Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it.
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Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
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This image, which I took for the artist Joy Brown in June is on the cover of the September, 2009 issue of Chronogram, an arts and culture magazine distributed in the Hudson Valley of New York (as well as Kent, Connecticut).
Chronogram’s art director, David Perry has done an excellent job reprocessing the image and [...]
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Kent, Connecticut. A few of Joy Brown’s 108 Dancing Ladies drying before being fired.
One of Joy Brown’s reclining figures, unfired. This figure is over 4 feet long.
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Warren, Connecticut. I printed a thousand (1000) post cards for my friend Joy Brown to announce the opening of one of her shows a few years ago.
Printed on Red River Polar Matte card stock on a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 printer.
I filled my office, our bedroom and other rooms with flat surfaces with these cards [...]
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Kent, Connecticut. This was shot in 2006 at a gallery during the opening of one of Joy Brown’s one person shows. The mural is quite large and made up of approximately one foot wide tiles.
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Kent, Connecticut. A few of Joy Brown’s 108 Dancing Ladies.
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Kent, Connecticut. In photographing my friend Joy Brown’s studio, I caught a small reclining figure, two large pods, and without knowing it, three photographs in the upper right hand corner of this frame.
Those photographs were shot and printed by me of my own ceramic work for my MFA show at the University of Oregon in [...]
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Kent, Connecticut. Another view of two of Joy Brown’s ceramic sculptures. The pod is a large, hollow ball that joins dozens that Joy has made over the years. These are environmental sculptures that one can place out on a lawn or in a garden and move around experimenting with various configurations.
Joy’s figures, while not explicitly [...]
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Kent, Connecticut. I was over at my friend Joy Brown’s studio today doing a bit of documentary photography for her. I’ve been doing portfolio, gallery, and magazine illustration photography for Joy for a few years now and it’s always a pleasure to work with her. She’s a world class artist and a great person and [...]
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Joy Brown lives and has her pottery studio five miles up the road in Kent. I’ve known her for a while now and while I met her through her ex-husband (we drummed together) I now consider her to be a good friend.
Because I have a background in ceramics, hanging out at a successful, working pottery [...]
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Our friend Joy Brown was loading her big anagama kiln the other day and I went by to see where my clay “balls” were going to be in the kiln and just watch the action.
Joy makes large ceramic sculpture of what seem to be large, round women sitting or kneeling. They’re wonderful and she’s got [...]
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