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I’ve ventured into new territory: jewelry! Come by...

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:16:26 -0400

I’ve ventured into new territory: jewelry! Come by Renegade Craft Fair on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12. I’ll be there in booth 27, hawking these wares! More photos at http://www.flickr.com/julietg

Selling my pottery wares again on December 4th, at 242 Wythe...

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:32:00 -0500

Selling my pottery wares again on December 4th, at 242 Wythe Avenue #6, from 12-5p. (The entrance is on N. 3rd Street.)

There will be beautiful stuff from Mociun, Shabd, Baggu, Bodkin, Lauren Manoogian, Aesa, Alyson Fox, Whit, Mociun + Corwin, Fog Linen Work and Lines & Shapes.

More pics at julietgorman.com.

I’m selling my ceramics for the first time ever, this...

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:53:00 -0400

I’m selling my ceramics for the first time ever, this Saturday, at a sale at Lena Corwin’s studio. 218 Adelphi Street in Fort Greene.

The sale goes from 12-5pm, and I’ll be there in person for *the first two hours*. If this sounds like your kind of thing, come on by! I think I’ll be the only potter — there will be clothing, jewelry, prints and other home goods, all made by independent designers. Lena is an excellent curator.

Other designers include:
Caitlin Mociun
Aesa Jewelry
Wiksten
Wayne Pate
Manu Jewelry
Sunshine & Shadow
Bodkin
Deadly Squire
Shabd

Favorites from a really nice Flickr set of photographs taken...

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:55:00 -0400

Favorites from a really nice Flickr set of photographs taken while train hopping. (Found on For Me, For You.)

Another artist I like, one I don’t know much about:...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:05:00 -0500

Another artist I like, one I don’t know much about: Ritsuko Ozeki. I’ve had her work bookmarked for months now and keep returning back to look at it.

Zach’s been quietly amassing a collection of awesome...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:32:57 -0500

Zach’s been quietly amassing a collection of awesome pictures. There’s geometry and color, stillness and motion, people and upside-down empty landscapes. I curated a Flickr gallery with some of my favorites.

Another in the Potters I Like series: Lauren Adams of White Bike...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:53:59 -0500

Another in the Potters I Like series: Lauren Adams of White Bike Ceramics. She works with porcelain, and for a long time purchased her clay from a doll manufacturer. That clay gave her pieces the most amazingly smooth, fine surface texture. They barely needed glaze. I own a little black teacup but what I really want is a teapot. I love the drippy joint she gave to that spout in this picture.

Last summer I got really nostalgic about sunprints, a flashback...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:50:09 -0500

Last summer I got really nostalgic about sunprints, a flashback from my childhood.

Leslie Giuliani’s cyanotypes on cloth tickle the same fancy. She takes old bed sheets and coats them with a light sensitive emulsion. Then lays down paper cutouts and exposes them, to produce a silhouette of the object on that classic cyanotype blue. I love!

I’m not much for her other work, but you can peruse.

Last night we saw the documentary In A Dream after Sarah Kramer...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:05:10 -0500

Last night we saw the documentary In A Dream after Sarah Kramer recommended it. (That’s her second appearance here!)

It chronicles the life and work of the filmmaker’s father — a mosaic artist who has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with murals — and his tumultuous relationship with his wife. It’s dramatic and loving and beautiful.

I’m growing to love documentary portraits of artists. What’s necessary is that the filmmaking be as accomplished and inspired as the artist’s work. Two other favorites are What Remains (Sally Mann) and Rivers and Tides (Andy Goldsworthy).

Amazing knitwear by Annie Larson. I wish I was in Minneapolis...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:05:00 -0500

Amazing knitwear by Annie Larson. I wish I was in Minneapolis today; then I could see the opening of a collective project with her work, called New Land of Milk and Honey. It sounds awesome: “We will unveil our current progress in knitting, electronic sleep, ley/tectonic farm acceleration, synesthesia, painting, solar wave exchange, prenatal learning, cryptoceramics, enlargened creativity, and chronobiology.”

