Jessica Phillips MFA: Residency Drawings

Friday, May 18, 2012

Residency Drawings

Wall Drawing

Detail 1

Detail 2

Detail 3


Detail 4

During my time at the VSC I gave myself a daily drawing exercise to get the creative juices flowing. I put up a roll of drawing paper that was about 4' tall x 20' long. Every day I would start my studio time with the drawing, using whatever medium was handy. Also whenever I had a "block" or was waiting for another work to dry or my hot box to heat up I would work on the drawing until I was ready to get back to my "real" work. A funny thing happened during this process. My drawing project ended up being one of my favorite things I did during the residency! I guess there is something to just letting go!

2 comments:

LindaSFGMay 27, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Nice work!
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SmelfMay 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Ditto to what Linda said! I am amazed at how much work everyone has done....
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Artist Statement

Serving Women

I juxtapose US service women in combat with the domestic and decorative nature of heirloom tableware. In years past, material denoted an object's place as art or craft just as gender dictated a women's role in society but now gender does not determine one's place in domesticity or defense.

Platters are traditionally used by women to serve the family meal; the platters I create depict women serving our country. I seek to challenge conventional notions regarding the domestic functionality of ceramics and women. I choose to work with the ceramic material because it has a long association with women, craft, and the home. Women, like ceramics, have long been perceived as soft and malleable when in fact they are strong and enduring.

As a women who has served both her country and her family I explore ideas of the domestic functionality of objects and women. This duality is reflected in the form and surface imagery of my work.

Book List

Ceramic Millennium

Clay's Tectonic Shift

Thinking Through Craft

Objects & Meaning

The Craft Reader

The Craftsman

Themes of Contemporary Art

The Arts and Crafts Movement

20th Century Ceramics

Artist, Critics and Context

The Big Archive

The Archive, Documents of Contemporary Art

Breaking the Mould

Neocraft

Design and Art
A Theory of Craft

Ornament and Crime

Design and Crime

Anni Albers, Writings on Design

The Culture of Craft

Image Transfer on Clay
Space and Place
The Four Quartets
The Object Stares Back
Landscape and Memory
The Lure of Local
Vitamin P
Vitamin D
Writing on the Wall
The Dominion of the Dead
ExtraOrdinary Craft

More than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the 70's
Topophilia

The Power of Place

Work Ethic

The Feminine Mystique

Afflunenza

Relational Aesthetics

Art & Today

Art Now Vol. 2

Art Now Vol. 3

Conceptual Art

Collagraphs