Photo: Stephanie Osser
Photo: Stephanie Osser
Photo: Stephanie Osser
Photo: Stephanie Osser

Makoto Yabe Tile

USA, 2007
<p>Image of Makoto Yabe, dear teacher and artist at Harvard Ceramics Program who passed away in 2007. The studio made lanterns to honor him. I made first a tile, inspired by his Japanese heritage and the Ukiyo-e woodcuts. His name Makoto, means Archer and he is pictured on the tile with an Archer, and surrounded by his adoring students at the Potters wheel. The sun is setting on his life. Later I made a Lithophane lantern from the tile image and gave it to his wife and children.</p>
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Materials:
Porcelain
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Method:
Hand-Built
Molded
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Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Underglaze
Stephanie Fleischer Osser | 1948 – Present

Kirk Mangus? work is characterized by deeply carved high relief surfaces with personal iconic motifs on identifiable classical forms or well-drawn, frequently whimsical, under glaze and/or overglaze designs on smooth glossy surfaces. Mangus referenced early Asian ceramics and classic Greek vase forms. He worked with various clays, selecting the one that would give the surface needed to achieve the desired results. The surfaces can be very smooth and decorated with spontaneous, brightly colored drawing, or be rough and wood-fired or deeply carved. Mangus? drawings may deal with human relationships, nature scenes or comic situations.

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