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May in St Louis

Beautiful city full of history, architecture, soul and art everywhere...

Before taking off

 Late March, just days before taking off to Buenos Aires...another treat for the Madison WRAP workshop and the surprise of another award.



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Making of Untitled during Ryan Myers workshop last summer

Then, time for a whole weekend of MAOAS at Meredith's



Working with Meredith is always fun

Next day a long trip to land in Mi Buenos Aires querido...



This weekend: Open Art Studios

We'll be working at Meredith's Saturday and Sunday. Lots of new work from both of us...here is a little peak

El Rey del Cafe con Leche

Yes, it's a cup and saucer

In progress...last summer during a workshop at Bethel with Ryan Myers

Painting with underglazes

El rey del Cafe con Leche at Overture Center

Breaking free



Studio photograph of Houdini, c. 1905.
Harvard Theatre Collection,
Houghton Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

Houdini: Art and Magic traveling show opened Friday in  Madison at the MMOCA. In so many ways Houdini represented and still represents the possibility of escaping limitations  even the ones we might create for ourselves. Empowering, inspiring and liberating.

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Jane Hammond (American, born 1950)
Untitled (221,181,275,156,227), 1991–92
Oil on canvas
76 x 70 in. (193 x 177.8 cm)
Private collection

My favorite : Jane Hammond's piece. Also empowering, inspiring and liberating



Tierra y Libertad! Revolution and the Modernist Mexican Print, also shown at the MMOCA, showing through a collection of prints the idea of breaking free from a different perspective.

Rufino Tamayo, Zapatista, 1925.
Linoleum cut. 10 x 7 ½ inches.
Collection of the MMOCA

José Guadalupe Posada, Los Siete Vicios, date unknown.
Zinc etching, 8¾ x 9-3/8 inches.
Collection of the MMOCA

Diego Rivera, Escuela al aire libre, 1932.
Lithograph, 15-11/16 x 21½ inches.
Collection of the MMOCA

Topping off the weekend with The Artist, the movie directed by Michel Hazanavicius.
An inspiring story about a man that was able to move on from the past and with help, find his voice and break free from his own limitations.

Still of Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in The Artist

One new brand year

2012 Cover Returned Peace Corps International Calendar

A bowl of fresh new days to savor bit by bit...

In search for color...



Morenito

Color...so hard to get it just right.


Last April I wanted to try some of my head cups in the woodfire.


I love how the fire and wood ashes transform the color and texture of the raw clay, kind of a nice sunkissed glow.

Morenito was the right candidate. A timid red oxide wash on the skin and hair, then wood fire glazes for the rest.

Could I get more than beautiful browns?


Marinerito en Azul

Marinerito before Woodfire

 

This time I went more painterly with the red iron oxide and got a chance to try some Coyote High Fire underglazes to see what happened...

 The woodfire glazes were left just for the lining the cups.

Luca before Woodfire

Luca

Fun!, worth exploring some more...next time maybe a thicker coat of underglaze, specially on the blue.

Animal Dreams

Collaborations with Meredith are always fun and always with a unexpected results...This time we started horsing around and we found definitely some horse story to tell that involved a hut, a boat and a chicken.

The fun of two people working with just a general idea and no limitations is great, but...some challenges arise that add to the excitement, like when scales of the parts do not relate.


Horse #1? it was too big! Well... a horse series got just started...horse #2? well, a little better...horse #3 is just right, said Goldilocks.


Always our dynamics are interesting. Meredith works very fast and I...don't!


Attachments, support, bisque...check! Finishes? always lead to more surprises.




We had already committed the piece for the MAOAS show that was coming soon...rush, rush, rush


 and voila!

New York, New York

Joey Arias in Arias with a Twist

Always fun, exciting for the senses...

Theater and also one of our favorite places, the Museum of Art and Design in Columbus Circle. Not only it is a beautiful building, but you can find some artists at work and stimulating shows.

Museum of Art and Design

This time we found sculptor Carolyn Ard working at the open studios. She was working on a sculpture made with what she described as "paper clay", but made with a somewhat  paper mache formula made of paper pulp, cellulose paste, and sawdust mixed to the consistency of soft clay.

The city through the glass window

By using different wood species for the sawdust, she could tint the paste and achieve different integral hues on her work.

Carolyn Ard working on a sculpture

Kari Russell Pool
Marc Petrovic
Chalice Series

Alan was fascinated with the process, since he's been experimenting with peat moss, joint compound and other additives for his sculptures.

Lydia Gerbig-Fast
Birds of a Feather

We caught the last day of Flora and Fauna with fantastic pieces
on all kinds of media.

Robert Arneson
Box House

Gwen Murphy
tree of Knowledge

Crafting Modernism, Midcentury American Art and Design...wow

Stan Dann
Fantasia

Marilyn R. Pappas
Opera Coat

Arieto (Harry) Bertoia
High Back Lounge Chair with Ottoman

Jim Blashfield
Bill Graham Presents...

Wendell Castle
Music Rack

A few days later...New Canaan Connecticut and a visit to Phillip Johnson's Glass House and it's site through decades of work and the ever evolving and changing view of an incredible architect.

Phillip Johnson's Glass House

Da Monsta

Came back to Madison just in time to for some raku and pit firing

and to enjoy the opening of the new wing of the Chazen Museum of Art designed by Machado & Silvetti

View from the Chazen