Ayumi Horie is a potter who specializes in crafting bowls perfect for eating ramen. The perfect ramen bowl is all about the curve of the bowl. The INSIDER team believes that life is an adventure! Subscribe to our channel and visit us at:
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Ayumi Horie
BIO:
Ayumi Horie is a studio potter in Portland, Maine who makes functional pottery with drawings of animals. In 2015, she was awarded a Distinguished Fellow in Craft grant from the United States Artists Foundation. She runs Pots In Action, a curatorial project on Instagram that features international ceramics and recently completed a collaborative public art project, Portland Brick, that repairs city sidewalks with bricks stamped with past, contemporary, and future memories. In 2011, she was the first recipient of Ceramics Monthly’s Ceramic Artist of the Year award. She has organized multiple online fundraisers including Obamaware in 2008 and Handmade For Japan in 2011. She is currently on the board of the American Craft Council and accessCeramics.org.
STATEMENT:
My work attempts to deepen connections between people and their communities, serving both a physical purpose and as a vehicle to open the softer side of a person. I want to explore individual vulnerability by drawing images that evoke an emotional response and also explore how public art invites a community to deepen their link to one another and to their sense of home.
My work has multiple directions- functional ceramics, tote bags, photography, social media and social practice. My primary work for the last twenty years has been that of a studio potter. I use imperfections in form as evidence of human vulnerability to link the user to the maker. I am interested in the anti-masterpiece and the anti-monumental, because I think one kind of meaningful connection to an object, and by extension another person, takes place through daily interaction in intimate domestic spaces.
My pottery, photography, Pots In Action and my collaborative public art project, Portland Brick, reflect my interest in relational aesthetics. The dialogue and impact on both parties is concrete. Much of my work is given as gifts, and the social exchange aspect of my practice overlaps with my explorations in community projects that have participatory elements, storytelling components, and even fundraising goals supporting social change.
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This video is for Artaxis conversations during National Clay Week 2019 – "Resources"
Throwing clay into a wooden mold for Portland Brick, a public art project in Portland, Maine in which past, contemporary, and future memories are stamped into bricks that repair city sidewalks. Ayumi Horie and Elise Pepple collaborating. Thanks to Janine Grant for throwing the clay
Ayumi Horie draws a bird on a cup using a red guideline.
Ayumi Horie scalloping the rim of a porcelain plate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGcUvos8qsQ
Watch fluid dynamics at work as a cup is vacuum dunked in glaze. This technique makes glazing more efficient. Amaco LG 10 fires clear, but contains a red dye to help with visibility in application.
A quick look into Ayumi Horie's studio practice. Using porcelain, she shows how to dry throw bowls, plates, a match striker, and applies decals to pottery. She talks about the importance of touch and the haptic in life and what it means to make slow pots. Ceramic jokes included!
Studio Assistant: Molly Spadone
Michael Wilson
MW Photographic: Director and Filming
Chloe Beaven: Video and Sound Editing
Miles Beaven: Music
