Elise on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Bishoff, Sculpting Color, Winters
Elise Winters, Red RUFFLE Ruche, 2009
polymer, acrylic
8 x 9 x 1″, promised gift, Newark Museum
My artist’s statement read:
“Concern for color and light has followed me through every phase of my artistic career.
Elise on Oct 16 2009 | Filed under: Dustin, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color
Kathleen Dustin, Allium Pod, 2008
3’h x 3’w x 9”d
Polymer clay
Kathleen commented:
“To fulfill it’s educational mission, The Fuller Craft Museum likes to have pieces that people can touch included in their exhibitions, and I allowed them to use my table sculpture, “Allium Pod” for this purpose in the exhibition “Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay”. The [...]
Elise on Oct 09 2009 | Filed under: Diffendaffer, Gozonar, McCambly, Sculpting Color
Grant Diffendaffer, Cosmic Ray, 2009
Polymer clay, poplar, thread, rod, glue
3 x 12 x 6″
Grant wrote about his pieces saying:
These pieces are relics of my engagement with the era of Raygun Gothic design. Come with me as we go back to the future as it was imagined in the first part of the 20th century - [...]
Elise on Oct 02 2009 | Filed under: Dustin, Ford, Forlano, Hughes, Sculpting Color, Zimmerman
Steven Ford & David Forlano, Char, 2002
Wood, polymer clay, magnets, steel, sterling silver,
21.5 x 13 x 5″
The Curator’s Statement for Sculpting Color currently at the Fuller Craft Museum reads:
“Unlike any other materials in fine craft, polymer clay has no ancient history, no millennium as a utilitarian art form, no past masters from which to draw [...]
Elise on Sep 25 2009 | Filed under: Racine Art Museum
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
I hear a phrase ringing in my ears: “Yes, we can!” It’s not Barak Obama’s voice I’m channeling, but my own silent incantations. As of today, I’m attempting to build a grassroots movement of our own, a coming together of polymer art advocates who gather at this site for what we [...]
Elise on Sep 18 2009 | Filed under: Dever, Sculpting Color
Jeffery Lloyd Dever, Edensong Reverie, 2009
Polymer clay, wire, card stock
Jeff writes about his piece:
“Nature informs my aesthetics and helps me to form my visual vocabulary. My quest is not to replicate God’s finest gifts of flora and fauna, but merely to enter into the dialogue.
Rachel on Sep 11 2009 | Filed under: City Zen Cane, Cormier, Gibson, Haunani, Hughes, MFA Boston, Mingei Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Newark Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Racine Art Museum, Roche, Voulkos, Winters
On the wish list of the Racine Art Museum, WI
Dan Cormier, Fiji Mermaid, 2000
Using a photo portfolio that featured outstanding examples of available polymer art, Elise began to contact some of the nation’s most noted museum curators. She did hours of investigative research on specific museums, and issues relevant to the concept. She made [...]
Rachel on Sep 08 2009 | Filed under: Illuminating a Medium: Polymer Retrospective, MFA Boston, MIPCES, MIPCES Exhibition, Mingei Museum, Muse NPCG 2001 Conference, Museum of Arts and Design, Newark Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Racine Art Museum, Winters
On the wish list of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Elise Winters, Citron Cascade RUFFLE, neckpiece, 2009
Over the past few months PAA readers may have noticed posts on different pieces that Elise Winters titled, “Selection from the Collection.” Aside from being a catchy sounding phrase, what does this really mean? The explanation entails a [...]
Woody on Aug 21 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Bishoff, Dever, Diffendaffer, Dustin, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color, Winters
Cynthia Toops, Metamorphosis, 2009
1 3/4″ x 1/18″ x 92″
polymer, rubber cord
Cynthia Toops’ Metamorphosis, pictured above, could have been a good highbrow title for the standing-room-only panel discussion held last weekend in the Great Room at the Fuller Craft Museum, as part of its opening ceremonies for the Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay exhibition.
Literary allusions [...]
Woody on Jul 17 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Color Inspirations, Color Theory, Haunani, Maggio
Make room in your bookcase for a new essential text. Nan Roche’s historic work, The New Clay, which we’ve long referred to as The Bible of polymer may have to be renamed now as The Old Testament and moved one slot to the left. There’s a New Testament coming to town and it’s titled Polymer [...]