Marissa Alexander Ceramics

Intimate immediate ceramics exhibit opened in the sheridan gallery to much interest and support from faculty and students who spent the lunch hour marveling at the extensive range of ceramic art on display.

Marissa alexander ceramics.

She is very interested in the process of discovering form through coil building and establishing alluring surfaces creating pattern and narrative to visually describe her vision vision as. Alexander through ceramics marissa attempts to create a sense of what is physically familiar to her. Marissa alexander will open this coming saturday. I have an mfa from alfred university 2019 and was a full time artist in residence at harbourfront centre.

Alexander said that she fired a warning shot after her husband attacked her and threatened to kill her on august 1 2010 in jacksonville florida. The organic qualities of a form its curves and articulations the proximity of its parts to one another and of forms to each other allow her to examine relationships. Posts about marissa alexander written by sheridan arts. Meet marissa y alexander winner of best of ceramics february 5 2020 it is a delight to introduce you to a talented emerging ceramic artist marissa y alexander who earned toaf s best of ceramics award a 3 000 cash and purchase award supported by our cherished donors aaron milrad brenda coleman.

The organic qualities of a form allow her to examine relationships. Alexander was released on january 27 2015 under a plea deal that capped her. Trying to turn fleeting emotions into permanent notations of experience. My name is marissa y alexander and i m an artist currently living and working in hamilton on.

I work predominately with clay to make ceramic objects. The blank white surfaces of these porcelain bowls are painted line by line creating pattern through repetition continually adding more until the. From pencil to prototype to porcelain opened september 19 while in concert and swim with me. In may 2012 31 year old marissa alexander was prosecuted for aggravated assault with a lethal weapon and received a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Marissa y alexander is an artist currently living and working in hamilton on. She builds with clay to make both functional and sculptural ceramic objects.