Gingell Ceramics-Handbuilt fucntional ceramics with attitude.

So yesterday I joined the International Gallery of Contemporary Art. I’m excited. Seems like a nice space with a good group of people. They are located at 427 D Street and are open Tues-Sun from 12-4. The gallery is currently showing :

Julie Decker
LUCK: New Works in Painting

and in the GUEST ROOM:
Meredith Cantor-Feller
SIGHT UNSEEN

If you haven’t visited this gallery already I’d highly recommend a trip. I haven’t found any other space like this in Anchorage. It’s a great place to see some good contemporary art work.

2011 Poster Contest
AIFF seeks poster design submissions from Alaska residents, and will give the winning designer a $300 cash award along with two all-festival passes for the 2011 event.

Ok. I have to say. $300 plus two all-festival passes sounds dreamy!!! Who would not love this prize?! I checked out past years posters and I must say..not shabby..

The deadline is June 15, so I’d recommend getting at it now, so you can make something nice and pretty, or better yet, something so cool it will blow the socks right of the feet of the contest’s judges plus anyone who has a mere glimpse of the poster. So that’s a challenge to you and to me too I guess. Better get at it.

Here are more of the details:

Please submit designs electronically as jpegs or pdfs no less than 600 dpi. The image size should be no smaller than 11 x 17, and the chosen design will need to be available in its original file with layers intact so that AIFF can revise to fit different marketing and merchandise materials.

Send submissions to dawnell@anchoragefilmfestival.org. The deadline is June 15.

Here’s the festival website: www.anchoragefilmfestival.org
And here’s more info. on the poster design contest itself.

Good luck to you!

The studio is at an all time high in terms of messiness this week!

It’s packing time for a show in Las Vegas and I’m literally up to my knees in bubble wrap, peanuts and boxes in the living room/packing and shipping room. Mix in two big Labradors that run the place and you get the idea. Soon things will return to a reasonable level of normalcy, if we ever get it clean. We always clean up the place for the neighbor who looks after the dogs while we are away.

This week I’m thinking about color. Honestly I’ve always been a bit nervous about using color. I just feel like there really is so much to learn and know. I’ve always used color very sparingly (as many of my friends and family are sure to tell you) Currently I’m working primarily with black and white with a vibrant splash or lime green or red here and there. This works for me and I don’t find it to overwhelming so for the time being, I’m going to stick with this.

I see a lot of potential with using more color but not right now. In the last couple of years I’ve become less afraid of color but still have a ways to go. This may somewhat account for the color of our house-black of course-but I love it. Black and white just seems to works with everything.

I do find yellow and green to be my two favorite colors. The thing I love about the Pacific Northwest is all the beautiful greenery that is around. I’m looking out the window right now and wow…

What colors do you like for the ceramics?

Hey who wants to go shopping in Clarksville, Maryland? Art Partners Gallery is a leading gallery in their part of Maryland. They are now carrying our products so stop on by and see what they have. If it’s not there they can custom order it for you. These folks are top notch.

Art Partners Gallery
6363 Ten Oaks Road
Clarksville, Maryland 21029
(410) 531-5366
www.artpartnersgallery.com

OK, this stuff rocks, it’s precision and repetition at its best. Wow this is the sleek and precision that just brings it all in. For me, her stuff is wow neat and she appears to be very successful, with a gigantic catalog of product, but so not me. I’m not clinical precision, I’m not repetition heck It’s hard even for me to produce the same shape twice.

I don’t know how many times people ask for an exact copy of an item like I can just pump it out of a factory somewhere in my factory. Even If I do try and copy exactly something the piece ends up more often than not without a soul. It has no vigor or vibrancy. You can see I was tensed up trying to reproduce. I’m great at making variations of items with difference views and looks that give a similar theme, but the sleek precision reproduction is not in my soul. I’m a creative exploring one that loves to try the next new thing.

Hey head on over to the New Morning Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina and pick up genuine Gingell Ceramics. These fantastic folks have a spectacular gallery. They are leaders in the art world in this part of the state. We’re very excited they now are carrying our ceramics.

New Morning Gallery
7 Boston Way
Asheville, North Carolina 28803
(828) 274-2831

Today I found out that I got accepted to the Bellevue Arts Museum Artsfair Show. Yippee!!! I’m so excited. Here’s a link to show’s website.

Happy smiling person today…now after writing this starting to hyperventilate…now panic… Holy cow! Yikes! Come see me there. Please?

July 23 – July 25

Today I found out that I’ve been invited to the Philadelphia Art Museum show!! I’m so excited that I’m almost sick to my stomach.

To be very honest, I’m always very intimidated by everyone at these shows, and looking at the amazing work of all the other artists is pretty stressful to me. I’m sooo incredibly excited and happy but, pretty stressed about the preparation as well. Wow…

Guess I better get ceramic making. How does this happen? I think I’m on my way…yeeeheee! Happy Dance time. Yeah!