Charles Faucher
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b. l938, Grosse Ile, Michigan
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Turned & Sculptured Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Innovative Perspectives in Turning, Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, CT
2003 New Work, Gallery 401, Providence, RI
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 "Segmented Surprises", American Woodturner, fall
2005 "Super Bowls", New Hampshire Magazine, January
2003 "Charles Faucher: Manual Intelligence", Middlesex Beat, November
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I have had several careers, as befits someone born as long ago as I was. After earning a couple of degrees, teaching and then editing trade publications, I attended Philadelphia College of Art in the mid '70's. Dan Jackson was there, inspiring everyone he taught with his visions of form in wood; the fine craft revival in wood was just gathering steam. I was not the only one who left PCA determined to make his/her own way. I opened a studio in the Northeast and spent the next 25 years designing and building cabinetry and furniture. The time came for evolution, if not total change.
My mother had a long career as a teacher and studio potter and I developed rudimentary throwing skills under her guidance. So the form of the pot has been with me for a while. I have always turned components for my furniture, so it has been natural to progress to lathe work exclusively. From 2001 onward, I studied with Beth Ireland, took David Ellsworth's weekend intensive, joined local woodturning organizations, read and messed around a lot on my own. I am now a full time turner; I sell my work through various galleries and craft shows from West Palm Beach to Chicago.
Just as my furniture involved shaping wood that was cut and assembled, my bowl forms involve a great deal of cutting and assembling before shaping. My current interest is what I would call horizontal or lateral segmentation. I assemble various exotics into rings and then fit the rings inside or outside each other to create a range of effects. They are two-dimensional graphics or three-dimensional forms depending on how the rings are manipulated. I have learned to turn the forms on multiple centers as the assembly proceeds. The asymmetry that results is Escher-like.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Turned & Sculptured Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Innovative Perspectives in Turning, Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, CT
2003 New Work, Gallery 401, Providence, RI
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 "Segmented Surprises", American Woodturner, fall
2005 "Super Bowls", New Hampshire Magazine, January
2003 "Charles Faucher: Manual Intelligence", Middlesex Beat, November
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I have had several careers, as befits someone born as long ago as I was. After earning a couple of degrees, teaching and then editing trade publications, I attended Philadelphia College of Art in the mid '70's. Dan Jackson was there, inspiring everyone he taught with his visions of form in wood; the fine craft revival in wood was just gathering steam. I was not the only one who left PCA determined to make his/her own way. I opened a studio in the Northeast and spent the next 25 years designing and building cabinetry and furniture. The time came for evolution, if not total change.
My mother had a long career as a teacher and studio potter and I developed rudimentary throwing skills under her guidance. So the form of the pot has been with me for a while. I have always turned components for my furniture, so it has been natural to progress to lathe work exclusively. From 2001 onward, I studied with Beth Ireland, took David Ellsworth's weekend intensive, joined local woodturning organizations, read and messed around a lot on my own. I am now a full time turner; I sell my work through various galleries and craft shows from West Palm Beach to Chicago.
Just as my furniture involved shaping wood that was cut and assembled, my bowl forms involve a great deal of cutting and assembling before shaping. My current interest is what I would call horizontal or lateral segmentation. I assemble various exotics into rings and then fit the rings inside or outside each other to create a range of effects. They are two-dimensional graphics or three-dimensional forms depending on how the rings are manipulated. I have learned to turn the forms on multiple centers as the assembly proceeds. The asymmetry that results is Escher-like.