Kayla J. Spivey Fine Art

09/12/2023

Put down the torches and pitchforks, our September calendar is here 🔥

We have so many awesome events at 216 W Dominick St. this month! Late nite chill with tattoos this Friday, the return of board game night and fall bevvy drops from Superofficial 🙌

Many of our art teachers and students are busy with back to school priorities so we are scheduling most of our classes in the second half of the month! We have four awesome classes, from embroidery to bee preserving, and glass fusion to paint pouring.

You can always grab a spot in-person at the shop or on our website: https://www.thecoppereasel.com/classes

We are excited for a fun start to fall in Rome! Thank you to our for always being supportive 🍂

02/19/2022

Check out my most recent blog post for what's been going on in the studio!

www.kaylajspiveyfineart.com/blog/in-the-studio-quilt-project-testing-phase-i

Reality always hits when I get into the studio and start working. I had been so focused on concept planning that once I sat down to map out the production schedule for my solo exhibition, I was promptly struck by the magnitude of this project. ‘Memorial’ will stand as a deconstructed porcelain q...

01/30/2022

My past few weeks worth of work in the studio 💕

141 test tiles made with fabric pressed into porcelain. January has been stage 1 of my testing phase focused on tile production, with February centered around pattern/color selection.

The test tiles came out of the kiln this morning. I couldn’t wait to test colors, using diluted acrylic ink to provide a matte finish to help jump form from ceramics to textile.

I’ll be selecting 6 fabric types out of the 9 total tested, and using all 5 colors reflected in the last photos as the color scheme for the final project.

Placement and arrangement to be determined.

01/06/2022

Check out the most recent blog post from Kayla J. Spivey Fine Art.

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Today, January 6th, 2022 marks exactly 9 months until the opening of my solo exhibition. The focal point of my show will be an installation piece titled ‘Memorial’. This piece will stand as a memorial in honor of my beautiful mother, Donna Russell Spivey.

‘Memorial’ will stand as a deconstructed porcelain quilt measuring 7x7 feet. The quilt will be constructed using 441 individual tiles created from porcelain incorporated with my mother’s ashes as an additive. Each tile will be textured using various fabrics, some sentimental, and some simply reflective of the lattice and patchwork style quilts she was known for creating.

January 6th, 2022 It all started with fabric. I was, and remain fascinated by the concept of using clay (first stoneware, now porcelain) to create sculptural works that mimic fabric. If done well, each piece should take on the form of fabric in shape, style, and texture.

11/14/2021

Website launch! Check out Kayla J. Spivey Fine Art

10/25/2021

10/22/2021

I was honored and thrilled to participate in a guest lecture earlier this week at Utica College with Dr. Steven M. Specht, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, during his Creativity Senior Seminar.

I haven’t given a lecture since the before times, in March of 2020 during my ICON days when I would host a monthly lecture series for the scientists in my lab. I had forgotten how much I love talking with and sharing my knowledge with fellow learners.

We discussed the creative process, emotive object witness, my personal artistic inspirations, and issues of elitism in both the arts and academia and it’s impact on accessibility.

I firmly believe that art should be accessible to everyone. It is an area that invites reflection, contemplation, questioning, and conversation surrounding experiences and struggles that we collectively experience, or can learn and evolve from, as humans of this earth.

Art can ignite a spark for evolution, and empathetic growth. I’m incredibly thankful to have had this opportunity as a reminder. ❤️

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10/19/2021

This piece is one of my absolute favorite pieces, from my first semester of community ceramics at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in 2020.

It was an experiment using the patchwork technique with a glaze called Malcolm Davis Shino. The glaze is a carbon trap shino meaning that during the firing, carbon is trapped underneath the surface and provides the grey or charcoal finish in certain areas. Those elements can be brought out more or less with variable thickness coating or firing temperatures.

I love the inadvertent triangle, created due to the size of the glaze bin and having to rotate the piece to dip coat each 1/3 of the overall form until fully glazed. The variable definition, color differentiation, and texture of the final work is incredibly beautiful and completely unplanned.

Who doesn't love a happy accident.

Happy learning friends!

10/13/2021

Work in progress: Bisque fired ceramic stoneware with watercolor underglaze

Excited to see the final texture look when it’s fired 😍

10/12/2021

Ceramic stoneware sculpture with Alberta fake ash glaze finish

2020

10/12/2021

A Yayoi Kusama Inspired Study of Color Theory
September, 2021

Bisque fired ceramic stoneware, acrylic ink finish

10/09/2021

Leather as Lace

Ceramic stoneware with velvet underglaze, 2021