Richard Shaw | Silkscreened Transfers and Plaster Molds
June 15th – 19th, 2009
During this week long workshop Richard will be demonstrating two technical aspects of what he has been employing in his art work for the past 30 years. 1) Ceramic transfers, decals, laser decals, overglaze decals and newsprint underglaze transfers. 2) We will also work together producing simple plaster molds for use in press molding and slip casting. This workshop includes slide presentations, demonstrations and student participation.
Biography
Richard Shaw was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA in 1965. He completed his MFA at the University of California at Davis in 1968. He began teaching at the San Francisco Art institute in 1966 where he taught for twenty years. He is presently a professor of art at the University of California at Berkeley where he teaches ceramics and drawing.
One of two National Endowments Grants allowed him to explore a photo silkscreen method of reproducing decals and allowed him to work with a professional silkscreen artist, perfecting ceramic transfers.
Richard Shaw has been a resident artist at Shigaraki Cultural Ceramic Park in Japan and the Manufacture National de Sevres in Paris, he was elected as a fellow of the American Crafts Council in 1998 and his work is collected in both private and public collection nationally and internationally. Public collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Art, The Taipai Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
