Mark Pharis Ceramics

He was chair of the art department from 1998 2004.

Mark pharis ceramics. Mark pharis pottery. Posted on august 10 2014 by clmpottery. Mark pharis the last supper santa fe. Pharis studied ceramics at the university of minnesota minneapolis with warren mackenzie.

Saw these wonderful ceramics by ruth duckworth. 81 cm in length earthenware 2012. Cluster of vases 32 in. Whether clad in a dark monochrome that seems to strain vessel walls with the weight of cast iron or painted in a balmy portofino palette of pink lime green and yellow orange warm as the midday stucco of villages far away the slab constructed vessels of mark pharis raise impressions of surfaces that one.

50 no 6 october 2010 43 photograph casual geometry. He lives and works in western wisconsin s heartland. 34 no 2 70 71 2003. From 2005 2008 he was associate dean in the college of liberal arts.

Mark pharis is an american ceramic artist and professor residing in roberts wisconsin pharis is the chair of the department of art at the university of minnesota where he has been a faculty member since 1985. 2007 hollis walker jeff oestreich and mark pharis american craft february march 2007 98 99 2006 mark shaprio michael simon. His three dimensional forms are handbuilt using two dimensional paper patterns. Oct 21 2015 ceramic artist mark pharis work is featured in the november 2015 issue of ceramics monthly.

Mark began his career at the university of minnesota with warren mackenzie in 1967 and after working as an independent potter for. See more ideas about ceramics monthly ceramic artists ceramics. Mark pharis upfront section. Mark has a long history of innovation in his work.

Mark pharis is known for wheel thrown stoneware high fired functional pottery created in his early career and from the early 1990s onward for slab built low fired earthenware utilitarian objects. His process owes much to the traditions of patternmaking found in sewing and sheet metal work. Posted on july 29. Pharis was a student of warren mackenzie.

An american potter studio potter vol. Mark pharis is a minnesota potter. Pharis uses paper templates to develop components of slab built works.