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Marty Ray |
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| "August Winds"
13" X 10" X 10"
stoneware, slip & glaze |
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| "City Skies"
18" X 9" X 9"
stoneware, slip & glaze |
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| "Picasso's Studio"
6" X 7" X 7"
stoneware, slip & glaze |
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| Artist's Statement |
As a young artist, my mother let me paint scenes on our living room
walls. Today I paint and draw on pottery that I create. Art experiences
since childhood always involved drawing and painting. After college,
I began serious work with clay, bringing along a heavy background in
drawing, printmaking, painting and design. For over 25 years, the
primary focus of my work has involved integrating ceramic form with
drawings inspired by life (and art).
In forming my pots, I work on the wheel. I play with proportions of the
belly, neck and lip of the pot. Bottle and gourd-like vessels are favorit
forms. When the clay surface has hardened, I draw (carve) directly on
the clay, allowing the imagery to evolve and grow around, up and
down the pottery. I often draw (carve) through dark slip (liquid clay)
that has been applied at leatherhead stage to a white clay body.
I carve through the dark slip to reveal the contrasting white clay,
giving attention to the negative and positive shapes of the design
Sometimes I paint bits of colored underglaze here and there on top
of the black slip. My pottery is fired to a stoneware (high fire) Cone 6
temperature.
A lifetime of ART-doing, ART-looking and ART-teaching influences the
drawings of my pottery. Art exhibits, art schools and gallery scenes
are used as themes often, and at times, neighborhood and city scenes
as well as events of the day influence the drawing for the work.
Abstracted branches, leaves, houses, figures, and art objects can
sometimes all be found twirling around in an abstract dance around
my pottery.
Directly related to the pottery drawings, on October 2006, I created a
design for a large outdoor mural located at the Catholic Foundation
Park on Flora Street across from the Meyerson Symphony Hall. The mural
is titled *Celebrate Life, Celebrate Art*. The celebration of ART and LIFE
seems to sum up perfectly the main theme that runs through all of m
work presently.
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