BEATRIZ CABEZAS - ARTIST INFORMATION
Beatriz Cabezas was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was an
exchange
student in Arizona at South Mountain High School in the early seventies
where she lived with a host family for six months. She
lived in Argentina
for more than twenty years
where she studied art. Beatriz
has studied and
researched different ceramic techniques to use in making her
vessels and
sculptures. Beatriz Cabezas teaches Ceramics at several Art
Schools in South
America.
She currently lives in Las Toscas, a quiet village by the sea, east of
Montevideo, Uruguay.
Her pottery designs are all original and she is a noted ceramic artist in France
and Spain. She shares her life and her work with
Julio Zalazar
who was born in Buenos Aires. He studied drawing,
painting and ceramics in Argentina. Julio has developed original techniques to
ensemble ceramic objects with different materials such as wood, iron, steel, wire and glass. Julio teaches art in Uruguay
with an emphasis on the creative use of fire in wood kilns for ceramics.
We are pleased to have
Beatriz Cabezas
and
Julio Zalazar showing at
LKG Contemporary in
Scottsdale, Az..
BEAT RIZ
CABEZAS - JULIO ZALAZAR- ABOUT THEIR WORK
Beatriz Cabezas and
Julio Zalazar
have a
workshop in Las Toscas where they make and fire their vessels. All the pieces
are orig inal
designs. They first give shape to the clay and then fire it. Many of the pieces
are Raku which have been transformed through the years with the use of new
procedures. After biscuit firing, the ceramic pieces are
glazed and fired again at 950 degrees Centigrade. The pieces are withdrawn from
the kiln and smoked in sawdust to obtain "cracking" and a metallic luster. The
iron structures are designed by Julio to fit each piece and are built through electric welding.
Please contact us at
480-945-1209 or
lkg@leonakinggallery.com
for more information about these vessels.
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