Sculptor to make piece of art as audience watches
In front of a swarming crowd, Bar Shacterman will create an original clay sculpture in record time next week, using just clay and an oversize hammer.
Shacterman, a resident of Fair Oaks, outside Sacramento, will be featured at the opening reception of the Ceramics Annual of America exhibition and fair, to be held at Fort Mason in San Francisco from Sept. 9-12.
Acccompanied by live music, Shacterman will likely spend just 30 minutes sculpting a large, new figurative piece. After the reception,,Buy Cartier watches, Shopping for high quality and lower price Cartier watches. he’ll fire the work in his home kiln for 48 hours and then add it to his ongoing “Clayscape” series.
“Clayscape” depicts combinations of landscape, seascape and cityscape with different textures and patterns. Ripe with sandlike clay and stones, the series is a vivid physical reminder of his past, Shacterman says.
The 45-year-old was born in Odessa, Russia, and immigrated to Israel at age 6. He fondly recalls his first steps on pristine Israeli beaches. “My first memories of Israel were the ocean, the sand dunes and architecture of the beach,” he says, adding, “Coming from a very cold country to a place ...