Brian Caponi
Visions In Clay Invitational
Website:
https://www.brian-caponi.com/statement
Biography:
Brian Caponi received his BFA in Sculpture from Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI) in 2007 and his MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2013. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally at various institutions including: The National Museum of Slovenia, American Museum of Ceramic Art, The Clay Studio, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Pewabic Pottery, Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Museum of New Art, District Clay Gallery. He has attended various residencies and worked abroad in South Korea, China, Japan, and India.
As an educator he has conducted workshops and lectures nationally and internationally including: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Kansas State University, Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), Tsinghua University (Beijing), College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI), and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. He also worked as the Chair of Ceramics at Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, Michigan, from 2014-2019.
Currently, he teaches as an adjunct professor at West Valley College and is the ceramics instructor at the Upper School of Crystal Springs Upland Schools in San Mateo. He has also been the Studio Supervisor and Instructor at Montalvo Art Center was an Adjunct Professor and Resident Artists in the Ceramics Department at San Jose State University.
detail: ceramic sculpture and pavers
detail: porcelain circle
detail: personal objects
First things First (2022)
Installation: Concrete pavers, ceramic, paper made from the grass cut from the artist’s childhood backyard, individually rolled and pressed porcelain circles, porcelain, glaze; steel, teak box made by the artist’s grandfather while in the South Pacific during WWII, faux gold leaf, found rock with stain remover soap, framed photograph of the artist’s partner’s hand resting on top of her pregnant belly, found and altered shelving from the artist’s living room.