Untitled (Radiance and Abundant Series)

USA, 1900
<p>A broad shallow bowl with a smooth orange interior and a dusty black and white exterior covered with regularly placed circular out croppings. There are numerous objects in the bowl. To the right is a white disc resting on a wood like piece and with a grey cylinder and a red amorphous form on top of it. In the middle front there is a white round donut shape with a black cylinder on top of it.. Behind it there is a multicolored brown amorphous form, behind this and partly obscured is a <span>light grey </span>disc To the left there are two brown potato shapes, a white dog bone shape, and a black and a white form. .</p>
Elaine Levin Archive, University of Southern California
Date acquired:
Materials: N/A
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural:
Installation - small/intimate scale
Method:
Thrown and Altered
Assembled
Hand-Built
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Tony Marsh

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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Elaine Levin Archive, University of Southern California

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