Villa Park
Host: Benjamin Buchenot at the backyard patio of his studio
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.
Bélen Pérez is a ceramics artist living in Beryn, IL. Bélen teaches and works at Terra Incognito in Oak Park, IL.
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.
Nyx Eckmayer is interested in the interplay between sculpture, modeling, and functional ceramic work. They draw inspiration from Dungeons and Dragons, Muppets, working in the haunted house industry, alternative culture, and the American folk-art tradition of face jugs. Nyx’s work has a variety of firing styles and finishes; They strive to make each of my pieces an individual work of art. They do this to emphasize the diversity of individual experiences that make up our society.
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 loves the rhythm of making pots and the way making pots connects him to earth, to history, and to everyday life. He 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 of the Midwest landscape that surrounds him.