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2025
Been remiss in posting new images, but here’s a few randoms until I get proper photography done!
2024
New work! Most of this will be showing soon at Habitat Gallery in Kansas City. March 1-April 19, 2024.
Above: Handbuilt stoneware hollow boxes with colored porcelain slip. (20″ x 30″ x 3″)
Above: Handbuilt stoneware tiles in stoneware “frames” with colored porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13.5″ x13.5″ x 1.5″)
Above: Handbuilt stoneware framed tile with porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13.5″ x13.5″ x 1.5″)
Above: Handbuilt stoneware framed tiles with porcelain slip. (6″ x 6″ x 1.5″ each)
Above: Handbuilt stoneware tiles with porcelain slip and clear glaze. The pair above are part of a larger whole, a total of 8 matching and inverse patterns arranged in a large square. (8.5″ x 17″ x 1.5″ each)
Above: Handbuilt stoneware hollow box with groggy slip and gold luster. (13.5″ x 13.5″ x 1.5″ each)
Above and Below: “Off The Grid”, a solo show of my work at Habitat Contemporary, Kansas City.
Below: Some new stacking stoneware trays, 11″ , 13″ and 15″.
2023
I’ve spent the past six years doing a handful of time-consuming things: building a new home and studio, focusing on teaching architecture, and doing a lot of experimenting in the studio. But I’m happy to finally be back updating my ceramic work here.
This latest work has been focused on handbuilt ceramic art pieces. They are influenced by a wide range of things (architecture and cityscapes, the gridded land and circular irrigation patterns of the Midwest, formal gardens and mazes, geoglyphs and constellations) and so, ultimately, I see them as abstracted landscapes.
They are also undoubtedly influenced by a wide range of geometry-focused artists I’ve been exposed to over the years: Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Sean Scully, Louise Nevelson, Enric Mestre, Jasper Johns, Racheal Whiteread, Edmund de Waal and Robert Winokur, just to name a few.
If you have any questions or would like to see them in person, you can follow my Instagram for show dates or drop me a line here.
Above: Handbuilt stoneware hollow box with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13.5″ x 13.5″ x 2.5″.)
Above: Handbuilt stoneware diptych panels with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13″ x 13″ x .75″)
Above: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panel with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (8.5″ x 17″ x .75″).
Above left: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panel with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13″ x 13″ x .75″). Above right: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panel with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13″ x 13″ x .75″).
Above left: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panel with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13″ x 13″ x .75″).
Above left: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware tray form with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13.5″ x 13.5″ x 1.5″). Above right: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panel with layers of porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13″ x 13″ x .75″).
Above: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware tray form with layers of tinted porcelain slip and clear/lime glaze. (13.5″ x 13.5″ x 1.5″).
Above left: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panel with layers of tinted porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13″ x 13″ x .75″). Above right: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panel with layers of tinted porcelain slip and clear glaze. (13″ x 13″ x .75″).
Above: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware panels with layers of tinted porcelain slip and clear glaze. (8.5″ x 17″ x .75″ each).
Above: Handbuilt wall-hung stoneware cubes with layers of tinted porcelain slip. (Each cube is approximately 3″ x 3″ x 3″. Overall dimensions approximately 19″ x 19″ x 3″.). Below: Detail views.
Above: Handbuilt stoneware hollow box with groggy slip, stain and gold luster insets. (13.5″ x 13.5″ x 2.5″.)
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