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1960 Born Knoxville, Tennessee
EDUCATION
1982 BA English, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1983—Manager, Creative Media Department, Oakridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
BIOGRAPHY
Tina Curry is known for figurative ceramic sculpture. Subject matter includes human and animal forms. Curry's most frequent subject is horses. Each piece uses a stoneware clay body and slab-construction method.
Curry develops earth-toned surfaces using saggar, pit, and/or raku firing methods. Raku fired surfaces are often developed using the horse-hair technique, where a work is removed from the kiln at the red hot stage and transferred to a covered container with horse-hair fill which burns off creating an oxidation environment. The resulting effects include surface with smoke-black crimped lines from the burned horse hair.
Southern Highland Craft Guild |
Center For Craft |
Citation: Jeffrey Kuratnick. "The Marks Project." Last modified June 23, 2023. http://www.themarksproject.org/marks/curry