Steve Reynolds

Double Tier with Nipple

handbuilt ceramic sculpture

signed Steve Reynolds #2

13" x 15" x 15"

1985

$500.00

Steve Reynolds is head of the Ceramics Department at UT San Antonio. He was directly involved as a member of the Board of Directors of the Lakeside Center for the Arts, the non-profit organization that supported all of the exchanges with other countries. Steve first participated in a residency in Lakeside in 1985, and then again in 1991. In 1992 he was invited to go to the Dzintari Art House outside of Riga, Latvia to participate in an international art symposium there.

· Professor, Ceramics and Graduate Seminar
· Colorado University, B.F.A., M.F.A.
· Denver University, M.A.
· Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, Hungary

My new work is a conscious attempt to return to aesthetic ground that is involved more in a personal philosophical quest that is concerned with the art process as a form of profound inquiry and problem solving as opposed to much of my previous work that was, at heart, concerned with a visual language that was ideologically confrontational.
The formal concerns in my latest work address the dynamic tensions generated between abstract and figurative elements of the forms and the painted surfaces which (hopefully) establish tensions and a sense of vitality not unlike musical counterpoint.
Additionally, this new work rigorously addresses the difficulty of making an object intellectually and psychologically convincing without utilizing the current predisposition towards large-scale or installation sculpture. The challenge is to work on an intimate, personal scale and create an object which nevertheless has an intense presence about it.

Steve is very active in the ceramic world, aside from being involved in NCECA

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