Ceramics
Flame Candle Vase
- Item Number
- 111
- Estimated Value
- 400 USD
- Sold
- 210 USD to grandmadi
- Number of Bids
- 4 - Bid History
Item Description
Wheel-thrown porcelain, altered, carved, fired to cone 10. 6”x6”x6”.
The dimensions are approximate, but the point of the hand held piece is to show scale.
Item Special Note
About Jennifer McCurdy
Jennifer McCurdy received her Fine Arts degree from Michigan State University, and has worked as a potter ever since. She exhibited her work mostly in Florida for the first fifteen years of her career, then more expansively around the country since her move back to Massachusetts some sixteen years ago.
Living on Martha’s Vineyard, she strives to make her work reflect the balance of nature she sees. Those structures are integrated into the pieces that she creates in porcelain, an human translation from their natural forms of rock, shell, or bone.
She works with a fine porcelain because it has a beautiful surface, and it conveys the qualities of light and shadow that she wishes to express. After throwing a vessel on the potter’s wheel, she alters the form to set up a movement of soft shadow. When the porcelain is leather hard, she carves patterns to add energy and counterpoint. She fires the work to cone 10, so that the porcelain becomes non-porous and translucent.
Some of the finished pieces hold elusive glimpses of the balance between the convex and the concave, and light absorbed and reflected. In further exploration, she combines the fine porcelain with the ancient art of gilding. The 23 carat gold leaf illumines the interior of the vessel, to reveal new curves and patterns.
Jennifer’s work resides in the collections of museums and patrons around the world, including the Smithsonian Museum’s Renwick Gallery, and the Everson Museum of Art.
Jennifer McCurdy
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
Booth #53
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