Pre-Graduate School Ceramics (2019)
Excerpt from my Graduate School Application (1/2019)
“After I graduated with my BFAs in Illustration and in Painting and began to create more self directed work, I realized I was drifting further and further into analytical concepts. To gain a fresh perspective, I took courses in ceramics at my old community college. Ceramics had all the things I enjoyed about painting: the physicality of the color, the ability to create impulsively, and the potential to juxtapose concepts, textures, shapes, and forms; as well as a sense of challenge I had been missing: the unpredictability or the firing process, three dimensional form, and three dimensional texture.
“As a multidisciplinary artist I find that my creative voice exists outside of a singular media. My work in clay is simply a continuation of what I was attempting to achieve in paint. However, Ceramics has a quality of durability and potential practicality that, for me, painting lacks, and it has an entire history of work to pull from that is different from classical art historical canon. “
Graduate School Portfolio
Beneath are the two groups of objects I used when I applied for the RISD Ceramics MFA program. I thought it might be interesting to have a record of them for other aspiring students or just to track my own growth. To the right is an excerpt from my RISD Application Essay.
The cross media approach of my artistic practice allows me to create objects and experiences that are more than their pieces. My experience with paint and process abstraction makes me more experimental in my use of glaze, more willing to combine surface and colors in ways that could be unpredictable, my strength in draughtsmanship means that I am unrestricted in terms of surface illumination, and my well established personal sense of design in two dimensions lends my three dimensional work distinct character and life.
The Muse
The Recluse
The Artist
The King
The Mystic
The Queen
