Statement:
I use domestic ceramic forms
as vehicles to share what drives me as an artist and as a musician. Highly crafted porcelain objects act as a
canvas to facilitate my ideas about America.
The art that I make is directly correlated to my lifestyle. I embrace the honest things in my life like
coffee in the morning, bad restaurants and long road trips. My artwork embodies these tendencies.
Through the use of historical
techniques and found objects, I narrate my thoughts on the culture in which I
grew up. These ideas stem from the
variety of thoughts that occur when associating amongst many “types” of
people. My pieces are sturdy and often
modified with chrome additions, rubber and metal to pay homage to trucks,
antiques and industrial design. They
contain bright colors and narratives about specifically American
attributes. They embody everyday common
images. Just as the willow pattern is
specific to china, the images I choose are American. Semi-trucks, flames, American flags, mud-flap
ladies and humorous phrases are appropriated on the forms. The images are proud, similar to stickers
plastered against and old instrument case or on the bumper of a family station
wagon. These are souvenirs and icons of
American culture.
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| Jeremy Kane One-Fingered Cup stoneware (4 x 4.5 inches) CUP 102 $40 (3.75 x 4.25 inches) CUP 103 $40 |
My work is constructed of
hand made and appropriated objects.
These objects are displayed in a stark gallery setting to clarify them
as “art objects”. The forms have a
slick, industrial feel, similar to American diner-ware with a subtle reference
to folk craft. The combination of highly
crafted porcelain objects with overly decorated low art imagery (placed in a
gallery setting) evokes a large importance on images that are generally considered
regressive. By using a plethora of
decals (dee’kal) on my work, in a “low –art”, decorative sense, I am able to
appropriate everyday images into my artwork.
This creates a bridge between two cultures and allows for a broad range
of interpretation. I aim to deliver
kitschy Americana art forms to the “high-art” world and “high-art” to the
“low-art” world. By playing on each end
of the spectrum, I am able to question, comment and teach about both of the
worlds in which I reside.
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| Jeremy Kane One-Fingered Cup stoneware (4.25 x 4.25 inches) CUP 104 $40 (4.5 x 4.75 inches) CUP 105 $40 |
Here are four, one-fingered cups. These cups remind me more of Ohio than
Alaska, where I currently live. It’s always a pleasure to make these Souvenirs
of my American heritage.
These are
serious … (sponges and needle tools) shop stoneware with a bad matte glaze,
however, like an old primered Camaro, they work like a champ.
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