- About Me
- Lynn Haven, FL, United States
- Tammy received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from the University of Florida. Currently she is an Associate Professor at Gulf Coast State College. Tammy has also taught at the University of Florida in Gainsville, and abroad at Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry, India, and at the Skopelos Art Foundation in Skopelos, Greece. In addition to maintaining an active teaching schedule, Tammy is a working studio Artist. Her works can be seen at Pendland Gallery, NC, Florida Craftsman, FL, Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, OR, Iota Gallery, TX and at Lillstreet Art Center, IL. Tammy resides in Panama City, Florida with her husband Pavel Amromin and two children Pearl and Ari.
Tell Me Your Secrets
About a year ago I had an idea for a show based around secrets. I was going to make containers for holding secrets. The idea was inspired from being an educator and being in the classroom, hearing everyone’s private stories. Students can be so candid when talking about their projects, or sometimes, just in casual conversation with their classmates. I consider myself a story-teller, but I have never asked anyone directly to share a story. It has always been my secret that I collect stories and make work that is based on those stories. I have definitely borrowed information for my work from my surroundings, especially my jobs. I have been a hairdresser, photographer, caregiver, artist and educator. So this projected started with the task of collecting secrets. I made up packets, and asked friends, across the country, to be "secret collectors". Each collector received a group of packets. Each packet contained envelopes with a piece of paper inside. The paper stated: “Many of us have secrets, feel free to share your secret, please be anonymous, and put your secret back in your envelope, seal the envelope and give the secrets back to your secret collector."
I did not want to know who wrote the secret. When I got the secret packets back, I purposely mixed them up, so that I could not identify the author or the location from which they came.
I received about a hundred envelopes back out of a hundred fifty that I’ve sent out. Lately I have been in the habit of opening a secret a day, and the responses are fascinating. Some people say they do not have secrets (whatever), some people talk about their desire to sleep with certain people. Others wrote about their childhood secrets.
The funny thing is that in my daily life people often reveal their secrets to me without much prompting; however, when an individual is asked to share their secret in writing they are much more apprehensive. The act of committing something to paper, giving it a physical form, making it permanent has a halting affect. Some people stapled their envelope, as if to provide extra protection to the secret inside.
The next step was to make the containers to house the secrets. The containers are to reflect the secrets inside. There is a caveat. While the actual secrets will be placed inside the container, they will remain a mystery until the container is purchased. Until the decision is made to purchase the container; until there is a commitment to own it, the secret remains inside. The concept is based on the premise that we do not always know what we are getting into when we start a relationship. Each container, just like each of us has something inside, it might be remarkably good, or it might be extraordinarily harmful, whatever it is, it is hidden inside and is not readily revealed. Eventually it comes out. We are all human and, we all have greed, lust, jealousy, fear, love, and joy. The containers will surely be reflective of the secret inside, and just like in real life the buyer has to be observant
The show will be held at the Mudfire Studio, 175 Laredo Drive in Decatur, GA. Opening night day/date/times will be announced soon. Stay tuned for more details to follow…
Art & the Urban Garden
If you are in the Chicago area, come see my planters at Lillstreet.
Lillstreet Gallery & Artisan Gift Shop
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Sneak Peek: Meet Miss Sniffles, The Candy Man, and The Beauty Queen
I am working like a dog in the studio to get the work complete for my upcoming show at Mudfire Gallery. Meet Miss Sniffles, The Candy Man and The Beauty Queen.
Kickstarter Project with Nikos
Kickstarter info: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/siffy/unearth-our-heritage
Article: http://skopart.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/nikosrodios.pdf
TRAN(IN)FORM*A*TION
My friend Amanda Small came to visit FL, this past weekend. Amanda is an international artist who is the Coordinator/Directors at Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Center in Skaelskor Denmark. Amanda is a free spirit and infectious to all around her.
