Category Archives: Ceramics

Sonia Pulido

July 8, 2016 12:02 AM \

SoniaPulidoWe love the ceramic pieces created by Sonia Pulido. The Barcelona-based artist is known for her illustrations but we chose to feature these whimsical and delicate porcelains. She says this about herself on Ana Yael art gallery:

“I am an illustrator, and I could not be anything else but an illustrator. Sometimes, however, I would turn my back on it all, and set up a small avant-garde flower-shop, ha. I am restless by nature. I need to try other applications of illustrations, this is when I discover the wonderful world of ceramics. The idea is to relate the illustration with a tridimensional object. The pieces should have functional or decorative purpose. Nature, the feminine, the symbolic are the issues developed in those many objects. The object and the illustration are made one for another, the intention is to look for simplicity, the essential, in the form and in the stories that the pieces evoke.”

You can see and follow her work on her website, blog and Facebook.

Images: Courtesy of Sonia Pulido.

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Posted in: Ceramics, Illustration

Li Xiaofeng

June 23, 2016 12:02 AM \

Li-XiaofengChinese artist, Li Xiaofeng repurposes ceramic shards to create these traditional Chinese costumes. The artist cleans the pieces, drills holes in them and ties them with wire to construct these wearable pieces. On an interview with Yatzer he describes the steps in making the sculptures:

“Firstly, composing the piece is a process. I must reflect a lot about it. I must make a rough sketch, compose, reject it and start again. Sometimes, I straightaway use Plasticene or wire to create a model. After this, after confirming the period of the shards, I classify the colour of the patterns, then put together a rough arrangement of the shards, cut and polish each piece. This is a very repetitive process. I must pay close attention to the modelling as well as the original pattern colour of the shards. I then must weld the pieces and make the final adjustments.”

The artist does not have a website but a few of his pieces and short biography can be found at Red Gate Gallery.

Images: Courtesy of Li Xiaofeng.

Posted in: Ceramics, Sculpture

Junko Kitamura

April 1, 2016 12:02 AM \

JunkoKitamuraCeramist Junko Kitamura lives and works in Kyoto. Her stoneware are held in many public collections, including the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Houston Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum of Art. She starts her pieces with simple geometric forms thrown on a potter’s wheel. After applying black slip to the clay body, she painstakingly impresses the clay with patterns then inlays it with white slip, marrying traditional techniques with modern sensibilities.

Images: Courtesy of Junko Kitamura.

Posted in: Ceramics, Japan
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