Tri-lobed Vessel and Contents (Perforated Vessel Series)
Mark Pharis is known for wheel-thrown stoneware high-fired functional pottery created in his early career and from the early 1990s onward for slab-built low fired earthenware utilitarian objects.
Pharis uses paper templates to develop components of slab-built works. The surface technique is minimal. In early work Pharis used earth-toned glazes and later work often features contrasting brightly colored geometric shapes.
Pharis? formative years as a student at the University of Minnesota with Warren Mackenzie inform his studio practice.
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Last updated: April 22, 2026
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