I’m really blown away by Sally Nencini’s embroidery...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:54:00 -0500

I’m really blown away by Sally Nencini’s embroidery and upholstery work. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a chair like this made for an occasion like a new house, marriage or birth of a child?

Went to the Outsider Art Fair yesterday. There was a ton of...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:51:00 -0500

Went to the Outsider Art Fair yesterday. There was a ton of work, most of it in the naive style. Some big names, like Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Bill Traylor, even two paintings by Grandma Moses, which were very cool to see in person.

I most responded to a small collection of paintings by Paul Esparza — one of 11 children, mentally retarded. Sorry for the lame iPhone pics, there are more at his gallery but only low-res. (Pick out his work in the corner of this shot from an NYT slideshow.)

His gallerist told me that he paints about his obsessions: transportation, futuristic forms, architecture. He likes lamps (so do I). Sadly, I just couldn’t justify buying anything, even though it was all really moderately priced.

Elliott has released his latest video project. It’s a...

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:31:00 -0500

Elliott has released his latest video project. It’s a short documentary about his mom, feathered friends and memory.

Pairs of images of Orozco’s sculpture and prints. I love...

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:09:00 -0500

Pairs of images of Orozco’s sculpture and prints. I love his clusters of objects, which you can see here in one of his apartments and then reproduced in a museum installation. The story of Mobile Matrix, the whale skeleton he excavated and decorated in graphite lines, is pretty amazing. (I love this Flickr photo of it installed at the Museum of Modern Art.) MoMA called his work “mysteriously poetic and bluntly material,” and I have to agree. The Times and The New Yorker both wrote up the retrospective.

Today I saw the Gabriel Orozco exhibit at the Museum of Modern...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:28:00 -0500

Today I saw the Gabriel Orozco exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. I wasn’t familiar with his work and I loved it, especially the sculpture. (And this 1992 photograph cracked me up.) The MoMA site linked here is worth digging through, and if I find some good images of his clay work and inky Rorschach-y prints, I’ll add here.

I found the work of Katrin Möller, a German painter, on a blog...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:31:00 -0400

I found the work of Katrin Möller, a German painter, on a blog I’m loving called But Does It Float (thank you, Aya). She says she likes to portray particles and arrangements. There is more about her at the Rule Gallery.

Next in the Potters I Like series, Victoria Morris. Besides the...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:00 -0400

Next in the Potters I Like series, Victoria Morris. Besides the obvious reasons (ie: it’s beautiful), her work caught my eye because her glazes and forms remind me of principles I’ve been striving for in my own, still crude work.

You know when you look at a piece of art or craft and think, I could do that? I don’t mean to imply it’s easy — in fact on her site she says, “It’s hard to imagine how much work goes into making simplicity just right.” I’m sure she agonizes over these. But for a long time I felt I didn’t have a natural instinct for ceramics, so moments like these are important to me.

I recently posted a collection of portraits and memorabilia from...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:30:00 -0400

I recently posted a collection of portraits and memorabilia from my grandmother’s opera career. She was a soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the ’30s and ’40s.

I recently ordered a book from a Dutch online seller that I...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:09:00 -0400

I recently ordered a book from a Dutch online seller that I first discovered in college: Ayako Miyawaki: The Art of Japanese Applique. The term refers to the technique of sewing one fabric on top of the surface of another. Sounds simple — she did it to ecstatic results, working with everyday used materials like worn clothing or rags. Above is “Onion Cut in Two” from 1965.

Reading

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:54:00 -0400

Important Artifacts… is a meticulous reconstruction of a fictional couple’s failed love affair, disguised as an auction catalog. It’s a quick read through the material record of their relationship, and it’s filled with tiny pleasures and recognitions. (It’s also exhaustingly high-stylish.)