Observation (OB3)
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Tip Toland is a Ceramic Artist,
a hyper-realistic sculptor.
Born in America Pottstown in 1950.
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Tip Toland (born May 9, 1950) is an American ceramic artist and teacher who was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Tip was born in an American family having 2 sisters and a younger brother, she never got the attention she wanted, her mom and dad knew at a very early age that she is very talented and put her up with pastel classes.While studying in high school she also attended art school and she was very interested in the line quality..
At the age of 14 her mother sent her to the boarding school.She knew her mother don't want her. Her mother had a very bossy nature and she make decisions for the family and no one is allowed to say a word , she confronted her, denied her decisions.Boarding was a thrust of independence for her, she decided who she wants to be.She said "Goodbye Debbie(her real name),i'm gonna be Tippy or Tip and that's the new me. "
Tip has a very different ideas and she thinks and act very differently toward things people call her psycho.she got eating disorders,she did know what was actually emotionally going on; she just wants to
get over it. after completing boarding,she went to Washington DC, in 1969 when the war was going on,She was really interested in protesting for war she thinks it was as important as going to art school. s
She even got involved in drugs, as all of that was very new to her. She was even admitted to a mental hospital for 6 weeks.
EDUCATION
1975
B.F.A., Ceramics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
1981
M.F.A., Ceramics, Montana State University,
ART WORK
The hyper realism of Toland’s figures emanates from her attention to detail and unique utilization of materials. Utilizing an encaustic technique, Toland engenders a waxy finish for the skin that mimics authentic flesh. She even goes so far as to incorporate genuine human hair into the works. The porcelain ocular perceivers engender a doll-like realism that is both haunting and entrancing, while punctiliously defined wrinkles, skin tone, tooth enamel, and bone structure, are remarkably authentic.
Materials and Techniques
She uses paint,
stoneware clay
chalk pastels
synthetic hairs
Porcelain
mix media
gold leaf
Charcoal
encaustic technique and hair to create figures with "uncanny skin quality, utterly convincing hand gestures and eerily spontaneous facial expressions.
Size of Toland's Work
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African child with Albinism 3
stoneware clay, paint , chalk pastel, synthetic hair
30" H x 28" W x 19" D
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Painting the Burning Fence
stoneware, paint, pastels, synthetic hair
28” H, 19” W, 22” D
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Her three-dimensional stoneware sculptures are proximate to life size, sometimes more astronomically immense. Toland addresses in her work that -the scale of which draws one into hyperbolized intimacy with her subjects- and her artist verbalization. you can optically discern the size of her sculpture's in the pictures given below:
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Beauty Parlor
clay, paint, chalk pastel
22" H x 22" W x 16" D
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Artist's Statement
“My work is an attempt to give voice to inner psychological and/or spiritual states of being. What is of primary importance to me is that the figures contain particular aspects of humanity which they can mirror back to the viewer. It’s the vulnerability of Humanity I am after. That is one reason for choosing very old or very young subjects. They both can portray innocence as well as extreme complexity
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