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I have been making porcelain and stoneware vessels since 1987. The main
inspiration for my art is the textures, shapes and colors found in rocks. I was
born in Pasadena, California, close to many rock collecting areas. I spent many
family weekends and summer vacations in the Mojave Desert and Southern
California mountains collecting rocks and minerals, and looking for gold. When I
finally weighed my rock collection years later, it amounted to over 1500 pounds.
Although gold and silver specimens were the main attraction for me and my
friends, I was always fascinated by the many swirling and crackle patterns in
the various rocks, especially the marbles, shales and slates.
Growing up in Southern California gave me a chance to visit many of the area
museums including The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County with its Gem
& Mineral Hall. I also spent many happy hours at the San Bernardino County
Museum. The museum allowed groups of grade school children to make weekly visits
to learn more about the county's natural history and the Museum's exhibits,
especially the rock and mineral collections, which I loved. We would also go on
field trips to collect rocks, minerals and fossils. I think that the memory of
some of these trips (for fish fossils, mud cracks and hollow geodes) may have
been the inspiration for some of my recent stoneware and porcelain plates.
Spending so much of my time exploring old mines and looking for minerals
(especially gold) I guess that it is no surprise that I decided early (6th
grade) to become a geologist. I spent two years at the Colorado School of Mines
(majoring in Mining Engineering), and I spent two years at the University of
California, Riverside, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology. You
guessed it, more fun weekends and summers collecting minerals, fossils and
geodes. Although I eventually left the geology field, I never lost my interest
in those fascinating patterns in the rocks.
I started taking ceramics classes in 1987 at the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Clay
Studio in California. I took most of the classes and workshops offered there,
and I was most interested in glazing and slip decoration. It was at this time
that I started to concentrate on marbling and slip on-lay techniques using wax
resist. The rock collection was mostly gone, but now I could make those marbled
and crackled patterns that had fascinated me years before.
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Dennis Furgerson
6206 Longford Drive #3
Citrus Heights, CA 95621
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28 February, 2009 02:44 |
| Site Title: |
Dennis Furgerson Ceramic Artist |
| Site Desc: |
The main inspiration for my art is the textures, shapes and colors found in rocks. I was
born in Pasadena, California, close to many rock collecting areas. |
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Ceramic Arts |
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Crackle Patterns
- Dennis Furgerson
- Main Inspiration
- Mineral Hall
- Minerals And Fossils.
- Mojave Desert
- Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles
- Porcelain
- Rocks And Minerals
- San Bernardino
- Shapes
- Southern California
- Southern California Mountains
- Stoneware Vessels
- Textures
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