Pharis | The Marks Project

About

Biography

Michael Hunt and Naomi Dalglish, of Bandana Pottery, collaborate on the production of a large collection of wood fired utilitarian pottery. They use local western North Carolina materials including local clay. The pots are thrown on a slow turning Korean-style kick wheel. Their work is often decorated using the finger swipe method where the finger is pulled through wet slip to create the surface pattern. They make and glaze the pottery together.

Hunt studied with Will Ruggles and Douglas Rankin at Penland School of Craft. He went to Korea to learn the traditional method of making large Ongii storage jars with Oh Hyang Jong a master Onggi potter. Upon returning from Korea, Michael began setting up a studio and building a large Thai wood kiln in the Penland area. Hunt is known for large jars made using the traditional Korean paddle and anvil technique (a smooth stone, the anvil, is held against the inside wall of the piece that is paddled into form from the outside, the paddle typically has a pattern carved onto its surface.).

Apprenticeships & Residencies

Primary Work Experience

1980

1985

Faculty, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota

1985

2008

Professor, Chair of the Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Other

Public Collections

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

Ken Ferguson Teaching Collection, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City Missouri

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

rosenfieldcollection.com

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, Wisconsin

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin

Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Bibliography

Brown, Glen R., “ Mark Pharis: Geometry of Experience,” Ceramics Monthly, September 28, 2015.

Carter, Ben. “Mark Pharis on Embracing the Edges of Utility”. Tales of a Red Clay Rambler. Podcast audio, October 15, 2015 http://www.talesofaredclayrambler.com/episodes/mark-pharis-on-embracing-the-edges-of-utility

Cooper, Emmanuel. Ten Thousand Years of Pottery. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Digeros, Mark, Mark Pharis, Alison Reintjes, and Peter Sundquist. Plane & Solid: the Geometrics of Mark Digeros, Mark Pharis, Alison Reintjes, and Peter Sundquist. Chicago, IL: Lillstreet Art Center, 2013.

Eden, Michael, and Victoria Eden. Slipware, Contemporary Approaches. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Mark Pharis. VHS. Directed by Mark Pharis, Jeanne Quinn, and Suzanne Foster. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Boulder, 1998.

Marks, Graham and Wayne Higby. Useful Pottery: Eight Artists: William Brouillard, Bruce Cochrane, Time Crane, Andrew Martin, Walter Ostrom, Mark Pharis, Paul Rozman, Michael Simon. Rochester, NY: Pyramid Arts Center, 1985.

Pharis, Mark, and Catherine Fuller. Mark Pharis: Themes and Variations. Concord, MA: Lacoste Gallery, 2005.

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