The compositions in Mary Ellen Taylor's abstract ceramic pieces touch on chaos but maintain clarity through positive and negative spaces, continuous and broken lines, and repeating colors. Her process begins with soft clay slabs that are formed over molds, cut into tiles and constructed into 3D shapes. Taylor creates textures and pattern on the forms from plastic mats, stamps, rollers and found objects that are impressed and then layered. She uses opaque and thinned applications of color for the glaze firing. Taylor, who is a retired art educator based in Toledo, Ohio, earned a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo and a MFA from Bowling Green State University.
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