GO Brooklyn! Septemeber 8/9 OPEN STUDIOS!!!
Come check out the 11 incredibly gifted, and hard working artists that have been working out of Clayspace1205 and will be participating in GO Brooklyn! Check out their websites to get a taste of what they've been up to, and then on Septemeber 8 and 9 stop by the studio to get the full experience! These works are beautiful in the photos, but when you see them before you in all of their dementions it becomes a true experience. Hope to see you all there!
During GO, Brooklyn-based artists are asked to open their studios to the community on September 8–9, 2012, from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Community members registered as voters will visit studios and nominate artists for inclusion in a group exhibition to open at the Brooklyn Museum on Target First Saturday, December 1, 2012.
TO SIGN UP TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTS
Artist Statement
My works got inspired by natural shapes. Please image what they are ^.^//
I like playing with balance, pushing limits and figuring out how much is too much.
Artist Statement
Ceramic artist Ben Howort creates forms and patterns,
which reflect duality, paradox, and the ambiguity found in urban landscapes. As a native New Yorker, Howort is inspired by the quiet beauty of nature fighting for its place in the city. Beautifully asymmetrical, his vessels are balanced by patterns, which both collide and co-exist in the same breath.
Jessica Cohen
Artist Statement
In making ceramic figurative work I meditate on the challenge of pushing forward through times of struggle. I depict vulnerable moments, where figures are caught reflecting on their current predicaments. They often seem to be absorbed in a pained melancholy, carrying the weight of their pasts and struggling with the reality of their present. As I sculpt I often imagine a narrative of the make-believe lives of my clay beings and this influences the sculptural decisions that I make.
Janine Sopp https://glyphdesigns.com http://www.gobrooklynart.org/studio/glyphdesigns
Artist Statement
Janine Sopp spent the first seven years of her career designing clothing and textiles, then traveled across Europe and Morocco where she uncovered her deeper artistic desire of molding clay, a responsive medium that indulges her passion for texture and color.
Slabs of clay begin the dialog. She draws, stamps and marks with textures and patterns creating a journey of discovery, on molded forms or flat surfaces with markings like a map. Sopp paints layers of color revealing a dance between shapes and images. Then, a dark pigment wash, satin finish and sometimes embedded glass give added dimension to each piece.
Artist Statement
galazzo GLASS sopp CERAMIC is the innovative design team of glass artist, Barbara Galazzo and ceramic artist, Janine Sopp. Their collaboration gives them the ability to explore and express in their principle medium while expanding themselves into infinite, creative possibilities. They push the boundaries of their materials in order to intertwine their vision and connection.They integrate colorful, fused glass with rich, textural clay, incorporating such opposites as opaque vs. transparent, surface texture vs. glassy smoothness and neutral vs. color, melding ceramic and glass mediums into one cohesive sculptural creation.
Rachel Farmer http://rachelfarmer.com
Artist Statement
I make hand-built ceramic pioneers and take them on journeys. I'll be out along the historic Mormon Pioneer Trail in Wyoming this August and will have brand new photos and videos to share. I like to think of my miniature pioneers as ancestor spirits or ghosts, but I can pick them up and play with them. If you visit, you can play with some of them too. You will also get to see a bustling communal clay studio, experience gorgeous waterfront views, and you can grab some ice cream at the neighboring Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory.
Ulrika Strömbäck
https://gobrooklynart.org/studio/Ika
Artist Statement
I am investigating the role of gestures, movement and gravity in building of a form. Chance, accidents and randomness are given room to act within a structured system or choreographed event. Fragility, deformation, collapsing and rebuilding are recurring themes.
Image 4-6, is of a piece made for a show at a New York public Library. The wood carving was inspired by cuneiform writing while the print made from it resembles computer generated coding. plaster casts are placed as 'books' on the wood carving and print that serves as 'shelf'.
Sabina Hahn http://sabinahahnceramics.tumblr.com/https://gobrooklynart.org/studio/SabinaHahn
Artist Statement
My work is meticulously hand built using traditional ceramic techniques. Each piece is shaped, carved out and then refined before adding textures, fine details and colorwork.
I work mostly in porcelain that has the smoothness, malleability and strength that speaks to me like no other medium.
In my work I combine magical, natural and whimsical. My inspiration comes from many and varied sources: nature, contemporary culture, fairy-tales and myths. I strive to capture subtly fleeing expressions and the most elusive of gestures. In many ways, these small gestures are more intense and truthful than the grandiose ones we deliberately offer.
Kim Gilmour http://fisheyebrooklyn.etsy.comhttps://gobrooklynart.org/studio/fisheyebrooklyn
Artist Statement
My work explores the delicate yet durable forms found in nature. My current work draws inspiration from the ocean, in particular the unique and singular imperfections found in seashells. To capture the variety of forms, I work with several different types of clay, ultimately letting the feel of the clay dictate the shape, so that no two pieces are ever exactly alike. The viewer is invited to consider the pieces collectively as a landscape or interact with each piece up-close and individually, turning it in their hands and feeling the rough edges as one might a seashell.
Mitsutaka Konagi https://gobrooklynart.org/studio/MITSUTAKA-KONAGI Artist Statement
Mitsutaka Konagi is an artist who mainly does sculpting using clay and other materials. His particular interests are in the shadows objects create when set against light, and in the positional relation between objects.
One of his current projects is based on the concept of "assembly". He is making many small pieces that have the same basic shape and approximate size but at the same time differ from one another. These pieces are assembled to compose one body.
