Jim Kraft’s work is compelling yet deceptive. Kraft builds large container forms by using small pieces of cut or torn clay which is constructed in such a way as to appear as a completely different material.  This manipulation of the clay creates a visual deception, of baskets constructed of wood, fiber or cork pieces when in reality, they are ceramic.   Seattle-based Kraft has worked in ceramics for over 30 years, and likes the idea of being a part of the long history of people making things with their hands. He has described his own work as an evolution of ideas, often influenced by the natural world and native cultures. Kraft often works with the idea of smaller parts making up the whole, and this can be seen clearly in pieces such as “White Keep” or “Kala”.  These large vessels are made using coil and brick-like pieces, or cut and torn clay parts assembled to create a vessel which appears basket-like.  Kraft’s use of texture in the clay is exciting, and this exploitation of texture, combined with his use of natural colors for surface treatment, further trick the eye into seeing a different material. - Jonathan Kaplan, Plinth Gallery Ceramic Constructions” opens at Plinth Gallery on First Friday, November 4^th, from 6-9pm. This exhibition will be on display during Denver Art Week and through November 26th. For infromation please go to Jim's website and to see the upcoming exhibitions at Plinth make the jump to their website.  HOW DID YOU BECOME AN ARTIST? I think I became a creative person first, it wasn't until later that I thought of myself as an artist. As a child I loved to draw and I had a strong connection w nature. I was inquisitive. As time went on and I took art classes in school I realized I liked to work with my hands, to make things. Plus I had an innate desire to express myself. I would say it was when I was an adult and I had a career in ceramics that I started to think of myself as an artist. Perhaps I could see that others thought me an artist and that made me an artist. I think of myself as a creative person and a maker of things. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE? My style is what bubbles up from my interest in the vessel form, my interest in texture, my interest in nature and my interest in how previous cultures have distilled or combined these same elements. I want clay to look like clay. I meet it halfway, I don't wish to over power it. WHAT IS YOUR INSPIRATION FOR YOUR PIECES? The vessel form in general and the things I mentioned in the previous answer; nature and other cultures. I'm generally inspired to be creative and to follow in the path of a long line of people who made objects with their hands... for ceremony or every day use. WHAT KEEPS YOU MOTIVATED? The need to be creative. To evolve ideas. I see the ideas in my head and go from there. I also take successful aspects of a series and build on those aspects in the next series. ARE YOU A FULL TIME ARTIST? Yes. WHAT OR WHO INSPIRES YOU? That's a difficult question to answer as I don't think I am directly inspired by anything. It's a filtering and distilling of many things like travel, other visual art, nature, music, beauty, decay. If I had to say though I'd mention the cave painters, van Gogh, basket weavers, Joni Mitchell, Cary Grant, Gandhi, John Merrick, Steve. HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LIFE AND WORK BALANCE? I'm a spin addict and I get enough sleep and I can sit around and do nothing for hours on end. And I travel. ART BUSINESS? Make peace w the fact that the Art World is a necessary evil. There is art and then there is the art world. Do your best to have integrity and don't be seduced by the art world to become famous. WHAT ADVICE CAN YOU GIVE ASPIRING ARTISTS STRUGGLING TO FIND THEIR OWN VOICE AND LOOK?  Make what you want to make not what you think you should make. Let it come out, don't think about it too much.  Art is another language, not one of words and ideas.

 

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My favorite compliment is, where can i cheapest Modalert (Brand) online, Modalert (Brand) 800mg, 875mg, 900mg, “I’ve never seen anything like this before.” I wrote a blog post in January 2010 called “Signature Style” (http://kiefferceramics.com/2010/01/05/signature-style//) that delves into this subject a bit, and remains the most commented-on post I’ve written, where can i Modalert (Brand) online. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Las Vegas, Nevada, I also recently re-wrote my artist statement, which I think explains my perspective about my current pots fairly well:

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(My full statement can be read here.) (http://kiefferceramics.com/bio/artist-statement/)

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What is the inspiration for your pieces. Modalert (Brand) FOR SALE, Most of the blogging I do on my website is about my influences. The blog is obviously a marketing tool, but it’s also a place for me to communicate to my collectors, gather my thoughts by having to write them down, and catalog my inspiration. My influences are rarely ceramic and vary wildly (architecture to candy, industrial design to furniture, etc.), as I mention in my artist statement above. I’m now keeping track of influence images for future blog posts on Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/kiefferceramics/). And, starting with my post about the title for my exhibition (http://kiefferceramics.com/2011/09/12/lovely-intangibles/) at Plinth this month, there are dozens of blog posts on my site about my influences (http://kiefferceramics.com/category/influences/) and favorites (http://kiefferceramics.com/category/favorites// ): separate and sometimes overlapping categories for things that impact my work vs. things I admire. 

 How does your DVD on surface decoration relate to your workshops?

The DVD (http://kiefferceramics.com/dvd/ ) was a neat, independent project that is a great compliment to my teaching, Modalert (Brand) FOR SALE. The response has been tremendous and supportive. Since it came out last year, many folks who purchased it have been enticed to take a full workshop. And many more who took a workshop have purchased it as reminder of what they learned. The DVD has sold all over the world, and while I’d certainly be happy flying anywhere and everywhere to teach, this instructional video has allowed folks who can’t come for a workshop the opportunity to see some of the techniques I enjoy in a personal format.

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I think being a self-employed anything requires a certain kind of personality, an inner drive. I strive to continue to be a studio potter, so how to do that (and pay the bills) is on-going motivation.

