christa assad

May 16, 2013

Hess/Assad at artMRKT San Francisco Opening this THURS night

Filed under: events, exhibitions, general, images, Why I love California — christaassad @ 5:43 am


Streetwise 2013, a Collaboration

Jessica Hess (hand painted acrylic) and Christa Assad (wheel-thrown porcelain)

Represented by: Abmeyer + Wood , artMRKT booth #623

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First trained as a studio potter, Assad currently uses the wheel to generate “blanks” of identifiable objects from the urban landscape. Collaborating with other artists using the exquisite corpse concept, in which one artist responds in a call and response to the other, her porcelain blanks are the beginnings of lively visual dialogues and social commentary.  Glamorizing an ordinary object, the spray can, led her to collaborate with San Francisco-based painter, Jessica Hess. “Our shared vision is to recreate urban street scenes in trompe l’oeil realism, involving faux found objects of ceramic and painted surfaces, stenciled “sidewalks”, and “tagged” gallery walls. I create the objects and Hess paints their surfaces. As visual documentarians, we are working to bring street art indoors to archive and make permanent these otherwise transitory public works.”

Working independently in the Bay Area, Assad in Berkeley and Hess in downtown San Francisco, each artist is firmly established in their respective careers with work in numerous private and public collections.  Assad received her MFA in ceramics from Indiana University in 2000 and has taught throughout the US and internationally while maintaining an active showing schedule from her home base.  Hess received her BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003.  She moved to San Francisco from Boston to exhibit and participate in the west coast art scene that combines street art with fine art based in illustration.

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April 28, 2013

Cup Show & sale this Saturday & Sunday at Fourth & Clay

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April 15, 2013

Art Auction to Benefit the Artists – Friday, April 19, 2013

Filed under: Uncategorized — christaassad @ 5:33 pm

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Please join us this Friday, April 19, at Incline Gallery, 766 Valencia St, San Francisco, from 6-9pm (or by phone!) for a rare opportunity to:
 
1) snatch up great works of art by your favorite Bay Area artist at (potentially) half-price!
2) meet and mingle with the artists whose works are featured
3) help create excitement and raise the bids — highest bid wins and ALL $$ goes to the artist!
 
That’s right, thanks to Matt Gonzalez, Aimee Friberg, Christo Oropeza, Peter Kirkeby, and Park Life Gallery, this event is created entirely to benefit the artists. Year after year, artists are called upon to donate their creations for great causes, and this is one unique occasion when the cause IS the artists’ need. 
 
Come celebrate art, artists, art collectors and art-lovers, and bid on some fantastic original works, including my “Giant Gunmetal Grenade”, pictured above.
 
Artist: Christa Assad
Title: Giant Gunmetal Grenade
Year: 2012
Materials: glazed stoneware, steel ring + pin addition
Dimensions: 20″ x 12″ x 11″
Retail Price: $3000
Opening Bid: $1500
Buy it Now Price: $3500
 
**NOTE: if you cannot be in attendance this Friday, please contact me for the phone # to call to place your bid during bidding hours, 6-9pm
*see attached card for list of participating artists
 
Thank you, and hope to see you there!
 
christa 
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April 8, 2013

HOT CLAY at Idyllwild Arts, CA, this summer!

Filed under: events, general, I Love California!, images, Why I love California, workshops — christaassad @ 9:34 pm

Spaces are still available in my week-long, hands-on course, “Pottery Component Mash-Up”, this June 16-22, 2013, at Idyllwild Arts, in glorious SoCal. It promises to be as kooky (yet informative) as the name implies: we will experiment, reinterpret, recycle it, and HAVE FUN!

See the poster for more information:

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February 27, 2013

ASSAD at NCECA 2013, Houston/Austin

Filed under: events, exhibitions, general, images, workshops — christaassad @ 4:55 pm

The National Council on the Education for the Ceramic Arts meets once again for its annual conference, this March 20-23, in Houston, TX. I’m excited to have my GIANT GOLD GRENADE (pictured here) included in the Biennial Exhibition, hosted by the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

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In addition to the conference activities and fabulous Biennial, I’ll be showing a new series of functional pots at the Artstream Nomadic Gallery. (I also snuck in a few ceramic “hand grenades”!) If you’re in Houston, stop by the Convention Center and visit me — I’ll be working plenty of shifts at the trailer!

