Wildflowers in Spring from 1992 revisited by Joyce Lieberman

Which photo looks best? The only thing holding this 1992 beauty back was a pinkish wash that needed more umber and a few shapes that required more definition. Do you have pieces in your studio like that? After 30 years, thay need another discerning look to become vivid and alive again? Which of the two …

Underwater World

Oil paints, yum. I hardly use them, but when I do, they resonate with so much history for me. I became allergic to the solvents some time in Graduate School at UT, Austin School of Art. Maybe I was practically bathing in turpentine and my nails started to have black stalagmites streaks dipping into them …

Moss architectural skins, baskets and lattice.

Moss created the (w)rapper building in my neighborhood. I saw it coming and going through the creation. Skins in architecture like the Peterson Automotive Museum on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles and The Broad Museum downtown Los Angeles have intrigued me for a while. I was so curious about it. Now that it’s built, I …

Goops and Sauces and Ceramic Masks

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 …

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. …

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.

Found the Time Lapse Feature

This morning painting in the studio, I found the Time Lapse Feature on my phone’s camera, yay! I had drawn on the 30 x 22″ sheet of paper a few days ago and I started carving out the shapes that I had sketched. Below is my quickie video and peace out, Namaste.