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Mark goudy ceramics.
April 21 2012.
The thin smooth ceramic work he produces just cries out to be touched and turned over with your hands.
Mark goudy and liza riddle are a couple from berkeley california who are blazing a new frontier in ceramic arts with their explorations into the applications of soluble metal salts.
Mark goudy s work is an exploration of form and pattern using the enclosed vessel as the underlying motif.
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Mark trained as an engineer and had a 20 year career designing graphics chips in the computer industry.
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After a twenty year engineering career working in the virtual world of computer chip design i found the process of clay work to be a catharsis.
The interior space is intentionally hidden leaving the contents to the imagination metaphorically containing perhaps hopes dreams or spirits.
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A collaborative artshed in berkeley california ceramics by mark goudy and liza riddle.
Jan 30 2014 mark goudy s profile on ceramics now magazine view his works the process of working in clay is a grounding experience that focuses my attention in the present moment but also is a tangible thread that connects across time with twenty thousand years of ceramists who preceded me.
I find her work interesting because it is a mixture of ceramics with other materials that creates a sculpture that is surprising and beautiful.
Mark goudy berkeley california my mother was a potter and after she passed away in 2004 i was inspired to take a raku class at a local adult school an homage to her creative spirit.
Mark goudy and liza riddle are a couple from berkeley california who are blazing a new frontier in ceramic arts with their explorations into the applications of soluble metal salts.
The soluble salt ceramics of mark goudy and liza riddle.
Ceramics by mark goudy.
The material is low fired stone burnished porcelain clay unglazed with surface markings created by carbon and water soluble metal salts which permeate the clay.
Mark goudy was discovered by karen at a recent show in northern california.
View mark goudy s works featured on ceramics now magazine read the interview with mark goudy new artist september 2011 mark goudy is an exhibiting artist at the first edition of ceramics now exhibition held in cluj napoca romania.
I suppose it could almost be expected with backgrounds covering photography biology engineering chemistry music and graphics and a love of the outdoors that their work in ceramics would be organic technical.
Mark goudy is from berkeley and uses new types of soluble metal salts and applies them onto his vessels.
These vessels are constructed from asymmetric parabolic surfaces that project a unique contour with each viewing angle.
The process of working in clay is a grounding experience that focuses my attention in the present moment but also is a tangible thread that.