per artist e-mail on 4/23/2014, this piece was fired at cone 10 and has not been glazed, stained or sandblasted.
Stoneware
Mentori #70
Anti-Nothing
Vessel #9932
#14 Transfer Slips-A
Invisible Man
Source: Ferrin Gallery
Untitled
Ferguson was Chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department for more than thirty years. Voted one of the 12 greatest living potters in 1981 by readers of Ceramics Monthly, Ferguson has received numerous honors over the years. The recipient of two National Endowments for the Arts grants for craftsmen, a Mid-America College Arts Award for Studio Art, a Tiffany grant and an Alliance of Independent Colleges of Arts grant he has received demonstrate how he has been recognized as much for his teaching as his art work. He has a reputation for inspiring his students to develop their own idiosyncratic styles while simultaneously instilling a respect for the medium of clay and its history. He has had over 100 exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 1995. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the American Craft Museum in New York City are among the numerous public and private collections worldwide that include works by Ferguson.
Rabbit Basket
Ferguson was Chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department for more than thirty years. Voted one of the 12 greatest living potters in 1981 by readers of Ceramics Monthly, Ferguson has received numerous honors over the years. The recipient of two National Endowments for the Arts grants for craftsmen, a Mid-America College Arts Award for Studio Art, a Tiffany grant and an Alliance of Independent Colleges of Arts grant he has received demonstrate how he has been recognized as much for his teaching as his art work. He has a reputation for inspiring his students to develop their own idiosyncratic styles while simultaneously instilling a respect for the medium of clay and its history. He has had over 100 exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 1995. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the American Craft Museum in New York City are among the numerous public and private collections worldwide that include works by Ferguson. Rabbit Basket by Ferguson demonstrates how he has evolved from functional pottery to more expressive vessels. This spectacular work displays the superb control of clay that Ferguson has mastered. The sensuous curves of the rabbit handle of the basket and the distinctive long-eared rabbits on the pedestals of the basket are characteristic of many of his later works in clay.
Untitled from the Horn Platter Series
Allen received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Masters of Fine Arts degree from Fort Hays State University in Kansas in the late 1970s. He has been an instructor of art at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri, since 1981. His works have been in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Great Britain. His solo exhibitions include the Prasad Gallery in New Jersey; the Goddard Gallery on the campus of State Fair Community College in Missouri; and the Karl Oskar Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. Allen was the recipient of one of the four top awards at the juried Missouri 50 exhibition at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1998. In the mid 1990s, Allen co-designed the Fine Arts Studios in the Stauffacher Center at State Fair Community College in Sedalia. Inspired by Peter Voulkos? groundbreaking developments where the platter was successfully established as art, Allen created his own series called the Horn Platter Series. He began this continuing series of platters in 1994 as a tribute to his teacher, Darrell McGinnis, and fellow ceramic artists Peter Voulkos and Jim Leedy. All three of these men had a profound effect on Allen?s thinking as an artist. In enlightening conversations with one another, Allen and Leedy discovered a kindred expressionistic spirit. This dynamic, untitled work by Allen reveals this spirit.
United Forest
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Fleming grew up with an avid interest in art. Her childhood enthusiasm and love of art resulted in Fleming receiving art commissions while in high school. She pursued this field of study during her college years and by 1988 Fleming received a master of fine art degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Today her work is included in numerous private and public collections. The positive message evident in Fleming?s work can be interpreted as a personal response to the daily challenges she faces as a deaf person in a hearing world. The totemic architectural forms of “United Forest” convey connection and strength as well as expressions of reach and potential. Large egg forms constructed from clay are another method the artist uses to convey messages of hope and new life. Like most of Fleming?s work, “United Forest” is a site-specific installation. Dr. Harold F. Daum commissioned this work for the atrium located just inside the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. As the artist was nearing completion of “United Forest,” the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States occurred. In response to the tragic event, she shaped the last two columns to be more architectural and carved them with vertical lines. These two structures stand in the center of the other columns. They portray a greater sense of geometry than the other more organic pillars.