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Fountain

Description: Work of art in Stoneware, oxides, glaze, PVC, paint, lead solder By artist Teresa Larrabee as part of a 2019 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Potty Talk". Made to comment on the non-potable water in our graduate and ceramic studios at UNT.  After many years of dismissing the "aggressively orange" water, tests found high amounts of iron, copper, and lead in much of the building's water supply.  The gallery space pictured and the undergraduate ceramic studios are the only currently used areas in the bui… more
Date: 2019
Creator: Larrabee, Teresa Kaye

Fountain (Detail 1)

Description: Work of art in stoneware, oxides, glaze, PVC, paint, lead solder By artist Teresa Larrabee as part of a 2019 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Potty Talk". Detail of the PVC pipes at the top of the sculpture.  Copper and iron metallic paints and soil were used to dirty the pipes, and copper tape and lead solder was then incorporated haphazardly.  The excessive heavy metals in the water were the result of the building's own plumbing deteriorating over time, and not from the city pipes leading into the b… more
Date: 2019
Creator: Larrabee, Teresa Kaye

Fountain (Detail 2)

Description: Work of art in stoneware, oxides, glaze, PVC, paint, lead solder By artist Teresa Larrabee as part of a 2019 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Potty Talk". Water from the faucets of my former studio, photo lab, and visiting print press artist's apartment fill the toilet bowls.
Date: 2019
Creator: Larrabee, Teresa Kaye
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