Visions In Clay 2024
Anthony Maki Gill
Bio:
Anthony Maki Gill is an art maker, arts advocate, educator, and community builder working in the foothills of Northern California. He maintains a donation-based clay /art studio in Auburn. He began his art career in education facilitating art experiences for foster, houseless and incarcerated youth. His introduction to clay as an art & craft discipline came in Lana Wilson’s beginning ceramics class at Mesa College in 1987. Upon returning home to Auburn, Anthony met Larry ‘Luis’ Ortiz, who taught him how to throw pots, and provided a studio space and materials to fail, learn and teach. Anthony’s other important influences / teachers include: Rudy Autio, Pamela Johnson, Pete Voulkos, James Devore, Rebecca Gregg, Stephen DeStaebler, Dotty Brown, Rodney Mott, Kim Brown, Mario Ferrante, Toby Covich, Susan Butler Mappa, Ken Roberts, Jack Ford, Clay Jensen, Paul Soldner and John Michael Keating.
Artist Statement:
The deeper we look into the universe, earth’s caves and ancient cultures, the farther back in time we go.
Scientists also explain, that there is no aspect of time we truly understand.
They have also confirmed that computer code exists in the equations that describe the cosmos, and the that our universe is tuned to 120 decimal places.
Some interpret this to mean that our reality and existence is a grand simulation.
So, we either belong to millenniums of mark makers, builders and curious creators or, we are part of a video game -participants in a grand ‘simulation’- actors within computer coded multiverses.
“More White Noise” is part of a body of work that respond to these somewhat conflicted ideas. The work represents my internal and our external universes.
I combine elemental materials: water, silica, carbon, ocher, fire and photons to create performances, paintings, pottery, and sculpture.
I view these acts of creation as:
consciousness made visible - the soul expressed
More White Noise, 2024
Cone 5 casting slips on Max’s stoneware paper clay
Spanish red iron oxide and black engobe
Cone 10 Reduction fired
42 x 27 x 2.5 inches
$3875.00
Exhibition Season:
Visions in Clay 2024