Steve Hilton

Website:

https://sites.google.com/view/stevehilton/home
https://www.instagram.com/sbhilton1/

Email:

steve.hilton@msutexas.edu

Biography: 

Steve Hilton earned his MFA at Arizona State University (2005). He also holds degrees in Art Education Geology from Missouri State University. Steve has taught science and art at the secondary and post-secondary levels. His work has been collected by museums, universities and individuals in Spain, Slovenia, Thailand, Australia, Austria, Portugal, China, Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany, Romania, USA, and Cuba. He has been juried into international and national exhibitions in conjunction with curated exhibitions in the USA. Steve is the Fain Professor of Fine Art in Ceramics and Art Education at MSU Texas, is a Fellow of the Council of NCECA and member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

  Artist Statement: 

As a geologist and a clay artist, I have developed an appreciation for the anomalies in the many forms of life, clay, rock, and soil covering the Earth. I am intrigued by the mathematics that describes the many different textures that makes up all things from nature.

I am currently thinking about these iterations as I work. Since these fragmented shapes are repeatedly subdivided into parts, each a copy of the whole, I'm compelled to continue to use self-similarity and texture which allows me to interpret nature for the viewer and myself: with both of us seeing the world differently after viewing my work.