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Visions In Clay 2024

Olivien Savastana

https://www.instagram.com/olivien.savastana/

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Olivien Savastana is a young artist who, for roughly 5 years, has primarily created within the medium of ceramics and clay. She learned the skills from her time at a summer camp in Maine, where she found her passion for the art form of wheel-thrown ceramics. While she spent many summers there, she currently resides in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts. As a senior in high school, she received three awards for her works in ceramics and sculpture for Scholastics Arts and Writing. This past year she has chosen to pursue a degree in the arts; although transferring from her current school, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, her large-scale ceramic works were window exhibited in their 2024 ArtBash. Since deciding to transfer and looking into that process, she plans to take a gap year investing herself in ceramics and obtaining an internship - a job within the arts. While her work is primarily in ceramics and sculpture, she enjoys exploring all mediums and seeing what can interplay within each medium and her preferred one. Within ceramics, Olivien often explores ideas of symmetry and the abstract, the decay of nature, and oneself over time and through our lived experiences, usually the vessels- sculptures reflect organisms and greenery but also can resemble the human form. By manipulating the symmetrical forms created from the wheel, she explores these compositions and is further inspired to continue creating and abstracting.

Artist Statement: 

Ceramics is based on the manipulation and processing of clay, which is then turned into a solid piece to be enjoyed in many different capacities. With sturdiness and the thoughtful interplay between surface and structure, this piece contrasts the expectations of traditional ceramics and allows for a unique organic presence to take form. My inspiration stems from both nature and our collective lived experiences, and the effect that it has on our physical and mental forms. The base of the vessel, encompassed in soft grooves and folding ridges, presents a decayed and aged appearance almost to that of aging skin. Yet even in age and death, there is still life, the long twisting spout, stretching the vessel upwards from the decaying base, pairs with the rusted areas being a brighter gold coloring all together brings back the light and life to the work.

Although I create and perceive my work a certain way initially, not everyone is the same; we see, think, and live different experiences and thus I welcome your mind to explore what my piece might make you think of and about. I want you to question yourself how this distinction, resemblance, or thought impacts how you view the piece and why.

 

Artwork
Rusted Pewter, 2024

White stoneware clay with grog, fired at cone 6 reduction
7.5” x 5.5” x 5

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Visions in Clay 2024

 


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