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Untitled (2008) by Melissa Pavolvic

One of my favorites in the eciad 2008 undergrad show is Melissa’s work shown here. She has been working on the ceramic deer head theme pretty much for her last year or so in eciad and I think in this work she has found the good balance between visual arts, design and craft. Oh she also has an etsy page as well, though the stuff on her etsy page doesn’t really do her skills justice.

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“What’s up with the China in Chinatown?” (2008) by Nicole Leong

My exhibition speaks about the history of Chinese ceramics. Yet, it also speaks to many people now about breaking out of stereotypes and overlooking the handmade as commodities. I believe my work pushes the boundaries of tradition and brings it into the modern world allowing a broad range of people to access this rich history as well as to experience what it is like to live in such a diverse city. By using the imagery of the dragon and the teapot, they become vessels into two different worlds.

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In a previous post I mentioned that I’d update once I get more information about this wheatpaste work. I have the update now, and it ain’t pretty:  it’s actually a viral marketing to promote the new Vespa S in Canada.  I have fallen victim to a marketing scheme and I am sure it won’t be the last time.  Still, I feel quite shitty about this so forgive me for not linking to Vespa’s site.

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Continuing with the theme of undergrad exhibition 2008 in Emily Carr University (which is coming to a end today), the work featured this time is Margaret Matsuyama’s ceramic dolls.

I am drawn to work which evokes memory, childhood experience, and the formation of identity. In particular, I am interested in exploring the experience of puberty, and the repression of identity when one does not conform to social norms. I work with slip cast porcelain and the process of mold making to create multiples, altering each slightly. The drawing and illustration on each figure and their size are meant to evoke childhood experience. Through making the work, other themes are unfolding such as similarity and difference, individuality and conformity, and uniqueness and mass production. My desire is for a continuation of these unexpected realizations.

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I apologize for not having the attribution for this work. I went to see the undergrad exhibition in Emily Carr University (yeah it’s an university now) today and took these photos, and totally forgot to get the designer’s name and contact info. The official undergrad site is here but it’s not very well designed and the navigation is quite difficult.

2 more images (Savage Garden and Johnny Cash) after the click.

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This work is in Emily Carr Foundation Show 08 (April 18th to 27th). Attribution will be added later since the name is not legible in my photos (ugh…). Follow to see the whole work. Read more »

Continuing from part 1 of the talk, I am posting the rest of the slides. I realized that this isn’t the best format to present a talk, and will come up with something better next time. Continue to see more images and some captions. Read more »

As promised, I am putting up a post (actually 2) on Denise Pelletier’s talk yesterday at Emily Carr. Instead of some by-the-minute recap, I am only putting up images for you to see. Before you go and look at the images, let me just say that her work revolves around two major themes: sex and death. And her medium of choice is ceramics because it’s “accessible, intimate, and abstract.” Jump to see the many photos. Read more »

This series is by Jeremy Hatch, my studio mentor in ECIAD and one of the artists I admire. I love how his work always requires a certain level of technical perfection and challenge. Moreover, I admire how he hates to be seen “the guy who does the mechanical pots” and has moved on to other aesthetics and ideas even though the Ceramech was a huge success. He’s just finished a residency at European Ceramic Workcentre and is currently enjoying a long term residency at Archie Bray Foundation, and from what he told me, we can expect to see his new work online fairly soon. Meanwhile, jump to see more photos from the Ceramech series. Read more »