charred and tooled; half sphere with rounded bottom; concave top with very thick side walls; light-colored wood with black wedge at rim; remainder of rim is black with light concave "bubbles"; loop of concave "bubbles" extend from wedge at interior

%C2%A9 Hayley Smith

Bowl, 1996

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Smith's works reflect her early training as a printmaker and painter. After she realized that it was the reductive technique of creating wood blocks for prints that she enjoyed, Smith began turning wood. Her pieces display a graphic strength and complexity due to her varied surface treatments.

To create the hemispherical bowl form, Smith begins by turning a piece of wood on a lathe, then altering its surfaces, often carving, burning or painting different parts of the piece, but never completely obscuring the wood. Of her love for the variation in the color and grain of wood species, Smith says "I like the challenge of finding the balance between its existing character and what I can add to it. It is, after all, not a blank canvas."

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Title
Bowl
Artist Life
born Wales 1965, active United States
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2009.75.13
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charred and tooled; half sphere with rounded bottom; concave top with very thick side walls; light-colored wood with black wedge at rim; remainder of rim is black with light concave "bubbles"; loop of concave "bubbles" extend from wedge at interior

© Hayley Smith

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