See the announcement below about her show:
Amelia Center Gallery of Gulf Coast State College presents Trans(in)Form*a* tion, a mixed media installation by Amanda Small. In her work Amanda explores the relationship between physical place and intangible experience, with an emphasis on the idea that movement is an intrinsic and permanent flux existing in all things, as well as being the sign and measure of space, and time, and memory. Amanda’s installations employ mundane materials and ambiguous imagery based on the natural world, micro and macro views of the earth, cells, satellite mapping, topographies and systematic patterning to contemplate the meaning of “home” and “place”.
Trans(in)Form*a* tion will opened the evening of March 29. The work will be on display in the Amelia Center Main Gallery (Room 112) until April 21. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Amanda interview with Ben Carter:
http://carterpottery.blogspot.com/2013/02/ceramic-sculptor-amanda-small-on-tales.html
http://www.newsherald.com/news/art-exhibit-seeks-to-inspire-sense-of-wonder-video-1.118247
Images from Naturalization / NCECA / TX / March 2013
Alex Kraft
http://alexkraftart.com/home.html
Sharbani Das Gupta
http://sharbanidasgupta.com/sharbanidasgupta/Sharbani.html
Adam Shiverdecker
http://adamshiverdecker.visualserver.com/portfolio.cfm?nK=15628&nS=0&i=193911
You can see my new work to the right. My friend Sharbani did an amazing job, writing up a proposal for this show. It was well attended and looked great.
A bit of info about the show:
Naturalization
The exhibit brings together seven artists from varied
backgrounds; all have experienced transplantation in some form. Though the term
‘Naturalization’ is mine, each artist’s
work investigates some aspect of this process; human relationships and the
interaction of matter, material and earth are all subjects.
Silhouettes - Exhibition now through April 26, 2013
An intimate, yet diverse display of contemporary, figurative ceramic sculpture.
Silhouettes - on display now through April 26th.
James Tisdale, Kensuke Yamada, Gabriel Parque, Richard Nickel, Paige Wright, Beth Lo, Debra Fritts, Melissa Mencini, Tammy Marinuzzi, Clayton Keyes, Wesley Anderegg, Richard Swanson, Zach Tate, Pavel Amromin, Derorah Rogers, Diana Farfan, Claire Curneen, Tom Bartel, Magda Gluszek, Margaret Keelan, Esther Shimazu, Andrea Keys Connell, Patti Warashina, Nan Smith, TJ Erdahl, Sunkoo Yuh, Meg Murch, Christyl Roger, Janis Mars Wunderlich
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
Work at NCECA
Show title: Naturalization
The layered result of overlapping
cultures, people and the progression of time, Houston’s cosmopolitan, nature provides fertile
ground for transplants to put down roots, naturalize. In the dictionary the
process by which foreign bodies adapt and integrate into an environment is
defined as ‘naturalization’; the word is also used by the US Department of
Immigration when referring to the process of immigration. Though the normal impulse
is to maintain balance, change is our history, and people move and the energy
of growth shifts from place to place. Naturalization takes place when faced
with the need to reconcile adaptation with memory and learning occurs when
faced with the unexpected or challenging.
The exhibit brings together seven artists from varied
backgrounds; all have experienced transplantation in some form. Though the term
‘Naturalization’ is mine, each artist’s
work investigates some aspect of this process; human relationships and the
interaction of matter, material and earth are all subjects
Naturalization, Ray Meeker, Nidhi Jalan, Brian Kluge, Tammy Marinuzzi, Jeff Forster, Alex Kraft, Sharbani Das Gupta. From entropy and metamorphosis to expression, these artists are directly influenced by physical and mental environments; their work reflecting ‘Naturalization’ or the process of adaptation. Organized by Sharbani Das Gupta.
Naturalization
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The Show Info and location
Tammy's new work in The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
By the bottle / by the ounce
Bluegrass Bourbon
Curated by Matt Long
Matt Long received his MFA from Ohio University and his BFA from The Kansas City Art Institute. He is current an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. A potter for 29 years, Long has had his work in national juried and invitational shows throughout the United States. He is particularly known for his bourbon bottles and whiskey flasks.
EXHIBITION: April 5-May 15, 2013
LOCATION: The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Ky.
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