Visions In Clay 2023
Lois Harbaugh
Bio:
Lois Harbaugh creates her ceramic work in series emphasizing concepts. She is interested in the vessel: its myriad forms and names, its role as cultural symbol, its ability to carry cultural information.
Lois Harbaugh works out of a home studio in Bellevue, WA. High-fire work is fired to cone 10 in the gas kilns at Kirkland Arts Center.
Artist Statement:
The two plates of “Figuring Out Ceramics” literally took a decade plus to make: low-fire drawing and underglaze decoration were added to slab plates high-fired long ago. The high-fired parabola image came from margin imagery in an old dictionary. The low-fire line drawing of handles and spouts came from the discovery that it is fun to draw vessels as well as build them.
“Cut Cup” came from an experiment of altering my signature cup into abstraction. How much could I slice and dice my cup and still have it read as a cup? Could I alter my cup —possibly losing function — and hit that territory where something is freshly seen, but has the ring of the archetype? Could I make my abstraction iconic?
Cut Cup
Terra Cotta press molded cup, sliced with slab added, and double handles. Surfaced with terra sigillatte.
3.5”H x 6”W x 4.2”D
2022
$350
Figuring Out Ceramics
Two cone 10 stoneware plates with low-fire decoration glaze, (pencil and underglazes added years later).
12”H x 12”W x 1.5”D each (plexi plate holder is 4” deep)
2023
$500 (set)
Exhibition Season:
Visions in Clay 2023