake, a.k.a. Dave the Potter. “There’s a duality,” Baralaye explains of the objects, which served both practical and spiritual purposes. “It speaks to the pain and agony of enslavement—the objectification of Black people but it’s also a vessel for poetic expression.” Finished in a black satin glaze, his Akanza series mixes his and his father’s abstracted facial features. Meanwhile, his All My Relation series (named after an inscription by Dave the Potter) pays homage to his Nigerian ancestors through an imagined archive of eyes, ears, and noses. Works from both projects go on display February 15 at Friedman Benda’s Los Angeles gallery, alongside large ceramic finials and columns inspired by the work of Yoruba artisan Olowe of Ise and Catalan architect Antoni GaudÃ. A finial, Baralaye notes, has almost as much to say as a face: “As the capstone of an architectural structure, it’s expressive, it describes and exalts the nature and context of a place, it conveys a sense of identity.”baralaye.com
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Hannah Martin, February 2023
Architectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sculptor-ebitenyefa-baralayes-ceramic-vessels-pay-homage-to-his-ancestry
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Friday, February 17, 2023
Morel Doucet, Artist, Miami based, Hails from Haiti, b. 1980
The Brown Menagerie
Media: Glaze Ceramic & Aerosol Paint
Dimension: 10 in X 6 in X 15 In
Year: 2015
Photo by David Gary Lloyd
Brown is the color of rich soil. It is a composite color made by combining red, black, and yellow. The color is widely seen in human hair color, eye color, and skin pigmentation. It is also, according to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, the least favorite color of the public. “The Brown Menagerie” examines facets of race, sexism, and fashion through an Afro-Caribbean lens.
https://www.moreldoucet.com/the-brown-menagerie
See more and read about artwork on website. Link below.
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Willy Verginer, Sculptor, Italian, b. 1957
The artist using wood and paint.
However, the work provides inspiration for the Figurative Bust Sculpture Assignment (using air dry clay). Observe how the artist uses color, incorporates objects and how the gaze/use of eyes of each subject is significant to overall meaning.
"I think colour is the most important part of my work. In art school I studied painting and not sculpting. The colour I use overwhelms my figures. It does not underline a narration, but the narration itself revolves, questions and changes with this additional visual. A tension, a conflict, as well as unity and harmony occur between colour and wood. Colour often has a symbolic value. I often use a range of colours according to the symbolism, or in connection with a specific expression, but it is not a rule; sometimes I also use a completely opposite colour (something that is counter intuitive) to surprise the viewer. (…) I don’t like when people see me as a surrealist. The surreal movement had the concept very different from what I try to achieve. However, humour and absurdity is very important for me. Both help to see the reality better. My greatest effort and my greatest research focus on not remaining fossilised on the naturalistic representation of the figure, but on giving something more. Through a dreamlike study, or better still absurd, rather than fantastic, because I often see real situations it is those that stimulate and greatly influence my work." -Willy Verginer
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Sunday, October 16, 2022
Simone Leigh, Artist, American
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Last week, it was announced that Simone Leigh would make history at the Venice Biennale by representing the United States in 2022, making her the first Black woman ever to do the country’s pavilion at the world’s top art festival. “There’s no better artist for our time,” said Jill Medvedow, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the museum commissioning the pavilion. What makes Leigh so important right now, and why has she risen to the status of the one of the top artists working today? Below is a guide to Leigh’s art, her career, and the ideas that guide her work.
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Friday, October 7, 2022
Elizabeth Catlett, American, b. 1915, d. 2012
The most haunting quality of “Target,” a bronze sculpture by Elizabeth Catlett, may be its timelessness. The piece — in which the cross hairs of a rifle sight frame the head of an African-American man mounted on a block of wood — could date to the Civil War era, when rifle scopes entered into widespread use, or to the present day, when research shows that young Black men are far more likely to be killed by police than other Americans. Catlett, in fact, conceived the work in 1970 in response to the fatal shooting of two Black Panthers — Fred Hampton and Mark Clark — by Chicago police officers. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1915, the granddaughter of freed slaves, Catlett unflinchingly depicted the violent reality of racial injustice throughout her career, but she also portrayed civil rights leaders — Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Davis and Malcolm X among them — as well as the courage and resilience of everyday African-Americans, particularly women. “I have always wanted my art to service my people — to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential,” she once said. “We have to create an art for liberation and for life.” Catlett became a Mexican citizen in 1962, but she continued to address the experience of Black people in the United States until her death in 2012. Catlett’s “Target” and the 1968 piece “Black Unity,” a raised fist carved in mahogany, are two of the most iconic and lasting artworks in the continuing movement for civil rights. — Z.L.
Image and source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/t-magazine/most-influential-protest-art.htm
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Figurative Bust Artists
Charlotte Sigurdson
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Aleksandra Piasecka
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Mono Cieza
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Evan Hobart
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Butaoxi
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Patti Warashina
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Anastassia Zamaraeva
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Carlos Cabo
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