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| First Name | Geoffrey |
| Last Name | Tjakra |
| Nickname | ePicAi |
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My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Sculpting, Slip casting, Everything to do with Ceramics |
| Pottery Wheel | soldner |
| Clay body | Earthenware, Stoneware, Porcelain |
| Clay Brand | local Sukabumi clay, Thailand clay |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln, Gas Kiln, Raku Kiln |
| Kiln Atmosphere | Reduction Atmosphere, Oxidation Atmosphere |
| Temperature | around 1100 Celsius |
| Glaze | local glaze , matures around 1050-1100 Celsius |
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About Me
| Introduction | b at Jakarta, Indonesia. BFA (visual arts: sculpture) from Mason Gross School of Arts, NJ, USA in 1994. First study ceramics from Neil Moss at El Camino Community College, CA, USA. MFA (Studio Arts: Ceramics) from California State University Los Angeles (mentor Luis Bermudez) in 2007. Now living In Karawaci, Indonesia with my wife and 2 daughters. Lecturer at Universitas Pelita Harapan, School of Design, Product Design and occasionally plays with clay. |
| What I Love about Ceramics | playing with clay, and all the creative process possible. |
| How I started with ceramics | just picking up mud after rain from the garden, playing with it, and many years llater continue with formal education at a community college and resulted in getting my MFA in studio arts, Ceramics in 2007 from Calstate Los Angeles. Been doing it since 1999. |
| What inspires me | people, art, God. |
| What I'm working on at the moment | cacti/succulents designer planters. |
| My Artist Statement |
create, art, play, enjoy. |
| My CV | 2005 – Angel’s Gate First Open Call, San Pedro, California – CA.kilnopening.edu, AMOCA, Pomona, California – The President’s Show, The American Ceramic Society, Venice, California 2004 – Juried Show, Cup: The Intimate Object II, Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, IN – Juried All Media Exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California – Open Call 2004, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California – The Best President’s Show, Burbank, California 2003 – NCECA, Inter College Ceramics Show Case, San Diego, California 2002 – Student Art Show, El Camino College, California 2000 – Foreign Student Exhibition, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China 1994 – Thesis Exhibition, Rutgers University, New Jersey 1992 – Juried Show, Art Open, First place finish from Livingston College, New Jersey Education 2007 California State University, Los Angeles, MFA in Studio Arts: Ceramics. 2000 El Camino College, T.A. for Neil Moss, California 1995 Chien Tan Huo Tung Cong Xin, Taipei, Taiwan 1994 BFA Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey Â
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| Profile Type | Member |
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