… For ProPrac!
Darcy Badiali:
“My first experience with clay was at Fresno Community College in 1989. Although I loved the experience immediately and continued to take Art courses I didn’t start making pottery seriously until I went to the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995. After 2 1/2 years I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. And was also fortunate enough to spend a year and a half as studio assistant to one of the best teacher/potters of our time, Ken Ferguson, he taught me a great deal about art and life as well. In 1998 I came to ASU. The open space and desert landscape have been good for my work. The relaxed and private atmosphere of the graduate ceramic studios afforded me a great deal of freedom to explore different avenues and possibilities. My work now consists predominately of wheel-thrown, stoneware pots. Though the forms have their origin in function, the scale lends itself to sculptural issues of space. My ideas have seemed limited and awkward until I started to use nature as a reference. The shapes can be reminiscent of plants, stones, coral, etc… The surfaces range from elephant skin, to craters on the moon. The evolution of nature in the work gives something to measure against. I have one criteria; could this, be found in the natural world? “
Tom Huck:
“My work deals with personal observations about the experiences of living in a small town in Southeast Missouri. The often strange and humorous offurrences, places, and people in these towns offer a never ending source of inspiration for my prints. I call this work “rural satire.” I feel a strong connection to the artists of the Northern Renaissance and their approach to art from the standpoint of master craftsmen. My work has been influenced by an array of artists, among them Albrecht Durer (woodcuts), Warrington Colescott (etchings), nearly all of the German Expressionists, and the late great Frank Zappa. My chosen media is printmaking, specifically the woodcut. The combination of dark humor with the inherently expressive medium of the woodcut heightens the complexity of my images. At times I also deal with a more broad-based social commentary in my prints (i.e. politics, pop culture, violence). When this approach is used, it comes from a need to escape the usual hillbilly rants and antics that I depict”
Scott Wade:
Some excerpts:
“It tickles me. I enjoy it.”
“I’ve had people question my sanity, you know, why in the world would you spend so much time to create this just for the rain to come and wash it off? It’s just like creating sandcastles down at the beach, or carving a pumpkin. It’s beautiful, it’s fun, there’s no reason not to enjoy it.”
“Because of the pressures of my job, this has become something I can do very quickly.”
“I don’t do this to try to create immortal works of art. We are not going to be around forever, and nothing we do is going to last forever, as much as we’d like it to. We need to let go of that, I think, and just enjoy what’s here.”
Zeke’s sister showed him this guy, and then he showed him to me. Hooray! Scott Wade is awesome! I could not find a written artist statement, but the things he says in the interview cover it all and he is so pure and excited about it.
OKAY!
-Sara.