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Last, and certainly not least: spaces are still available in my demonstration workshop with Ryan McKerley – don’t miss out! We’ll be rocking and rolling in Austin, TX, along with the South By Southwest Music Festival….AND firing a soda kiln…AND demonstrating our fun and frivolous techniques! Hope to see you there!

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February 25, 2013

ONE DAY ONLY: Visiting Artist Christa Assad at San Jose State University

Filed under: events, images, Why I love California, workshops — christaassad @ 4:35 pm

Thanks to the SJSU Ceramics Guild, Monica Van Den Dool, and Stan Welsh for inviting me!

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February 2, 2013

Assad/Chung solo shows together at Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO

Filed under: events, exhibitions, images — christaassad @ 7:16 pm

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It is with great enthusiasm that I present my newest works in a solo exhibition at Harvey Meadows Gallery in Aspen, CO, entitled Forward and Back. Exhibiting alongside my work you’ll find the amazing vessels of one of MY very favorite ceramists, Sam Chung — twice the impact and in a brand-new gallery space, to boot! I’ll be in town for the opening on Thursday night – hope to see some of my dear Aspen/Snowmass friends there!

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Forward and Back, an exhibition of Christa Assad’s most recent ceramic sculpture, offers a commentary about war and decaying cities in the U.S. With the Industrial Revolution came iron and steam technologies, followed by the advent of steel and other alloys. Subsequently, the Machine Age introduced mass production, moving assembly lines, enormous machinery for high-volume output, and the development and deployment of modern war machines such as tanks, submarines and the modern battleship. All of this “progress” affected craftspeople in an adverse way: mass consumerism and national branding replaced local buying and skilled crafts. Large corporations employed low-skill laborers, and their exploitation eventually led to trade unions. Nations fighting over energy and material resources contributed to the causes of two world wars. Ironically, these coveted natural resources were soon employed in the fabrication of weapons of war.

Assad states, “I am drawn to photographs that document the Industrial and Machine Ages, particularly the work of Berenice Abbott (1898-1981), whose black and white images often document the relationship between technology, society, and the ever-changing urban landscape.”

The slow, personal process Assad employs – each piece is individually wheel-thrown and constructed – subverts our acceptance of the fast, impersonal, machine-made. The hand-painted surface imagery lends an added touch of nostalgia for the forgotten past, which once pointed to a future bright with promise.

January 23, 2013

NCECA 2013 Pre-Conference Workshop with Assad and McKerley

Filed under: events, exhibitions, images, workshops — christaassad @ 4:42 pm

Details here! Hope you can join us ~ our mini-pre-conference coincides with the fabulous South by Southwest Music Festival held in Austin every March. Two great tastes that go GREAT together: ceramics and ROCK ‘n ROLL!!!

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December 31, 2012

Filed under: Uncategorized — christaassad @ 10:07 pm

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

cheers to you from the pottery posse (via Paris)…

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November 17, 2012

CHRISTA ASSAD and FERRIN GALLERY at ArtMiami

Filed under: Blogroll, events, exhibitions, general, images, publications — christaassad @ 6:02 pm

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December heats up in Miami as Art Basel, ArtMiami, and Design Miami take full hold of the city and beaches for a week of fantastic art-overload. I’m excited to be attending the events both as an exhibiting artist AND a free-lance journalist. I’ll be checking out the latest trends and art-stars while navigating the madness with a shiny new iPad and fun mini-moo cards in hand. You can keep up with me via Facebook, Instagram, this blog, or stay tuned for a follow-up article in Ceramics Monthly.

Meanwhile, catch a preview of my newest works HERE.

Click HERE for link to Ferrin Gallery and details about ArtMiami

http://ferringallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=520

Click HERE for link to COVET: Art + Objects

http://ferringallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist2.asp?ExhibitID=489

Thanks for your continued support. Hope to see you in Miami!

*print out above image + voucher to receive two complimentary general admission passes from Ferrin Gallery

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