My ceramic sculpture comments on contemporary American society with a gentle humor, at the same time it conveys the affection, anger and pathos felt by all peoples. For over 30 years I have enjoyed ceramic sculpting because of the tactile experience, the satisfaction of creating a 3-dimensional object, and the excitement of the unpredictable results of firing clay and glazes.
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I usually construct my one-of-a-kind sculpture with 1/4 inch thick slabs of clay that I use to build the walls of the hollow form. I do not us armatures to support the form, I design it to support and balance itself. Some sculptures I slip cast from a plaster mold that I make of my original model. This process allows me to make a limited number of clay castings (usually five to ten) copies of the sculpture.
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FAuAsBajorek did undergraduate studies in sociology at the University of Redlands, California, then transferred to the University of the Americas in Mexico City and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Latin American Sociology, History, and Art Studies in 1962. She has studied painting, sculpture, and ceramics in Los Angeles and New York, and has exhibited on both coasts and in Minnesota. She now lives and sculpts in Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is owner and director of Iguana Galleries. She is an exhibiting member of the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California.
Whichever of the construction methods used, the clay sculpture must dry for 3 to 4 weeks, then I paint it with colored slips (mixtures of clay, water and oxides). It must dry again, then is bisque fired to about 2000 degrees F to harden the clay. After this initial firing I often add and adjust color with more slips, stains or glazes and fire the piece again, sometimes repeating this step several times for certain effects.
