- Comonwealth Ave
- Copley Square
- Downtown Crossing
- February Night Black
- Long Warf
Winter
- High and Oliver
- Quaker Lane
IMAGES: WARREN MATHER Google Images
WEBSITE: WARREN MATHER
CONTACT:
- 70 Hobbs Brook Road, Weston, Massachusetts USA 02493-2037
- 781-891-0994 warmather@aim.com
BIO/ CV:
Warren Mather, born 1947, BA Anthropology, University of Wisconsin (1969), Received Certificate of Mastery in Ceramics 1978 from Boston University . He is Retired Faculty from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is currently an Artist in Residence at the Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado and has been an AiR in Sanbao, China: Kecskemet, Hungary and Jurmala, Latvia. He is a 2011 Finalist in Crafts for the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was twice a Sculpture finalist for Massachusetts Artist Foundation. His work has been published in The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Constitution, Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, Soda Glazing, International Ceramic Studio, Bucher Ohne Worte, Images in Clay Sculpture, and Low Fire.
Warren is the originator of sodium carbonate spray as a substitute for salt glaze firing. Recent work is of street imagery from video stills and digital photographs fired in ceramic glaze on tile murals and plates.
Exhibitions include; “Ripple Effect, The Art of H2O,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, “Art Encounters Preservation,” Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, “Craft meets Technology,” Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky (2011), “Photo Clay,” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, “Earth Matters,” NCECA Invitational, Philadelphia, PA, “Water Lines,” Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA (2010), “International Printmaking Symposium Exhibition,” Jingdezhen, China (09), “Urban Perspectives,” Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston; Texting, Print and Clay,” Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan (08); “Landscape Shapes.” Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA, (07); SOFA New York, (06); Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; (04); Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton; (03); World Architectural Ceramics Exhibition, Foshan, China; Slater Museum, Norwich, Connecticut; (02); Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina (01); Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France (89); and Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland (87).
His public art includes photo-clay installations for Fidelity Investments, Boston; and Cambridge Savings Bank. And in collaboration with Nancy Selvage ceramic murals for the National Park Service, Grand Canyon, Arizona: Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire: and the State Zoo of North Carolina.
PRESS RELEASE Concord’s Lacoste Gallery hosts ceramic artist Warren MatherARTIST STATEMENT
My work is about seeing. I use my camera as virtual clay. In my mind the process of taking a picture is like sensing and recording an event by physically pressing clay against and around it. Normal vision is a narrow binocular cone. The picture we imagine our eyes see is a production and modification of visual information processed by our brain and filtered through our individual cultural history. All seeing is subjective. We don’t see in rectangles. Clay offers a hard copy of my vision.
I have been working with clay for thirty years, and in the last five years have developed the technical means to fire photographic, video and computer drawn images in ceramic glaze. My digital images are transferred onto silk-screens and printed with ceramic underglaze onto wet clay. After bisque, a clear glaze is applied and fired.
The Concord Journal Posted Jun 16, 2010 @ 05:54 PM
Concord —Lacoste Gallery in Concord presents a solo exhibition of two dimensional work “Water Lines” by the ceramic master Warren Mather through June 26.
A long record of innovation with ceramic techniques as well as museum and institutional acquisitions marks Mather’s career. He is the originator of soda as a substitute for salt glaze firing. Recent works begin with digital based images which become elements in a two dimensional composition, hand painted in ceramic glaze on tile murals and plates. Mather is considered a master at the technique of screen printing on clay and has lectured and taught this technique worldwide.
The exhibition, “Water Lines” will feature a group of 15 new two-dimensional works “where water is actor, artist, performer, sculptor and draughtsman.” He starts with more than 20 camera based digital images, which he merges into a filmstrip from which he makes a panoramic composition giving multiple points of view. A two-dimensional image gives a feeling of space and movement evocative of water.
Warren Mather’s works are found in collections of the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum in China and numerous institutions worldwide, including two site-specific commissions “Downtown Crossing” and “Marathon,” photo-clay murals for the lobby entrance of the Boston Intercontinental Hotel.
Born in 1947, Mather received his Certificate of Mastery in ceramics in 1978 from Boston University after getting a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from University of Wisconsin. He has been on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston since 1985 and has a permanent studio in the Boston area.
PRESS RELEASE
Fuller Craft Museum Presents Photo Clay: In the Picture with Warren Mather
Published on January 2, 2011
Fuller Craft Museum, New England’s home for contemporary craft presents Photo Clay: In the Picture With Warren Mather, an exhibition of the artist’s work from the last decade, with an emphasis on the development and diversity of his exploration of visual perception over the last five years. The exhibition runs through Jan. 23, 2011.
For 30 years artist Warren Mather has explored and tested the expressive and technical boundaries of clay. In his recent work, Mather has developed and refined his method for transferring film, photography, and computer-generated images onto a clay body in glaze by use of silkscreen printing. The virtuosity of Mather’s technique allows for an astonishing level of detail. Yet far from simply an expression of photorealism in ceramics, Mather’s true talent is in using the two dimensional image to inform and reflect our own visual experience. His panoramic images are fired to long panels or round discs of clay, capturing the physical gesture of a turned head of a shifted glance.
With a background in anthropology, Mather’s approach to the image recorded in his ceramics is one of culturally informed subjectivity. “In my mind the process of taking a picture is like sensing and recording an event by physically pressing clay against and around it… All seeing is subjective. We don’t see in rectangles. Clay offers a hard copy of my vision.”
Mather is the originator of sodium carbonate spray as a substitute for salt glaze firing. Recent work is of imagery from video stills and digital photographs fired in ceramic glaze on tile murals and plates. Exhibitions include; Water Lines,” Lacoste Gallery, Concord, Mass. (10); “International Printmaking Symposium Exhibition,” Jingdezhen, China (2009), “Urban Perspectives,” Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston; Texting, Print and Clay,” Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Mich. (08); “Landscape Shapes.” Lacoste Gallery, Concord, Mass, (07); SOFA New York, (06); Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H.; (04); Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton; (03); World Architectural Ceramics Exhibition, Foshan, China; Slater Museum, Norwich, Conn.; (02); Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, N.C. (01); Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France (89); and Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland (87). His public art includes photo-clay installations for Fidelity Investments, Boston; and Cambridge Savings Bank, and in collaboration with Nancy Selvage – ceramic murals for the National Park Service, Grand Canyon; Keene State College, Keene, N.H.; and the State Zoo of North Carolina. He has been an Artist in Residence in Sanbao, China: Kecskemet, Hungary and Jurmala, Latvia.
Mather currently serves on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lives in Weston, Mass.Fuller Craft Museum 455 Oak Street Brockton, MA 02301 t 508-588-6000 f 508-587-6191 www.fullercraft.org
written on july 11, 2011 by susan lomuto in ceramic, featured
Warren Mather’s exploration of the image transfer process resonates with my intense study of image transfer processes on a variety of substrates. He experimented for many years with several image transfer techniques in an effort to combine his two passions: photography and clay.
Mather eventually developed a process that includes transferring his digital images onto silkscreens then printing with a ceramic underglaze onto wet clay. You can see his process here.
The Massachusetts resident, who teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, hand colors the imagery from video stills and digital photographs that are used on the tile murals and plates in his most recent collection.
“I have been working with clay for thirty years, and in the last five years have developed the technical means to fire photographic, video and computer drawn images in ceramic glaze. My digital images are transferred onto silk-screens and printed with ceramic underglaze onto wet clay. After bisque, a clear glaze is applied and fired.”
“All seeing is subjective. We don’t see in rectangles. Clay offers a hard copy of my vision.” Warren Mather