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Steven Whinfield
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raku
8 x 16"
raku
8 x 13"
raku
15 x 7 1/2"
raku
8 x 11"
raku
6 x 10"
raku
10 x 7"
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$1,500 to $5,000 |
artist's
statement
I
moved from functional pottery to images that were contained
within the function. The bowls, tea pots and cups I made
held feelings as if they had souls. Reflecting on this
I saw how these images contained a spirit, unseen, as
we humans have. We have the ability to share our spirit
and are graced to feel others, if we choose to see them.
My
sculptures, made of clay, once held actual spirits, gas,
oil, etc. and are now empty, unused, thrown away, discarded
and forgotten. They are now brought back, through the
tension in the firing process of Raku, and given a new
birth. They represent how we as humans move through life,
leaving childhood friends, co-workers and family members
from our past as if we have forgotten them. They are emptied
from us, but still having left a spirit that is imbedded
into us. These spirits may be haunting as well as precious,
but each one is ours alone to feel.
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Steven
Whinfield
education
Greenleaf Pottery, East Hartford, CT. 1988-1993
Instructor: John Macomber
Wooster School of Art, Danbury, CT 1994-2005
Instructors: Tony Bright, David Franks.
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Instructor: Stephen Rodriguez
solo
exhibitions
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT 2004
Gallery 81, New Haven, CT.
selected
group exhibitions
Bachelier-Cardonsky
Gallery, Kent CT 2003, 2002
The LTC Group, North Haven, CT 2002, 2001
Erector Square, New Haven, CT 2001
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT 2001
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