With this post we continue our interviews with artists from the California Now exhibition at Richmond Art Center. Read the previous interview here.
Evelyn Markasky
Evelyn Markasky “became obsessed” with enameling after taking a two-week class with Deborah Lozier at Cabrillo College. Since then she has also taken a Radical Enameling Workshop with Andrew Kuebeck at the Richmond Art Center. She has worked with enamel for about ten years, and prizes its unpredictability. Read More →
Over the next few weeks we will post excerpts from interviews with several of the enamel artists in California Now, as well as images of their work. The exhibition runs through August 21st at the Richmond Art Center.
Victoria Montgomery
Victoria Montgomery worked primarily in metal until 2009, when, in her final semester at California College of the Arts, she stumbled on enameling in a class with Deborah Lozier. It has been, she says, “a love affair ever since.” Here, she tells us about her approach to her art, why mystery metals are so fun to enamel, and the rewards of being “materialistically rebellious.” Read More →
Two recent workshops help re-define enamel’s place in the art world.
A very glaze-like treatment of enamel by Duane Fitzgerald, “Bowl II”
Sometimes similar ideas appear in unrelated places and then turn out to be related after all, in what I think of as an ‘archetype’ in the Jungian sense of the word. This is what has slowly been happening in various corners of the art and craft communities, as makers of all kinds are treating enamel more as a glass, and less as simply a glaze for metal. Read More →
Curtis Arima, Shifting Tides 4
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