"Sculptural Vessels" by Sharon Brush
On Exhibit September 19 - November 1, 2018
About the Artist | Artist's Statement
About the Artist
Sharon Brush has been a ceramic artist for over 30 years. She received her MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA in ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz. In 1999 she was awarded an artist residency at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana where she received a one-year Myre Fellowship.
Sharon has exhibited her work in exhibitions and art festivals across the country, and garnered numerous awards along the way. Her work has been placed in public collections, including the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, The Crate and Barrel Corporation in Northbrook, Illinois, Priority One Services in Alexandria, Virginia, the Salina Community Art Collection in Salina, Kansas, and the Arrow Electronics Corporation corporate art collection in Denver, Colorado, as well as in numerous private collections across the United States.
She is a full-time studio artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an adjunct ceramic instructor at University of New Mexico-Los Alamos.
For more about the artist, visit http://www.sharonbrush.com/
Artist's Statement
I have always been drawn to objects whose history is written upon their surface: The river rock worn smooth from centuries of tumult; the bleached, chewed bone found on the desert floor; the bare-bones landscape of the American Southwest. These things speak to me of timelessness and mystery and rouse a thousand questions that will never find an answer. It is all that I don’t know, that deepens my viewing experience. The influence of such objects and landscapes seep into every piece I make.I approach the construction of each of my vessels as a sculpture -- working to create rhythm, flow, reverberation and quiet within each one. Intrigued by contrasts, I move from slow, sweeping curves to staccato points and ridges; from enclosed space to open passage; from deeply textured surface to river-rock smoothness; from black to white. It is my hope that the finished piece will bring the viewer a sense of calm and quiet.
My pieces are hand-built with stoneware clay, using pinch, coil and slab construction methods. After construction they are sanded smooth, sprayed with layers of slip and terra-sigilatta, burnished, and fired in oxidation to 2200 degrees.
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