Older Work

Some of my older work, mostly from my intro ceramics course, my intro art course (2d design), and drawing I:

Melting Pear
Stoneware, Cone 6 Reduction
wood ashe, copper and iron oxides

Pear II
Stoneware, Cone 6 Reduction
Tenmoku, copper oxide

Hat
Stoneware, Cone 6 Reduction

McFish
Stoneware, Cone 6 Oxidation
Gold Petina

Baseball
graphite

French Riviera
ink on paper


Peaches
graphite on paper


Children
acrylic on paper


Dupont Gallery
charcoal on paper


Thomas Jefferson, Fallen Bust
Charcoal on Paper


Kneaded Eraser
graphite and charcoal on paper


Dirty Fingers, A Study in Mark Making
graphite, charcoal, acrylic, ink on paper

Paintings

This work was completed from 2007-2008:

Some studies done in acrylic:

Charlotte Street
acrylic on canvas
30 x 30"

Pruning Wound & Wounded Knee

acrylic on canvas
12 x 12" (each)

The following pieces are based off of a study of the human enigma of pain. References for these paintings include an article from the New York Times on the lack of morphine in areas such as Sierra Leone and India. Read the article here.

Zainabu Sesay
acrylic and encaustic on canvas
35 x 35"
(sold)

Vellayudhan Pillai
acrylic and encaustic on canvas
35 x 35"

The final piece is an installation in four parts and encompasses different interpretations of pain and suffering in Africa.

Untitled
acrylic on MDF

83" in height

Panel illustrating AIDS epidemic

Panel illustrating starvation/Child Soldiers

Panel illustrating lack of morphine

Panel illustrating refugee of Darfur

Welcome!

My name is Joann and I am a recent University of Mary Washington grad. I decided to start a blog of my work as a way to catalog it all for others to see and to get feedback on the work. So, I hope you enjoy the work and I encourage you to comment!

The following are some of the works completed during 2007-2008. I focused on mostly ceramics and painting in my final year of study (more photos of the paintings will be put up shortly).

In ceramics, the following works were completed in an independent study on the works of Adrian Saxe. Most of the works are done in stoneware, velvet ungderglazes, and luster.

This piece entitled For Dad is shown with the figure on the left finished and the figure on the right at the bisque stage

This series, Saxe's Trio was the first series of the study.