Richard Shaw Spring 2010 ceramics presentation

Jeff Albrecht

Like can you say Wow! ??

Richard Shaw is a master of trompe-l’oeil sculpture. trompe-l’oeil is french for “trick the eye” (see this Wikipedia entry) Check out this very cool video from KQED a PBS television station in San Francisco on Richard. Did you see all those molds? I tried a mold this quarter wrote a bit about it here.

While attempting to find the dimensions of the couch pictured below I ran across this article about an art dealer, Ruth Braunstein, in San Francisco you may find interesting. I never could find those dimensions. I might have to try the Library Lee! :-)

Hopefully this summer I’ll have a chance to write about the benefit of having made a quantity of the same object and how that process refined the finished object and eased the production burden in time and effort. But I digress…

Well just a second now, as long as I’m digressing as I mentioned in my verbal presentation I’m looking for an artist with digital skills to concept logo and other site images and themes for a new web presence I’m developing: “FlashMobMashUp” (see this post about Microsoft Web camp and my pitch) I’m a Entrepreneur software developer (www.iea-software.com) and am expanding and diversifying our product range. I’ve just begun an intern program at IEA to develop web sites. This program is open to not only student computer programmers but writers and artists as well. Please email jeffa at iea-software dot com or a comment on this blog if interested.

Last quarter I made an apple pie glazed with Waxy Oatmeal, this quarter some spaghetti by extruding clay onto a pie plate made from a mold found at the SFCC ceramics studio. The spaghetti was Carbon trap chino. I don’t think I quite got the Trompe-l’oeil as they don’t look specifically like the real thing.

For instance here are a few from Richard Shaw. Note the political comment in the plate. Art – ya gota love it! Often so much more you can say with art than with words.

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Awards

1988    Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco Art Institute
1987    Visiting Artist Grant, Manufacture National De Sevres, Paris, France
1974    National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1970    National Endowment for the Arts Crafts Grant
Education

1968     M.F.A. University of California, Davis
1965     B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
            State University of New York at Alfred