Ernie Kim
HP Bloomer makes functional porcelain tableware, high-fired with gas, electric, and/or wood. It is often soda fired. Surface treatment includes glaze, and glazes layered with wax resist (the wax application makes the ...
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- Biography
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HP Bloomer makes functional porcelain tableware, high-fired with gas, electric, and/or wood. It is often soda fired. Surface treatment includes glaze, and glazes layered with wax resist (the wax application makes the glaze resist sticking to a surface, thus the surface can have no glaze, or one glaze next to a spot where two glazes have been applied).
Influences include pattern and color in design fields (fabric, architecture, graphic, interior), and Jean Widmer, Paul Klee, Annie Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Liubov Popova.
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1950-1953
Design Study, Marian Hartwell
- Primary Work Experience
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1942-1947
Combat Veteran, World War II –European Theater
1949-1955Manager, Ceramic Craft Studio, Mt. View, California
1952-1956Ceramics Instructor, Adult Education, Palo Alto Unified School District, Palo Alto, California
1957-1962Head of Ceramics Department; Ceramics Instructor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
1962-1970Ceramics Instructor and Supervising Art Instructor, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1970-1980Director, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1980-1982Supervising Art Instructor, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1982—Ceramic Artist
Other
- Public Collections
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Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Scripps College, Claremont, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina
St. Paul Art Center, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Bibliography
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Cooper, Emmanuel. Ten Thousand Years of Pottery. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Lynn, Martha Drexler. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940-1979. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: Ernie Kim, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/ernie-kim
