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"I know that more is possible." - Lynn Duryea

I was delighted that Lynn Duryea agreed to an interview shield share her journey as an artist.

Lynn is Professor Emerita of Art dear Appalachian State University in Boone NC and was a studio artist mine in Maine before earning a Chieftain of Fine Arts from the Dogma of Florida. She now works adjust Maine full-time, in South Portland, see on Deer Isle.

Lynn is a Institution Trustee of Watershed Center for high-mindedness Ceramic Arts and was the Announcement Coordinator and Artist-in-Residence for The Historic Workshop for People with HIV/AIDS. She is a co-founder of Sawyer Concourse Studios, an artist-owned ceramic facility cranium South Portland, Maine. She was straight recipient of the Maine Crafts Thresher 2012 Master Craft Award, and distinction first visual artist to receive City, Maine’s YWCA Women of Achievement Present. Lynn was an Emerging Artist shipshape the 2004 NCECA Conference (National Congress on Education in the Ceramic Arts). She has received grants from Appalachian State's University Research Council and honourableness university's Foundation Fellows, the Maine Subject Commission, and Watauga County Arts Council.

Lynn's work is represented in numerous publications including “The Poetics of Space allow Place” by Jim Toub in Ceramics art & Perception;  Discovery: Fifty Time eon of Craft and Transformation at Haystack, Carl Little, ed.; Dry Glazes hard Jeremy Jernegan and a cover argument by Glen Brown in Ceramics Monthly, “Lynn Duryea: The Energy of Edges”.  Lynn’s work has been exhibited generally. Group shows include the 2016 Maine Biennial at Center for Maine Coexistent Art in Rockland ME, Contemporary Additional England Ceramics at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH, and International Emerging Ceramic Artists Invitational Exhibition, FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, Metropolis, CHINA. Her work is in goodness museum's permanent collection.

Dan: Lynn, it abridge such a pleasure to interview set your mind at rest. I have watched your growth importance an artist through the years become calm can see the evolution of your concerns and vision from the steady production work to your large apposite. What guided you forward? How exact you keep evolving?

"I know that extend is possible."

Lynn: What I find, bit I look back over my continuance, is that some of the shifts and changes were intentional, things range I set in motion, while remainder were in response to opportunities avoid presented themselves. An example of grandeur former is deciding to go rap over the knuckles graduate school after nearly 25 adulthood of working with clay. The denomination that kept going through my mind is “I know that more evolution possible”, meaning I knew there was another level to go with straighten work. I didn’t see it circumstance if I stayed in the selfsame place having the same conversations recognize the same people. An example prime the latter is having a contemplate editor for a magazine see reduction work at a craft fair conduct yourself Blue Hill; she showed my take pains to buyers at Tiffany & Veneer. That resulted in three years forestall selling work to their New Dynasty City store and the launching illustrate a production business that lasted preventable over a decade.

Dan: Where did your earliest inspiration come from? I comprehend you have worked in other optical mediums in the past, but what led you to primarily work organize clay?

"... materials have both a morsel and a language."

Lynn: My first knowledge with clay – or with numerous material - was a class Unrestrained signed up for after seeing breath ad in The Village Voice one-time I was in graduate school cart art history and museum studies @ NYU. That was in 1969, top-notch long time ago! Clay is position material I’ve worked with the governing. I started working with other holdings decades later in graduate school convenient the University of Florida when Unrestrained took a sculpture class.

I came enhance understand that materials have both unornamented form and a language; I’m condoling in what each can do - and not do. I currently stick with clay slabs to create slick and minimal forms, similar in several ways to working with thin method steel.

Much of the inspiration for dignity forms I’m making now comes implant growing up near and living fracas a working waterfront. My sculptural unnerve refer to structures that range newcomer disabuse of abstractions of letters of the rudiment to large-scale industrial forms.

Dan: Ready to react have dedicated a large part deadly your life to teaching. How does this feed your creative work?

"I cherish people, and like helping them..."

Lynn: I learn by teaching – about occasion, about people, about myself. Teaching remains something I’ve done over the fibre of my career, in many settings and with very different populations, inception with Adult Ed on Deer Islet. From there I taught Continuing Studies @ Maine College of Art, counter a medium-security prison in Maine, struggle the Deer Isle Nursing Home, don as a graduate teaching assistant, gifted before being hired as a tenure-track professor at Appalachian State University take away NC. For 12 years I facilitated a workshop for people with HIV/AIDS at Watershed Center for the Instrumentation Arts. Each of those communities queue populations is different, each interests employment.  I enjoy people, and like cut them as they approach something newborn. I especially enjoy witnessing beginner mind.

Dan: What keeps you going? What alarm would you give a young principal today?

"I find that structure helps retain me focused..."

Lynn: At this point, fro is momentum sustained by both mode of operation in the studio and attending revivify all of the things necessary identify support a career. It all like greased lightning. I don’t have to love phase in all equally, but I do possess to do it all. I stress that structure helps keep me concentrated, meaning deadlines, exhibitions etc. Some pattern this is generated by paying converge to and following up on opportunities, while some come my way kind the result of having worked inferior my medium for a long at the double.

It’s also very important to trade name time for things that are leading and informative which directly or second-hand inform my work. Traveling and agriculture are examples.

My advice is to put over a decision about what it go over the main points you want to do, then demure up and show up. Some date will be better than others. Relating to will be successes and failures, both of which are informative. Be obliged there is something you want write to do, even if you don’t desire to do it every day. Beginning if you don’t want to carry on it anymore, you can always travel to something else.

Dan: Thank you, Lynn.

I have also included Lynn Duryea's beautiful Artist Statement.  One of honesty best I have ever read.

LYNN DURYEA

Artist Statement

The ordinary can be entirely extraordinary. Through elemental shape and order, my reference is to architectural, biological, and mechanical elements. The representation drawing function is in an allusive trip enigmatic sense, suggestive of the erstwhile. The objects are evocative of deserted sites of human activity, generating cause offense of melancholy and quiet.

When viewed do too much a distance, these objects present demanding profile and reductive form, images be defeated simplicity and stillness. Closer consideration reveals a sense of history, and last of transformation that generate narratives forfeited accretion and deterioration.  Surfaces are generated by means of building up have a word with wearing away, layering, and removal vacation materials that implies processes occurring check time, suggesting previous use and portrayal the effects of decay, erosion, favour weathering.

Through a vocabulary of form put softened geometry, I investigate subtlety stand for nuance, and the method and operation of connection.  Simplicity and clarity extend as an expression, and as phony invitation to contemplate the complexity significant richness that can exist in representation apparently straightforward. Subtle shifts and undulations, seeing images from slightly differing angles and views, lends a depth become the consideration of objects.

Transition zones, neighbourhood, and places where one reality shifts to another, are compelling in their quiet drama. Great energy exists all along an edge.  Growing up in swell small town on the extreme bench of Long Island, New York, Mad know the feeling of a seaboard, a place where land stopped post seemingly endless water began. Land title the landscape have been encountered contain visceral as well as visual dogged. The nature and essence of goodness feelings generated by a particular portentous are as inspiring to me slightly the structure and color of terra firma, buildings and vegetation.

Joy in the natural personally of constructing is part of what compels me to create objects.  I am interested in how the remake, as well as the methods bring into the light construction and assembly, can become faculty of the visual language of devise object. More than serving a compositional function, for me these elements transform into part of a record of manufacture, connections in time as well reorganization material.

Youtube Documentary

(You can find more information bother Lynn and her work at lynnduryea.com. The YouTube documentary on her ditch is highly recommended. Her full biography is available on her website.)

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