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Jeremy Mayer transforms typewriters into arresting, anatomically-correct sculpture ...
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In 2005 Sangjoon Park had an epiphany. He looked at a pile of bowls on a table in his studio and suddenly understood that they were art. Never before had he considered these ceramic pieces to be anything more than utilitarian. “At that moment I realized these bowls—my training foundation—made me an artist long ago,” Park says. “Most of us are in constant search for a new joy and we forget to appreciate what we have. This is how I came to a new appreciation of my work.”
Thus began Park’s 2005 bowl series , a combination of white porcelain and ...
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Susan Hoge made her name creating beaded jewelry in gemstones and gold. At the height of her success, she went back to school for a “radical change.” Now 46, she has gone in a provocative new direction—beadwork that’s beautiful but not pretty, such as her Chordata ____ series, 2007-2008.
“I wanted to shake myself up, make something different,” she says of her decision to enroll at Cranbrook Academy of Art, not far from her Michigan home. The detour wasn’t really out of character for Hoge, a free spirit at heart. Though she’s a disciplined master of her craft, meticulous about materials, ...
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All her life Meredith Brickell has been sensitive to her surroundings. “For me, the thread that connects my work is observations of place,” she says. Her early backdrops were pastoral—the New Jersey farm she grew up on, the prairies of Nebraska, where she attended college.
When she moved her studio to an industrial neighborhood in downtown Raleigh, NC, “my thinking shifted. The urban landscape has been a new source of inspiration, even though it is a very different aesthetic,” she says. “For a long time, I was only interested in beautiful, isolated, rural spaces. But I am increasingly interested in the ...
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Mandi King thrives on change. And in her 29 years, the glass artist has changed a lot.
As she moved from ceramics to glass and from the United States to Adelaide, Australia, King knew the fears of any young artist. "But I thrive on major paradigm shifts," she said recently, on one of her regular trips back home. "I thrive on putting myself in new contexts."
King grew up in Columbus, Ohio, with parents who nurtured her creativity from a young age, taking her and her two younger siblings to craft fairs, museums, and gallery hops. "I was one of those kids ...
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