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I’ve noticed that the pots in your postcards have always been in “action”. Was this the start of the pots in action idea.
When I first set up my website in 2001, one of my central ideas was to show pots outside the standard gray gradated background. While gray works well to focus attention on the pot itself and has its place, it somehow felt disingenuous to present pots in this singular way, Ayur Slim Weight Regulator FOR SALE. From writings by Mingei artists, the ceramics community had already absorbed the idea of every day beauty and so it seemed like a natural progression to show pots as they really are. Like any other object, they live in the world we present, as well as in our mess. They live off in the corner and then circulate on to the table with some lovely morsel of food on them. Underscoring their place in our imperfect realities and showing how people really fall in love with them felt like a great way to champion pots.

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What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look.
Reflection is great, but good work doesn’t come from a lot of thought alone, so work every single day whether you want to or not. And don’t forget to turn off the cell phone, iphone, ipad, tv, computer, etc…and now if I could just listen to my own advice…

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I’m posting my interview a little differently, Fort Worth, Texas. Denver, Colorado, Jonathan Kaplan was so kind to play guest interviewer and gave me some questions to answer.  His questions will be designated by –JK at the end of the question.  And just to be fair I answered my own questions that I have been asking artists for a year.  They are the second part of the interview.  I tried not to overlap answers, so if you read the entire interview you will have learned more than you would EVER want to know about me. 

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My greatest satisfaction comes from thoroughly filling surfaces with color and finely detailed decoration.  My decorations start with the lettering since it is done while the piece is leather hard and the rest of the decoration is finished during glazing.  Decoration and the act of decorating are essential because it celebrates and enhances form and speaks purely of aesthetics.  I use pottery as a vehicle to explore decoration and other formal questions.  It allows me to investigate form, space and image. 

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What or who inspires you?

Thomas Hart Benton and Gustav Klimt.

How do you maintain a healthy work and life balance?

I definitely don’t have a balance. I am a full time art teacher at a public school, a three year old, and I’m trying to be a professional artist, I am definitely pulled from all directions. 

 I go full blast for months then I stop.  Then go back to full blast again.  But definitely I would not be able to what I do without my wonderful husband, Todd.  He supports me totally and completely. 

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I have learned the business of art through trial and error.  And I still don’t really do the” business” part yet.  But I do keep my resume and portfolios updated and have a website, blog and Facebook page.  I’m not fond of doing the business end of being an artist.  I generally take time off from the studio, when I apply for solo shows, juried shows and fellowships; I try to get a bunch of applications and then do them all at once. 

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Go to you studio and work and work and work!  Try 10 or 20 variations to an idea, keep pushing an idea.  Don’t just stop at making one, work in a series.  So often I hear people say, “This summer I’ll make art.”  When I retire, I’m make art.”  When my kids get older I’ll make art.”  If you want to make art, just do it.  I do miss TV, socializing, and shopping.  (and many other activities)  I have whittled down my life to what is important to me, (family, art, work.)  But unfortunately I still don’t have it down or balanced.  And I feel like I miss out on a lot, but I am doing what I love.  Thank you Todd for all that you do for me! You are the love of my life!  We have the most incredible family.

 

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I look at art the way I look at music.  Most bands start out aping their favorite bands and over time they develop into their own band with their own style.  Nick Derington, a comic book artist and animator, once told me to stand on the shoulder of giants.  Meaning, look at the past and all of the great work that has come before; look to them for inspiration and use them as a foundation to build your own style upon.

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Reception with the Artist --First Friday, April 1st, 6 – 9pm  also open Second Saturday, April 9, 2011  noon-9pm

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I use the sgraffito technique a great deal in my work. The sgraffito technique (applying black underglaze painting, then scratching the details off on the wet clay surface) was passed along to me by a friend in a ceramic class at a community college in Los Angeles about fifteen years ago. The technique offers endless possibilities, and a fond memory of wonderful friends in those classes, Captopril FOR SALE. Fort Worth, Texas. Denver, Colorado,

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What I learned on the way was that setting your short-term and long-term goal is important to keep your emotions healthy. Comparing yourself with other artists and their successes are something that easily makes us vulnerable and scared, but it’s so hard to avoid, Captopril 500mg, especially if you are still in your development stage and not sure about yourself, this could be really painful. When it happens to me, I just have to tell myself that I have my own goals to achieve; they are on the way, everything’s cool, where can i Captopril online. Rejections will keep happening, but we can develop a way to accept it.

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This series is my quiet resistant against the current political situation in our time, of isolation and confrontation. Captopril snort, alcohol iteraction, Seems like we can use more of those reminders about how similar we are now than ever by using small conversations instead of abstract fear and anger.

So my fake China teapots come with two sides: one in Chinese/Japanese proverb, another in English equivalent (or a saying that has the precisely same nuance). It is my attempt to construct a little shaky bridge over the gap and start conversations about so many profound ideas we share even in different languages and cultures. I hope this series of work will be a good reminder to everyone that no matter where the origin was, things that appeal to us will become universal eventually, if they have a good use. So please use my teapot to serve a cup of green tea, maybe from Starbucks.  

Thanks Yoko, I'm really looking forward to meeting you and taking your workshop!.

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We have been making our pottery together for 35 years. Our studio is nestled on a hillside in Mars Hill, no prescription Cialis Soft pills online, Australia, uk, us, usa, 25 miles north of the Asheville. The open studio space we work in invites the creativity into our style of work, Cialis Soft pills FOR SALE. Presently we are working on decorative work for the home and office, El Paso, Texas. Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington. Online buying Cialis Soft pills, We work as a team in both the design and the making of the pieces. Some pieces pass back and forth and others are done individually, Cialis Soft pills 75mg. Cialis Soft pills price,

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What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look.
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Thank you!!  I hope you found more fans in the ceramic world.

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