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USA, 1900
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Beth Changstrom | 1943 – Present

Beth Changstrom is known for both thrown and cast ceramics. Her work ranged from purely functional to sculptural to whimsical functional.Late in the 1970s she began a series of functional pieces with surfaces decorated with landscape scenes painted with airbrush and glaze pencil. In the mid-1990 she began casting work using purchased molds and ones she made. The pieces ranged from teapots built from fruit forms to vases and candleholders cast using molds made from Manzinata branches. Changstrom speaks of the common thread that runs through her work that led her in 1998 to leave ceramics behind. ?My close to 30 years working in the clay world included using my painting skills?both as embellishments to my pots and later inassemblage that included both clay and two dimensional images. Gradually I became more and more drawn to making art exclusively in two dimensions.?1

1.http://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/MyLasso/GalleryTen-May-2018.lasso-cited10-19-2018, 11:35PM.

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