Mark Pharis Ceramics

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Mark pharis ceramics.

Saw these wonderful ceramics by ruth duckworth. Oct 21 2015 ceramic artist mark pharis work is featured in the november 2015 issue of ceramics monthly. Posted on august 10 2014 by clmpottery. Mark pharis is known for wheel thrown stoneware high fired functional pottery created in his early career and from the early 1990s onward for slab built low fired earthenware utilitarian objects.

His process owes much to the traditions of patternmaking found in sewing and sheet metal work. He lives and works in western wisconsin s heartland. 34 no 2 70 71 2003. His three dimensional forms are handbuilt using two dimensional paper patterns.

Mark pharis the last supper santa fe. 50 no 6 october 2010 43 photograph casual geometry. Mark pharis pottery. Mark pharis is an american ceramic artist and professor residing in roberts wisconsin pharis is the chair of the department of art at the university of minnesota where he has been a faculty member since 1985.

We spent the day at canyon road. Posted on july 29. Pharis uses paper templates to develop components of slab built works. Mark began his career at the university of minnesota with warren mackenzie in 1967 and after working as an independent potter for.

Cluster of vases 32 in. Pharis was a student of warren mackenzie. Mark pharis is a minnesota potter. 81 cm in length earthenware 2012.

Joseph s of santa fe jun kaneko mark pharis pottery ruth duckworth santa fe santa fe clay workshop leave a reply santa fe continued. Whether clad in a dark monochrome that seems to strain vessel walls with the weight of cast iron or painted in a balmy portofino palette of pink lime green and yellow orange warm as the midday stucco of villages far away the slab constructed vessels of mark pharis raise impressions of surfaces that one. Mark pharis upfront section. He was chair of the art department from 1998 2004.

From 2005 2008 he was associate dean in the college of liberal arts. Mark has a long history of innovation in his work. Pharis studied ceramics at the university of minnesota minneapolis with warren mackenzie.