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Casey Whittier

4/23/2015

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Casey Whittier, Studio Sketch, 2011
    As a mentor, Casey Whittier is an incredible source of technical and conceptual information. She has offered up a number of insightful readings, as well as demonstrated her method of photo transfer onto slip, which have been incredibly influential to my thought and material processes as of late.
    As an artist, Casey has explored ideas such as memory, mortality, sustainability, and collection within both the spheres of gallery and social practice. She is constantly thinking and creating, which I respect a great deal. Casey uses a variety of media - though primarily uses clay - to create installations and sculptural work which play with scale, addressing hierarchy in subject and material. Her interest in shadow and light plays a huge part in the feel of her pieces. Even the smallest, most fragile elements can seem incredibly large in how she considers her compositions. Her attention to detail is incredible and she often highlights fascinating features through color or using shadows and mirrors. I enjoy the works where her sense of humor comes out as well as when she has more sentimental moments.
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Rose Eken

4/18/2015

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Rose Eken, Motel bedside table, installation, 2014 glazed paperclay, cardboard.
    An artist who works in a variety of mediums, in the scale of the miniature is Rose Eken. She references a culture of the club musician through instruments and their electronic equipment; cigarettes and liquor bottles; set lists and fast food; records and the milk crates which might hold them or serve as the listeners' seat. In the ceramic medium, worked with unfired stoneware and then moved to glazed paper clay. She recreates glossy, bright, recognizable labels and surface decoration on sculptures which have a playful, abstracted handling reminiscent of Funk Movement artists like Robert Arneson or Edward Kienholz. She first was creating vignette installations, evoking a scene of set up or the aftermath of an energetic live music show. Eken would also set up and photograph miniature sets of interior and exterior spaces. Now, she is creating ordered set ups which contain neatly arranged collections of these elements she was sculpting. I think its fantastic that, save for her videos, there is an absence of the physical figure, but a reference to its material and musical culture. There were several points in my life when I saw the detritus left by show goers in a space, several times a week, still feeling the energy of the crowd that had just been entertained. I very much appreciate her nod to this lifestyle.
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