Kent, Connecticut. I did some photo work for the artist Joy Brown who’s a good friend of mine. I’ve been doing this kind of work for her for many years and it’s wonderful to have such a great working relationship as well as a close friendship. Many times one of these will get in the way of the other but in fact, we’ve made it work well. No doubt part of the reason is that she’s a fine person who does exceptional work that’s a joy (pun) to photograph.

These pieces are out of the wood fire she did in her large anagama kiln this summer.

I was on the night shift firing Joy Brown’s kiln last night and shot this moth on a metal beam in strong light. This slide show of the entire making and firing process will help tell the story of what it’s like to fire a big anagama kiln: Joy Brown’s 108 Dancing Ladies.

My friend the artist Joy Brown is raffling this “dancing lady” wood-fired ceramic sculpture the proceeds of which are going to tsunami relief in Japan where she grew up.

Tickets are $20 and you can send checks to her or, if you’re overseas use paypal to send money. I’m late in posting this notice and I’m sorry about that, the raffle will end on midnight, April 20th. If you can’t make this deadline with mail, use paypal.

Find all the details here, including Joy’s email address for paypal users:

www.artwithin.net/artforJapan.html

Good luck and thanks for taking part.

My good friend Joy Brown is in China and just finished and installed three of her bronzes in a city park in Shanghai. These are the first of a number of bronzes she’s working on for this and other parks.

My friend Joy Brown is in China for a few weeks working on large scale plaster moulds for bronze castings of her sculpture. This is a big project and the sculpture will be displayed in a public park in Shanghai.

Joy has started an online journal to document the process: Joy Brown Sculpture. I’m helping her update it as she sends new entries and images.

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.

A few shots from the opening of Joy Brown’s show: 108 Dancing Ladies.

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. Use your browser’s back button (left arrow) to return here.

Note: Those of you who have tried my other slide shows, I’m trying this one in a new window (on top of this one) to make it easier to bail and get back here by simply closing the new window. Let me know what you think either way, thanks.

This set of images documents the process of the artist Joy Brown making her newest collection: 108 Dancing Ladies.

These images were taken with a Canon EOS 5D camera and for the most part, a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens.

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 integrating it with text. I’m delighted.

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.

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 for drying overnight and it took three days to get them all printed and dried.