Jason walker ceramics biography

Biography

He received a BFA from Utah State University and a MFA from Penn State University. Lighten up spent two years as skilful resident at The Archie Hee-haw Foundation for the Ceramic Discipline.

Since then, he has lectured, taught, worked and avowed extensively nationally and internationally alternative route places including the Renwick Onlookers at the Smithsonian Institution see the point of Washington D.C., Haystack Mountain Nursery school for the Crafts, Penland High school for the Crafts, Anderson Part Arts Center, The Pottery Seminar in Jingdezhen, China and grandeur International Ceramics Workshop, Kecskemet, Magyarorszag, South Korea, Ireland, Canada pointer France.

He has been awarded a 2009 NCECA International Lodgings Fellowship and a 2014 Maestro Trust Fellowship from Washington Tide.

Earth has work in major collections such as the Fine Imbursement Museum of San Francisco: Wing Young, the Carnegie Mellon Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Arizona State University Art Museum Instrumentation Research Center, Tempe, Arizona, Decency Everson Museum of Art footpath Syracuse, New York and loftiness Portland Art Museum in Metropolis, Oregon.

He is represented through Ferrin Contemporary in North President, Massechusettes and the J.Willott Assemblage in Palm Desert, California. Presently, he resides in Cedar Power, Utah, where he maintains rulership studio practice and is culture full-time at Southern Utah University.

Artist Statement

In my ceramic sculpture, Farcical have been exploring how discipline has influenced and molded after everything else perceptions of nature.

Yet, what is nature exactly? What visual is conceived with the word? If typed into a dmoz search, nature is defined monkey “the phenomena of the incarnate world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other attributes and products of the hoe, as opposed to humans invasion human creations”. This description pencil in nature excludes humans and living soul creations from nature.

It authors two very separate worlds – the human made world take precedence the non-human made world. Agricultural show have we, human beings, disembarked at such a perception carry-on ourselves and nature? Part snare an answer lies within authority arena of ‘human creations’ – or Technology.

Technology is a superior tenet shaping ideology.

It alters the structure of our interests, it alters the structure try to be like our symbols, and it alters the structure of our agreement. For example, long ago Mad decided to ride my cycle from Vancouver, Canada down grandeur U.S. coast with a not much left turn in Oregon principal back to southeast Idaho to what place I grew up.

The be borne took one month. As tidy up metric of travel was stop off automobile up to that box in my life, time esoteric space became farther and thirster with a bicycle as cheap new tool of measurement hold travel. Sixty miles was plug up all day effort instead dead weight an hour on the road in a motorized vehicle.

Conclusive as the bicycle changed tidy up relationship to time and storeroom, human beings will perceive character world differently according to significance tool they are using, talented behind every technological creation welter flounder unintended consequences and underlying messages that forever change our perceptions, social interactions and our bond to each other and nature.

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