Mark Pharis Ceramics

Mark has a long history of innovation in his work.

Mark pharis ceramics.

Saw these wonderful ceramics by ruth duckworth. Posted on july 29. See more ideas about ceramics monthly ceramic artists ceramics. Mark was educated at the university of minnesota where he is a professor in the department of art.

Mark pharis upfront section. 50 no 6 october 2010 43 photograph casual geometry. Mark pharis pottery. Mark pharis is an american ceramic artist and professor residing in roberts wisconsin pharis is the chair of the department of art at the university of minnesota where he has been a faculty member since 1985.

He was chair of the art department from 1998 2004. Oct 21 2015 ceramic artist mark pharis work is featured in the november 2015 issue of ceramics monthly. 81 cm in length earthenware 2012. His three dimensional forms are handbuilt using two dimensional paper patterns.

Pharis was a student of warren mackenzie. Posted on august 10 2014 by clmpottery. 2007 hollis walker jeff oestreich and mark pharis american craft february march 2007 98 99 2006 mark shaprio michael simon. 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.

He lives and works in western wisconsin s heartland. Mark pharis is a minnesota potter. Whether clad in a dark monochrome that seems to strain vessel walls with the weight of cast iron or painted in a balmy portofino palette of pink lime green and yellow orange warm as the midday stucco of villages far away the slab constructed vessels of mark pharis raise impressions of surfaces that one. His process owes much to the traditions of patternmaking found in sewing and sheet metal work.

Cluster of vases 32 in. Mark began his career at the university of minnesota with warren mackenzie in 1967 and after working as an independent potter for. Pharis studied ceramics at the university of minnesota minneapolis with warren mackenzie. An american potter studio potter vol.

Pharis uses paper templates to develop components of slab built works. From 2005 2008 he was associate dean in the college of liberal arts. Mark pharis the last supper santa fe.