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Thursday, November 3, 1988 THE IN I A A 0 I NEWS D-3 Uovembcr Glcay Events Potter: Debikey educated in Italy 1988 Indiana Artists AMACO Vase Exhibition II Opens Friday, 6 to 8 p.m. reception, Patrick King Contemporary Art, 427 Massachusetts Ave. Collaborative exhibit sponsored by the gallery and American Art Clay Co. in which 10 gallery artists translate their fine-art visions to clay surfaces in a workshop directed by George Debikey, head of product development for AMACO, and Bruce Locke, director of education for AMACO's Reward Product Division. The artists are Doug Calisch, Vlasek (Doris) Hails, Joni Heide, Diane Itter, William Itter, Ronald Markman, Will Northerner, Martha Opdahl, Rick Paul and Richard Emery Nickolson.

Exhibit includes original paintings, sculpture and fiber art and the vases they inspired. Opening reception hosted by Wayne Vincent, chairman, World Life and Accident Association, Richmond. L. Bond Sandoe Jr. is president and chairman of the board of AMACO.

Continues through Dec. 22, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturdays. Clayfest VI Opens Nov. 18, 7 to 10 p.m. reception, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, 1701 N. Pennsylvania St.

Biennial juried exhibition funded in part by the Mary Howes Woodsmall Foundation to showcase Indiana ceramic art and artists. Open to any Indiana resident. This year's show will include works by George and liana Debikey. Includes 24-page fully illustrated catalogue with essays by ceramic collector Joan Mannheimer and Clayfest juror Patrick H. Ela, director of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles.

Limited edition poster by Paul T. Brown, assistant professor of visual communications at Herron. Continues through Dec. 17, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Clay Invitational Opens Nov. 18, 6 to 9 p.m.

reception, State Museum, 202 N. Alabama St. Works by 10 Indiana ceramic artists who have exhibited nationally or internationally: Linda Arndt, Muncie; Doug Calish, Crawfordsville; Dick Hay, Terre Haute; Lenny Dowhie, Evansville; John Goodheart, Blooming-ton; Bill Kremer, South Bend; Nancy McCroskey, Fort Wayne; Brad Schweiger, Vincennes; Dee Shaad, Indianapolis, and Susan Tennant, Indianapolis. Exhibit was curated by Mark S. Richardson, head of the ceramic department at the Herron School of Art, and Claudia Kheel, curator of fine art at the Indiana State Museum.

Continues through Dec. 17, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon to 4:45 p.m. Sundays.

Clayfest Awards Ceremony 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 18, University Place Executive Conference Center at IUPUI. Presentation of more than $3,500 to winners in the biennial Clayfest VI exhibition. Patrick H.

Ela, juror for the exhibition, will present a slide lecture on "Craft Evolution: Changes in Ceramic Form," following the ceremony. A special award will be made to ceramic artist Karl Martz, professor emeritus of fine arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington, for his lifelong commitment to the ceramic arts in Indiana. Related Gallery Exhibits Opening Nov. 18 with evening receptions corresponding to Clayfest and Clay Invitational openings. Trolley will run between the State Museum, the Herron School of Art and the downtown galleries.

Exhibits include two-artist show of ceramic sculptures by Susan Tennant and prints by Jan Tenenbaum at Ruschman Art Gallery, 421 Massachusetts and "Handworks at William Engle Gallery, now at 415 Massachusetts Ave. Three ceramic artists will be included in the gallery's fifth annual exhibition of works by selected American craft artists. All other downtown galleries will be open for the evening, including Patrick King Contempo- rary Art. Photo Courtesy Patrick King Contemporary Art Crawfordsville sculptor Doug Calisch works on a ceramic vase at AMACO. Continued from D-l is the realm of the seasoned artist who experiments and explores new possibilities in ceramic art.

Debikey is the product of extensive education in Italy, the hub of glass and ceramic art technology. His training synthesized engineering with fine arts in Faenza, Perugia and Pesaro. His ceramics are carried by the Indianapolis Museum of Art Museum Shop and On View Downtown Gallery, and he has exhibited state-wide, nationally and abroad. And a remarkable collection of his work is on perpetual display in his home studio in Speedway. One can see souvenirs from his school days: stoneware sculpture and items showing disciplined detailings.

Also in the Debikey home are ceramics and hand-made paper art by liana Debikey, an artist in her own right. And space is shared with art from friends and objects collected during traveling. Debikey's work offers a variety of style, design and technique. He is an artist, not a production potter who reproduces a single idea many times over. He has made elegantly shaped vessels, one of a kind, some of porcelain, others using the ancient glazing techniques of high-temperature fired celadons and ox-blood reds.

Other examples reveal Debikey as an alchemist with crystal glazes, using an unpredictable glaze of his own creation, wherein crystals explode during the firing process into designs that resemble flowers from another world. Nature, human figure In Debikey's studio, two potters' wheels await a mass of clay, though much of his art negates their use. He makes clay wall panels that behave like fine paintings. He draws from nature or the human figure directly on the clay or in the glazes. His art can offer a romantic touch or abstraction in geometry.

Objects are fired in one of three kilns in the studio extension. Debikey can explain that the firing process will also affect the outcome so that he is constantly aware of how air flows in the kiln, where heat concentrates, the length of firing time, and, of course, the temperature. Currently Debikey works in stants of a fine hand-crafted object are form, color and design. These are things Debikey works with intuitively, after having created fine ceramic art most of his life. His work evolved into many forms and techniques; it regenerates from one process into another.

Inspecting Debikey's ceramic "work, whether it's an early piece from school days or a recent raku sculpture shrouded in the mysterious glow of color, you ultimately come to realize that the experience transcends description. Eventually you stop trying to describe it, giving in to the silence of the art which calms and satisfies the senses. raku tile segments that Debikey crafted into unusual shapes and fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, giving the room the feel of a medieval castle. But at the base of the fireplace there is a free-standing contemporary ceramic sculpture titled "Uprising." It's a multi-colored totem that shows off brilliant reds, which Debikey made from three separate segments because his largest kiln was unable to accommodate the work in its entirety. Its singular presence reminds a visitor of Debikey's sense of excellence for sculptural form.

Debikey will tell you, as any fine artist would, that the con raku. a ceramic procedure that seems to disobey the conventional rules of firing since objects removed from the kiln bypass the usual slow-cooling time span. There may be a few surprises resulting from this technique, and they are well worth it. Some items in raku can resemble marble, leather, or molten steel. Debikey creates colors with luster and iridescence resembling phosphorescent butterfly wings.

He employs designs that look like jewels, circles or triangles of colors, sgraffito lines, like a dot-dash or counterpoint of optical play. Raku colors and surfaces change with light. There is an opaque quality that give the illusion of depth under a surface that, we must remind ourselves, is nothing more than a layer of glass. In one room of the Debikey home, the walls are lined with books, art objects and a smattering of family photographs which include their four children. One wall exhibits a flute and two dulcimers: their daughter Natalie is a musician.

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19. The artist, whose baskets have been exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. will teach how to make a double bottom round basket and how to combine vegetable dyes and weave colored reeds into baskets. No experience is needed. The fee is $35 and includes materials.

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