Robert Harrison: Studio Sculpture

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Column Pair || Desert Dream || Chinese Dyptych || Arch Studies || Millennium Shell Cups
Stack Studies || Clay Windows || Clay Windows: Light Radiators 2001
Stack Arch Studies || Studio Interior || Clay Windows: Light Radiators 2003

Column Pair

Corrugated sheet metal, copper tubing, cement, rubber; 84"(H)x24"(Top dia.); 1995

Desert Dream

Glazed ceramic elements, hydrocal plaster, wood, paint; 29"(H)x30"(W)x6"(D); 1996

Chinese Dyptych

Glazed ceramic elements, hydrocal plaster, wood, paint; 30"(H)x48"(W)x5"(D); 1996

	Arch Study #14 Glazed ceramic elements, wood, gold leaf; 16"(H)x12"(W)x9"(D); 1997
	Arch Study #15 Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 16"(H)x12"(W)x9"(D); 1997
Arch Study #23 Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 18"(H)x12"(W)x11"(D); 1998		Arch Study #24 Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 18"(H)x12"(W)x11"(D); 1998
Arch Study #35 Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 18"(H)x11"(W)x11"(D); 1998		Arch Study #41 Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 19"(H)x15"(W)x11"(D); 1999
	Arch Study #44 Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 18"(H)x15"(W)x11"(D); 1999

Millennium Shell Cups (Groupings) Sculptural slip-cast cups, glazed and lustered; sizes range from 4" diameter to 8" diameter; 1999

Stack Studies Glazed ceramic elements, wood; sizes range from 27"(H)x7"(W)x7"(D) to 20"(H)x10"(W)x5"(D); 1999
		Faceted Stack #6 (L) and Brick Stack #7 (R); Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 27"(H)x7"(W)x7"(D) each; 1999
	Stack Study Pair #3; Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 20"(H)x10"(W)x5"(D); 1999		Stack Study Pair #4; Glazed ceramic elements, wood; 20"(H)x10"(W)x5"(D); 1999

	Clay Window #1 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 8"(W) x 2"(D) x 8"(H); 2000
	Clay Window #6 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 8"(W) x 2"(D) x 10"(H); 2000		Clay Window #9 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 8"(W) x 2"(D) x 11"(H); 2000
Clay Window #17 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 8"(W) x 2"(D) x 9"(H); 2000		Clay Window #18 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 8"(W) x 2"(D) x 9"(H); 2000
Clay Window #21 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 9"(W) x 2"(D) x 9"(H); 2000		Clay Window #22 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 9 "(W) x 2"(D) x 9"(H); 2000
	Clay Window #24 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 10"(W) x 2"(D) x 10"(H); 2000		Clay Window #25 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base;10"(W) x 2"(D) x 10"(H); 2000
	Clay Window #27 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 10"(W) x 2"(D) x 11"(H); 2000		Clay Window #29 Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 10"(W) x 2"(D) x 11"(H); 2000
	Hanna's Clay Window By Artist's daughter, Hanna Terra Harrison Handbuilt earthenware with glazes, wood base; 3"(W) x 1"(D) x 2"(H); 2000

	New Clay Windows: Light Radiators 2001 Click Here for Additional Images and Dimensions
Artist Statement I began working with clay professionally thirty years ago. My initial work was through the vessel format, focusing on form and Oriental traditions in ceramics. After seven or eight years of exploring the vessel the work took a decidedly sculptural bent. The next few years brought an increase in scale, with my ideas drawing heavily on influences in land art, architecture and the introduction of additional sculptural materials. I have been exploring architectural form in both the larger site-specific outdoor and museum installations as well as a body of smaller studio works over the past twenty years, attempting to play one off the other. The studio pieces are more intimate, have often included a variety of materials, and allow an intensified approach to the work. More recently I have intentionally focused the work in a strictly ceramics orientation, in essence bringing the studio work ‘full circle’, and back to my ‘ceramic roots’. A year ago my six year old daughter Hanna, created a small ceramic piece that had a tremendous presence; subsequently inspiring the clay windows series. These new works strive to get to an essence of expression in form, through an architectural language. The juxtaposition of rough and refined surfaces continues to be a hallmark of the work. During the summer of 2001 I had the opportunity to work with high temperature clays (porcelain and porcelaineous stoneware) and fire the pieces in a variety of atmospheric kilns (wood, salt and soda). The surfaces remained unglazed and the only alteration to the form is the single incised line which delineates the interior space of the piece. Gold luster is fired onto the interior space to create the highly reflective light radiator series. After the tragic events of 9/11 my attention turned to completing this new body of work.Reflecting on the relevance of the healing power of art, I was struck with the presence of ‘inner light’ emanating from the new pieces; hence the title of the work and the exhibition. Click Here for Additional Images and Dimensions

		Stack Arch Studies
	*Lizard Stack Arch Study*; Hand-built earthenware with glazes; 8.5”(H)x8”(W)x5”(D); 2001	*Tricolor Stack Arch* *Study (Black Base)*; Hand-built earthenware with glazes; 8.5”(H)X8”(W)x4.5”(D); 2001
	*Tricolor Stack Arch Study* *(R)*; Hand-built earthenware with glazes; 8.5”(H)x10”(W)x5”(D); 2001	*Tricolor Stack Arch Study (L)*; Hand-built earthenware with glazes; 9.75”(H)x11”(W)x5.5”(D); 2001

Studio Interior

A selection of images taken of the interior of the studio. Works in progress include: large-scale architectural installation works, planning for site-specific architectural works and ongoing ceramic sculptural pieces.

Clay Windows: Light Radiators 2003

Hand built porcelain, with wedged feldspar, wood-fired to cone 12, with gold luster and wood bases; pieces range between 12" and 14"(H)x7"(W)x3"(D); 2003