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Klaudia Levin: Ceramics

Inspired by Nature

On exhibit at the Columbia Pike Branch Library, July – September 2015

Klaudia Levin ceramics

 

About Klaudia Levin:

I have always loved clay, and I have always loved to work with my hands.

I participated in my first pottery class in Newton Massachusetts about thirteen years ago. Very quickly pottery became a passion, and I spent all my free time on the wheel. After two years at the lovely pottery studio in the New Art Center, I moved on to the Harvard Arts Ceramics Program, where I found great teachers and lifetime friends.

At Harvard I was introduced to reduction firing and soda firing. Mastering these techniques has influenced my art and pot making, from the first moment on the wheel to glazing. I think of the flow from inside a pot to the outside. I think of the relationship of the foot to the rim, and the intangible importance of the weightiness.

Clay is such an amazing material, with inexhaustible possibilities. I started to hand build and alter my forms, and found another door open to create original shapes. With many years of experience and control over the wheel I started to be looser, to think of more shapes and colors, and more about light and negative space.

A well balanced pot lets my eyes move and gives me a feeling of freedom.

When I was introduced to raku and saggar firing, I knew I found my passion. These techniques are fascinating and challenging. The play with fire, color, depths and shapes are endless and brings me every time to a new place with new creation and ideas.

Want to buy something you see on our walls? Artists contribute 20% of sales made during their exhibit to the Friends of the Arlington County Public Library, to help support Library programming.

 

Learn more about Art Exhibits at the Library.

 

July 28, 2015 by Web Editor

Filed Under: Art Exhibits, On Exhibit

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