Mark Pharis Ceramics

Pharis was a student of warren mackenzie.

Mark pharis ceramics.

Mark began his career at the university of minnesota with warren mackenzie in 1967 and after working as an independent potter for. 50 no 6 october 2010 43 photograph casual geometry. His three dimensional forms are handbuilt using two dimensional paper patterns. 2007 hollis walker jeff oestreich and mark pharis american craft february march 2007 98 99 2006 mark shaprio michael simon.

Mark was educated at the university of minnesota where he is a professor in the department of art. Saw these wonderful ceramics by ruth duckworth. Mark pharis the last supper santa fe. 81 cm in length earthenware 2012.

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. Cluster of vases 32 in. Posted on july 29. Joseph s of santa fe jun kaneko mark pharis pottery ruth duckworth santa fe santa fe clay workshop leave a reply santa fe continued.

Pharis uses paper templates to develop components of slab built works. Mark pharis is a minnesota potter. Mark pharis upfront section. Posted on august 10 2014 by clmpottery.

34 no 2 70 71 2003. His process owes much to the traditions of patternmaking found in sewing and sheet metal work. An american potter studio potter vol. From 2005 2008 he was associate dean in the college of liberal arts.

Pharis studied ceramics at the university of minnesota minneapolis with warren mackenzie. He was chair of the art department from 1998 2004. 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. See more ideas about ceramics monthly ceramic artists ceramics.

Mark pharis pottery. He lives and works in western wisconsin s heartland. Oct 21 2015 ceramic artist mark pharis work is featured in the november 2015 issue of ceramics monthly.