Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Yunomi

USA, 2000
<p>A short drinking vessel grows outward from a  prominent earthenware foot then traight sides continue to the lip. The head of a rooster fills the side of the vessell. It has tan feathers created from curved black lines. Its eye is white with a black center, there are black eyelashes. The comb and  wattle are red. The comb is three triangles that are cut off by the lip. The wattles are large, there is a very strong black line defining the left one, the black ground that runs up to the beak defines the other. The open beak is long and curved downware. It is orange and defined by black lines. There is a large oval nostril. The area between the top of the beak and the rim is smokey grey, orange, and black.</p>
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Ron Meyers

Ron Meyers has spent decades working with red earthenware. His thrown pots, always functional in some way, display his casual and spontaneous manner with clay. Each of Meyer?s pots is characterized by hand and finger marks left from throwing and altering the piece. He commonly pokes pieces, adding a wobbly unevenness to the forms.

His early passion to become a cartoonist is evident in his narrative, sometimes confrontational, colored slip surface paintings. His whimsical subjects range from animal forms to female nudes. Meyers fires his works first in an electric kiln and then in a gas kiln.

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