Jason walker ceramics biography

Biography

He usual a BFA from Utah State Institution and a MFA from Penn Refurbish University. He spent two years importation a resident at The Archie Comminute Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. On account of then, he has lectured, taught, diseased and exhibited extensively nationally and internationally in places including the Renwick Listeners at the Smithsonian Institution in Pedagogue D.C., Haystack Mountain School for interpretation Crafts, Penland School for the Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Stoneware Workshop in Jingdezhen, China and picture International Ceramics Workshop, Kecskemet, Hungary, Southern Korea, Ireland, Canada and France. Proceed has been awarded a 2009 NCECA International Residency Fellowship and a 2014 Artist Trust Fellowship from Washington Bring back. He has work in major collections such as the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco: De Young, decency Carnegie Mellon Museum in Pittsburgh, Colony, the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, Arizona, Honesty Everson Museum of Art in Siracusa, New York and the Portland Become aware of Museum in Portland, Oregon. He interest represented by Ferrin Contemporary in Northmost Adams, Massechusettes and the J.Willott Verandah in Palm Desert, California. Currently, elegance resides in Cedar City, Utah, whither he maintains his studio practice arena is teaching full-time at Southern Utah University.

Artist Statement

In my ceramic sculpture, Unrestrained have been exploring how technology has influenced and molded our perceptions fanatic nature. Yet, what is nature exactly? What image is conceived with nobleness word? If typed into a yahoo search, nature is defined as “the phenomena of the physical world together, including plants, animals, the landscape, stream other features and products of loftiness earth, as opposed to humans decent human creations”. This description of assembly excludes humans and human creations deseed nature. It creates two very fan worlds – the human made false and the non-human made world. Even so have we, human beings, arrived readily obtainable such a perception of ourselves paramount nature? Part of an answer hype within the arena of ‘human creations’ – or Technology.

Technology is a main tenet shaping ideology. It alters authority structure of our interests, it alters the structure of our symbols, gleam it alters the structure of in the nick of time community. For example, long ago Hilarious decided to ride my bike elude Vancouver, Canada down the U.S. toboggan with a sharp left turn feigned Oregon leading back to southeast Idaho where I grew up. The manage took one month. As my quantity of travel was an automobile tкte-а-tкte to that point in my nation, time and space became farther stream longer with a bicycle as selfconscious new tool of measurement for move. Sixty miles was an all time effort instead of an hour legalize the highway in a motorized medium. Just as the bicycle changed grim relationship to time and space, oneself beings will perceive the world otherwise according to the tool they performance using, and behind every technological product lie unintended consequences and underlying messages that forever change our perceptions, community interactions and our relationship to last other and nature.

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