ADAM T.
BERNARD
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Adam Bernard aka Harvest Mountain discusses ceramics and their roll in Chinese culture and history with examples he made from his own collection.
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CONTEMPORARY
Adam Bernard has shown his work both in Asia and NYC, most recently at the World Financial Center in NYC, and various group shows at the White box gallery and Castleton gallery.
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CERAMICS
Adam Bernard is the disciple of the third generation master potter Weng Guo Zhen 翁國禎, and spent 5 years working in the pottery town of Ying Ge under his master's instruction. In spring 2008, he was given the name Xiang He Shan (Harvest Mountain), by his teacher in recognition of his skills and his joining the lineage of Wong family potters as an official disciple.
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CALLIGRAPHY
Adam T. Bernard began his training under teacher Li in Pan Chiao, Taiwan in the spring of 2000 and has been practising everyday since. He has been greatly influeneced by Wang Duo's cursive, Huai Su's "crazed cursive" and Qi Bai Shi's small seal script. He was greatly influenced by his friend and neighbor in Ying Ge Taiwan "Su Dong Po" (teacher Ke), who is one of the top calligraphers and ceramic cobalt blue under painters in Taiwan.
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FANS
Adam T. Bernard is a potter, calligrapher, conservator and mounter of Chinese calligraphy, paintings and folding fans, who has lived and worked in Taiwan for 11 years. He has studied and conducted research in ceramics in Uji Japan at the Ashahi Kiln, and has recently set up his Studio in Santa Cruz, CA.
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HANGING
When Adam T. Bernard first arrived in Taiwan in the fall of 1999, he began to study calligraphy and painting which lead him to the art of scroll mounting, and his work as a conservator and mounter for various private studios in Taiwan. He mounts all his own work in Chinese, Japanese and modern styles, and he has studied under and worked with Gu Xiang Mei of the Freer/Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and Ye Zhi Ming of the Palace Museum of Taiwan.
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