2019, 15"x11"x9", Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Mid-range, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed, Lustre
2019, 14"x9"x9", Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Mid-range, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed, Lustre
2018, 36"x42"x42", Media: Mixed Media, Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Mid-range, Other, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed, Lustre, Non-ceramic
These pieces work as elements of installation as well as stand-alone sculpture in the round.
2019, 24"x42"diameter, Media: Non-clay, Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Mid-range, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed, Lustre
2018, 36"x48"x58", Media: Mixed Media, Non-clay, Stoneware, Firing Process: Mid-range, Reduction, Soda fired, Surface: Glazed
These pieces work as elements of installation as well as stand-alone sculpture in the round.
2015, Variable, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Mid-range, Reduction, Soda fired, Surface: Glazed, Non-ceramic
2018, 12"x13"x2.5", Media: Non-clay, Stoneware, Firing Process: Mid-range, Reduction, Soda fired, Surface: Glazed, Non-ceramic, Unglazed
These pieces are created as individuals, but I also combine them in a variety of compositions.
2016, 14"dia x 2.5", Media: Non-clay, Stoneware, Firing Process: Mid-range, Reduction, Soda fired, Surface: Glazed, Non-ceramic, Unglazed
2015, 96"x72"x102", Media: Non-clay, Stoneware, Firing Process: Mid-range, Reduction, Soda fired, Surface: Glazed, Non-ceramic, Unglazed
2016, 36"x48"x2.5", Media: Non-clay, Stoneware, Firing Process: Mid-range, Reduction, Soda fired, Surface: Glazed, Non-ceramic, Unglazed
Site specific installation for private collector.
Artist Statement
The underpinnings of our physical world inform my work. Alchemy and physical science play a big part in my creative process, yet it is metaphysics that fuels it. Through the work I explore the physical properties of reality while seeking to understand the binding forces that sustain it. I enjoy working in ceramics because it involves a change in material states through manipulation of its physical properties.
My imagery is a surreal interpretation of nature, a representational abstraction, with elements of fractal patterning and asymmetry. It explores the garden as a meditative space; a manicured rendition of nature reduced in scale facilitating our ability to comprehend its vastness. Flora and fauna dot a xeno-terra landscape and the skyline bares portholes to alternate regions of the cosmos. My fictitious rendering of space on circular cut slate tile is framed in clay to mimic a telescopic view as scene in the minds eye. I employ the ancient tradition of meditation mazes to link our perceived place in the material world with the philosophical transcendence of space and time. When tracing the path of a maze one is intended to contemplate their place in the natural world adjacent to the nature of their very existence.
-- Skylor Swann
Bio
Skylor Swann is a ceramic sculptor residing in Fayetteville, NC where he is an Assistant Professor at Fayetteville State University since 2017. He earned an MFA from the University of Miami- FL (2015) and before that a BFA from Montana State University- Bozeman (2010) and prior to that a BS in Ceramics and Sculpture from Southern Utah University- Cedar City. His creative practice reaches across many fields of study including the culinary arts, music, landscaping and solo sports. For the record, he believes solo sports to be a high level of self-expression on par with dancing.