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Clarissa Callesen is a former Rodeo Princess that left behind her bleach blond hair and big earrings(at least most of the time) for the wild ride of life as an artist. She has been fortunate enough to work all of her adult life as a self employed artist, exploring many different artistic roles including tattoo artist, gallery owner, production potter, and assemblage artist. She started her artistic career as tattoo artist creating unique personal statements on people's skin. Tattoo imagery, religious icons, and an out of control junk collection took her head long into the world of Mixed Media Assemblage. She was right there with the beginning of the Altered art movement having collages published in the first year of Somerset Studio and in issue one of Somerset Gallery. Soon, the cool quiet of clay replaced the buzz of the tattoo gun, as she added pottery to her list of mediums. She spent several years running a gallery in the historic Fairhaven District of Bellingham, Wa. Which taught her many valuable lessons but ultimately kept her away from creating art on a regular basis. Today she back in her studio and has created a happy marriage of ceramic sculpture and mixed media assemblage. Creating pottery components for artists to use in there own creations, and telling a unique story through her multi faceted mixed media sculpture and collage. Her mixed media work has been published in Somerset Studio and Artitude and look for one of her assemblage creations in Linda and Opie O'Brien's new Dada Art Dolls book. You can find her unique creations at art festivals and galleries through out the Pacific Northwest. |