I’m not ready to call this a portfolio, still some people were interested in seeing some of my work…
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Category: Ceramics
Ceramics, shreamics :-) I’m forming clay and firing it to a solid impermeable object of utility and/or art.
Jeff Albrecht
Like can you say Wow! ??
Richard Shaw is a master of trompe-l’oeil sculpture. trompe-l’oeil is french for “trick the eye” (see this Wikipedia entry) Check out this very cool video from KQED a PBS television station in San Francisco on Richard. Did you see all those molds? I tried a mold this quarter wrote a bit about it here.
While attempting to find the dimensions of the couch pictured below I ran across this article about an art dealer, Ruth Braunstein, in San Francisco you may find interesting. I never could find those dimensions. I might have to try the Library Lee! :-)
Hopefully this summer I’ll have a chance to write about the benefit of having made a quantity of the same object and how that process refined the finished object and eased the production burden in time and effort. But I digress…
Well just a second now, as long as I’m digressing as I mentioned in my verbal presentation I’m looking for an artist with digital skills to concept logo and other site images and themes for a new web presence I’m developing: “FlashMobMashUp” (see this post about Microsoft Web camp and my pitch) I’m a Entrepreneur software developer (www.iea-software.com) and am expanding and diversifying our product range. I’ve just begun an intern program at IEA to develop web sites. This program is open to not only student computer programmers but writers and artists as well. Please email jeffa at iea-software dot com or a comment on this blog if interested.
Last quarter I made an apple pie 
glazed with Waxy Oatmeal, this quarter some spaghetti 
by extruding clay onto a pie plate made from a mold found at the SFCC ceramics studio. The spaghetti was Carbon trap chino. I don’t think I quite got the Trompe-l’oeil as they don’t look specifically like the real thing.
For instance here are a few from Richard Shaw. Note the political comment in the plate. Art – ya gota love it! Often so much more you can say with art than with words.
Sailing West
Awards
1988 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco Art Institute
1987 Visiting Artist Grant, Manufacture National De Sevres, Paris, France
1974 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1970 National Endowment for the Arts Crafts Grant
Education
1968 M.F.A. University of California, Davis
1965 B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
State University of New York at Alfred
Resources aka Bibliography
http://www.franklloyd.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=26
http://www.conversations.org/story.php?sid=160
http://bunnywax.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/ceramic_10.jpg
http://franklloydgallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/shaw_sailing-west_2008.jpg
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My first plaster mold
OK well it’s my first plaster mold in about four decades….
I’m taking a ceramics course at Spokane Falls Community College. At the time of this writing I’m a bit less than half way through my third quarter. (see back2school section of this site)
Among other projects I’m attempting to make several Propeller beanies that are the logo of a microprocessor by Parallax.com I’ve created several projects with. (click here for a view of the logo). You see I also like to program computers and dabble a bit in electronics, artificial intelligence and robotics… (see nerding and projects of this site)
I can really see where a properly designed and setup studio would be nice. I did this on my garage work bench. I’ll grab a shot of the clean up when I document the removal of the mold from this casting rig.
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Here I am a bit into the project. You can see the clay dam I’ve constructed on a bat surrounding the hemispherical shape of the beanie I created on a throwing wheel. There is some petroleum jelly I’m using on the bat and the beanie where I don’t want the plaster to stick.
a top view
With a flash on the camera
The plaster and the stainless steel mixing bowl I liberated from my kitchen.
All greased up now.
The mold is full of the plaster now. It’s begun to setup thickly in less than thirty minutes.
I’ll probably just edit this and repost tomorrow after I’ve removed the mold from the cast.
Wow before submitting this to my site for publishing I went out and checked the plaster. It’s setup pretty solid already. About thirty or forty minutes now. The book I read said let them dry for a week. Think I’ll go check that for context might have that wrong…
c ya… – jeffa May 2, 2010 15:05