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Karen ShapiroM&M's Bag with 6 Candies: Wall Piece
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Oversized, hand built and glazed ceramic sculpture. Three firings include final Raku.
Slight variations in crazing from raku exist from piece to piece. Item shown may vary slightly in 'crackled' look. Photos of current piece in stock available upon request.
Size is approximate and may vary slightly as this is an original, handmade piece of art.
**This item may need to be custom made to order based on current availability and may require extra handling time to deliver, please inquire.
"My first recorded attempts at artistic expression were at the ripe age of 5 years or so when I painstakingly painted the adobe brick walls surrounding our house in Tucson. The records of these attempts are the scratchy old home movies taken years ago -- the painted images being executed in nothing but tap water and disappearing instantly in the Arizona sun. Years later I majored in art in high school where I began working in clay and continued in this medium as a design major in college. After college and continuing until a year or so ago, my medium changed drastically to a more edible artform in the shape of a long, hard career as a pastry chef.
I am now happily out of the kitchen and back into the ceramics studio where I am finding great joy in working in a sculpture style which is new for me. In earlier years, my emphasis was on abstract form -- believing, of course, that I was redefining the perfect form. Upon reentering the ceramic studio at the College of Marin, under the tutelage of the ever-inspiring energy and talent of Anne Peet Carrington, I naturally tried to take up where I had left off many years ago. I was immediately frustrated and disappointed to see that those "perfect" forms would no longer come from my hands. Instead, I was drawn to the form of a milk carton, then to my espresso pot from Italy, next to an artichoke from the market -- in other words, I found an inexhaustible source of fascinating shapes and forms staring at me from all sides.
Now I find myself jumping around from vegetables to nail polish bottles and lipsticks, to crayons and on and on ... and in addition to these wonderful objects I have also discovered the raku kiln. The excitement of reaching into a red-hot environment with tongs, of the flaming bucket, even the choking smoke, and finding results I never dreamt of -- always changing, always so much to learn -- has given me back an enormous energy, appetite and passion for my work. It's an adventure I've just begun, and I look forward to many fulfilling years and ever more exciting results which I hope to share with as many people as may also find them interesting and fun."
-Karen Shapiro, 1999
Contemporary California ceramic artist
- Creator:Karen Shapiro (American)
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Carmel-by-the-sea, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU49810171542
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