Aurora
Host: Jonathan Pacheco at the Artist Loft Gallery
Friday Night Opening only at the Aurora stop, June 7th, 6 - 9 pm
June 8th & 9th, 10 am - 5 pm
Park on Stolp Avenue or the surrounding streets and enter the gallery.
Johnathon is interested in the irregularities of the texture, and how slips and imagery will interact with the surface. These “imperfections” tell a story in their own mysterious way, like looking at a stranger‘s hand with scars and wrinkles.
Breana’s pots are slab constructed onto thrown molds and adorned with layers of texture, color, pattern, and print. The curated chaos embodied in her work exists as a personal record of the daily joys, anxieties, and mundanities of living.
Jessica makes both functional and decorative pottery with an emphasis on botanical themed pieces in her home studio in Oswego, IL. She mainly fires to cone 6 in her electric kiln but also participates in wood kiln kiring a few times a year.
Simon wants his pottery to speak to a broad audience but to do this by reaching core ideas rather than dilution and syncretism. The spokes on the wheel that he uses to approach the center are, clay, elemental processes, simple drawings and line, functional pottery, and community objects.
Through excessiveness and exaggeration, I turn an ordinary object into an uncanny oddity. My slip-cast toothy tableware originates from feelings of uneasiness and intrigue. I refer to this work as playfully macabre.