Ed Eberly Ceramics

After graduating from alfred in 1972 and now a father of two sons eberle relocated his family to teach fine art and ceramics at the philadelphia college of art and again in 1975 with carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh pa.

Ed eberly ceramics.

The museum of fine arts houston photo credit. 8 cm in height wheel thrown porcelain terra sigillata brush painted sgraffito 1985. Houston center for contemporary craft hccc is pleased to present the first career retrospective of work by pittsburgh based ceramic artist edward eberle b. May 13 2017 explore richard steer s board studio pottery on pinterest.

The phenomenology of ten vessels porcelain sculptures and screen prints 1998 99 collection of. Eberle attended the new york state college of ceramics. Eberle is known for his paper thin wheel thrown porcelain vessels of both closed and open forms with layered narrative drawing and painting across the surfaces. Contemporary functional ceramic art collection.

2 ed eberle s a bird a fox and a rabbit 3 in. This career retrospective brings works from the mid 1980s to the present into dialogue allowing visitors to discover the timeless and intriguing work of a true master. Over the past three decades eberle has explored and tested the limits of porcelain with his prolific body of work ranging from classically inspired vessels to altered and deconstructed sculptures. As a result after earning his b s.

Using black ceramic ink terra sigillata and scraffito he decorates the unglazed porcelain surfaces with compositions of elaborately interlinked human and animal forms. Over the past three decades pittsburgh artist edward eberle has explored and tested the limits of porcelain with his prolific body of work ranging from classically inspired vessels to altered and deconstructed sculptures. Vase made by ceramic artist ed eberle. In art education in 1967 instead of looking for a high school teaching position he entered graduate school hoping to teach ceramics at the college level and ultimately to become a full time artist.