Cheer Clay Studio Collectible Handmade Wall Decorations

Cheer Clay Studio Collectible Handmade Wall Decorations
Pieces are primarily stoneware and porcelain clay.
Clay is wheelthrown and hand sculpted.
Crushed glass added to most pieces prior to final glaze firing at 2800 degrees
over 12-hr period in a propane gas kiln. Some pieces include copper wire.
John Cheer pieces vary from wall display, tabletop art, sconces, mood lamps, fountains.
Measures 8" x 8" x 3"
Excellent Condition wit No Damages

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Biography of John Cheer
John Cheer was born in 1966 in Communist China and raised in Shanghai and Peking. As a child, he had a natural gift for taking things apart and putting them back together again. At the age of 8, he spontaneously made an entire Chinese circus out of child’s clay, in miniature, including every act from bicyclists to twirling plates.
After living in Hong Kong for two years, he immigrated with his family to California at age 13 and became a U.S. citizen. John speaks Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese and English. During his high school years, an inspirational art teacher led him to pursue his interests in clay and sculpture. While rising to the challenge of supporting himself in high school, he also studied auto body and mechanics and eventually had his own small auto body and paint business.
In 1991, he relocated to the northeast and in 1993 became a full-time clay artist, selling his work at fine art and craft shows throughout the country. His early work was traditional and functional, gradually evolving over the years into decorative and abstract contemporary. The majority of finished pieces combine fused clay and glass. In recent years, he has added copper wire into some creations.
John does about 24 shows per year, primarily along the east coast and the south, but has gone as far as Texas, Colorado, and Arizona. He has won over 55 awards for his work over the years at fine art and craft shows. He has been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Crafts Report and exhibited his “Soul Search” lamp and fountain at the State Museum in Harrisburg, PA.
John has a knack for creatively transforming life’s adversities, plus a mechanical aptitude to fix anything that is broken. He presently lives in northeastern PA with his family.
Awards
John has won over 55 awards in the last 15 years including many “Best of Show” and “1st Place in Ceramics” at fine art and craft shows.
ArticlesMarch 2004 – Ceramics Monthly Magazine
March 2002 – Crafts Report Magazine Feature article – “John Cheer: An Echo Within”
May 1999 – Sunday Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA Feature article – “East Meets West in Art”
May 1995 – Ceramics Monthly Magazine
Group ExhibitionsMay 2007 – Greenshire Arts Consortium Quakertown, PA
June 14 – Sept.14, 2003 – State Museum Harrisburg, PA “Art of the State: PA 2003”
March 1994 – Paramount East Peekskill, New York. “Trends in American Design”
InstallationsNovember 2006 “Chandelier of Ice and Light” Winterfaire 2006 Upper Black Eddy, PA
(tree branches, plastic water jugs, paper, water, miniature lights)
July 2005 “Giant Kapok Tree” International Summer Arts Camp Musical Theatre Upper Black Eddy, PA (fiberglass, paint, live tree branches with leaves)Related Activities2005 – Taught a specialty camp for children ages 5-12. Wheel-throwing and making hand-built clay ocarinas. River Valley Waldorf School. Upper Black Eddy, PA
1992 – John was a substitute ceramics teacher at Baum School of Art in Allentown, PA
2002 – Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. He has done workshops for elementary schools and taught private ceramics classes in his home studio.
Galleries Featuring John Cheer CeramicsChora Leone Gallery – Somers Point, NJ
Ava’s Glass Gallery – Quakertown, PA
Cleo’s Silversmith Shop and Gallery – Bethlehem, PA
Topeo Gallery – New Hope, PA
Stonehedge Gardens and Originals Gift Shop – Tamaqua, PA