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HP Bloomer IV

Biography to Display: 

EDUCATION

2007 BFA, Ceramics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

2011 MFA, Ceramics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

 

APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

2011-2013 The Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, Colorado

2013-2014 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee

2016—Cobb Mountain Arts and Ecology Project, Cobb, California

 

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

2011-2013 Adjunct Professor, Ceramics, Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs, Colorado

2014 Studio Manager, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2017-2019  Adjunct faculty, Medocino College,  Lakeport and Ukiah, California

2019-2020 Adjunct Professor, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, Colorado

2023 - 2024 Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

 

BIOGRAPHY

HP Bloomer makes functional porcelain tableware, high-fired with gas, electric, and/or wood.  It is often soda fired. Surface treatment includes glaze, and glazes layered with wax resist (the wax application makes the glaze resist sticking to a surface, thus the surface can have no glaze, or one glaze next to a spot where two glazes have been applied).

 Influences include pattern and color in design fields (fabric, architecture, graphic, interior), and Jean Widmer, Paul Klee, Annie Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Liubov Popova.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Public Collections to Display: 

Museum of Fine Arts, The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, Houston, Texas

rosenfieldcollection.com

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography to Display: 

Bloomer, HP. “Surface.” The Studio Potter 43, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2015).

Clark, Garth, and Cindy Strauss. Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Vecchio Collection. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Lawton, Jim. 500 Teapots Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design. Asheville, NC: Lark Crafts, 2013.

 

 

CV or RESUME: Click Here to Download
Source: Artist

WEBSITE(S):

www.hpbloomer.com

 

Typical Marks

Typical known mark as of February 2017, is the letters HPB are entwined, in caps, and incorporated into a hand-crafted square stamp, which is impressed into the clay on foot of pot.

 

Cup
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze
rosenfieldcollection.com
rosenfieldcollection.com
Cup
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze
rosenfieldcollection.com
rosenfieldcollection.com
Tumbler
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Thrown
Surface Technique: Glaze
The Lauren Smith Collection
Photo: TMP
The Lauren Smith Collection
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Mug
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Wax Resist
rosenfieldcollection.com
rosenfieldcollection.com

Citation: "The Marks Project." Last modified July 15, 2024. http://www.themarksproject.org:443/marks/bloomer-iv