Photos and text by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist at beachfront Pottery, Godfrey IL, USA. From January 16 to April 3, 2016 a very special exhibit took place at the Contemporary Art Museum in St Louis; link is here (http://camstl.org/exhibitions/main-gallery/arlene-shechet). The exhibit was special, because the pieces represented Arlene Shechet’s last several years’ worth of Read More…
Month: May 2016
Octopus escapes; wouldn’t you if they called you Inky?
I came across this news event back in April, and collected a few pieces of information to add to the story. So here is the start, the report that an octopus ( more specifically a Cyanea species) escaped from an aquarium. The staff called this guy “Inky” which obviously must have upset this animal, as he Read More…
The trials of designing a support for Beachfront Pottery ceramic sculptures, Part 1.
In my pottery studio, the Beachfront Pottery, I came across a problem that took me by surprise. For two lines of my creations I envisioned an elongated (about a foot long), horizontally-positioned, glazed ceramic sculpture that is elevated off the pedestal or other display surface. So after making a few of these sculptures, I needed to Read More…
Ceramic art pieces in the “Michi” traveling exhibit, Part 4
Photos and text by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist at Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL USA This is the fourth blog in the “Michi” exhibit series. On March 17 2016 I visited a ceramic art exhibit in the Western part of Missouri. In the town of Warrensburg, in the University of Central Missouri’s Gallery of Art & Design Read More…
A jellyfish that looks like an exploding firework
New forms of marine life is always interesting to me, because the shape, movement, life style, color of the new life form can become an inspiration for new ceramic art pieces. There have been a great many jellyfish in the news lately, I had a chance to report on one of these events Read More…