Slab Construction

This is my slab construction. My idea was totally  different compared to this . When I was smoothing our the sides  the top part of the mouth fell off and I found it really difficult to attach back together so I decided to just leave it like that and paint  the inside black. Once it’s glazed it should turn out to be blue. 

Jun Kaneko (Ceramics Artist) Research

Jun Kaneko

Biography: 

Jun Kaneko was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942. During his adolescence he studied painting with Satoshi Ogawa. In 1963, he came to the United States to be able to continue his study in ceramics at Chouinard Institute of Art. Ten years after that he taught at some of the nations leading schools including, Scripps College, Rhode Island School of Design, and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Over the course of his career he has partnered with industrial facilities to create hand-built sculptures. His first project was the Omaha Project at Omaha Brickworks which was completed in 1983. Pittsburg Project was completed in 2004-2007. He was working at the Cuernavaca Raku ceramics studio, in which he experimented with new glazes. His artwork is in more than seventy museum collections. Jun Kaneko has earned doctorates from the University of Nebraska, Royal College of art in London, and the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. He has also designed the sets and costumes for the opera Madame Butterfly, which was recently presented by The Washington National Opera and The San Francisco Opera Winter of 2016 and Spring 2017. In 1998, Kaneko and his wife opened a non-profit cultural organization to serve the community as an open space for creativity, KANEKO.

This is an untitled hand-glazed project by Jun Kaneko. Jun Kaneko created this in 2003. This project is in the shape of a head that has squares randomly spotted on it.

The artist uses the colors black, white, and grey. Jun Kaneko uses the repitition of black. In his project, he uses squares to capture thr viewers attention. He also uses a mixture of dark and light tones.

The artist is trying to express to us that he prefers using patterns. The curved shapes derive from some of his other work such as his "Egyptian Queen," "Egyptian King," and "Haiku." In one of Kaneko's interviews he stated that he is uncertain of what inspired him to create these projects.

I chose this certain project because the design and the shape stood out to me. Especially the shape, because it is very rare to see an artist work with a shape in form of a head. The artist is communicating with us by using patterns, colors, and rhythm. 

Coil Pot

I like the overall design of my coil pot. The only thing I did not like were the colors I chose because when it got glazed the colors changed to another color. I believe that the black on my pot was supposed to be grey.

Emoji Piggy Bank (rattle)

This was my first project in Ceramics. I decided to start with something small and go from there. I really like how it turned out but I wish I would've made it look more like a sphere because it takes me a long time for it to sit in place.