Kenneth Baskin
Visions In Clay 2022
Website:
https://kennethbaskinsculpture.com
https://www.instagram.com/kennethbaskinceramics/
Biography:
Kenneth Baskin received his BFA from College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and earned his MFA from University of South Carolina. Presently he holds the position of Professor of Art/Ceramics at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Some of his honors include receiving the emerging artist award by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), a solo exhibition at the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. His work is included in the collections of the Arkansas Arts Center in Arkansas, The Mimi and Ian Rolland Art Center in Indiana, the Hilliard University Art Museum in Louisiana and the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan.Artist Statement:
The investigative properties of the Mechanical Movements series are focused upon the mechanical objects or artifacts derived from the advent of the industrial revolution. Through our capacity for invention the anatomy of the machine, laying bare its individual yet integrated mechanical components, became the means of mass production and an accelerant in the performance of human tasks. This interdependence of humans and machines altered cultural conceptions and the two became intimately conjoined.
Within this current body of work, I am exploring the integration of actual and abstracted machine parts into homologous interrelationships. Metaphorically, my sculptures reflect aspects of these interrelations through: balance and instability, domination and submission, tension and ease, opposition and compromise. It is through this dynamic of push and pull, give and take, that the spontaneity and structuring of these interactions takes place.
Mechanical Movements Roller #6
White Stoneware Slab Construction Slip and Glaze Soda Fired to Cone 10
10” x 11” x 6”
2022
$2,800
Mechanical Movements Roller #20
White Stoneware Slab Construction Slip and Crater Glazed Soda Fired to Cone 10 and Mid Fired to Cone 6
9” x 14” x 6”
2022
$2,800