Holly Hanessian
MFA Director
Contact:
Phone:WJB 024
Office:850.645.7208
haha_works@yahoo.com
Artwork Link:
Area(s) of Teaching:
All levels of Ceramics
School:
University of Georgia
Statement
My work offers a human response to how we progress
through life with notions of luck, chance and fate in
our collective consciousness. In combining words with
delicate ceramic chain link as well as ceramic
rockets, plumb bobs and baby bottle a nipple, a story
is woven based on what we lose and gain at different
times in our life. I continue to question how, why and
where we end up in life; is it good fortune, destiny
or the result of choice?
In the past I have added found parts including books,
metal roof tiles and plumb bobs into the artwork to
create a juxtaposition between new and old, ceramic
and cloth, metal and wax. The materials I work with
are paired together creating a dichotomy of textures,
rough with smooth, gooey with clean and sometimes
leaving the mark of my fingers. The visceral quality
of a smooth, silky ceramic texture next to a surface
melting with encaustic offers the viewer another layer
of information forming multiple meanings in the
artwork.
Work:
As If
detail (2006)
Evermore Installation
65 nipples, plumbbobs, and rockets. porcelain with encaustic and ribbon (2005)
ALL
(overall) (2007)