Maguelonne Ival
Maguelonne Ival
Maguelonne Ival (Mag) was born and raised in France, lived for a few years in England (Birmingham) and New Zealand (Dunedin) and moved to Corvallis, Oregon (USA) in 2004. She started ceramics there and never stopped, building a career in the arts alongside her job as a Foreign Language teacher and taking care of her two sons.
She makes both sculptural and functional artwork and refuses to choose. She loves functional art for its purpose, its challenges and its ancient history. She equally loves creating useless/meaningful pieces which coalesce out of her imagination to become tangible objects.
The Mobius strip is a recurring shape in her art. It is no accident that this shape refuses to choose or take a side. Similarly, all contradictions in her art coexist on a continuum. She is an artist, a woman, a mother, an immigrant, a teacher, a lover of nature, language, literature and more. Her art is inspired by her curiosity and an infinite number of techniques and subjects. Like the Mobius strip, she endeavors to give them all a space in the loop of her art practice.
Mag uses porcelain and colored clay in her work. One technique she likes to use is the Japanese Nerikomi technique that allows her to create patterns directly in the clay but she loves to discover and test new techniques and apply them to both her sculptural and functional work. Her latest obsession is the slipcasting technique with multiple layers of colored clay that she can carve through and reveal the colors underneath as well as playing with the translucency of porcelain.
She makes both sculptural and functional artwork and refuses to choose. She loves functional art for its purpose, its challenges and its ancient history. She equally loves creating useless/meaningful pieces which coalesce out of her imagination to become tangible objects.
The Mobius strip is a recurring shape in her art. It is no accident that this shape refuses to choose or take a side. Similarly, all contradictions in her art coexist on a continuum. She is an artist, a woman, a mother, an immigrant, a teacher, a lover of nature, language, literature and more. Her art is inspired by her curiosity and an infinite number of techniques and subjects. Like the Mobius strip, she endeavors to give them all a space in the loop of her art practice.
Mag uses porcelain and colored clay in her work. One technique she likes to use is the Japanese Nerikomi technique that allows her to create patterns directly in the clay but she loves to discover and test new techniques and apply them to both her sculptural and functional work. Her latest obsession is the slipcasting technique with multiple layers of colored clay that she can carve through and reveal the colors underneath as well as playing with the translucency of porcelain.
