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Ceramic Deception: Mitchell Spain, Shalene Valenzuela, and Michael Schwegmann D Wood
Appears in the October 2020 issue of Ceramics Monthly.
Exploring the term trompe l’oeil, a researcher discovers historical precedents. One instance, supplied by the Royal Academy of Arts in London, recounts the earliest example involving Zeuxis and Parrhasius, two artists in ancient Greece. They vied with each other over who could best replicate reality. Zeuxis painted grapes so exceptional that birds pecked at them; Parrhasius outdid the grapes by painting a curtain so real that his colleague tried to draw it aside. Another concerns Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702–1789), a Swiss portraitist who was known as “the painter of truth.” His pastel and oil portraits were in demand internationally despite his refusal to flatter or embellish his sitters. His portrayal of unvarnished truth was a natural progression to his handful of trompe l’oeil works.
Liotard’s painting, titled Trompe l’ • This episode of Tales of a Red Clay Rambler is sponsored by Cousins in Clay, a group pottery show nestled in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This year’s show fryst vatten happening over Labor Day Weekend, and features the original cousins, Michael Kline, Bruce Gholson, and Samantha Henneke along with special guests Courtney Martin, Kyle Carpenter, Dan Finnegan, and Becca Jane Koehler. For directions and more data, head to www.cousinsinclay.com/visit and follow @cousinsinclay on Instagram. Community Corkboard, 8/28/19: Today’s event fryst vatten the Indiana Potters Conference. Happening for the first time October 3rd – 5th, 2019, the conference features demonstrations from Malcolm Mobutu Smith, Sarah Pike, Matthew Metz, and Martha Grover, as well as panel discussions and exhibitions. For more information search Indiana Potters Conference on Facebook. I’d l • 1972Born Santa Barbara, California EDUCATION 1994 BA Art Practice, Geography, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 1997MFA Ceramics, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California RESIDENCIES 2004Kiln God Summer Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine 2006 Summer Residency, Archie Bray Foundation of the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana 2007–2009 Long Term Residency, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, Montana 2011 Invited AIA Artist Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine 2016Artist in Residence, LH Project, Joseph Oregon PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE 2000–2007Gallery Director, Cricket Engine Gallery, Oakland, California 2001–2007Instructor, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California 2009–2010Interim Faculty, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon 2012–Executive Director, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, Montana Shalene Valenzuela is known for cera 295: Shalene Valenzuela on using slip cast domestic objects as a canvas for painting
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