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Mastering Raku
Steven Branfman
(Lark Books
Asheville, NC, 2009)
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Raku
Tim Andrews
(A&C Black, London, 2004)
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"Rick Foris makes fantastic
and eccentric sculptural pieces. Many are constructed using
complicated assemblages of disparate components. Separately,
the elements seem familiar: bases, handles, lids and spouts
which betray his origins as a functional potter. Some draw on
architectural resonances from Aztec and Mayan culture, and shapes
reminiscent of Oriental tea vessels, ceremonial temple ware,
gold Russian minarets and even bits from an engineer’s
scrap-yard. The sum of each sculpture, however, is much more
than its parts and ultimately the pieces defy attempts to impose
a provenance. Instead they offer themselves as stunning individual
objects with more than a touch of Hollywood about them."
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Raku
John Mathieson
(A & C Black, London 2002)
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"Rick
does not use ceramics as the source of his inspiration.
In fact, he will deliberately go out of his way to avoid
looking at contemporary ceramics in magazines and galleries.
He is most influenced by architectural details such as ‘stairways,
courtyards, stelae’. Language also interests him:
‘I incorporate slip-trailed and impressed characters
into many of my pieces. Not actual languages – just
shapes I make up that suggest language – pyroglyphs’."
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Raku: Investigations into Fire
David Jones
(The Crowood Press 1999)
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"The
American potter Rick Foris makes dramatic work. His formative
influence was potter John Natale, “Whose work always knocked
me out. Every time I’d see his work, at art fairs or galleries,
it would evoke a “God, why didn’t I think of that!”
response. He generally made simple vessel shapes adorned with
the most outrageous doodads – the pieces always looked
so ceremonial. That did, and still does, interest and excite
me’. "
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