Villa Park
Host: Benjamin Buchenot at his backyard patio
Benjamin teaches ceramics at the College of DuPage and Waubonsee Community college. He strives to create work that feels timeless, as if it has always existed and was merely pulled down from the either and presented.
Julia’s work explores high-fire gas reduction and mid-range electric oxidation environments. Julia looks to create functional ware with a modern perspective that feels timeless, utilizing angular forms, with linear textures that are mixed with glaze and raw clay surfaces.
Kate makes functional stoneware pots that formally draw from rural Wisconsin’s cocoons/chrysalides, bones, and seed pods. Her terra sigillata color palette is that of wild flowers, animal bones, leaves, and stones. Subtle and distinct color shifts encourage closer inspection, consideration and reflection. Simple patterns disrupt the visuals of the forms, maintaining their path, unaffected by the undulations of the form.
Tim makes stuff, out of stuff, that looks like other stuff. He lives and works out of his home in Minonk, Illinois, since graduating with his MFA from Illinois State University in 2011. Since then, Tim has been in a steady stream of juried group, invitational, and solo exhibitions.
David makes small batch functional pottery with an emphasis on showing the natural beauty of materials and process. He strives for surfaces that are rich, natural and tactile, as beautiful to the hand as to the eye. Increasingly, his forms and surfaces reflect the beauty he finds in the Midwest landscape that surrounds him.