Contemporary Slab Built Ceramics

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Contemporary slab built ceramics.

Andrew avakian makes slab pottery templates to help generate new slab built forms. Hand building pottery using slabs of clay is an exciting way to create shapes that could never be produced using a potter s wheel or that would be difficult to achieve if you are doing hand construction using coils of clay. Shlush shloshim is a leading contemporary ceramics gallery established as a cooperative in 1992 in the midst of the historical and picturesque neighborhood of neve tzedek. Dec 28 2018 explore alistair willshaw s board contemporary slab built ceramics on pinterest.

The most common handbuilding techniques are pinch pottery coil building and slab building. See more ideas about ceramics ceramic sculpture ceramic art. To make a pinch pot one inserts a thumb into a ball of clay and continually pinches the the clay between the thumb and fingers while rotating to thin. As much of riska s work is large scale some objects reach as high as eight feet the long and meticulous process of creating it would seem painstaking but the artist finds it.

Jan 31 2015 explore tiffany farrell s board slab built ceramics on pinterest. See more ideas about ceramics ceramic sculpture ceramic art. Sep 21 2020 explore mary bauer s board pottery slab ideas followed by 1600 people on pinterest. Handbuilding is an ancient pottery making technique that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel using the hands fingers and simple tools.

But there are more benefits than just that. Instead of relying on a mould or the force of a wheel coiling as with slab built ceramics requires only the artist s steady hand to shape the vessel s form. Using slab pottery templates is a great way to consistently build a form over and over again. Andrew creates maquettes of possible new pieces using tagboard thick paper and then tweaks them until he creates the.

It is owned and operated by 11 local artists exhibiting a variety of styles techniques and orientations and whose goals are to nurture and promote individual creativity and artistic growth in a true cooperative.