Flux 28
Kathryn Baczeski
Digital print of video still
Art Dimensions: 15.5" x 31"
Exhibition - Iowa Clay Conference | River 2 River
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Artist Statement
There has always remained a strong relationship between my body and clay. Both materials are always changing, shifting and in a constant state of flux. I utilize raw clay as a creative expression to illuminate what is happening internally.
We are all vessels, exploring our physical existence in whatever space we occupy – Recently, an internal toil has transformed how I relate to my body and how my body is relating to the world around me. This involuntary labor is taking force and yielding to give way to something new. Similar to the transformation of clay I perform by mutating it from one form to another, revealing new creation. The internal becomes visible to the external.
This creative energy conversion unfolds to multiply, gestates while replicating, and yields unending growth with overlapping evolutions.
Artist Biography
Kathryn Agnes Baczeski is a clay-based artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Her teaching and creative practices encompass sculpture, installation, performance art, and experiential immersive experiences. She earned her BFA in Sculpture at the University of Connecticut in 2009, and MFA in Ceramics from Indiana University in 2016. Her residencies and exhibitions include: Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark; NCECA 2023 in Cincinnati, Ohio; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; Peters Valley School of Craft in Layton, New Jersey; and the Iowa Ceramics and Glass Studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Baczeski is the former co-founder of the exhibition spaces Fresh As Fruit and Still Life With Fruit, and champions art in all forms.
*photo courtesy of artist
