Making a dozen new ceramic masks. The first group are in the kiln right now. Checking out my glazes. Makes me think of goops and sauces. My last group of vases were two colors only. This group calls for a big variety of colors. Yellow, gold, black, green, blue, orange, tan and white. Almost every …
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Went to the L A Artshow
Today I went to the L A Art Show at the Convention center downtown. What drew me in were mostly collage works. There was also some woven works presented in a modern way. Lots of painting, some realistic, some more deconstructed.
Iris on wood
The Iris imagery has caught my attention. Now I have tried it on wood. This one is 2 x 2′, more or less. Better in wood or on paper? The paper offers more room for pretty watercolor like bleeds. Wood can do some of that but really does better with a stronger flat opaque paint …
Art Deco Irises
Every so often, I get a bloom on the irises, usually after the rain. I painted from a photo from the front yard after the recent rain here in Los Angeles.
Cobalt Blue Polka Dot Vases by Joyce Lieberman
Hand built with coils and slabs, these cobalt blue polka dot vases and platters have a variety of shapes. They make a village in my mirrored space. As a village of polka dots, they shake and shimmy. Working in cone 5 clay, each vase is about 12 inches tall. They could hold a tall bouquet …
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New “Arabesque Series” of paintings by Joyce Lieberman
A new series of 10 works on paper inspired by a recent canvas that had abstracted Bouquet of flowers with intertwining tendrils, some medallion of flowers motifs and more contrast. Arranged together, comments were made that they looked like ceramic tiles. Individually, they are #’s 1-10 of the Arabesque Series, each with it’s own title. …
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Transcendental Painting Group
Recently viewed Another World:The Transcendental Painting Group 1938-1945 at LACMA through June 19, 2023, an exhibit of artists Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroeck, Lawrence Harris, Raymond Johnson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller, Horace Towner Pierce, Stuart Walker and Agnes Pelton from 1930’s New Mexico that coalesced around a study of the Transcendental. One of the artists was …
Summer Show of Joyce Lieberman paintings
My Summer Show of paintings on canvas at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Santa Monica is open Monday, Tuesday from 9:30-5 and Friday 9:30-1. Come by and ring the front bell at Arizona and 18th. The collection is of birds, flowers, waves and allegorical fantasies. Here are a few more images of the artworks I …
For the Love of Irises
A small amount of winter rain brought out the Irises in my garden. Delighted, I cut a few and enjoyed painting them.
New Masks and Busts
A few weeks before Halloween, I created a group of 14 masks and busts in cone 5 clay. Some were based on faces that I had seen, including my own and various neighbors and some were fanciful fictional, much like my puppets and paintings.
Joyce Lieberman 