The breathtaking works of one of California’s leading ceramists is taking up residence among the cactus and aloes in an outdoor desert garden in Santa Monica.
Fresno artist Stan Bitters, 82, is well known for the raw and rugged environmental ceramic installations he has created for the ACE hotel in Palm Springs, as well as banks, restaurants, industrial complexes and private homes throughout the country. READ THE ARTICLE
So when we heard about California-based sculptor and designer Stan Bitters first new show in over 35 years we couldn’t help but feel our pulse race. This upcoming show at Heath Ceramic’s Boiler Room, created in collaboration with Renee Zellweger of Summer School, will reveal the spirit of California funk and organic modernism in Bitters new and archived work….. READ MORE
Stan Bitters is a 21st-century caveman, In a windowless building on an industrial strip of Fresno California the 76-year-old sculptor shapes earth, water and fire into primal ceramic forms. It is a ritual based more on instinct than intellectual precept. "It's not about thinking about the clay," he says. "It's really getting in there and manipulating it-mashing it and beating it-until it produces some feeling of wonderfulness, something earthy and textural."
Read more .... An Artist's Touch JUNE 2012
Those Fantastic Flying Machines! - Whimsical creations by Fresno artist, Stan Bitters, hang in the Solano Mall prompting many people to wonder, "Can they really fly?". Read more ..... Magnificent Flying Machines