Inspirational Artist

Recently in my Ceramics class we had to do an artist presentation. I picked Allison McGowan as my contemporary ceramic artist because her work really inspired my own. When I was looking through her website and looking at all of her work I fell in love with the way she uses stamping on her pieces. Allison is a studio ceramist in Concord, NC. She received her MFA from NYSCC at Alfred University. The work that she is making currently is hand built with slabs. I noticed that even though she is working with slabs, she knows when to leave that evidence, and when to cover it up. She likes to leave the seams of where she joins parts of the piece together, but then she will make additions to rims so that they’re not just the edge of the slab. Overall, Allison is one of my favorite artists. Her use of stamping and glazing techniques really inspired the pieces I recently made in my Ceramics class.  Here is a link to her website: http://www.allisonmcgowan.com/artist.asp

(^Her use of stamping/glaze on her pieces)

(^Additions to rims)

(^Allison demonstrating how to make one of her pieces)