Ceramic Portrait Paintings

"Cloud Crystal" by Anne Siems, is a captivating figurative-narrative portrait painted on white clay panel. It features a beautiful female face and dark hair with braids. ANNE SIEMS (b. 1965, Germany) Artist Statement I was born in Berlin, Germany. From 1969 to 1971 I lived near Buenos Aires, Argentina. My first extended stay in the US was as an exchange student in 1986. Then in 1991, after finishing my MFA in Berlin, I moved to Seattle, WA. My work has moved from semi-abstract, room-filling plant and insect drawings...

Artist : Rimas VisGirda Title : P273 Chin Chin I Materials : Ceramic Date : 2017 Dimensions : 9x5x5 in Description : Porcelain with play sand Thrown Wood fired Sliptrail, salt fired ...

Irina Zaytceva was born in Moscow in 1957. As a child, she loved to draw and sculpt and eventually decided to make it her vocation. She graduated from Moscow Art Institute ( Poljgrapfichesky) with an MFA in book illustration. Having illustrated a number of children books, she found porcelain by chance; a friend had given her a piece of clay, which prompted her to experiment with the new media and fell in love with it. Fine porcelain is a perfect canvas for her drawings, and with the ability to bend her “canvas,” she can add sculptural elements to the picture. Someone called this hybrid media narrative sculpture, a term Irina thinks aptly describes her work. Never formally trained in ceramics, Irina had to invent ways to handle it. Unlike many of her colleagues who paint with oil based colors, she uses water based colors and has developed her own techniques in this media. She does not use casting but hand rolls her vases, cups, and, sculptures. With every piece porcelain yields its secrets to her. Since 1998, Irina resides in USA and presently have her studio near Princeton, New Jersey. Monarch Butterfly Cup...

Painted face plate wall hanging. (not positive if it is porcelain or ceramic) Luigi Benzoni, 1956- Italian artist known for painting, sculpture, ceramic, glass and furniture design. He works with bronze, stone, glass, gold foil and paintings. He was born in Clusone in the province of Bergamo, Italy in 1956 but has lived in Venice since 1976 where he studied architecture and specialized in the history of art. He has exhibited his works in public and private institutions in Italy and abroad. Among the most important exhibitions in which he has taken part are: “The Secret of Murano”, Het Paleis Museum, The Hague, Netherlands (1997), “A Choice of European Glass Artists”, Mostly Glass, New York, USA (1998), “Made in Murano-Making Art with Glass”, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, Italy (1999), “Interationell Samtidskonst I Glas”, Halstadtsgruppens Museum, Halmstad, Sweden (1999), “Made in Venice”, Röhsska Museum for Design and Applied Art, Goteborg, Sweden, “Innuendo”, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy, “XI Biennial of Sacred Art”, Stauros Museum of Sacred Art, Isola del Gran Sasso d’Italia, Abruzzo, Italy (2004). Benzoni’s work – both pictorial and sculptural – is characterized mainly by his experimentation with the human face. Select Solo Exhibitions Galerie Mackenbach – Arnheim, Netherlands Schmidlin Art Studio – Milan, Italy Select Group Exhibitions 1er ArtSud Salon International d’Art Contemporain du Sud Palais des Congrès – Paris, France Art Miami SOFA Sculpture Object and Functional Art – Chicago, n°8 Navy Pier’s Festival Hall – Chicago IL, United States Galerie Vivendi – 28 Place des Vosges – Paris, France Berengo Fine Arts Glass Furnace and Gallery – Fondamenta Dei Vetrai Venice, Italy KunstRAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands Sthml Art Fair Sollentunamässan – Sollentuna, Sweden ARCO – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, n° 19 Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I – Madrid, Spain St’art – Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg, n° 4 Parc des expositions du Wacken – Strasbourg, France Arte Fiera – Mostra Mercato d’Arte Contemporanea, Bologna BO, Italy "Christmas Exhibition" Steinberger Galleries, Langenargen Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt "Elvira Bach, Luigi Benzoni & Silvio Vigliaturo" Steinberger Galleries, Weikersheim Group exhibitions The Netherlands Collection Berengo, 10 años de formacion en vidrio. La Granja, Spain Education 1976 : IUAV Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia – Santa Croce 601 – Venice VE, Italy similar in style to Robert Laughlin.

Painted face plate wall hanging. (not positive if it is porcelain or ceramic) Luigi Benzoni, 1956- Italian artist known for painting, sculpture, ceramic, glass and furniture design. He works with bronze, stone, glass, gold foil and paintings. He was born in Clusone in the province of Bergamo, Italy in 1956 but has lived in Venice since 1976 where he studied architecture and specialized in the history of art. He has exhibited his works in public and private institutions in Italy and abroad. Among the most important exhibitions in which he has taken part are: “The Secret of Murano”, Het Paleis Museum, The Hague, Netherlands (1997), “A Choice of European Glass Artists”, Mostly Glass, New York, USA (1998), “Made in Murano-Making Art with Glass”, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, Italy (1999), “Interationell Samtidskonst I Glas”, Halstadtsgruppens Museum, Halmstad, Sweden (1999), “Made in Venice”, Röhsska Museum for Design and Applied Art, Goteborg, Sweden, “Innuendo”, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy, “XI Biennial of Sacred Art”, Stauros Museum of Sacred Art, Isola del Gran Sasso d’Italia, Abruzzo, Italy (2004). Benzoni’s work – both pictorial and sculptural – is characterized mainly by his experimentation with the human face. Select Solo Exhibitions Galerie Mackenbach – Arnheim, Netherlands Schmidlin Art Studio – Milan, Italy Select Group Exhibitions 1er ArtSud Salon International d’Art Contemporain du Sud Palais des Congrès – Paris, France Art Miami SOFA Sculpture Object and Functional Art – Chicago, n°8 Navy Pier’s Festival Hall – Chicago IL, United States Galerie Vivendi – 28 Place des Vosges – Paris, France Berengo Fine Arts Glass Furnace and Gallery – Fondamenta Dei Vetrai Venice, Italy KunstRAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands Sthml Art Fair Sollentunamässan – Sollentuna, Sweden ARCO – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, n° 19 Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I – Madrid, Spain St’art – Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg, n° 4 Parc des expositions du Wacken – Strasbourg, France Arte Fiera – Mostra Mercato d’Arte Contemporanea, Bologna BO, Italy "Christmas Exhibition" Steinberger Galleries, Langenargen Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt "Elvira Bach, Luigi Benzoni & Silvio Vigliaturo" Steinberger Galleries, Weikersheim Group exhibitions The Netherlands Collection Berengo, 10 años de formacion en vidrio. La Granja, Spain Education 1976 : IUAV Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia – Santa Croce 601 – Venice VE, Italy similar in style to Robert Laughlin.